Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, as sensible a columnist as you’ll find, wrote an interesting piece last week on why, nearly six and half years after 9/11, we’ve been spared the follow-up act that we were told to expect.
In the wake of 9/11, many experts said that a nuclear attack carried out by terrorists [...]

Ever since the Soviet Union split up and Russia has fallen into disarray, some Americans, intent on finding the next nuclear bogeyman, have looked to China to fill us with fear of a holocaust. They are communist and fully armed after all. But a brief visit to the campus of the University of Illinois at [...]

Here’s my problem. The public school shake-up seems quite the story right now, but I don’t know what to think about it.
My kids go to parochial schools so I know little about the players involved or what the restructuring will mean for the district. I do know it was done in response to not meeting [...]

I seem to recall that during the last national election cycle, gay marriage was a hot issue. This time around, except for when discussing Rudy’s precarious position with social conservatives, the topic hasn’t come up all that much. Why is that?
My position was then and remains today: why should I care if gays get married? [...]

Kathleen Parker had an interesting column in yesterday’s SJ-R. In it, she put forth the premise that many supporters are attracted to the idea of Barack Obama, the hope and change and all that, rather than to the man himself, who Parker finds somewhat unidentifiable up to this point.
On the Democrat side of the ledger, [...]