Watch and wait
Election night could provide a quick White House winner, or a flood of mail-in ballots and social division could delay results for weeks
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Rethink, reach out I have been a supporter of a big wall to keep everyone who is not born here out of this country and to ship off all illegal immigrants. This was perhaps because of my fea...
Joel Belz
Confessing our weaknesses
Regular readers of this column are no longer surprised to find me blasting away at the public, state-sponsored educational establishment. I don't think that either in theory or in practice, though...
Gas attack
High gas prices put everyone in a bad mood. It was a big enough hit to the family budget when a gallon of gasoline passed the $2 mark. Only a few months later, that gallon can cost $3. This has ma...
Janie B. Cheaney
To a young mother
Let me guess: Ten years ago, you never expected to be where you are today. If you could have looked down the corridors of time and seen yourself with a thoughtless husband and screaming kids and a...
Marvin Olasky
When mothers become children
Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations." That's how Psalm 90 begins, and it notes later on, "The length of our days is 70 years-or 80, if we have the strength." Psalm 90 ...
Notebook
Sports
Know when to walk away
Golfer John Daly sees his ruin from afar. In a candid admission in his autobiography, Mr. Daly says he lost between $50 million and $60 million to a gambling habit that spun out of control over a ...
Money
Better off French?
The American Dream is mostly just a popular fantasy, according to a provocative study published late last month by the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP). The study found that very few poo...
Culture
Notable CDs
Bestselling CDs
STYLE Spacey, eerily calm progressive rock in the tradition of Dark Side of the Moon, the best-known album by Mr. Gilmour's famous "day job" band, Pink Floyd. WORLDVIEW "So break the bread ...
Movies & TV
United 93
United 93, director Paul Greengrass' docudrama account of the one hijacked flight on Sept. 11, 2001, that did not reach its target, begins and ends with prayer. As the film opens, four Muslim terr...
Movies & TV
Akeelah and the Bee
Lots of movies show poor minority kids who develop character and find success in sports. Akeelah and the Bee is like a sports movie, complete with an inspiring coach, but it celebrates brains rath...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Display on ice A restaurant in Italy got slapped with an $855 fine for putting lobster on an iced display to entice patrons to buy the crustaceans. Authorities in the northeast town of Vice...
The Buzz
The Buzz
TERRORISM U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life May 4, for his role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prosecutors had hoped the alleged "20th hijacker" would be execut...
The Buzz Sidebar
Above the law?
Presidents are not above the law, and the legal travails of Presidents Clinton and Nixon prove that on a bipartisan basis. But are newspapers elevated above the ordinary duties of a citizen...
Quotables
"$95.2 million" The selling price last week for Pablo Picasso's "Dora Maar au chat"-according to the auction house Sotheby's. The winning bid, which came from an anonymous buyer, was the se...