Cover Story | COVER STORY: Forest fires are typically measured in scorched acreage. The wildfires that devastated heavily populated areas of Los Angeles and San Diego, in the end, will be measured in lives turned upside-down-families fleeing for their lives and choosing which belongings to save before their homes were swallowed in flames ...
National |
AOL quietly took action against pop-up spam-by turning off a
feature in Windows without telling its subscribers. It shuts down a
program called Messenger that…
National |
KAREN DAMMANN, INTERIM PASTOR OF A United Methodist Church in
Ellensburg, Wash., likely will face a church trial after all, and
she could be removed from her…
National |
ONCE AGAIN, A SECULAR court in effect has upheld a 1979 Episcopal
Church rule that all parish property and assets are held in trust
for the denomination. A…
National |
Georgia-based publicist Mark DeMoss, who represents a number of
major ministries, thinks the Evangelical Council for Financial
Accountability has gone beyond…
National |
Ravens coach Brian Billick is tired of wasting timeouts when his
instant replay challenges go awry. His solution: Get rid of instant
replay altogether. "Dump…
National |
What exactly happened in an Edwards, Colo., hotel room on June 30?
Inquiring minds want to know. And if the inquiring minds belong to
young fans of NBA star…
National |
There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but there's just one
way to win a World Series, it seems: pitching. Apparently, the
Florida Marlins had more of…
National |
Nokia wants to revolutionize electronic gaming with a handheld
device called the N-Gage. It's the Swiss Army Knife of portable
gadgetry, but it could also be…
National |
Michael Hart typed the Declaration of Independence on a computer in
1971 and started a publishing revolution. It was the dawn of
Project Gutenberg, a massive…
International |
IRAQ: It may be Muslims' high holy month of fasting-and U.S. troops
are ordered to show respect for local customs-but terrorists in
Iraq gorge themselves on…
International |
PAKISTAN: In a quest to show whose side he is on in the war on
terror, Pakistan's president is leading the push to reopen
Christian schools
WALL OF FIRE California's largest fire-the Cedar Fire-claimed the
life of firefighter Steve Rucker, 38, when his crew was overcome by
flames in eastern San…
Tooth delay Don Masey lost his dentures in the Mediterranean Sea,
but they turned up back home in Britain. Mr. Masey, 59, lost the
false teeth while swimming…
Enemies of their enemies Blogger Andrew Sullivan
(andrewsullivan.com) observed the almost vocal support that the
hard-left now has for Saddam and other…
Culture |
Joel and Ethan Coen are known for making idiosyncratic, brilliant
films such as O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Fargo (1996),
as well as perhaps the…
Culture |
It's a Romeo and Juliet story featuring the son of an anti-smut
crusader in love with the daughter of a pornographer. It has
something for everybody: Women…
Real Islam Daniel Pipes is right that our enemy is not Muslims or
terrorism but the religion behind them. However, his solution,
"moderate Islam," will go…
