The Obama administration is turning its back on America’s heroes. There are few symbols more powerful than the Purple Heart. Whether displayed next to a carefully-folded flag on a mantle, on a fraying old uniform at a veteran’s parade, or even on a license plate designating the driver as “combat-wounded,” …

It took a mere two months and eight days for the Obama administration’s spin on the growing scandal of the IRS targeting Tea Party and conservative groups to completely collapse. Let’s rewind to May 10, 2013, when Lois Lerner, the former Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division, apologized on …

As bullying problems land in the headlines month after month, it’s natural that our culture frowns upon any form of fighting. And for Christians, the familiar verse about turning the other cheek leads many of us to a place where we see fighting as a failure in living out our …

Tragedy in Oklahoma: tornadoes devastate a community, an elementary school is leveled and the death toll stands at 24 dead. Does the idea of the existence of a loving God get swept away in the wake of such storms like a tin building or mobile home? Looking at the outpouring …

If you’re the parent of a teen, you have witnessed this scenario at your own kitchen table, I’m sure. Less talking. More texting. Virtual conversations, whether via smart phones or social media, consume our kids’ existence. Our children’s social lives are no longer played out at home and at school, …

In the free market, companies that don’t satisfy their customers needs don’t survive. A new, better company will come along and fix any problems. Unfortunately, the same doesn’t hold true when the customers are families and the company is the public education system. As a mother and a former eighth …

The economy added 155,000 jobs in December, down a bit from 161, 000 in November. Unemployment was steady at 7.8 percent, largely because few of the millions of discouraged workers did not begin seeking work. Fears regarding the so-called “fiscal cliff” contributed to the continued slow pace of jobs creation; …

When my great, great grandparents came to America from Europe a century ago, they didn’t get in line. They just got on a boat. They didn’t get visas in their home countries or secure jobs in their new homeland. They just got on a boat carrying few possessions but their …

The news that is not White House approved… Goldman Opportunity An ex-White House official has been tapped to advice embattled securities firm Goldman Sachs. Former Obama counsel Greg Craig is working with the company as it fights against charges that it committed fraud and misled investors back in 2007. Craig’s …

Roughly 15,000 American, Afghan and NATO forces began an assault late Friday on the Taliban in the central Helmand town of Marjah in what senior military commanders are calling the largest operation since the start of the Afghanistan war. Punching their way through a line of insurgent defenses that included …