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The destructive consequences of destroying the natural order are no different in the human community than in the elephant community.

His improbable rise from poverty to international diplomacy is the focus of a PBS documentary premiering Feb. 15.

King emerged from a retreat to Jamaica with a new book and fresh worries about the direction of the country and the Civil Rights Movement.

King emerged from a retreat to Jamaica with a new book and fresh worries about the direction of the country and the Civil Rights Movement.

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Pete du Pont, great governor and conservative idea man, RIP Quin Hillyer © Provided by Washington Examiner Former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont, who died Saturday at age 86, ran the single most ideas-heavy presidential campaign in my lifetime. Some conservatives just wish he had picked another year in which to do it. In a 1988 Republican field featuring epochal political figures such as George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, and Pat Robertson, columnist George Will wrote that d...

Rush Limbaughs legacy will last, says Brent Bozell, head of the Media Research Center. Pictured: Limbaugh prepares for his talk radio program on Aug. 18, 1992, at KSEV-AM in Houston. (Photo: Shepard Sherbell/Corbis Saba/Corbis/Getty Images) America said goodbye Wednesday to conservative talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh, who revolutionized talk radio, will be remembered for his intellect, sense of humor, and bold rhetoric.  Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Cen...

At a low point in his career of activism, Martin Luther King, Jr., asked himself a question - one also relevant to the wider Civil Rights Movement and just as pertinent today: Where do we go from here?   He was so torn about the state of civil rights, the possible fracturing of the movement and the pressures the Vietnam War was exerting on the country that King took a brief break from the action, secluded himself in a villa in Jamaica and wrote a book, appropriately titled, "Where Do We...

Toggle open close By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to American life.[2] The time is ripe for a deeper dialogue on the contribution of religion to the welfare of the nation. America has always been a religious country. "Its first Christian inhabitants were only too anxious to explain what they were doing and why," explains historian Paul Johnson. "In a way the first American settlers were like the...