Dennis Byrne

Not that anyone noticed, but the Illinois State Police recently conducted a crackdown on Tri-State Tollway speeders. No disrespect intended, but ticketing 159 speeders (out of 182 pinched for various...

It's official. The U.S. Supreme Court has decided it also is Congress and 50 state legislatures. That decision came last week when it forbade, by a 5-4 vote, the execution...

How nice to see Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton turn right. In recent appearances on the Sunday TV talk shows, the liberal New York Democrat seemed to regard the war in...

What comes after trillion? That's a fair question, as the words "trillions of dollars" and "federal budget" increasingly are spoken in the same sentence. Whereas the federal debt 40 years...

For those looking for hope in the fight against AIDS, there is dramatic news: Infant HIV infection in America has been all but eliminated. That was the conclusion of a...

How did it happen that "divisiveness," or the absence thereof, became the most important political test of our time? Divisiveness has become the pounding headache of political discourse. When something...

In good news for women, an Oregon court has entered a judgment against a Portland abortion clinic for performing the procedure without informing a 15-year-old patient that it can increase...

When President Bush vowed in his inaugural address to bring freedom and democracy to the world, who was he talking about? The non-partisan Freedom House, which has been scoring the...

Postponing Iraq's Jan. 30 election would be the second major betrayal by the United States of the Iraqi people. The first was a decade ago when we encouraged the Iraqi...

Funny how rapidly our "stinginess" has turned into a supposedly cynical effort to win Muslim affection "by raining money on tsunami-afflicted nations." If Jan Egeland, the UN's emergency relief honcho,...