Over the past few weeks, Cleveland police have dug up 11 African-American women's bodies at the home of a convicted sexual predator named Anthony Sowell. Thousands of miles away, during a visit to Hong Kong, young Chinese women asked me the same question over and over: How could these women be missing for so long and nobody knew? How could a woman's family tolerate even one day without knowing where... Read more.

Not long ago, Meghan McCain, maverick progeny and rising media star (because, no doubt, of her impressive intellectual gifts), posted a cleavage-intense picture of herself on her Twitter account. "For years," the 25-year-old would lament later, "I have struggled to accept the fact that the way I look in a tank top comes off more 'sexual' than a flat-chested woman." First, let's... Read more.

There have been two views on what happened last week when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on unarmed military colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 soldiers and one civilian. The politically correct version blames a lonely soldier's personal meltdown, precipitated by the fear of being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The politically incorrect view portrays Hasan, the son of Palestinian immigrants,... Read more.

Those of us who are not true believers in expanded government are certain of the following: If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy... Read more.

Rush Limbaugh was convicted of racism in a kangaroo court of "objective" media and dropped as a potential owner of the St. Louis Rams football franchise. His accusers claimed he once said slavery "had its merits" and that the assassin of Martin Luther King deserved a "Medal of Honor." The story circulated on the Internet and was eventually picked up by the major media,... Read more.

It does not come as any kind of surprise that right on the heels of a federal advisory panel's recommending that most women wait to start screening for breast cancer till age 50, lots of women — and their doctors — are saying: "Forget what the experts say. Bring on the mammograms!" That's the American mindset. We want our tests even if we don't need 'em. But me, I'm very happy... Read more.

She is an outstanding writer, a great political analyst, a popular blogger and an award-winning journalist. But those are not the best adjectives to describe Yoani Sanchez. Courage is what makes her different. After all, writing, analyzing politics, blogging and practicing journalism are much more difficult where she does it. Freedom of expression is a rare commodity in Havana. Yet Sanchez, 34, insists... Read more.

The world thinks better of the United States, we are told, because Barack Obama is in the White House. Maybe the world is wrong. It's fanciful, of course, to speak of what "the world" thinks about anything. It's safe to say that among Norwegian prize givers and Canadian avant-garde filmmakers, Obama is extremely popular. And certainly among bien pensant Americans, the advent of Obama is viewed... Read more.

Redistributionists — from the old Soviet propaganda machine to Hillary Clinton — made the right pitch, but with the wrong idea in mind. The Soviets and Mao Zedong, as well as Clinton and other modern liberals in this country, have done their best to promote the idea of selfless giving. The USSR touted the "New Soviet Man," and China had its counterpart, people who were happy to... Read more.

PIERRE, S.D. — It's already the front edge of winter in America's Great Plains. Here, where the air is clear and crisp, there is a passion for walking behind a good dog while hunting pheasants, and a good "alibi" for missing a fast-flying bird is an art form. "It was too low for a good shot" or "I didn't want to hit the dog" will get the taleteller extra credit for... Read more.

WASHINGTON — These are vexed times. The country is at war on two fronts. Rogue states are edging toward acquiring strategic nuclear weaponry. We have been through a very serious recession from which we may not emerge into the bright morn of economic health for years. The dollar is frail. The future of national health care, finance and corporate governance is in doubt. Yet that is not all. Over... Read more.

Retired Gen. Colin Powell, in an exclusive interview with me on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," said he advised President Barack Obama to take all the time he needs on deciding to send more troops to Afghanistan and not to bend to the will of partisans on the political left or right. Powell — a 35-year Army veteran, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later secretary of... Read more.

In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes. Terrorists are not even entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention, much less the Constitution... Read more.

I write this week from New Orleans, where I am participating in the Bipartisan Policy Center's Inaugural Political Summit, organized by Tom Daschle, Howard Baker and Bob Dole and hosted by Mary Matalin and James Carville. The conference has assembled about 20 top Democratic and Republican political strategists and operatives and has asked us to assess how we might take the poison out of partisanship... Read more.

Bill O'Reilly supports a public option in the health care debate, given that it will provide cheaper insurance to those who can't afford it and isn't intended to replace insurance providers as the status quo for the majority; Tommy Thompson, W.'s secretary for Health and Human Services and a former four-term governor of Wisconsin, has praised the Senate's proposed reforms. Dr. Bill Frist, the former... Read more.

There will be no voluntary mea culpas from Rush's race slanderers despite the irrefutable fact that they spread poisonous and damaging lies with actual malice. To the left, Rush is the most prominent face of conservatism and the most influential opponent of President Barack Obama's destructive agenda and so must be stopped — irrespective of the despicable means employed. The left systematically... Read more.

What's with all the zombies lately? That could be a question about one of the hippest retro fads that pop culture has going these days. Inspired by horror genres of past, zombies have lurched back to pre-eminence in books like "World War Z," video games like "Left 4 Dead" and blockbuster films like "Zombieland." Even the highbrow producers at National Public Radio recently... Read more.