Three-and-a-half years ago, every single Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives – and 34 Democrats – voted against Barack Obama’s socialized medicine bill. And since taking control of the House following the 2010 elections – thanks in large measure to anti-ObamaCare fervor – numerous votes to repeal this …

Chaos in the Middle East is nothing new. What we consider in our western perception as “instability” others would consider a normal state of play. As the Billy Joel Song goes “we didn’t start the fire” – many of the religious conflicts go back two thousand years. Still, while this …

Talk about your disappointments. The first black president of the United States and the first black attorney general say they are deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. In fact, the ruling is worth celebrating. It reflects the success of the civil rights-era legislation in ending …

The agnostic philosopher David Hume claimed that tragedies in the world such as the tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma last week constitute prima facie evidence that God is either evil, impotent, or non-existent. Admittedly, reconciling the reality of suffering with faith in a loving, all-powerful God is difficult. The late rector …

For two long years, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez’s Cuban medical team perpetrated a colossal deception of the Venezuelan people and the world about his bout with terminal cancer.According to knowledgeable sources, Cuban doctors botched the initial treatment that doomed Chavez, manipulated his anxiety and paranoia so he would settle for …

Imagine if President George W. Bush or senior members of his administration asserted that they had the power to assassinate any person, including American citizens on American soil, because they merely suspected them of being involved in a terrorist plot. Now, imagine that they went a step further and claimed …

Every couple starts out with big hopes and dreams. Then over time you find yourself fighting about money. You’re stressing about the present, and nervous about the future. And money seems to be at the heart of it all. But, take heart, how you communicate about money with your partner …

Washington, D.C. – In 1794, during George Washington’s second term as president, Congress finally got around to appropriating funds to build six wooden-hulled frigates that were “sufficiently armed” to protect American shipping from pirates and fast enough to evade British and French “ships of the line.” It wasn’t enough. America …

Our Founding Fathers were once revered in this country as divinely inspired, courageous visionaries. But now, after the past 100 years of “enlightenment,” we’ve come to realize that they were nothing but old, white, racist, heathens. The “myth” of our Christian founding has been obliterated and, at best, we now …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Put on Ice The blizzard conditions here in the nation’s capital have shut down most area federal government activity. A scheduled Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing discussing the impacts of global warming had to be postponed because of the …