By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services Trying to explain an evil act like the one that killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is on a par with explaining how the universe was formed.

The enactment of a so-called right- to-work law by the state of Michigan this week is indeed, as the news media have described it, a blow against the union movement. Michigan, of all places. But it is also a blow against fairness and common sense.

When reflecting on our school years, we often have fond memories of teachers, friends, and the schools we attended.

Reality-check time. By returning the same political alignment to Washington in the last election, the American people in effect decided that solving the country's budget problems will involve increasing revenue.

Little noticed in recent news was the ongoing battle between the world's largest iron ore miner, Vale SA of Brazil, and the Jinchuan Group, China's biggest nickel producer.

Seventy-one years ago this month, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought America into a war that had begun in Europe in 1939.

With no improvement in our rate of burning fossil fuels since the early warnings of Al Gore’s 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” the massive dominos of global warming and climate change have started to fall.

Little noticed in the attention paid to Japan's nuclear crisis at Fukushima, is Japan's plan to open its long planned nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho in 2013.

WASHINGTON - As if a peaceful Thanksgiving dinner wasn't enough of a challenge, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to spend her holiday chasing an even more unattainable ideal: peace in the Middle East.

In business I found that a challenging environment often produced our best opportunities.