Current Affairs

Well, it's about time:

Another fine university puts its research dollars into exploring the obvious:

When it comes to your long-term happiness, it's worse to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, at least according to a review article by Michigan State University psychologist Richard Lucas.

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But divorce, he found, could plunge you permanently into the emotional dumps. So could losing your job.

Private property is bad because "ownership" results in an unequal distribution of power, which frustrates efforts to act communally for the public good. That is the collectivist drivel being taught in a school in Seattle.

A pretty balanced look at "Atlas Shrugged" on the occasion of its 50th anniversary:

There is much to commend, and much to condemn, in "Atlas Shrugged." Its object

My experience in the military led me to observe that blame most often tends to be passed down, not up. It's nice to see an exception once in a while:

The Army on Thursday fired the general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, saying he was the wrong person to fix embarrassing failures in the treatment of war-injured soldiers that have soiled the institution's reputation as a first-class hospital.

Good grief, what's it gonna take, somebody driving a stake through his heart?

HAVANA (Reuters) - After hearing his unmistakable voice in a good-humored chat played on state television, many Cubans are now convinced Fidel Castro is no longer at death's door and could even return to lead them.

The Anna Nicole Smith saga is now complete. Anna Quindlen has come along to tell me the whole sordid mess is my fault -- and yours, too, by the way:

At one point in the American Revolution, things looked pretty grim for our side, and there were many people who probably decided that we had done the wrong thing. It's too bad we didn't have somebody like Nancty Pelosi and her compatriots to revisit the resolution that got us into the mess and do a little makeover:

Louis "Judaism is a gutter religion" Farrakhan says God is mad because those of different religious faiths can't get along:

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan stressed religious unity Sunday during his final major speech, saying the world is at war because Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths are divided.

So, if students ar taking tougher courses and getting better grades but are still scoring miserably on national tests, isn't that an indication that, as they say in accounting circles, the books are being cooked?

"I think that we are sleeping through a crisis," said Massachusetts Commissioner of Education David Driscoll, a governing board member. He said the low test scores should push lawmakers and educators to enact school reforms.