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Are gasoline shortages and lines at the pump just around the corner? Some say it’s 1973 all over again. Or is it? • Yes, we have unrest in the Middle East and oil prices are rising.• No, we don’t have the insane set of price and allocation controls that led …

Finally, the Obama administration has seen the light and has agreed to send the cases of the five 9/11 co-conspirators back to the military tribunal in Gitmo. Of course, they should have left the cases there in the first place. The display Monday by Attorney General Eric Holder, in which …

In a surprising move, the president of the United States took to the podium Wednesday to address an issue he and his staff had long thought was a done deal: to tout the existence of a birth certificate proving that he, in fact, was born in the USA. The reason? …

The long-awaited demise of Usama bin Laden still dominates the news. But the feel-good story of justice finally served will soon have a hard time competing with the feel-bad story of high gas prices. The price of a gallon of gasoline is at $3.98 as of Friday May 6. And …

Two years after President Obama’s inauguration, his administration faces a significant sobriety check with this week’s visit of China’s president followed by President Obama’s State of the Union address next week. At first glance, these two events might appear related only in terms of a coincidence of timing. In fact, …

You know there are severe distortions in the economy when you hear government officials and their media pundits saying things like: “It is a terrible tragedy for the economy that home prices are falling to levels where people can actually afford to buy them.” Of course, they say it in …

Christopher Hitchens is dead and it’s a loss. As a believer in both God and religion, it may come as a surprise to some that I mourn the loss of a man who not only wrote a book called “God Is Not Great,” but sub-titled it, “How Religion Poisons Everything.” …

In his passionate defenses of the planned mosque near Ground Zero, New York City Mayor Bloomberg depicts the issue as a simple case of freedom of religion. “People have a right to pray, and I think, you know, we have a quarter of a million Muslims that live In this …

We nearly lost our independence in 1877. For 35 years the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. displayed the official signed copy of the Declaration of Independence for all to see — beginning with those bold words: “’The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States” and ending with John Hancock’s equally …

If U.S. officials and the media can be believed, America faces an epidemic of “homegrown” terrorism. Yet from U.S. Army shooter Nidal Hasan to would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad to so-called Christmas tree bomber Mohamed Mohamud, all of these mass murderers or potential mass murderers believed they were working …