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What is Rick Perry up to? The former Texas governor looks to be cutting himself out of the conservative herd. He recently blasted his fellow Republicans for losing “our moral legitimacy as the party of Lincoln, as the party of equal opportunity,” by being “content to lose the black vote.” …

If you are one of the millions of people celebrating the trimming of federal fat, you’ll want to know that anewtaxpayer threat ofstunningproportions is rising, fast. This time it’s not coming from Washington, D.C.; it’s coming from your statecapital. A $1.3 trillion pension crisisis barreling toward American taxpayers, and common-sense …

Beloved pastor and bestselling author Max Lucadorecently told me that Christmas is a great magnifier of emotions – wherever we are, good or bad, the holiday has a way of amplifying and intensifying our mental state. That truism came to mind the other day when I heard Mannheim Steamroller’s “Carol …

In America today, a dangerous mindset is spreading: If you feel wronged, you get to make your own rules. That is how we have reached the point where some people hail a man accused of murder as a hero, simply because his violence was fueled by a grievance. The case …

Comedy has been in steady decline on the big screen. A useful snapshot came in January 2016, when Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” won Best Comedy at the Golden Globes. Where have all the laugh-out-loud movies gone? The “Anchormans,” the “Superbads” the “Bridesmaids”? They were replaced by dramas with mild comic …

During World War II, the United States unleashed free market mavericks to solve our hardest industrial challenges and build a war machine that proved to be the engine for the Allies’ victory. This machine served us well through the Cold War, but in the past 30 years, it stalled. Today, …

As someone whose life’s work is helping small businesses navigate our nation’s complex tax system, I have witnessed firsthand how the Internal Revenue Service has become an outsized force that too often targets those least equipped to fight back. While the agency has long maintained that its enforcement efforts are …

“God ain’t got no power over this hit. God got no power here.” The man gestured like a royal but the scene he revealed was the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. The man then sat down on an overturned milk crate, …

Any person who can survive captivity under extreme conditions is a hero in anyone’s book. Yes, there are variations in the degree of starvation, torture, mental anguish and deprivation; the degree of exposure to respiratory and gastrointestinal infections; not to mention the compounded torment for those who have been injured, …

On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasionfrom Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the specifics of that attack — its immediate toll, the brutality of the mayhem and the extraordinary cruelty of killers …