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Many conservatives wonder how liberals maintain their long-term stranglehold on higher education. A new survey of private donations suggests that one of the reasons universities continue to tilt so sharply to the left is that they continue to rake in big bucks.

Four months after the U.S. announced a surge of troop reinforcements into Baghdad and other Iraqi cities previously given up for lost by the Iraqi government and the U.S., there is evidence of success.

Kenneth Lowe is a young man with a message--and a rather stark message at that. He has written a powerful essay that serves as an indictment of his parents' generation. The issue is divorce and the emotion is intense.

Recent focus on the troubled marital history of Newt Gingrich highlights an enduring problem for Republicans. Among this year's leading candidates, John McCain's gone through one painful, embarrassing divorce, while Rudy Giuliani and Newt have each been divorced twice following public displays of extra-marital involvement.

The U.S. Sheep Experiment Station has been studying the sexual preferences of sheep. It turns out that a certain percentage of male sheep prefer other male sheep, and do not breed with female sheep.

When John McCain announced his candidacy on TV, critics focused on his statement that America had "wasted" the lives of our fallen heroes in Iraq.

William Weir of The Hartford Courant asks a very interesting question. What does pop music have against marriage?

As signs of stability continue to accumulate in Iraq, so to do reports of terrible carnage as the radical Islamists spread mayhem as a means of bringing Iraq's fragile democracy down.

The movie "Amazing Grace" opened with great vigor on less than a thousand screens across the country, and the number of dollars the movie earned on a per screen basis was close to the very top of that crucial indicator of box office success.

Conservatives are right to condemn liberal fanatics who jokingly wish for Cheney's death, or compare Bush to Hitler, but we should also denounce right wing celebrities who violate standards of decency.

Did you hear the one about the lost tomb of Jesus? That archaeological fantasy was given credence by the Discovery Channel this past Sunday night when the cable network aired the program produced by "Titanic" director James Cameron and filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici.

Ever since he came to power in 1998, Venezuela's leader, Hugo Chavez, has put himself forward as a champion of the poor and a friend of all who like to tweak the U.S. Chavez led an unsuccessful coup attempt against the Venezuelan government in 1992, and now counts Fidel Castro as his best friend in the region.

The recent attempted assassination of the vice president in Afghanistan reminds us of the dangers which accompany public service at the highest level.

In present-day Jerusalem there is a possible location of the tomb from which Jesus Christ was resurrected, called the Garden Tomb. Archeologists disagree on whether this location or the traditional one in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is the correct location.

The self-esteem movement has transformed much of America, but this is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the schools. A brilliant article in New York Magazine provides a fascinating glimpse into why the movement is crashing and burning.

One of the most persistent myths about the Bush administration involves phony charges about its alleged attempts to "silence" dissent by questioning the patriotism of its critics.

The United Nations has done an unexpected, but entirely welcome thing. It recently commemorated the 15th anniversary of the repeal of one of its own motions, the infamous declaration that Zionism was the same as racism. After repeated protests by the U.S., Israel and several other states, the declaration was repealed at the end of 1991.

TIME magazine has discovered crisis pregnancy centers--and in a big way. The leading newsweekly focused on the centers in its cover story of February 26, and that in itself is big news.

American efforts to broadcast the message of freedom across the world's airwaves have often been strangely sabotaged from within. A few years ago, Voice of America was found to be producing foreign-language programs that were friendly to the voices of America's enemies. Apparently, no one had checked very carefully the loyalties of the foreign-language personnel working for VOA.

As General Petraeus begins to implement the new strategy in Baghdad, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced the first permanent reduction of British troops from southern Iraq.

Anna Nicole Smith has become an irresistible topic for Cable TV, but her death made little impact on conservative talk radio. The contrasting reactions highlight the profound differences between the two media.

It’s no secret that Iran has been deeply involved in the sectarian violence in Iraq and may indeed have been fermenting some of it. Many of the roadside bombs that have killed Americans were manufactured in Iran. Presumably, some people from Iran brought them into Iraq.

In Germany, a twelve-year-old boy was allowed to become the world's youngest transsexual. Tim, now known as "Kim," had declared himself a girl early in life. He has recently been undergoing hormone treatments and is now waiting for a sex change surgery.

The House of Representatives reserved three full days for debating a "non-binding resolution" expressing disapproval of the president's troop surge in Iraq. As Capitol Hill veterans know, the phrase "non-binding resolution" is Washington-speak for a "complete waste of time."

China recently succeeded in destroying one of its old space satellites with an anti-satellite missile. The U.S. and the Soviet Union both successfully performed the same operation in the 1980s, but agreed to stop testing anti-satellite missiles. The reason: low-orbit space became littered with debris, causing risks to the satellites in orbit from several other nations.