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What makes a miracle? A bus driver gets shot in the chest — twice — yet the bullets barely leave a scratch. Why? Because in his front chest pocket is a Bible. Modern day miracle, or just a great bit of luck? Whether you believe in miracles — or the …

If there’s one good thing to come out of the Crimea crisis so far – if that’s possible – it’s that Russia’s land-grab may have roused Team Obama from its strategic slumber about emerging big power threats. Startled by the Kremlin’s unexpected wake-up call, maybe now the White House will …

Editor’s note: The following op-ed originally appeared on the Spanish language site www.elmed.io. President Obama’s rationale for not getting involved in conflicts around the world has been a consistent political argument: the American people are tired of war, he says. In fact, candidate Obama campaigned on the fact that he …

For the first time since September of 2005, Dennis Kozlowski will wake up on January 18 a free man. There will be no more prison uniforms and none of the strip searches that have been part of his life for many years. Remember Kozlowski? He’s the former CEO of Tyco …

Debacle, disaster, disgrace: just three of many descriptors used to characterize the president’s attempted implementation of ObamaCare. Each week offers new cause for alarm: whether a dysfunctional website rife with opportunity for security breaches, health care cancellation notices, or sharp increases in health care premiums, ObamaCare has quickly devolved into …

Billy Graham turns 95 on November 7. Happy Birthday! While age and health restricts his mobility, Graham is still doing what he’s always done since 1949, he’s preaching the Gospel. For more than 60 years, the country preacher from humble beginnings in North Carolina has become a global evangelist and …

In an era when moral clarity in foreign policy seems increasingly difficult to come by, we have an opportunity this week to recognize the efforts of a man – and his nation – that stood clearly and defiantly for democracy and freedom. Former Czech Republic President Václav Havel was a …

Whose heart wasn’t pierced upon reading the story of fifteen-year-old Davion Navar Henry, of St. Petersburg, FL, a foster child who has asked, publicly, for a family that can “reach out and get me and love me until I die?” As a former foster child, my heart broke to see …

From that great bastion of academic freedom known as Temple University comes another example of a liberal professor bullying conservative students with a bevy of F-bombs. The potty-mouth professor is Joseph Schwartz, a political science professor who told he’s won every teaching award at the university. He’s also a card-carrying …

Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, recently told a Wisconsin town-hall meeting that the House has plans to vote on immigration reform in October. If Ryan, R-Wis., is willing to publicly talk in such terms, then he is opening the door to Republicans allowing their leadership to …