Free speech in this country extends all the way to the president, so he had every right to say what he said. Although you would hope no speechwriter was involved,...
Feeling a little hefty? Is the scale telling you that you're 10 or 15 or 20 pounds in the wrong direction -- and is your mirror telling you the same...
These may be the most dangerous days. And the fact they don't feel like it may be the most dangerous thing of all. No need to blame ourselves for this...
It has been a year of war and darkness and fire in the sky, and we have told ourselves repeatedly that we, as a people, have changed forever. Undoubtedly, in...
Usually I try to ignore unsolicited proposals offering to change my life for the better. But these are unusual times, and as this year like no other draws to a...
We've been here before. The fear -- or so we keep telling ourselves -- is unprecedented. The very name of the war confirms this: the war against terror. We've never...
The Nebraska father who resisted sending his 6-year-old son to prison for sleepovers with a double murderer will not be going to jail himself. Bruce Faust -- who faced a...
You wouldn't necessarily expect to find a war story at the Texaco gas station on North Davis Highway in Pensacola, Fla. But what Pensacola resident Kurt Stenerson noticed there ....
I saw a startling front-page newspaper headline the other day, one that stopped me in my tracks. The headline, above the main story on Page 1, was: "House Allows More...
Top of the Hancock -- two different views: Late one afternoon not long after the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., I was walking near Lake Michigan when a visitor...