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The folks in the drama department at Cape Fear Community College are just fine with staging productions about rape and incest. But when it comes to staging a show with Christian themes – well, that’s a problem. So says Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious advocacy group that claims the school’s …

For some weeks now on our Fox News show “Political Insiders,” I have been expressing my concern that if we look at the polls, we seem to have two elections going on. With only days to go before the midterm elections we continue to see a true anomaly which is …

Time was when anything but the toughest stance against crime was a ticket to political trouble in California. That included the death penalty, which was Dianne Feinstein’s ticket to stardom back in 1990 when her defense of the practice before a convention hall of angry liberal Democrats – a calculated …

By the year 2025, one in every 25 American adults will be diagnosed with ALS, Parkinson’s, or Alzheimer’s. If you think that taking the Ice Bucket Challenge is a shock to the system, please consider the following fact: Soon we will all know someone—or be the person–with one of these …

I got my first lesson on the subject of climate change more than 10 years ago. My tutor was an internationally famous climate scientist at a major Ivy League university. Unlike most lectures I have heard from professors, this one was brief, to the point and extremely enlightening. At the …

What if the federal government is shameless? What if it personifies the adage of do as I say and not as I do? What if it does the very things it prosecutes others for doing? What if it has written laws and enacted procedures so that it can spy and …

Late last monththe United States introduced a U.N. resolution condemning Russia’s de facto seizure of Crimea from Ukraine. As expected, the resolution passed the General Assembly easily. Unexpected, though, was the decision by Israel, long America’s most reliable U.N. vote (and vice versa), to absent itself from the ballot. This …

The Bible often gets a bad rap for being anti-women. The accusation must be made by those who haven’t spent a lot of time in the Scripture. As we celebrate International Women’s Day this week, it is high time we celebrate some of the remarkable women of the Bible. Recently, …

In his FoxNews.com op-ed “The state of technology – Obama must admit America is a nation of innovators,” it is peculiar to see Steve Forbes making a baseless attack on MPEG LA once again. MPEG LA is an example of what is right, not what is wrong. Our record of …

In his State of the Union address on Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty.” Today, with roughly the same number of people below the poverty level as in 1964 and with many addicted to government “benefits,” robbing them of a work ethic, it is clear …