Anyone who's ever talked to a convicted felon or heard one on TV knows the refrain: "I didn't do it." It's hard to believe the police, the victims and the court system could be so wrong, so often. My gut tells me that more often than not, those felons did do it. If they didn't do the thing for which they've been locked up, they did something to somebody somewhere at some time -- and so they deserve the punishment.

Reparations are like an overdue bill, complete with a cast of nagging collectors who call the house at dinnertime demanding payment -- only America doesn't have the money or will to pay.

Raafat Arman, a Palestinian, college-educated, Republican real estate developer who lives in East Garfield Park, is as American as they come. For one thing, the guy loves money:

While Sen. Barack Obama was on the other side of the world Thursday urging Europe to stand up against terrorism, the Rev. Marc Robertson was in Chatham rallying his own crowd: his neighbors.

If the Bush administration gets its way, a woman's right to choose will lose out to a medical provider's right not to.