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Baseball is fortunate these days to have Derek Jeter around. As such former luminaries as Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are battling in criminal courts to stay out of jail, Mr. Jeter is trying to get hit number 3000 in his career. It will happen any day now. No other …

Dakota Meyer never asked for the attention he’s getting and he’s never considered himself a hero. He was thrust into the spotlight because of his actions in battle on the worst day of his life in one of the roughest places on earth, a day when his best friends died …

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno said, “Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.” Children that have been sexually abused know what he means. That sense of excellence and worth many consider to be a birthright of childhood is tragically altered the moment …

The federal government has just filed suit challenging the state of Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law. The basis? The Supremacy Clause, which says that federal law trumps state law. But that argument should fail in a court of law because the Arizona law mimics the federal law. It basically gives …

Recently, during an appearance on Fox News, I was asked to defend my belief that rich people are not rich simply because they are inherently more talented than nor work harder than everyone else. This belief is the essence of the progressive worldview — the notion that, yes, each of …

President Obama has announced the creation of yet another federal commission. This time, it will examine the spill in the Gulf and make sure it never happens again. But there are a lot of question marks surrounding President Obama’s latest blue ribbon bunch of greenies. First, the panel is comprised …

I wrote in this space yesterday that if Judge Vaughan Walker is in a committed same-sex relationship – and there is credible evidence that he is – then a question about his impartiality in the Proposition 8 trial arises. I explained that Judge Walker could potentially benefit from his own …

Poor Mara Liasson. The benignly liberal Fox News contributor is a dead duck now that NPR has suddenly discovered the passage in its Code of Ethics that NPR journalists “should not participate in shows …that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis.” Or maybe not. NPR is so mixed …

North Korea assaulted its southern neighbor today, its latest act of war against U.S. treaty ally South Korea and fresh on the heels of news of a previously undisclosed uranium-enrichment facility. Last March, North Korea sank a South Korean naval vessel without provocation, killing 46 sailors. Today’s incident involved sustained …

Folks, first I have to say that Sunday’s passage of national health care legislation by the House(219 to 212) has got me fuming. On a personal level I worry that the health care bill will deprive me and those I love of the opportunity to get the finest health care …