POLITICS

Q: Dr. Hurd, how can I handle my problems with excessive doubt? A: Doubt is sometimes logical -- even helpful. For example, you might believe that somebody did something wrong to you, but the belief is based more on emotion than evidence. Your doubt about whether the...

Last week, US Marines in Iraq stormed the hornet's nest of Fallujah and dealt the anti-American insurgency a crushing blow, pacifying the mosques, murder dens and sniper holes used by the enemy to kill Americans and pro-US Iraqi policemen. They also found the...

Dr. Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser and now his secretary of state nominee, has been the subject of nasty, demeaning and disrespectful cartoons and commentary. Some of the worst has come from people like Julian Bond, chairman of the...

If a group of people lined up to board the Titanic as it were sinking, you would say they were irrational. If these people were denied admission to the sinking Titanic because of race, creed, or sexual orientation, and then became angry over this discrimination, you...

"Education by murder" describes the slow and painful way people wake up to the problem of radical Islam. It took 3,000 deaths to wake up Americans, or at least to wake up the half of them who are conservative. Likewise, it took hundreds of deaths in the Bali explosion...

Last Thursday was Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to honoring the valor of those American men and woman who defended the freedoms of the nation though their service in the armed forces. Not unlike Thanksgiving Day, Veterans Day also aims to give thanks, but unlike...

November 16, 2004 Castro is Not "Generous," He's a Thug Mr.Alexander Marriott,I have read your article concerning the evils of Fidel Castro and Communism (The "Inspirational" Dictator and the New York Yankee). I understand that we live in the best nation in the world...

In the midst of all the election hoopla, one thing remains certain. Congress will return for a final, end-of-the-year session on November 15. This is the most dangerous time of the year--a time when bad bills become bad laws with little fanfare from a distracted media...

What made Yasir Arafat's final days appalling was not the farcical prevarications about whether he were dead or alive, nor the soap-opera quarrel between his wife and his political cronies; it was that so evil a man commanded so much respect. Since his airlift to a...

According to Edison/Mitofsky Research's exit polls from last Tuesday's election, the leading issue on the mind of Americans was not the war on terrorism, the war in Iraq or the state of the economy. Instead, the leading issue was "moral values," a seemingly odd choice...

On November 2, 2004 while Americans voted, flawed exit polls (indicating among other things that Kerry would carry Florida, the popular vote, and the Presidency) prompted the market to vote on a perceived Kerry Administration. As we have argued before, the prospect of...

In his phone call conceding the election to President Bush, John Kerry is reported as having said we need to "do something" about all the divisiveness in the country. This is wrong on two counts.First, division on matters of principle is a good thing. The primary...

In recent years, the debate on circumcision has been conducted on a relatively low plane, with proponents arguing that circumcision may prevent some rare conditions. Opponents of circumcision argue that it simply has no medical benefits, and is a violation of a man's...