I am pretty sure I can predict the outcome of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on guns today. Reason will not prevail. Nowhere in America is anyone proposing a serious ban on weapons, yet gun lovers squeal in hysterical fear and frighten everyone else. It must be a form of...

1. The NRA will realize it is only half right.

Guns don't kill people -- men kill people. None of these massacres have been done by women. Understand why that is and maybe not all guns will need to be banned to ensure the safety of a nation. But...

How many people will have to die before the NRA and the politicians they control do what most sane people understand has to be done? I have been asking this question for years. Will it be around thirty as appears to be the number in this most recent shooting? Or...

When you go and vote today, be guided by these two thoughts. The Supreme Court and The Rest of The World.

The Supreme Court.

The appointment of Supreme Court justices is the greatest power the president has to affect American society. A president's policies can be overturned by the next...

The audience at the presidential town hall meeting at Hofstra University tonight has an incredible opportunity to ask important questions that have not been asked or answered, ones that will, more than any other set of questions, determine the future.

So DON'T ASK THE SAME QUESTIONS AS EVERYONE ELSE HAS....

Tonight President Obama and Mitt Romney will NOT be having "The Most Important Debate" of this election. The most important debate hasn't been scheduled yet.

Tonight's debate will focus on domestic issues. The next one on both domestic and foreign policy. And the third will focus entirely on foreign affairs.

Until I read the volley of responses to my article of last Friday, "Gun Control, Rio De Janeiro, and the USA," I thought Huffington Post's readers were all Los Angeles and New York liberals. How wrong I was. Most of the nearly 1,500 comments were like bullets fired...

As someone who grew up in a place where guns designed to kill people are more or less banned and where no one feels that some essential freedom has been lost (on the contrary, freedom from fear is cherished) I often wonder what it will take for Americans to absolutely...

When my British uncle Richard Chapman met American Ben Duncan at Oxford in the 50s, being gay in England was punishable by over 20 years in prison. Five decades later they got married, one of the first couples to do so in England. They were in their seventies and by...

I am not writing to support every aspect of the two pieces of legislation dealing with internet piracy, nor am I suggesting that better alternatives can't be found. But in the middle of this debate, it can be forgotten that what's at issue is theft of something that either has...

Christopher Hitchens is dead. Huge loss. I went to school about a mile from where he went to school, we met when I was in my twenties, and then again about six years ago and became friends after sharing 3 or 4 bottles of wine and several whiskeys one lunchtime...

In a thinly veiled threat to my film, The Ledge, Bill Donohue proudly brags that his organization, the Catholic League, successfully boycotts films it considers anti-religious, then goes on to claim that it is "the Judeo-Christian ethos of America that accounts for the unprecedented levels of justice and...

Who has the bigger closet, gays or atheists?

Since writing and directing The Ledge, a film with an atheist lead, I've been going to more atheist events. At the American Atheist's conference in Iowa a few weeks ago, I found myself drinking with a couple of prison guards, a...

Co-authored by Lawrence Krauss

On April 13, Messiah College in Pennsylvania will be hosting a "Compassion Forum," an event at which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will sit on the same stage and talk about "faith, values, and other current issues." John McCain has been invited but has not yet...

Twelve weeks after launching our website, ScienceDebate2008.com, over 15,000 people -- most, but not all, involved in science, technology, or academia -- have signed on in support of our petition calling for a presidential debate on science and technology policy.

At the end of last week, we sent invitations...

Tonight on PBS, Nova is presenting a documentary about Kitzmiller v. Dover, the evolution versus intelligent design trial that took place in the fall of 2005. It is called "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial." I know the subject well, having written extensively about it, and the title is...

Pat Tillman, an extraordinarily square-jawed football player who gave up a lucrative professional life to go and fight for his country, was at first hailed as a hero by a military eager for good publicity. When it was discovered Tillman died as a result of "friendly fire" -- he was...

When I was a child growing up in Cambridge, England, our dining room contained a bookshelf. In it were numerous reference books, among them an Encyclopedia Britannica, the Oxford English dictionary, a Webster's dictionary, a Bible and a concordance, the complete works of Shakespeare and its concordance, a Dictionary...