Republican Bob Turner's win in the New York 9th district special election is a big reversal from the 2008 general election. Voters just issued what amounts to an emphatic thumbs down on the policies of the Obama Democrats. This result is a rebuke to Barack Obama, but it is a rebuke as well—a stinging one, perhaps more stinging—to Senator Charles Schumer.

So long as Rudy Giuliani sticks with the theme that taxpayers shouldn't have to support what they are offended by, he's the true civil libertarian.

Review of The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War by Eugene Genovese.

ROTC cadets on elite campuses across much of the nation still face serious obstacles to their aspiration to serve their country.In the case of Columbia, the blame lies not with Columbia or its students, but with the ROTC program in New York City--which has just four host units located on campuses remote from most students.

It is ridiculous to suggest that the chairman of the House committee responsible for homeland security is out of line to investigate the subject of radicalization in the American Muslim community.

Roughly 10% of all organ transplants in the world are obtained on the black market. A new investigation by puts a brutal face on that underground world.

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Why should New York City bear the $216 million burden of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?