By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Proclaiming the first saints of his pontificate, Pope Francis on Sunday canonized 813 Italians who were slain by Turkish soldiers in a 15th-century siege.
On April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York, George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States. He and the members of both houses of Congress then assembled in the unfinished Senate chamber, where Washington took less than 20 minutes to deliver the first inaugural address.
Pope Francis is set to canonize an estimated 800 Italians, who were forced to choose between Islam or death during a 15-century siege by Ottoman soldiers.
President Obama and I have very different notions of what a family is. For liberals, the family can apparently be everything from "Heather Has Two Mommies" to "Daddy's Roommate" to Hillary Rodham Clinton's "It Takes a Village." In the opinion of electoral majorities in Kansas and 40 other states, however, that does not a family make.
On this Good Friday, what does freedom have to do with rising from the dead?
For Casey Legler, fashion is about "freedom" -- the freedom to get past the "limiting" ways "we identify ourselves as a man or woman" and instead get to that "lovely place" where society does not "judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or wants to wear pants." Who is Casey? "I am a male model at Forbes," she says. But Casey is a woman.
He's acted, danced and sang his way through movies, television and the stage, making Dick Van Dyke an entertainment triple-threat long before Hollywood used such hyphenates.
He's acted, danced and sang his way through movies, television and the stage, making Dick Van Dyke an entertainment triple-threat long before Hollywood used such hyphenates.
Playwright Rolin Jones is not one to really brag, but he thinks he's made history with his latest work.
Thousands of Christians from the world over packed Manger Square in Bethlehem on Monday to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West Bank town where he was born.
For Christians, Christmas is the celebration of one of the most significant religious, historical and cultural events in the Western world. It marks a turning point in human history, a new era for the human race.
The murderous violence in Connecticut requires a moral solution, not just public safety Band-Aids, because the fundamental problem is one of evil.
Religious people aren't asking for laws to abridge others' free speech, but we should expect that our leaders will help shape the public conversation toward an authentic respect for believers, God and the sacred symbols by which we worship. Our American tradition demands as much.
Sunday was the first of Advent, the season of preparation for Christmas. We all know how to get ready for Christmas: Shop til you drop, make an appearance at every holiday party, decorate your home like in the magazines. It's go, go, go: get stressed out, exhausted, sick, and then spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s in bed trying to recover.
Select box set reviews from The Associated Press:
"It ain't a play for everybody, but there's some bit of eye candy for everybody," he says. "It's 85 minutes. If you don't like these 10 minutes, just wait two more and there'll be something else."
In college, Bachmann met husband Marcus (in a vision, God told her to marry him, she says).
