As priests are abducted in Crimea, churches burn in Sudan, and American pastors waste away in North Korean prisons, how long will it take this administration to name a new ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom? With the president visiting Saudi Arabia and the first lady visiting China earlier this month, …

In the region of Niger just south of the Sahara Desert, the search for water dominates life. Garibou Karimou, a resident of the Baba Aoura village, says, “Men, women and children, we mobilized ourselves in search of water thereby sacrificing other activities, including field work, and we could not even …

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes he can do all things through Christ, but an atheist group charges that he cannot do all things through Christ on his official social media platforms. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has demanded Walker remove posts from his official Facebook and Twitter feeds that read, …

The FCC is launching a new study, taking upon itself the task of deciding what news the public “needs” to hear, versus the news the public wants to hear. The agency will conduct a “General Population Survey” that will “measure community members’ actual and perceived critical information needs.” Got that? …

He’s my governor. My son goes to the same public school he went to 33 years ago I even voted for him… Once… (but not twice). The second time, I drove past the polling place because Chris Christie had veered too far left for my liking It wasn’t always that …

The headline blares “Federal Government has Spent Nearly $1 Million on Romance” with a happy pic of Fabio. My attention was captured. I write romance novels for a living. I wonder about my share of that mill. The article is about Senator Tom Coburn’s 2013 “Wastebook” cataloguing wasteful government spending. …

Don’t you wish we could roll back the clock to the time when ObamaCare was on the table four years ago and start the discussion about health reform all over again? I know I do. And among doctors, I am far from alone in feeling this way. In fact a …

I have a love-hate relationship with the holiday season. It has changed from a time of reflection and gratitude for memories past and present to a montage of messed up values. Now, it’s about ‘the present’, all right, but the ‘gift’ kind, not the moment in time. Americans are expected …

Earlier this month the Obama administration announced it was cutting military aid to Egypt by hundreds of millions of dollars. The move had nothing to do with the budget battle in D.C. Rather, it was a belated reaction to last July’s military coup against President Mohamed Morsi’s increasingly autocratic Islamist …

My fellow Americans, I come before you today to celebrate our recovery from the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes. I want to remind you of all the terrific things my administration has accomplished to move this great country forward. I know it hasn’t been perfect and we’re not there …