Earlier this month, I traveled down to Texas to visit my dad. Twenty years after buying the house that he and my mom lived in after retiring, he's moving.

The house is much the way it was when my mom died four years ago, except for a few things -...

As news came out Friday on the background of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, TV commentators were speculating that the two young men had been "radicalized."

The more salient question is whether they will radicalize us.

Twelve years...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died April 8 in London at the age of 87, was often quoted as saying, "No one would have heard of the good Samaritan if he hadn't been rich."

The actual quote, given in a January 1980 television...

In a recent column, I wrote about the fantasy presidential candidate of some conservatives -- Dr. Ben Carson. In fairness, I must confess that I have a fantasy candidate of my own -- one who has even less of a chance of becoming president than ...

Did you ever know someone who kept falling in love with people bound to hurt them?

The latest right-wing love interest is the pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson.

Carson was greeted as a hero at the Conservative Political Action Conference in ...

Twelve years ago, two gay friends of mine had just taken their seats on a plane in Texas to bring home their newly adopted baby girl, when a man wearing a cowboy hat, boots and a shiny belt buckle came walking down the aisle. He stopped beside the...