WHAT importance has the recent Swiss referendum to ban the building of minarets (spires next to mosques from which the call to prayer is issued)? . . .

Random thoughts on the passing scene: Sometimes we seem like people on a pleasure boat drifting down the Niagara River, unaware that there are waterfalls up ahead. . . .

The reason that the monstrous crime of pedophilia matters is simple: In an increasingly secular age, it is one of the few taboos about which people on both sides of the religious divide can agree. . . .

The AP supposedly hired 11 fact-checkers to discredit Ms. Palin’s memoir (Did Fox News hire 11 to question the very questionable things found in the two Obama memoirs?) . . . .