 Today, attorney Bruno Behrend, a policy director for Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free-market think tank, joins Tribune columnist Eric Zorn for a dialogue about the presidential race.  | Editorial: A matter of faith Later this year, all health insurance plans will be required by federal law to pay for contraceptives, such as birth control pills, and abortifacients, such as Plan B, the so-called morning-after pill. The Obama administration recently ruled that churches will be exempt from this mandate, but other religiously affiliated institutions, such as hospitals, social service agencies and colleges, will have to comply. | | Human trafficking and the Super Bowl The crowd is starting to swell in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, many looking for amusement until game time. And, the commercial sex industry is ready to oblige. You can be sure they've imported a generous supply of victim-prostitutes to be at the pleasure of countless game-goers in town. Local and federal officials acknowledge that organized prostitution accompanies major sports events like the Olympics, the World Cup and the Super Bowl. That's where the big money is. | | Memed, and proud of it Say what you will about the latest Internet video sensation — in which someone lampoons one group of humans or another based on certain conversational proclivities — but if nothing else, we can credit it with bringing mainstream awareness to the word "meme." That's the term coined by Richard Dawkins for the way evolutionary principles can be used to explain how cultural ideas take hold. It's now basically turned into a fancy way of talking about things that are popular on the Internet. This includes cats with funny captions inserted below them. | |  | |
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