The fine folks who run the school system in Lincoln, Neb., are on a campaign to make their classrooms gender-inclusive. And that means teachers will no longer refer to boys and girls … as boys and girls. “Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ …

I recently returned from a medical mission to Guatemala organized by the John Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah. My first connection with Guatemala was in the 1990’s. I met the Hernandez brothers when they were kids. They were led into the examining room by their foster mother. …

The police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last month turned a St. Louis suburb of 21,000 into a media circus. The public watched breathlessly in the weeks that followed as violent protests pitted police against protesters and looters against shop owners. While so much of the discussion …

The Obama administration is reportedly considering air strikes in Syria against the terrorist group ISIS. The New York Times quotes “a top national security adviser” to the president as saying the U.S. is “‘not going to be restricted by borders’ to protect its interests…” What about American cities? If ISIS …

Faith is making a comeback among liberal Democrats, but they still have a way to go. First, some history. Hoping to attract some Evangelical Christian votes more than 20 years ago, former vice president Al Gore wrote that the biblical story of Noah and the Ark could be paraphrased in …

The news that more than half our stateshave VA facilities with secret waiting lists that threaten the lives of our veterans is shocking. But the more pervasive, less sensational, problem with VA hospitals is one I have experienced as a physician: They are fallback places, providing second tier medical care, …

Earlier this year I warned in a column that food freedom – the right to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, share, cook, eat and drink the foods you want – would be “under attack” in 2014. But even I couldn’t have predicted the crushing regulatory assault that’s hit American consumers …

While we wring our hands over whether we have any options in preventing Crimea from being slowly — but almost surely — sucked into the Russian sphere of influence for good, the fact is that the Kremlin clearly thought it could get away with it. Why? Weakness. There’s no doubt …

Not even six months into its existence ObamaCare has had its share of problems. Perhaps the most troubling is the one that the law itself is creating by wreaking havoc on an already shaky employment landscape. More specifically, stunning job loss. The Congressional Budget Office reported last week that the …

Why did VA hospitals restrict and in some cases ban volunteers from bringing holiday cheer to patients? That’s the question Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) wants answered. He’s the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and he’s accusing the VA of disrespecting Christmas as well as censoring and obstructing …