As a fresh-faced medical intern, a colleague of mine greeted a new patient with a breezy, "So what's your problem?" "Oh, just a touch of leukemia," the pallid fellow answered.

But that was in the mid-1950s when there was no such thing as "a touch" of leukemia or any other cancer. We knew almost nothing about the disease - its cause, or how to prevent, treat or cure it - except it was a death sentence and a gruesome end.

A half-century of new drugs has changed all that. Blood-related...

We live in extraordinary times. Times that try men's souls, as Thomas Paine would say.
These are times that prod the individual to assess where he/she stands in regards to loyalty to God and country. Americans could either lose their country or stand stronger than ever.

On our nation's birthday, it's pertinent to ask these questions:

--Would you stand up for America should she be attacked, either verbally or physically?

--Do you cherish her honored traditions, or are you trying to...

Protectors of the innocent unborn need to prepare for the impending assault on the right to life, this time waged under the banner of stopping "domestic violence."

Actually, the first volley has already been fired. Democratic senator Barack Obama recently announced his support of the proposed International Violence Against Women Act, a bill the Family Violence Prevention Fund admits is designed to solidify "women's access to reproductive health service."

Mr. Obama is not the first to...

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Matthew 24:35)

You can call yourself a Christian, but if your life does not reflect the teachings of the Bible and the Savior you proclaim to serve, the chances are you've not experienced a true conversion.

Scripture exhorts Christians not to remain babies and drink only milk. It is the full substance of God's Word which matures our...

By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"

The traditional mercantilist roles of colonizer and colonies were inverted over the last few decades. For millennia, colonial empires consisted of a center which consumed raw materials and produced and sold finished goods to the periphery whose role was to extract minerals and cultivate commodities, edible and not.

In the wake of the Second World War (a failed German colonial experiment in the heartland of Europe) and...

Imagine for a moment that a researcher at a typical European or North American university was being threatened to halt his studies of, say, a new metal alloy for airplanes or a treatment for malaria....

I often find myself wondering how seemingly normal people ever wind up being criminal defense attorneys. When even Harvard law professor and one-time member of O.J. Simpson’s so-called dream team...

"From the start, I knew I'd get better. — I always knew that it was a part of God's plan. God's been very faithful to me even though I don't deserve it." — U.S. Marine Cpl. Aaron P....

It's not enough to keep the moral slide of the Baby Boomer generation contained in those outlandish years of the 60's and 70's. All of the drug use and immorality is being reintroduced to a new...

The constitutional amendment process is a complicated and lengthy affair. This is because we cannot be certain what consequences might arise from a seemingly minor alteration of the Constitution. To...