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Clarence Page

Almost a week after receiving a double shot of a lethal execution drug, Christa Pike woke up in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital, handcuffed to a bed and, according to one of her lawyers, "angry and confused." Indeed, anger and confusion is pretty much where this horrifying episode leaves ...

To your good health

DEAR DR. ROACH: Can you give me information about laryngopharyngeal reflux? I develop a croaky voice at times and have lots of mucus in the morning (which doesn't get coughed up), among other things. Is diet alone enough to remedy the problem? I'm going in for a vocal cord vibration test. — ...

Mona Charen

Trayon White, a member of the city council in the District of Columbia, just walked away from a hung jury in a bribery trial. The facts were kind of wild. Though White admitted to accepting $35,000 in cash from a city contractor (who turned out to be an FBI informant), and the prosecution ...

Letters to the editor

Vote for Republicans Dear Sirs, It appears that the wild and radical democrats (including socialism) have a serious sickness that cannot be cured. They simply are not willing to read history that showed the repetitive disasters of the past. We would expect to see the official termination of our great way of living if the new democrats win in this coming November. The American people desperately needs to bring back common sense democrats again or, even better than that, they need to vote for republicans (including U.S. Senator Mike Rogers). Sincerely, Ken Senkow Fear of God ...

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer — Benjamin Franklin The hardest decision a government prosecutor may ever face is also one of the most important tests of the rule of law: What do you do when you believe a crime occurred, ...

Froma Harrop

In the bad old crime days of New York City, I spent a Christmas Eve waiting outside an emergency room. Our foursome had been violently robbed in a subway station, and I was eager for the doctor's report on one member who'd suffered a concussion fighting off a mugger. Because someone got ...