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One hundred and fifty years ago today, troops loyal to the newly-formed Confederate States of America opened fire on Fort Sumter, a U.S. military outpost located in Charleston, South Carolina. In response, President Abraham Lincoln called for the raising of an army of volunteers to recapture federal property in the …

The fury unleashed by pundits on Newt Gingrich last week was about much more that his misstatement about Congressman Ryan’s reform proposal. Gingrich is the conservative candidate most reviled by the Republican elite. But his rejection by polite society, which long predates last week, is based more on horror that …

Does watching Fox News rot your brain? According to a report released last month by WorldPublicOpinion.org at the University of Maryland, “Misinformation and the 2010 Election,” the more people watch Fox News, the more they are “misinformed.” The allegation rapidly became a favorite topic for leading mainstream news outlets including …

The graduation season has ended and summer has begun. Many young people are using this period to prepare for the next phase of their lives. As they do, I offer a few pieces of advice that I wish I had received when I was in their shoes just starting out. …

President Obama recently issued an executive order directing independent agencies to comb through their books and repeal unneeded regulations. This is, as he put it, “an opportunity to do something big and lasting – to change the ways of Washington; to focus on what works; and to forge a 21st-century …

Today, December 7, 2011 marks the 70th Anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on the United States Naval Base and Army facilities at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaii marking America’s formal entry into the world war that had been raging in Asia beginning in the early 1930s and Europe since …

There is growing debate in the Helena, Montana school district over plans to include Human Sexuality education as part of the health curriculum in grades K-12. Emotions are running high as parents are vehemently objecting to this plan and educators seem intent on implementing it. While everyone is entitled to …

Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hideki Tojo tried and failed. Mao Zedong, Nikita Khrushchev and Ho Chi Minh couldn’t do it. But Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama may well succeed where others could not. If he has his way, he will demolish the finest force for good in the history of mankind …

On Monday celebrity blogger Perez Hilton posted a so-called “up skirt photo” of actress/musician Miley Cyrus wearing a short, short dress, allegedly sans undergarments, getting out of a car. I’ll let your imagination fill in the rest but suffice it to say that there is plenty of blame to go …

From May to July, 460,000 fewer people had jobs, according to the Labor Department’s Household survey data released Friday. The only reason that the official unemployment rate hasn’t soared is simply because 1.2 million people also gave up looking for jobs and left the labor force. Everyone wants to fix …