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Last week Harry Reid announced plans to use the brief lame duck congressional session to bring controversial Senate Bill 3963, known as the DREAM Act, to a vote of cloture. The DREAM Act would provide citizenship for an estimated two million undocumented residents who enroll in college or enlist…

She’s nowhere to be found on political signs in urban centers, but head up into the mountains and she’s on every lawn…

To the moderate political classes calling for more compromise…

Just when you thought that “new atheism” marked a radical turn, along comes an even more rebellious concept of religious dissent: misotheism.

The president delivered more bromides this morning as the stock market dipped even further; but who would expect realism from this man?

“We love the Bible,” the game’s creators claim, “we just have a funny way of showing it.”

Although medicine should stay in the business of being evidence-based, says Harvard historian of science Anne Harrington, other healing communities don’t necessarily need to follow that model. There’s a place for data, but you need to know what data can’t tell you.

Like superheroes, the Captain America redemptive hero does all the work, requiring no sacrifice from us. The prophetic model, like Martin Luther King Jr., asks us to see collective meaning in suffering.

McCain, the same man who continues to trot out the tired old truisms about Democrats being “big government spenders,” is now proposing yet another socialization, yet another federal takeover of wretched private debt.

Scientists like roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil advocate uploading our minds into robots or virtual reality so that we can live forever. They believe that our minds can be replicated outside of our brains if we simply copy the pattern of neuro-chemical activity taking place in our bodies. That pattern, rather than the brains in which the pattern takes shape, “is” the personality. If it can be transferred to a digital medium, it can be made immortal. Surpassingly intelligent robots—our Mind Children, according to Moravec—will populate the universe, converting physical reality into a cosmic interweb of thinking machines.