News Desk | India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications—not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion—to install servers... More >>
News Desk | Hurricane Earl packed winds near 125 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard all... More >>
News Desk | Coast Guard officials are saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site of an offshore petroleum platform... More >>
News Desk | Rep. Chet Edwards is in the fight of his 20-year congressional career, struggling to hold onto one of the nation’s... More >>
News Desk | Corruption in the Afghan government was a significant topic of discussion in talks Thursday between U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates... More >>
News Desk | President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Mideast peace, George Mitchell, has announced that after a productive first round of peace... More >>
Watercooler Chatter | Good morning!
Random question of the day: What is something you take for granted?
My answer to yesterday’s question: If I were... More >>
News Desk | A ballot measure that would bar abortions in every circumstance and ban emergency contraception is back before Colorado voters... More >>
News Desk | The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States has dropped for the first time in two decades, decreasing... More >>
News Desk | UPDATE: Police shot and killed an armed man who took three hostages in an apparent environmentalist protest at the Discovery Channel... More >>
News Desk | Three bombs ripped through a Shiite Muslim religious procession in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday, killing 18 people and wounding at... More >>
News Desk | President Barack Obama is bringing Israeli and Palestinian leaders together Wednesday for talks aimed at forging agreement within one year... More >>
News Desk | Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest, the... More >>
News Desk | Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that history will judge whether the war in Iraq was worth it.
Before attending a... More >>
News Desk | Alaska took the political center stage once again Wednesday, as the state’s senior U.S. senator formally conceded the race in... More >>
News Desk | As the powerful Hurricane Earl approaches the East Coast, tourists are leaving North Carolina vacation islands Wednesday and the... More >>
Watercooler Chatter | Good morning!
Random question of the day: How would the world be different if you were never born?
My answer to yesterday’s... More >>
News Desk | A Palestinian gunman opened fire Tuesday on an Israeli vehicle in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the... More >>
News Desk | Federal officials urged U.S. residents to prepare for possible evacuations, and islanders in the Turks and Caicos braced for high... More >>
News Desk | Americans with the strongest opinions about the country’s most divisive issues are largely unhappy with how President Barack Obama is... More >>
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Religion | I’m still trying to pin down what I think about Glenn Beck, but I know what I think about many... More >>
Books | Being ever so late to the party, I spent last weekend reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 bestseller, Eat Pray Love. With... More >>
Issues | In his Oval Office address Tuesday night announcing the end of combat operations in Iraq, President Obama said, “It’s time... More >>
Faith & Inspiration | “. . . He rescued me, because he delighted in me.
The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness;
According to... More >>
Economy | In a speech at the Cato Institute in May, columnist George Will set our present financial crisis in mathematically graphic terms.... More >>
Culture | HeeSun Lee, a Korean-born poet and rapper, has opened the eyes of many people through her music, which connects the... More >>
Faith & Inspiration | Here are true stories of two unrelated sets of friends of mine, whose names I have changed for this column.
William... More >>
Politics | Once upon a time I worked for a small company that needed to fill a key position in one of... More >>
Economy | President Obama may have experienced his Walter Cronkite moment over the economy.
Responding to Cronkite’s reporting from Vietnam four decades ago... More >>
Faith & Inspiration | Mr. Magoo was a cat with nine lives. He would merrily blunder through traffic jams and plow through creaky ladders... More >>
Economy | My 72-year-old mother had a hip replaced last summer but that didn’t stop her from hopping on a plane to... More >>
Issues | I went to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally Saturday. I didn’t want to go to D.C. by myself so asked... More >>
Faith & Inspiration | There is a game some Christians like to play that I call “Who Loves Jesus More?” It’s a form of... More >>
Education | You’ve got to wonder why a lesbian couple would want to enroll their child in a traditional Christian school. Jill... More >>
Faith & Inspiration | Here is a typical temptation on an ordinary day in America: A woman is working at her computer and suddenly... More >>
Faith & Inspiration | I heard a fire truck siren last night. This maybe isn’t all that noteworthy but for the fact that I... More >>
Economy | In 2008, 60 Minutes visited Denmark to report on a survey of international happiness conducted by Leicester University in England... More >>
Faith & Inspiration | “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for... More >>
Issues | It’s getting to the point where you don’t need to ask someone’s opinion on same-sex marriage. A person’s age, address,... More >>
Politics | Independent black thinkers are expected to “groupthink” in ways that usually lead to rejection and isolation by multiple communities. I... More >>
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Marvin Olasky comments on how some of Glenn Beck's critics find fault with his admission of addiction. 
