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I have personally experienced that pro-lifers are sometimes punishingly reprimanded for their act of conscience. For one example, in the 1980s, I declared for the first time that I had...

Leo Manzano is the son of an undocumented farmworker from Mexico. Meb Keflezighi and his family fled civil war in Eritrea. Danell Leyva's stepfather defected from Cuba's gymnastics team during...

(Sigh.) First, we had the conventional wisdom that Barack Obama was in trouble. Now, he is said to be on the ascent since presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney seems...

For weeks we've been buffeted by negative political campaigning, a mixed economic recovery, wildfires, droughts and mass-murders. But the 2012 Olympic Games have provided a breeze of blessed relief for...

It's taken more than 200 years, two world wars, an industrial revolution, and the dawn of the Internet, but the United States once again finds itself at the mercy of...

What happens when nations cut taxes for their richest citizens? Economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, two of the world's most respected authorities on the incomes of rich people, have...

The belief that no one owes me anything is one of the greatest gifts my hardworking, blue-collar father gave me when I was young.

Presumptive nominee Mitt Romney is seemingly fixated on apologies. He's obsessed with apologies like Bristol Palin is obsessed with teen abstinence - like BP is obsessed with clean energy -...

Of all the ways nature has to kill you, drought may be the cruelest. The desiccation proceeds day after punishing day. The afternoon sun pounds the earth like a brazen...

I, for one, support what Moira Johnson is doing. According to The Huffington Post, Johnson, an exotic dancer by night, has by day been walking around New York City topless...

What does back-to-school season have to do with the recent "contraception rule" from the White House? Hadley Heath, a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum, points to Pius...

When Catholic women religious meet this week in St. Louis, they will try to solve a problem tougher than any they assigned to generations of schoolchildren. The nuns will decide...

SAN DIEGO, Calif: -- When James Holmes murderously interrupted the new Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, opening fire and killing 12 people and injuring 58 others, it...

President Obama was supposed to be all about hope and change. But after almost four years he's squeezed the hope out of most of us. A new Rasmussen poll is...

Are America's rich getting richer? Certainly. Every official yardstick shows that America's most affluent are upping their incomes much faster than everyone else. How fast? Between 1980 and 2010, note...