As Iraqis prepare to head to the polls Sunday some of the candidates on the ballot may be disqualified from holding office due to their prior connections to Saddam Hussein's government.

Despite promises to the contrary by gun-control advocates, many nations find that increasing restrictions on guns actually increases the number of violent crimes committed.

In a flurry of diplomatic activity yesterday, Poland promised the White House to clarify remarks of its president, Alexander Kwasniewski, after he said he believed Iraq never had weapons of mass destruction, according to American and Polish officials.

Exploding crime rates in countries that have banned all guns shows that we can add gun control to the list of government planning efforts that do not live up to their billing.

The closer one gets to the Democratic base, however, the greater the support for gun control grows.

An American academic likes Europe's jails better than America's.

Whatever punishment inmates may deserve, repeated rape is notsomething that we can condone.