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How many Americans remember Paul Harvey? For those who don’t know who he was, he was an American treasure. Harvey was a legendary radio broadcaster delivering news and commentary in a plain talking common-sense style that was never divisive and always informative. He started in radio at the age of …

To those of you who shy away from any religious “stuff” appearing in an op-ed or in political discourse, in general, I say, “bah, humbug.” Some definers say that religion only is another word for “worldview,” so please don’t get freaked out by the religious overtones suggested by the title …

An informed source within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps reports that the ever-increasing tensions and visible animosities between the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad has prompted the Ayatollah to issue an operational plan to deal with the clashes that can be expected in the coming weeks between the …

She is the Queen of All Media, a woman so successful she has her own TV show, her own magazine, $2.7 billion in the bank, a book club that can make any author a best seller and now her own TV network. And, conveniently, she also has a “secret” she …

In the School of Scandal textbook, the first rule of holes is to stop digging. When you’ve made a mistake, don’t get yourself in any deeper. The Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., apparently is now learning that lesson. Or maybe he’s still ignoring it at his own peril. It’s …

After three years of discussion among 21 scientists, an economic-political coalition of advanced western nation-states recently handed down a ruling which prohibits bottled water companies from advertising that water eases dehydration. Executives of bottled water companies who dare to claim that, in essence, water is wet, can face up two …

It’s December 3 and already we’ve seen a lot when it comes to women and the 2012 presidential election. Let’s see… Here’s the latest this week. Right now three women have come forward to claim that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sexual harassed them. Now a third woman, Ginger White, …

During the last week, President Obama doubled down on a losing political bet, further cementing the Democratic Party’s reputation as the champion of bigger deficits, higher spending and more government. He did so just as the public is crying out for lower deficits, less spending and less government. In his …

Missing from the debate over the latest amnesty effort is the costs with which the DREAM Act would burden U.S. taxpayers. New research by my organization, the Center for Immigration Studies, finds that that the bill’s college-attendance requirements will cost U.S. taxpayers $6.2 billion in subsidies for educating the illegal …

A recent poll reflected that in the aftermath of the BP disaster only 25% of Americans say they would support off-shore drilling. And even before the facts are known about the causes of the disaster, U.S. leaders have called for criminal sanctions against the oil company. But in seeking to …