by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh | Sep 4, 2008 | Abortion, Women's Rights
Amendment 48 would ban all abortion, except perhaps in cases of extreme risk to the mother’s life. As a result, the measure would cause permanent injury or death to some at-risk women. It would also force a woman to bring any pregnancy to term, regardless of her judgment about her best course in life.
by Craig Biddle | Sep 4, 2008 | Elections, POLITICS
As the 2008 presidential election nears, and while John McCain and Barack Obama struggle to distinguish themselves from each other in terms of particular promises and goals, it is instructive to observe that these candidates are indistinguishable in terms of... by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh | Sep 3, 2008 | Abortion, Women's Rights
Amendment 48 would require dramatic changes to the treatment of fertilized eggs in laboratory settings, including fertility clinics and research facilities. Such changes further illustrate the harm Amendment 48 would inflict on real people as well as the absurdities that arise from granting legal rights to fertilized eggs.
by Walter Williams | Sep 3, 2008 | POLITICS
Which serves the interests of the black community better: a black student admitted to a top-tier law school, such as Harvard, Stanford or Yale, and winds up in the bottom 10 percent of his class, flunks out, or cannot pass the bar examination, or a black student... by Doug Reich | Sep 2, 2008 | Religion
The Democrats are justified in adopting religion as their base, because religion belongs on the left.
by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh | Sep 2, 2008 | Abortion, Women's Rights
The most obvious and severe effect of Amendment 48 would be a total or near-total ban on abortion.
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 2, 2008 | Foreign Policy, POLITICS
Now that the Democrats have recovered from the shock of Governor Sarah Palin’s nomination as the Republican’s candidate for vice president, they have suddenly discovered that her lack of experience in general– and foreign policy experience in... by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh | Sep 1, 2008 | Abortion, Women's Rights
Amendment 48 seeks to define a fertilized egg as a person with full legal rights in Colorado’s constitution.
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 31, 2008 | POLITICS, Technology
The Internet provides vast amounts of information but it can also spread vast amounts of misinformation, or even deliberately misleading disinformation. For more than two weeks, scarcely a day has gone by without e-mails pouring in to me, asking about columns that...
