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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:11:32 +0000 – By Patrick DorinsonPolitical Commentator When it comes to analyzing America’s current economic woes and how we got here, I have heard just about all the whining, navel-gazing, excuses, television talk show psychobabble, hand wringing and pundit puffery I can stomach. This is not …

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:28:56 +0000 – By Eric BollingCo-Host, “Happy Hour,” FOX Business Network/Host, “The Strategy Room,” FOXNews.com/Editor, “Street Meat” blog click here

When I saw ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber’s comments about how the “stupidity of the American voter” helped grease the wheels of his healthcare legislation, I had to scream at my television. He admitted that advocates had counted on Americans’ “lack of financial understanding” to hide the costs of the bill. …

My husband, Glen Campbell, has stage 6 Alzheimer’s disease. Seven months ago, at the recommendation of his doctors, we placed him in a memory care facility close to our home in Nashville. It’s a community that’s designed specifically for the needs of those who have Alzheimer’s and dementia. They have …

New York’s Metropolitan Opera premiered “The Death of Klinghoffer” Monday night. The Washington Post describes the opera as “based on the brutal murder in 1985 of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish tourist shot by Palestinian terrorists and pushed into the sea from the deck of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.” …

The pictures are damning. Emotionally and legally. Open wounds from lacerations on the thighs. Bruises on the lower back and buttocks. Cuts on the hands as a 4-year old boy, apparently, tried in vain to stop the beating. Defensive wounds. If this case ever gets in front of a jury …

Will American cities in financial distress be given a legal precedent to use Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection to prioritize selected creditors, like pensioners, even if it violates bankruptcy law? Has the bankruptcy process devolved into a political instrument, improperly influenced by public stakeholders? Or does it remain a legitimate legal …

Imagine that wherever you live in the United States you have only 15 seconds to reach a secure place to avoid a rocket or missile. Seriously, count down from 15 to 1, and think about what you would do. For more than 3.5 million Israelis, Jews and Arabs, their mental …

Gittel Jaskulski was a mere infant when she was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. Her parents, ripped away from their newborn daughter and sent to Auschwitz in Poland, died a few months later – never knowing the fate of their baby girl. The German-born Jaskulski would …

I know it’s almost Easter, but an incident that occurred just before Valentine’s Day crossed my desk this week – and it’s got me fired up. A little boy broke into tears after a Nazareth, Pa. teacher confiscated his Valentine’s Day cards because they contained religious messages and a Bible …