By GRAHAM OSTEEN

In old black and white movies when the storyline calls for breaking news, images of roaring printing presses are followed by a newspaper spinning into focus with a huge banner headline: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN; MOB KILLINGS SHOCK GOTHAM; HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR; DON'T WALK IN SUMTER; WE'RE PRAYING FOR FAT CAT.
The one I like best, however, is: SUMTER IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

By ANNABELLE ROBERTSON

One of the most exciting parts of my job is that I have a front row seat to the world's headlines. And just like sportscaster Jim McKay used to say for ABC's Wide World of Sports, I am constantly spanning the globe to bring you the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

By ANDY BRACK

When President John F. Kennedy proposed putting a man on the moon, he didn't say it should be done "someday." He put a time frame on his big vision – that it should be done by the end of the 1960s.

By DAVID BRODER

The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose — and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point.

By Paul Greenberg

"As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom."
— Ronald Reagan

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Travesty in New York

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.

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American Muslim terrorists are in the news

By MIKE MCMANUS

Two American Muslim terrorists are in the news. John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday for killing 10 people in Metro Washington in 2002. Last week Army Major Nidal M. Hassan killed 13 people and wounded 31 in Fort Hood, Texas. Muhammad expressed no remorse for his wanton killings. His accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, hid in the trunk of a car, and fired a stolen .223 caliber Bushmaster...

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Minding our manners: Incivility in politics

By KATHLEEN PARKER

WASHINGTON — Growing concern about incivility is one of America's more appealing trends. Increasingly, individuals and institutions are seeking ways to burnish the Golden Rule.

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Fighting a coercion clause

By GEORGE WILL

PHOENIX — In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The institute, America's most potent advocate of limited government, embraced Eric Novack's idea for protecting Arizonans from health care coercion. In 2008, Arizonans voted...

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Government control is dangerous

By WALTER WILLIAMS

Last Tuesday, I had the pleasurable task of being Master of Ceremonies for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation dinner in Washington, D.C., that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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