Recent suicide attacks at El Arish and Dahab in the Sinai dumped me into rare nostalgia. I knew both places in a very different era. In 1979, Enquirer Editor Luke Feck agreed to let me cover the hi  

Journalists love headlines that seem fine when published but provoke gasps or giggles the next day. Classics come from a suburban Minneapolis weekly -- "Beauty queen has bit of tomboy in her" -- and  

The author(s) of the biblical covenant at Sinai must be weeping over the mountain of fervent hypocrisy burying their effort. Among those most enthusiastically wielding shovels are some Christian cle  

In the old days, an important obituary carried a black border in print. Sort of like The Enquirer's apology to Chiquita. It's time to break out the black again. The Sunday Challenger, a free, indep  

Gunsmith Pete Garrett is characteristically dismissive when confronted with the old admonition, "Don't pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel." Printer Dave Otto is similarly cha  

Spencer R. Crew, president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, has accused CityBeat's Steve Ramos of fabrication. Ramos is no fan of the center. In his latest critical column (see   

When they're not fantasizing what to do to/with Ann Coulter, Left and Right increasingly attack the credibility and patriotism of mainstream news media. Given the news media's self-inflicted wounds,  

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Those infamous "16 words" in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union message  

In three months Cincinnatian Robert Rack Jr. overcame marauding monkeys, jealously guarded handwritten records, generations of legal tradition and almost overwhelming demand when he introduced med  

For a second time in recent months, local news media have ignored a stunning story that raises serious questions about President Bush's decisions to commit Americans to war against Iraq. In May, a