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Porn star Emily Willis is “fighting for her life” in a “vegetative coma” after being found unresponsive at a rehab facility in Malibu, where she was being treated for addiction, according to her family. The 25-year-old adult film actress, real name Litzy Lara Banulos, had been at the celebrity rehab center for eight days when she suffered cardiac arrest on Feb. 5, her stepdad, Michael Willis, told TMZ. Willis — who boasts over 2 million followers on Instagram — was rushed to a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California, where she remains in a coma and on a ventilator. SNIP In...

Mark F. Giuliano, a career FBI official who was second-in-command at the law enforcement agency when it launched a controversial investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server as she sought the 2016 Democratic nomination for president, died March 2 at his home in Decatur, Ga. He was 62. The cause was an apparent heart attack, said his sister Ann Britz. In an FBI career that began in 1988 and spanned almost three decades, Mr. Giuliano started as a street agent in Washington pursuing violent crime and gangs. He later supervised high-profile criminal cases and the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted program....

Anyway, the people sharing my tweets over and over again, foaming at the mouth over how I could be so crass as to discuss what I saw in a video that millions of other people saw as well are angrier at me for writing and talking about the video and Sarah Jane Comrie’s actions than they are at her actual actions. This is another example of selective outrage and selective offense. Her lawyer’s statements in the media are meant to obfuscate the actual issue at hand. He is making it about whether or not she tried to steal a bike...

The left has a favorite Bible verse, one that even President Obama can’t resist. Jesus said it in the Sermon on the Mount: “Judge not.” Of course, Obama is wont to misquote the Bible whenever he pleases, making up stuff that “the good book says” like “don’t throw stones at glass houses.” (Hint: they didn’t even have glass in Biblical days.) But judging is exactly what the left does, while they tell Christians not to, because, you know, do what I say, not what I do. Let’s take same-sex marriage.  Oh, Christians shouldn’t judge says the liberal elites.  It doesn’t...

“Only God can judge me.” - Elizabeth Escalona, 23-year-old Texas mom who beat and glued her 2-year-old daughter’s hands to a wall. “Holier than thou critics have nothing on Lance Armstrong.” - de Volkskrant, the Netherlands “Be Cool. Be Kind. Don’t Judge.” - A tee shirt on sale at the Ellen Degeneres online store. Ever notice how often those who lead Godless lives, who engage in immoral behavior, who commit unspeakable acts invoke the words of the Lord to defend their unrepentant sinfulness? “Judge not lest ye be judged.” Usually they direct the words at Christ followers, whom they disparage...

You can't like the early debate over Supreme Court Justice David Souter's successor. President Obama says his choice will advance ethnic and gender diversity, but also put someone on the court who has "empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles." Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, wants someone from "outside the judicial monastery, somebody who has had some real-life experience, not just as a judge." Though American Idol judge Paula Abdul would seem to be the best fit, it's clear the Democrats don't want someone who will follow the law, but make it up...

"Only a madman could maintain that the distinction between the honorable and the dishonorable, between virtue and vice, is a matter of opinion, not of nature.” – Cicero in de Legibus The last 40 years or so has seen a dramatic shift in the way people view moral truth. It has been a move away from the idea of morality as a set of objective and universal standards, to the view that moral codes are merely the synthesis of popular opinion. Consider the Episcopal cleric who supported the ordination of homosexual priest, Gene Robinson, as bishop of the Diocese of...

Jesus is sometimes quoted as having said, “Judge not!” The implication would be that this is an absolute prohibition. Well, not quite! I have mentioned previously that there is a common tendency to read the sixth commandment in isolation from the larger context of the Pentateuch. In the present case, the tendency is carried even farther, when only part of a verse is considered authoritative. The full verse reads, “Judge not, that you not be judged.” Even so, one still gets the impression from modern conversation that the entire verse was meant to be a condemnation of reaching a negative...