January is National Stalking Awareness Month and this week’s announcement by Civitas Media, that it was constructing a national database of concealed handgun permit holders, couldn’t have come at a worse time. This is quite a service Civitas will provide stalkers with. Before a stalker decides to go after his …
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Even I, a deeply flawed but still striving Roman Catholic, did not realize the true impact of Pope Francis on his church and his world until a few weeks ago, when a little girl, possibly four years of age, toddled up the center aisle of my church and plopped down …
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The embarrassingly low enrollment numbers for ObamaCare and its website dysfunctions reinforce the growing conclusion that, sadly, we are witnessing a national flimflam stemming from misleading by President Obama. Unfortunately, it doesn’t end with ObamaCare. Everyone’s talking about the president’s disastrous dive in job approval and likability ratings linked to …
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As the national commander of the nation’s oldest and largest war veterans’ organization, I am disgusted with the partisan bickering and government paralysis caused by a White House and Congress who will not budge from their ideological extremes in order to properly take care of America’s true heroes. Tuesday’s news …
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As the scheduled time for President Obama’s address on Syria came and went Saturday, reporters in the Rose Garden could see him through the Oval Office windows, talking on the telephone. He was probably talking to political guru David Axelrod about the latest polls — just before he demanded that …
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Friday, the world was treated to the latest, greatest report on global warming from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the form of its Fifth Assessment Report. It is an embarrassment of internal inconsistency, entirely self-serving, and is beyond misleading. That’s because the IPCC is more …
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Editor’s note: The following op-ed originally appeared in Fox News Opinion on July 3, 2013. In the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln’s rhetoric was suffused with a profound sense of loss. He considered it shameful national backsliding that a new affirmative defense of slavery had arisen in the South. At the time …
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Goodbye to my friend, my role model and the greatest public servant I know, New Jersey Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died Monday at age 89. Goodbye to the last member of the Greatest Generation in the United States Senate and the last of the liberal lions. Goodbye to the …
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I looked in the paper and saw a doctor’s office in need of a bilingual receptionist, someone who could schedule appointments for patients – it was perfect for me. I didn’t realize it was an abortion clinic. I was a Christian but abortion was not at the top of my …
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The Labor Department announced the economy only created 88,000 jobs in March as many more adults quit looking for work than found jobs—for many Americans, good job remain tough to find. The headline unemployment rate is 7.6 percent, but adding in adults who are discouraged and quit looking for work …
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