LIVING BEYOND THE WORLD'S IMAGINATION

Lee Smith Qassem Suleimani is apparently the most interesting man in the world. To judge by the profiles in major Western media outlets—i...

Henrik Bering In the history of art, self-portraiture constitutes a world of its own, presenting us with moods ranging from the lighthear...

J. Harvie Wilkinson III  Back then, it was not known as World War I, for the obvious reason that the Second World War still lay in the fu...

Geoffrey Norman  Nobody has time to read these days. Everybody says so, anyway. So in the case of Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices, is ther...

Leslie Lenkowsky In late April, a 70-year-old Chinese journalist, Gao Yu, was taken into custody, one of several human rights activists r...

David Devoss They came from the west through the Syrian Desert, across the Euphrates River, and down off the Nineveh Plain. Mosul, Baiji,...

Michael Youssef  As we pause to celebrate the birth of this blessed nation, many among us are sad and even disgusted over what has happen...

Michael Schaus Google is taking a Bloomberg inspired step toward “curbing gun violence”. Once again demonstrating the level of ignorance ...

Terry Paulson In Oh, God, that engaging and thought-provoking comedy, John Denver played the part of a grocery store manager who was visi...

John Ransom Flattus wrote: It's funny to watch Cons attempt to portray this disaster in Iraq as Obama's issue. Sorry, no sale. Th...

It's like walking into a candy store. Every eye color, profession, height, geography, spirituality, sense of humor and passion wait for...

Mona Charen PARIS -- An estimated 50,000 Iranian exiles and supporters from Europe and North America are here to remind the world that no...

Jack Kerwick That the vast majority of Republicans remain as committed as ever to a strong American military presence in Iraq has everyth...

Bruce Bialosky By now you must be pretty sick of reading and hearing about Hillary Clinton. Personally, I am ready for No Mas. But after ...

Mike Shedlock Malinvestment in China proceeds at a staggering pace. Technically, this growth adds to GDP, but eventually it will be writt...

Paul Kengor On June 28, 1914, a Bosnian-Serb student named Gavrilo Princip killed Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the duc...

Ed Fuelner I don’t know who the next U.S. attorney general will be. But I know I pity that person. Restoring the Justice Department’s rep...

Paul Greenberg "American politics has often been an arena for angry minds." So begins "The Paranoid Style in American Poli...

Kathryn Lopez Beware the old woman offering you love. That summed up some of the reaction to the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling t...

Vijay Sakhuja Last week, Hawaii witnessed one of the largest assemblies of Navies for the biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercises (RIMPAC) ...