The term of choice for “government” at FEMA: your “federal family.” Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Lots of Democrats are frustrated with President Obama, prompting some people to fantasize about a primary challenge from, who else?, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, who reportedly is doing a good job as Secretary of State, has put the kibosh on that kind of talk.
In an article on “Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science,” Hillel Ofek describes and helps account for the great contributions of early Islamic scientists and mathematicians, but he then chronicles how ever-more-absolutist brands of Islam came to shut them down. Ofek says that
The universe is just full of wonders, and here is another one: Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. The new planet is far denser than any other known so
It looks like the Libyan rebels, with the help of NATO planes and American bombs, have overthrown the Gaddafi regime. All that remains is to find the guy. No Americans were killed, the Libyans themselves did the heavy lifting to free themselves, and the terrorist-supporting
Around the time Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was conducting his brutal medical experiments on human beings, some American scientists were doing pretty much the same thing: U.S. government researchers who purposely infected unwitting subjects with sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala in the 1940s had obtained
My long-time friend Leland Ryken has an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal on the King James translation of the Bible, which marks its 400th anniversary this year. After telling about how the new king of England granted only one of the Puritans’ requests–to
There is that passage in Matthew 16 in which Jesus says that there are among those listening to him at that moment who will not taste death until He comes in His kingdom. Liberal Bible critics say, “See, Jesus and the early church thought that
The latest violation of the Commandment regarding honoring your father and your mother (though the divorced father is behind it): Raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent the last two years pursuing a unique lawsuit
Guy Walters discusses the Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Brevik and argues that he is not necessarily insane at all, that certain convictions can make it quite logical to commit evil actions. In doing so, he quotes from a speech by Heinrich Himmler, who makes the case
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