The 20th century produced many great conservative writers, but none brought together wit, erudition, and humanity on a single page so well as Joseph Sobran. He was a remarkable man: even seeming quite frail at a...
Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.
That use of the word “Myrtus” — which can be read as an allusion to Esther — to name a...
Ronald O’Rourke told a DuPage County jury he was so desperate to buy crack cocaine he went to a former girlfriend’s house to borrow money, only to find her stabbed to death inside her home.
Jurors deliberated Wednesday for less than four hours before rejecting O’Rourke’s claim and instead convicting him of murdering Pamela Howat on June 6, 2009....
