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All-Canadian basketball player can now use his ‘F-word’ last name By Terrence McCoy March 25 at 6:13 AM Coach Craig Price’s phone won’t stop ringing. Everyone from reporters to award committee announcers want to know if it’s true what they say about his star basketball player. No one’s...

America is needed on Iraq’s front lines By Gary Anderson March 24 at 8:07 PM Gary Anderson, a retired Marine Corps colonel, was the chief of staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab from 1998 to 2000. This month, the Iraqi government launched an offensive against Islamic State fighters...

Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery By ANGELINA JOLIE PITTMARCH 24, 2015 LOS ANGELES — TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of...

Of the hopefuls, I favour Marco Rubio or Martin O'Malley. Ain't gonna happen, though. The money already picked Clinton and Bush.

This time, the New Jersey Supremes got it right. New Jersey’s Sensitive Victim Bias Crime Unconstitutional A basic tenet of due process requires that a law give a defendant notice of what conduct is criminal. Without such notice, there would be no way to know that it shouldn’t be...

One of the Baltimore Ravens Just Published an Insanely Complex Study in a Math Journal by Natalie Kitroeff John Urschel, an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, recently co-authored a paper in the Journal of Computational Mathematics. It is titled "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for...

Cardinal steps down over sexual impropriety allegations, a first since 1927 By Michelle Boorstein March 20 The Vatican announced Friday that a Scottish cardinal accused of sexual misconduct will lose all the rights and privileges of that high office following his resignation — the first...

Report says Iraq forces turned on nearby villages after military victory By Missy Ryan March 18 Shiite militias and Iraqi government forces burned and looted dozens of villages, abducting at least 11 local residents, in the wake of a U.S.-supported operation against the Islamic State last...

Pentagon loses track of $500 million in weapons, equipment given to Yemen By Craig Whitlock March 17 The Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen, amid fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by...

Well, U of OK expelled the leaders of the SAE frat chant. I have to object to this measure on two grounds. . . 1. As a public institution, U of OK is subject to the First Amendment, and cannot punish speech. 2. I really wanted those morons to stay on campus where the football team could...

Apparently, the drop in price of metals is hurting the mining and mining-equipment sector of the economy. This one has something for everybody: for the lefties, the corporate capitalists and land rapers are losing money and slowing operations. For the righties, union workers are losing their...

Anybody watch it? Anybody care? I calculate the usual suspects will hate every word, and the other usual suspects will hail it as the most sound, serious, and soaring rhetoric since King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Any takers?

Over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory labels on foods containing DNA” By Ilya Somin January 17 A recent survey by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics finds that over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory labels on foods containing DNA,” about the...

‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ going back to publisher By Ron CharlesJanuary 15 Tyndale House, a major Christian publisher, has announced that it will stop selling “The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven,” by Alex Malarkey and his father, Kevin Malarkey. The best-selling book, first published...

Controversial French comedian Dieudonne has been arrested in the wake of the deadly attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and held on charges of apologizing for terrorism. He was one of 54 people held across France; none has been linked to the attacks. Controversial French Comedian...

Apparently Mitt's thinking about throwing his hat in the ring for 2016. Go Mitt! Third time's the charm!

Morrissey, in midst of six-month jail term, wins special election to Virginia House By Jenna Portnoy January 13 RICHMOND — Joseph D. Morrissey was reelected Tuesday to the House of Delegates, opening another chapter in a made-for-TV-movie-style drama likely to captivate the General Assembly...

Former highest-ranking U.S. cardinal blames ‘feminization’ for the Catholic Church’s problems By Terrence McCoy January 13 Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke is a man with a lot of enemies. The former archbishop of St. Louis, who once said supporters of abortion rights shouldn’t receive communion...

What a fine, upstanding citizen! George Zimmerman back in court after domestic violence incident By Peter Holley January 10 George Zimmerman, the man who was acquitted in 2013 of murdering an unarmed black Florida teenager, was arrested Friday night in a domestic violence case, according to...