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For many, this year has been difficult. So many lost their jobs, homes and said final goodbyes to loved ones who are no longer with us.   You have

As we mourn the 50th anniversary of the untimely murder of President John F. Kennedy, it’s difficult to reconcile his soaring rhetoric and magnificent style with his accomplishments. His

The small but mighty island of Ireland offers a cost efficient model for states to replicate through its national government, commercial and independent television and film production sources a

The 150th Anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is receiving widespread media coverage today – much of it marred by an astonishing degree of basic ignorance about the

My mother made an awful arrangement for me to be tutored in English on summer days by our neighbor, Dot Dissell. A retired English teacher,  she was as well

Our nation’s capital was a tawdry and bug infested swamp in 1841. The Capitol dome was not completed, and though it embodied an incipient Democracy founded on the notion

At the end of July 1990 I wrote a story for The Washington Times predicting that President Saddam Hussein of Iraq was going to conquer all of Kuwait within

I’ve never been very good at saying goodbye. When I heard my former boss, friend and mentor was battling brain cancer, I had hoped to see him one last time.

Recent spying allegations appear unprecedented, but they’re not. Did we ever think that the NSA did not tap into an extraordinary array of communication channels, adversaries and allies alike? While