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Beliefnet hit the skids in early 2002 when the dot.com bubble burst. We were out of money and not earning nearly enough money to support our staff. We were a bankrupt, dot.com focused on religion – not exactly a great magnet for new investors. And –dang — it didn’t even occur to us to get…

At Rikers Island, a massive prison in New York City, 66% of released prisoners end up coming back after committing a new crime. Jack Goldsmith, a former cosmetic industry executive, heard about this when he was volunteering there. At age 65, he decided to try to fix this. He created “Getting Out and Staying Out,”…

Another Republican heavyweight has fingered religious conservatives (or the oogedy-boogedies, as one conservative called them) as the culprits in the GOP loss. Jeffrey Hart (former aide to Nixon and Reagan and longtime contributor to National Review) writes: George W. Bush transformed the center-right party of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and his father, George H.W. Bush,…

The Bush administration’s “right conscience rule” is usually cast as being about preventing health care professionals from performing abortions if doing so violates their conscience or religious beliefs. But according to the rule’s advocates, it has important implications for the “morning after pill” or “emergency contraception.” The Los Angeles Times reports: Proponents, including the Christian…
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