Often the best way to understand a person is by contrasting him with someone who faced a similar type of crisis. Consider Sir Thomas More, who lived during the early part of the Sixteenth Century. He

A news story that appeared last Friday made me and a lot of other people chuckle. But it also made me pause for thought. In CNN online,

“Born on a mountain top in Tennessee Greenest state in the Land of the Free Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree

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(Getting political, as I am in this post, might mean that I alienate and lose half of my readers, which probably comes out to about four

Osama bin Laden-Here is an example of a political mystery in broad daylight: our chances of winning the propaganda wars against radical Islam

As is so often the case with people, the source of their enthusiasm and success, paradoxically, becomes their nemesis. The deposed governor of New York, Elliot Spitzer,