By thumbing their nose in the fact of the overwhelming majority of Americans, the Democrats are running a very serious risk.

The issue of illegal immigration cuts so deeply to the very heart of what America is and who Americans are, that for a potential President of the United States to decline an opinion on the subject is totally unacceptable.

Antiwar movies are all losing money by the truckload.

The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.

It's a far better thing, as well as much easier, for government to act to prevent a disaster, or at least to warn residents loudly and clearly of the potential consequences of their foolish choices.

Why such a difference between the handling of the California fires, vs Katrina in New Orleans?

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.

In recent years, the dream of home ownership has gotten farther and farther out of reach, as house prices have escalated. According to a recent study, the primary cause is excessive zoning laws - that is, government over-regulation.