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Thirty years ago today, November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian “studentsâ€� shouting “death to Americaâ€� stormed the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran and took 66 Americans hostage. Though fourteen of the hostages were soon freed, the remaining 52 were held for 444 days. For the American people, it was …

Bishop Thomas Tobin’s request that U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), refrain from asking for Holy Communion seems, to me, to be an eminently reasonable one. While not a Catholic, I understand the hierarchical nature of the church and the role that doctrine plays within it. To put it simply, and …

Ever heard of Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP? Probably not, unless you’re a nuclear weapons expert. In the 1950’s, At the dawn of the nuclear age, most weapons analysts focused on the unparalleled death and destruction even one nuclear weapon would cause. Bomb blast, fireball, radiation poisoning. But few thought about …

Pretending the past three years’ dismal economy is someone else’s fault is not likely to fool voters. This month, during a speech in Osawatomie, Kan., and in an interview on “60 Minutes,” President Barack Obama laid out the broad contours of his re-election strategy. Republicans would be wise to examine …

NEWSFLASH – House passes bipartisan immigration measures by huge margins! Read all about it! Oh, wait…you can’t read all about it because the media barely noticed; And it’s somewhat understandable given all the other news of the week that two immigration-related bills passed in the House flew under the radar. …

In 1775 Israel Putnam was farming in Brooklyn, Connecticut when he heard the British had fired on the American Militia in Lexington, Massachusetts. He immediately dropped his plow and rode 100 miles in 18 hours to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join the colonial soldiers. On the way he spread the call …

Tea Partiers have found an organizing theme, even if they don’t know it yet. Like beaters flushing quail, they are turning incumbents out of office at an unprecedented rate – both on the left and the right. In effect, they are imposing their own special brand of term limits. Political …

I like Rahm. I like him a lot. I remember when I was asked to take over as the acting White House press secretary when Tony Snow had to undergo surgery and I got a few phone calls of encouragement. The first one was from Rep. Rahm Emanuel. We’d not …

Bishop Thomas Tobin’s request that U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), refrain from asking for Holy Communion seems, to me, to be an eminently reasonable one. While not a Catholic, I understand the hierarchical nature of the church and the role that doctrine plays within it. To put it simply, and …

The FAB FIVE 1) The protests in Iran: The long awaited counterrevolution has not yet occurred, but the preconditions for it did.– Turbans off to the brave men and women who have continued to flock to the streets, defying death and prison, to protest the theft of yet another election …