INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Business, meaning research by historians and nourishment for history hobbyists, is brisk at the Harry S. Truman Library on this 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, the desegregation of the armed services, recognition of the state of Israel and the improbable election of the president responsible for many momentous policies.

God tells us often in His Word to turn to Him for guidance and help. He does not guarantee that we will never have troubles, but lets us know that He is there to get us through the difficult times.

Anger is a tough emotion to conceal and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s simmered barely beneath the surface during his Monday performance at the National Press Club.

Grover Norquist is one of the most influential conservative operatives and sharpest political strategists in Washington.

During the 1950s and ‘60s, the late actor Jack Webb played Sgt. Joe Friday, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

In the days leading up to Pennsylvania’s primary, white males — those knuckle-dragging, chaw-chompin’, beer-swillin’ bitter troglodytes — were suddenly the debutante’s delight.

If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
— “A Nation at Risk” (1983)

I’ve often wondered why incumbent politicians fight so hard to keep their seats in the legislative chambers governing our Republic from the national and state levels of government all the way down to the court houses on our village greens. One would hope for the purest of motives.

By now everyone with a roof over his head has heard about the subprime mortgage mess.

Don’t you wish you always had the right answer for every question and situation?

On May 8 the American Red Cross will join with 185 other Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies from around the world to celebrate World Red Cross Red Crescent Day.

It is a tribute to John McCain’s remarkable political luck that the issue of his temper should arise just as the Democratic contest has reached a stage of red-faced, ear-steaming mutual contempt.

Just when you thought there was no one left to pander to, the three candidates for Leader of the Free World found an untapped demographic: the professional-wrestling audience.

Just as we need to be educated to work in whatever career we choose, we need to invest just as much time and effort into learning to be a true follower of God.

I never thought I’d beat Mike Landy at dodgeball.