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In real life when you find yourself paying more and getting less, you usually search for another product or service. With the federal government, it isn’t possible to take your business elsewhere unless you are prepared to give up your citizenship, as some have done. Such a drastic step is …

As co-director of Georgetown University’s Center for Research on Children in the U.S. and the parent of a middle-school student, I was indignant when I first heard that the Common Core State Standards for public schools wanted to increase the amount of nonfiction versus fiction starting in the third grade. …

Penny-wise, pound foolish. That’s one way to describe Harry Reid’s outrageous decision to upend the filibuster rules in the Senate. Jettisoning nearly a century of convention may make it easier to ram through appointments to certain federal agencies and to the D.C. Court of Appeals, but ramped-up hostilities in the …

Erin Cox is a 17-year-old Massachusetts high school senior and honor student. She’s been in the news this week because she was stripped of her title as volleyball team captain and suspended for five games. Why? For simply doing the right thing. One night, Erin received a text from a …

Editor’s note: The White House initially announced that President Obama would speak from the Oval Office in an address to the nation on the Syria crisis on September 10. On Tuesday evening, the address was delivered instead from the East Room of the White House. When President Obama addresses the …

Paleontologists say the Age of Dinosaurs ended with the Cretaceous Period. Mark Aug. 5, 2013, on your calendar as the beginning of the end for modern dinosaurs. That’s the day that new media consumed old media, as Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos bought up one of the most dominant old media …

The power of television to shrink the world has always amazed me. Eating lunch on the road to Ft. William, a man at the next table recognizes me and introduces himself. Keith Farrington says he spent 15 years working as an assistant director of finance for the South East Thames …

Ever since President Clinton “did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” whatever remains of standards seems to have fallen even lower among people who hold offices and positions once thought to require good behavior and strong moral character. Last year, several Secret Service agents left the agency …

Who, in your estimation wins the all-time, “most incredible Christian in history” prize? Call me crazy, but I vote for the guy who holds birdbaths up in people’s gardens—St Francis of Assisi. I knew zero about St Francis until I went through a spiritual crisis a few years ago. I …

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally. They come here in pursuit of what we recognize as the American dream – the chance to live in freedom and have …