Biography

Barbara Walters Calling It Quits After 50 Years

When Barbara Walters will end her 50-year career of inviting liberals to promote their progressive causes du jour on Friday. ...

Bob Adelmann May 12, 2014

Last Von Trapp Family Singer Dies at 99

Kurt Hyde February 26, 2014

Maria Franziska von Trapp, the last surviving member of the singing family whose story inspired the movie The Sound of Music, died February...

Media Encomiums for Pete Seeger Omit Radical Background

Bob Adelmann January 28, 2014

Pete Seeger's involvement and promotion of radical communist causes and fronts during his lifetime was deliberately glossed over in accounts of his death...

Commemorating the Life of C.S. Lewis

Charles Scaliger November 22, 2013

Fifty years ago today, C.S. Lewis died of kidney failure at his home in Oxford, England, and Great Britain is observing the 50th...

Charles Colson, Watergate Figure, Christian Leader, Dies at 80

Dave Bohon April 22, 2012

Charles Colson (left), President Nixon’s notorious “hatchet man,” who spent time in prison in the wake of the Watergate scandal before founding an...

Remembering the “Amazin’ Mets” of 1962

Jack Kenny April 11, 2012

The "bio" of legendary New York journalist Jimmy Breslin says he "has been a columnist since 1963, when he won national attention by...

Thomas Kinkade, “Painter of Light,” Passes at 54

Dave Bohon April 9, 2012

Thomas Kinkade, whose sentimental paintings of country churches, cottages on snowy evenings, and peaceful glowing villages hearkened back to the goodness of an...

Asian-American NBA Star Becomes Latest Christian Role Model

Dave Bohon February 15, 2012

Move over Tim Tebow. There’s another squeaky clean professional athlete breaking out of the pack to inspire sports fans of all ages. It...

Interior Dept. Will Change Inscription on King Statue

R. Cort Kirkwood January 17, 2012

Just in time for the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, the U.S. Interior Department announced that it will change one of the...

Beloved Family-Friendly Cartoonist Bil Keane Passes; Drew “Family Circus”

Dave Bohon November 11, 2011

Bil Keane, whose wholesome cartoon “Family Circus“ entertained and inspired generations of Americans looking for something positive, safe, and familiar in their daily...