A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Voices
Janie B. Cheaney
Kids calling
Every cell-phone owner can recall a time when a mobile in hand was more than welcome-not for chatting, but for summoning the highway patrol or letting the boss know you were stuck in traffic. In s...
Today's the day
This is the day that the Lord has made. This day? Are you sure? Maybe last Sunday, when I was sitting in church safely insulated from the outside world, singing hymns about heaven and baski...
Marvin Olasky
Throwing the bums out
You saw the idealism, and then you saw people lose a little focus, and you saw the corrupt influences of power affect Republicans." That's how Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona put it, and he's right. ...
Mailbag
Not the endgame Marvin Olasky's column "Looking up, looking down" (Oct. 21) is right on the money. As a laborer in the trenches for a solid, pro-life Christian conservative, I often have to...
Joel Belz
'Not well enough, not fast enough'
It was the morning after "the drubbin'," and George W. Bush was both loose and lucid. He had just announced to the Washington press corps that Donald Rumsfeld would be stepping down as secretary o...
Notebook
Sports
Bite your tongues
Notice something missing from the NBA in the early season? If league commissioner David Stern is right, NBA fans won't see nearly as much whining. In a league where complaining to officials seemed...
Money
Stop the presses
Is the newspaper industry about to die or experience a revival? The answer may depend on whom you ask and how you define the word newspaper. The industry is profitable, but for several year...
Culture
Movies & TV
Rude & crude
Viewers might wonder if an "R" rating is enough for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The mockumentary, while quite funny in several places, has ...
Movies & TV
Dirty rats
Moviegoers can safely expect quality from Aardman Studios, which put out pictures like Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit. But while Flushed Away, the British animation house's latest work, cert...
Movies & TV
Star-struck dancing
Ballroom dancing once was a national sensation. Classically trained dancers like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dazzled moviegoers with elaborate numbers in big-production musicals in the 1940s an...
Notable Books
Noteworthy books
Content: Jesus instructed His followers to make disciples and "teach them to observe all that I have commanded you." Piper draws out the meaning behind 50 of those commands. Gist: Piper wri...
Dispatches
The Buzz
The Buzz
Iraq "Finally, we folded the book of tyranny in Iraq," read one comment on Baghdad's Sooni blog after former president Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging Nov. 5. An appeals pr...
The Buzz Sidebar
Healthy alliances
Going back to the American Revolution, the winning movements against governmental economic and religious tyranny have been coalitions of small-government advocates and Christian conservatives. Som...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Baby framed Indian authorities discovered they had a wee problem when their robbery suspect turned out to be a 3-month-old baby. According to the charging papers, the police had issued a wa...
Quotables
Quotables
"I love doing sequels." Arnold Schwarzenegger on winning another term as California governor. "Freshman class of one." U.S. Sen.-elect Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), describing how he ...