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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 …

Something happened during the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year. It didn’t make headlines, but it’s something that certainly should not be ignored. While Iranian leaders spent most of the time talking about their nuclear program and other issues including Syria, there was a brief exchange between …

The typical American mom (and dad) must think government economists have rocks in their head. According to the number crunchers at the Labor Department, over the last year, prices were up only 1.2 percent, and for the month of November, inflation was zero, nada, zilch! Surely economists don’t eat, or …

1787: Americans are thunderstruck. After secret meetings, political muckamucks have proposed a breathtakingly radical new government. Tempers flare over how to respond. 1861: a meltdown over slavery. Neighbors — sharing the same heritage, language, and God — kill and die in droves. The New Deal. Civil Rights. Today’s skirmishes on …

The government slimdown, known in some quarters as the so-called “shutdown” hasn’t lived up to the disastrous predictions. Federal government spending has been cut by 17 percent from the scheduled increase for the 2014 fiscal year. It is only a 13 percent cut from what was being spent during 2013. …