The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. It was the result of the alarm bells of the environmental doom and gloom movement going off nonstop. As Ronald Bailey observes, Earth Day 1970 provoked a torrent of apocalyptic predictions. "We have about five m...

During his recent visit to the States, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the priest sex scandal of the U.S. Catholic Church and pointed out that the moral breakdown of society is at least partly to blame. Pedophilia, he argued, is a symptom of overall decrepit ...

Jacob Sullum reports on the Atlasphere that: The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that drug offenders account for about 25 percent of local jail inmates, 21 percent of state prisoners and 55 percent of federal prisoners. Since 1980 the number of drug ...