The assault-weapons ban left the political stage with a whimper this past week.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., signaled the end Tuesday when he announced that the ban on assault weapons (as well as on high-capacity ammunition magazines) would be stripped from the gun bill and offered ...

A group of LDS church members are pushing for women to be allowed to have the priesthood.The group has created a website and a Facebook page for the movement, and a website <a href="http://www.ordainwomen.org">www.ordainwomen.org</a> tells about the movement.Read ...

The harsh assessment of the RNC "autopsy" committee would be that it talked to 2,600 people, yet one of its top proposals is reviving a minority inclusion council from the 1990s. It takes months of research to come up with this stuff?But that would be too harsh. The autopsy is a good-faith ...

The following editorial appeared in Friday's Washington Post:It's not yet clear whether reports of the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the regime of Bashar Assad are correct; if they are, a red line drawn by President Obama will have been crossed. What's certain is that the Syrian crisis ...

The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday, March 21:Even after the horrific slayings of schoolchildren in Connecticut in December, it was probably inevitable that an effort to ban military-style assault weapons would come to naught.There was widespread ...

The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday, March 19:Even in this now-now-now social media/Internet age, let's agree that some national security functions should remain secret. A tweet alerting a terrorist target to tomorrow's attack, for instance, almost certainly ...