Attorney Dan Miller takes up the question How Hard Will It Be to Convict Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? He points out that trying him in a civilian trial in New York City will involve prosecutors running a gauntlet of legalities, any one of which could lead
The Associated Press assigned 11 reporters to fact check Sarah Palin’s book. They found only minor questions on already-known disputed points. But they didn’t give this level of scrutiny to books by President Obama, Vice-President Biden, or other political figures. Why would this be? When
Consider Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s account of a rally against the hate-crime bill: Conservative Christian ministers from across the land, determined to test the bounds of a new law punishing anti-gay hate crimes, assembled outside the Justice Department on Monday to denounce the sin
Michael Barone gives a state-by-state breakdown of abortion rates. He concludes that there is a pretty strong correlation between the way a state votes and its abortion rates, with liberal states having lots of abortions and conservative states having fewer. That may seem obvious, and
Republican senators tried a filibuster against President Obama’s left wing nominee for a judgeship on the federal court of appeals, but Democrats thwarted the tactic. Democrats on Tuesday crushed a Senate filibuster against a controversial appeals court nominee, demonstrating to Republicans they can't stop President
Sarah Palin’s book is out today. A friend of mine, Lynn Vincent, helped her write it. (I don’t see a credit line on the cover, at least, so that’s disappointing.) Are you going to buy it? (If so, you might as well click on the
Now non-religious students are clamoring for non-religious chaplains to minister to their spiritual needs: While many higher-education institutions have been affiliated with particular religions since their founding, there has been a broad movement in recent years to accommodate religious diversity by enlisting additional chaplains to
Union troubled by Eagle Scout project in Allentown: In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park. Little did the do-gooder know that
Robert J. Samuelson is an economics columnist who has never struck me as particularly conservative. But he delivers a pretty devastating critique of the current schemes for health care reform. He makes the point that the goals of health care reform are contradictory and that
Chuck Colson notes how several prominent atheists have changed their tunes: Well-known scholar Antony Flew was the first, saying he had to go "where the evidence [led]." Evolutionary theory, he concluded, has no reasonable explanation for the origin of life. When I met with Flew
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