We all commit faux pas from time to time, but Beyonce's recently released single that begs for people to throw their hands up in worship of her, the one that tells fans to “bow down, b*****s ” goes beyond the pale. What happened to the early days when she seemed to relate to her fans, often trying to inspire women to stand up and be couragious?

In my experience living in the United States, when you ask an expectant mom if she knows what she’s having, whether or not the answer is “boy," “girl," or “we’re keeping it a surprise” – I notice the mother always tends to answer with a calm smile – because whether pink or blue, we tend to see babies as profound blessings.

A new documentary – “It’s A Girl” – shows that this attitude is not one to be taken for granted; in many parts of Africa and Asia, boys are so preferred that baby girls are aborted, abandoned, or murdered in commonplace fashion. The United Nations estimates that as many as 200 million girls are “demographically missing” worldwide. In other words, where a daughter should be in a family, an empty place remains. The trailer for the film, which you can see below, is absolutely chilling. Check out the last anecdote at around 2:39 where a woman laughingly shares with the filmmakers how she strangled EIGHT of her children in a row, simply because they were girls.  I’m sure much research has been done about why sex preference is so common in these countries, but the answer seems simple to me: societies lacking Judeo Christian influence in the public sphere simply do not value individual life the same way that Judeo Christian societies do. Politically incorrect? Yes. But what else could explain it?

I sit here in continued amazement that many people in this country think it is the tool that bears responsibility for the horrific acts it is used to commit. I don't understand why we  can't see that it is people who pull triggers. What prevents us from seeing that it is the culture - both micro and macro - that fosters the moral numbness required for this depravity to flourish?

As the immigration bill proposed by the "Gang of 8" comes before the Senate I am utterly appalled at how inept our government has become.  First of all, no bill should be coming before our Congress that proposes amnesty, and this bill not only grants amnesty to illegal immigrants, it also encourages and rewards illegal immigrant's behavior - at least in the parts of the bill we have seen so far. I am sure in the coming weeks there will be much more to come out of this 844 page monstrosity of a bill.

However, unlike many conservatives, I think that immigration reform is desperately needed in our country. Our immigration system is broken, much like many (or most) government programs, and is badly in need of repair.  I am personally saddened by the bill that is coming before the Senate, because it undermines what really needs to happen to our immigration system, and because it has been done in a supposedly bi-partisan manner with the help of Marco Rubio.

I recently wrote an article entitled Making Education Sexy…or Bloody and in the article I touched on Humanism and the Humanist Manifesto I. I addressed co-authors or signers such as John Dewey and the impact they have had on public education in the United States. In this article, I wish to spend a little time delving into exactly what humanism says in its manifesto(s). Then allow you the opportunity to read and assess for yourselves how this philosophy has impacted our nation and in particular, our public education system.

The above visual aid is the illustration used by a humanist to describe how Christians really feel, despite having no way to verify this sentiment which violates the very root of humanism. That root being that right or wrong is relative to the person, situation, state of mind, etc. and can be different for each individual, unless SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN otherwise. There may, in fact, be a Christian that would fit this illustration, but there also may NOT be a single Christian that fits this illustration. Humanists like to use their manifesto(s) to prove the ”unprovable” so long as that proof does not reflect poorly on their positions. A great illustration of this point is found in the definition of atheism shown below. Humanists are admittedly and necessarily atheist.