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Every nation faces critical testing points—tenuous moments of crisis when its very existence is threatened. Today, from Ukraine to the Middle East and beyond, nations are being tested and their survival as sovereign states put in doubt. If they survive, they may well look back on these months with a …

A White House in disarray. The nation torn between left and right. Government agencies used for dirty tricks against political opponents. The CIA involved in domestic spying. It’s a good thing the American media are on the scene, giving detailed reports about the White House’s abuse of power and the …

Overseas, almost everybody I have ever met wants to be American, or at least in America. I realize that sounds chauvinistic, perhaps arrogant, but it is true – and for myriad reasons, ranging from traditions to scenery, roots to realities. From sea to shining sea, ours is a blessed nation …

Monica Lewinsky has returned, and it’s a good thing. She’s a smart, thoughtful woman who deserves to be able to take her life back from those who prefer she stay silent, and stay away. I’m sure there’s nothing more irritating to Hillary Clinton than those you use and abandon who …

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. …