Remember SDI? There’s a good chance you don’t because as soon as Ronald Reagan announced his plan to develop a missile-defense system, his opponents mocked the program, calling it “Star Wars” rather than using the proper name, “Strategic Defense Initiative,”…

I wrote a few weeks ago about the struggle that a steel mill in my county is going through due to the AFL-CIO and its role in supporting the Buy American provision of the latest stimulus legislation. One of the AFL-CIO’s…

“Buy American” legislation preserves American jobs. Or does it? Buy American legislation is hurting people in my corner of America.

Farrell, Pa., named for the highly successful president of U.S. Steel (1911-1932), James A. Farrell, is a steel town located about…

"Based upon our observations of American soldiers and their officers captured in this war, the following facts are evidenced,” a foreign intelligence officer wrote. "There is little knowledge or understanding, even among United States university graduates, of American political history…

I was in the third row as Rush Limbaugh spoke for nearly 90 minutes to a wildly exuberant audience as he closed this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. I was also in the third row to…

My wife and I tag-team to get our four kids ready for school in the morning. She manages the lunch-packing process and I make a hot breakfast. Rarely does a lively morning pass that I don’t gaze upon my children at the kitchen…

Could 2009 be the year the United States of America starts to go subprime? Just as subprime mortgages wrecked the economy in 2008, 2009 might be the year we begin to see problems associated with the debt that funds our…