One does not have to be a minimizer to note that the United States is roiling in hysteria following reports of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. I'm feeling a bit...
Shock and awe are back, this time in the images of U.S. soldiers humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. The pictures, broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes II" and now...
All the slogans, chants, posters, gestures, speeches and slurs from Sunday's "pro-choice" march congeal in my mind as this single image: A young woman in requisite belly-baring jeans is crab-walking...
Who knew? That's the question bugging Americans as the Sept. 11, 2001, commission tries to figure out what went wrong and how U.S. officials might have prevented the terrorist attacks...
Much has been made of Condoleezza Rice's upcoming testimony before the Sept. 11, 2001, commission. In some cases, interest is based on the most logical of reasons: As the national...
When Sen. John F. Kerry fell--or was toppled by a Secret Service agent--from his perch on a snowboard recently, the would-be president clarified events with rare grace: "I don't fall...
First let me say that Jesus is just all right with me. And Mel Gibson, whether playing a lethal weapon, a patriot Scot or a silver-tongued Hamlet, has only fans...
As a big fan of the 1st Amendment, I'm as reluctant as anyone to urge curbs on speech. But as an even greater fan of civilization, I'm having a hard...
With Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole, and now regime change at Martha Stewart's empire, I dunno, I just feel safer somehow. It's reassuring to know that the feds...
Sometimes if you wait long enough, questions will answer themselves. Such as this one explored by feminist Naomi Wolf in her 1993 book, "Fire With Fire": Why are women so...