Bob Dylan’s third album, The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964), includes “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”, a dramatic and carefully crafted song about a privileged young man named William Zantzinger who negligently killed Hattie Carroll, a black kitchen maid. The song was based on a true story and Dylan used the real names [...]

Check out this headline at The Australian online newspaper:
Australia’s No2 with people-smugglers
So, who’s No. 1?
PAKISTANI people-smugglers recommend Australia as the second-best destination for seeking asylum after Canada, according to one of the 134 Asian and Middle Eastern asylum-seekers intercepted off the Australian coast since October.
Sadiq Bahram, an ethnic Hazara from Afghanistan who has reached Australian [...]

Admiral Dennis C. Blair has been nominated for Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration. International news sources and bloggers are recalling his support for the perpetrators of civilian massacres in East Timor in 1999, when he was Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Command.
East Timor was occupied by Indonesian troops from 1975 to [...]

In his year-end interview with Macleans, our prime minister said he opposes amending the Canadian Human Rights Act at this time.
Q: Will the government amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to prevent unwarranted interferences in free expression by human rights commissions?
A: The government has no plans to do so. We’re certainly aware of the issue. [...]

The national government of Nigeria has set up a committee to investigate the anti-Christian riots that occurred in the city of Jos, Plateau State, in late November.  The Plateau State Government, however, opposes the federal investigation and has challenged its legality.
THISDAY learnt that the Plateau State Government has written to challenge the legality of the [...]

Father Richard John Neuhaus, one of the most influential Christian thinkers of our time, passed away yesterday morning at age 72.
I received the benefit of that influence when I was a relatively new Christian in the early 1980s. I first encountered him in the pages of National Review, where he wrote a regular column [...]