Every generation has its own formative moments. In just a few generations, the prominent memories shifted from “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Pearl...
For decades now, leading American conservatives have accused the political left of being soft on crime. This charge against the political left in the ...
Committee hearings and meetings of the U.S. Senate are often routine and uneventful, but one hearing this week turned into something truly consequenti...
To see him around children was to catch a glimpse of his gift. Over dinner in our home, my wife and I noticed that Dr. James Dobson had chosen to sit ...
The New England Journal of Medicine reported Thursday that doctors have developed a test that will screen for Down's syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. The Washington Post and The New York Times also reported the story. According ...
The Kaiser Family Foundation released a major study on Wednesday, finding that the number of sex scenes on television has doubled since 1998. As the foundation summarized its findings: The study found that 70% of all shows include some sexual conten ...
Several listeners have asked about the comments I made on the air about the rise of commercial tutoring programs for preschoolers. The article I cited, "Preschoolers' Prep," was published in The Wall Street Journal back in July and many missed it du ...
OK, I'll admit I had a hidden agenda in writing today's commentary, "The Moral Education of Physicians--Why it Matters to All of Us." My main agenda was the column itself. The practice of medicine requires a moral education that is lost when the tr ...
Art critic Roger Kimball once remarked that the art proudly identified as "transgressive" is now establishment art. The perverse has become the norm. An article published in Sunday's edition of The New York Times makes this point graphically clear. ...
Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, has accused White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove of leaking word that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. I raise this public controversy, still raging in the medi ...
Word of "The 100-Minute Bible" has now reached The New York Times, which has published a report by Edward Wyatt. Wyatt's article describes "The 100-Minute Bible" as a condensation of the Bible into 50 pages, each with a segment designed to be read i ...
Hurricane Wilma caused considerable damage across South Florida, but, in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, this devastation received little national attention. South Florida is my home area, and my parents, siblings, and extended family remai ...
A deadly tornado struck near Evansville, Indiana overnight, killing at least 23 persons as most were asleep. At least thirty other victims remained in critical condition as evening fell. The storm also caused damage in Henderson, Kentucky, where it t ...
The Guardian [London] reports that Bishop Gene Robinson -- the first openly homosexual bishop of the Episcopal Church USA, met this week with Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in London. According to the paper, the crisis sparked by B ...