Fifty Years After MacArthur’s “Duty, Honor, Country” Speech
Fifty years ago, on May 12, 1962, Douglas MacArthur bade farewell to the cadets at West Point, an academy that he attended and graduated first in his class. In...
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Could California Parents’ Lose Rights to Help Homosexual Children?
The California Legislature is seriously considering making it hard or impossible for parents to help minor children who may become practicing homosexuals. ...
Obesity Is National Security Problem
It's becoming a common refrain, echoed by Michelle Obama and even U.S. military generals: Obesity is a threat to our nation's security. But is there truth to the claims?...
Seventy-Five Years After the Hindenburg
Airship travel was a big success, until that fateful day in Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937, when the Hindenburg met her fate. ...
Euro Zone Manufacturing Down Sharply
The "Euro Zone" is faltering, as  Markit’s Eurozone Manufacturers Purchasing Managers’ Index or PMI dropped to 45.9 points in April, which was lower than the preliminary estimate and a...
Governor Dayton Vetoes Abortion Inspection Law
Governor Dayton of Minnesota has vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would have required that any facility that performs ten or more abortions per month to be licensed...
Twenty Five Years after the Meech Lake Accord
Canada, like the United States, has struggled with federalism. Twenty-five years ago, with the Meech Lake Accord, it looked like the problem had been solved. ...
New Company Plans to Mine Space for Wealth
A new company, Planetary Resources, intends to go into outer space and mine minerals and even water from asteroids near our planet. The Platinum groups of metals, which include...
German People Not Happy With Bailouts
The sovereign debt crisis in the European Union can be summed up fairly simply: The governments of overspending nations are asking the governments of fiscally prudent nations to prop...
New Study: Moderate Exericse Reduces Risk of Alzheimer’s
A new study published in the medical journal Neurology provides a strong case for the connection between moderate physical activity and a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s. The four-year work,...
Remembering Pierre Laval, the Communazi
The artificial ideological line that presumably places Hitler and Mussolini on one side of a mythical ideological spectrum and which places Stalin and Mao on the other side of...
Women With More Children Live Longer
The University of New South Wales in Australia has published the results of a study of 1,200 women who were 60 years or older. What were the findings? Women...
Remembering the Lonely Struggle of Otto Otepka
Otto Otepka is not a name that automatically rings bells in the minds of most Americans, even those Americans with a historical understanding of the role of communism in...
Newborn Girl Rescued from Toilet in China
Cao Qulin went into labor last Saturday, which was nine days before her due date. She went to the toilet before reaching the hospital and, unexpectedly, gave birth into...
Pope’s Easter Homily: God, Not Science, Is Good
Can man alone make Heaven on Earth? That has been the theme of secular collectivists for more than one hundred years. But as Pope Benedict XVI stated in his...
United Mine Workers Assn: EPA Shot Us in Washington
United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) President Cecil Roberts (left) recently blasted the actions of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who has proposed new stringent standards on coal-based generating units, declaring,...
Sword of Damocles Hanging Over Europe
The sovereign debt crisis of the European Union is not going away anytime soon. The new Italian government has already had a crisis of confidence and a threatened general...
Remembering Wilson and the First World War
George Washington warned Americans "… to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world..." "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none,"...
Italian PM Monti’s Reforms Losing Popular Support
In the wake of the general meltdown in the EU sovereign debt crisis, the head of Italy's new government, the unelected Prime Minister Mario Monti, has been unable to...
Obama Ponders “Non-lethal” Aid to Syrian Rebels
Meeting on the sidelines of the second Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, on March 25, President Obama met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss sending...