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JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater snaps, hurls obscenities, grabs some beer and slides down an emergency exit – tossing away a 28-year career. And he smiles on his way to lockup. An angry customer “loses her cool at an Ohio McDonald’s.” She gets upset they stopped selling Chicken McNuggets, so …

America’s public schools have been blamed for a lot of the nation’s problems over the years, but the new documentary “Waiting For Superman” adds a new and shocking charge. After recounting the dismal performance of an inner-city high school, the speaker, an aggressive promoter of charter schools, looks into the …

What a man is this President Sebastian Pinera of Chile! He believes in God and is not afraid to say so. He doesn’t care about being ridiculed by the American Civil Liberties Union or its Chilean equivalent: He orders church bells to be rung to celebrate the amazing, truly miraculous …

The media just loves to hate Sarah Palin. And, if polls are to be believed, the constant media bombardment has hurt her standing among many independents. Unfortunately, over the last couple of weeks, even conservative media pundits such as Mona Charen, Peggy Noonan, George Will, Joe Scarborough and Matt Labash …

The Oscars will take on a new meaning for many this Sunday. Sure, the usual offerings will be present representing Hollywood at its most gratuitous but there is a surprise addition this year…a story of faith. “The Blind Side,” nominated for best picture is the first film in history, according …

Year one of the Obama administration ends Wednesday. Another era may come to an end the day before, when Massachusetts voters choose a senator to fill the three years remaining in the term of Edward Kennedy, who held the seat for 47 years. If Republican Scott Brown wins that election …

I’m not someone who thinks former Vice President Dick Cheney was the villain many in the press have painted him as. In fact, I think history may very well vindicate many of the things that the Bush administration did in fighting a very difficult enemy. But I’m not here to …

“Derivatives” have gone from being the hottest thing on Wall Street to being the hottest thing in Washington. Indeed, President Obama — who mentioned them no fewer than three times during Thursday’s Cooper Union speech — has vowed to veto any financial reform bill that doesn’t attempt to regulate them. …

President Obama’s strategy of avoiding the abortion issue in order to successfully pass health care reform isn’t going so well. His repeated claims that health care legislation will not fund abortion have done little to prevent national headlines like, “Abortion Fight Complicates Debate on Health Care.” Major media outlets from …

Although some of President Obama’s advisers like former green jobs czar Van Jones and climate czar Carol Browning are self-admitted socialists, and the president has openly associated with former Weather Underground radical leaders like William Ayers, it is still politically incorrect to imply that he holds a thinly veiled contempt …