In various parts of the Muslim world, religious minorities are facing a reign of terror. In the Middle East, persecution has become so terrible and widespread some experts are predicting that non-Muslims may be entirely driven from the region known for millennia as the cultural cross-roads. Until now, the West …

Despite efforts to revive the peace process, the Palestinians are once again making their way through the U.N. machinery to demonize, delegitimize and undermine Israel. From the U.N. Human Rights Council, to the World Health Organization, to UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) the Palestinians seem to …

Editor’s note: Naghmeh Abedini, wife of Paster Saeed Abedini who is currently being held prisoner in Iran, is scheduled to address the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 about her husband’s plight. For nearly a year, the Iranian government has tried to silence my husband, …

We can be judged in many ways. One measure of a civilization’s morality is how it treats those without power. Pope John Paul II once said, “a society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn …

Even experienced North Korea watchers are wondering if this time the annual Kabuki dance in which the country’s dictator threatens war in order to win more food and foreign currency concessions from us and the South Koreans, might not actually be for real. Its latest ruling psychopath, Kim Jong Eun, …

Republicans are losing elections they could win by slavishly clinging to untenable solutions for skyrocketing health care costs that voters reject. The House Budget Committee, chaired by Paul Ryan, is proposing a plan to balance the budget in 10 years. That requires lowering the trajectory of Medicaid and Medicare costs, …

President Obama’s approach to so-called “climate change” appears to include recycling old ideas. In his State of the Union address, the president recycled the idea of spending more on education, though we are still getting unsatisfactory results. A fact he inadvertently acknowledged by saying we’re not keeping up with other …

Quick draw Republicans in Congress, intent on stopping any gun-control proposal from the Obama White House, are way off target when they accuse the president of violating gun ownership rights under the Constitution. Gun control is completely consistent with the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. And President …

So I’m talking to a liberal friend of mine — yes, I have a few. And this might shock you, but he’s a fellow journalist. Actually, he’s pretty big. For what seems like the 50th time, he asks why I’m going to Atlanta to cover this Tea Party protest. “I …

ACORN — remember them? — they’re the community organizing group that has a soft spot for those in need (even those in need of tax evasion advice for their under-aged El Salvadorian sex slave business.) Congress voted to de-fund ACORN. Then a federal judge overturned the ban, saying it was …