opinion

The U.S. economy created only 142,000 jobs in August, down from 212,000 in July, indicating the economy significantly slowed this summer. Job creation is well below the pace needed to reemploy all the workers displaced during the financial crisis—the economy is in crisis! Although official GDP estimates indicate the economy …

The scope of Hamas’ terrorist tunnel freeway system is shocking. Specially-trained shock troops would have launched a mega attack on Southern Israel on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, that would have left thousands murdered and maimed and scores, if not hundreds of drugged kidnapped hostages, dragged back to Gaza. …

I just came back from Africa, where the Ebola virus is at the top of the news. Comparing what my companions and I learned on the ground to what is being carried in African, European and American newspapers and television, there is a lot about this disease that the news …

Whether to rent or buy a home is one of the toughest choices for young people these days. A recent Deutsche Bank study compared renting vs. the cost of owning a home in 54 cities. The study estimated the monthly payment on an average American house, factoring in property taxes, …

May is the month of graduations and graduation speeches.Those wearing the mortar boards wait with a mixture of eagerness and anxiety to get on with the rest of their lives—whether more schooling or work or the unknown. Those of us in the crowd, family and friends of graduating students, hope …

Brandon Jenkins was denied entry to a radiation therapy program at the Community College of Baltimore County because of his Christian faith and was advised to not wear his religion on his sleeve, a lawsuit filed in federal court alleges. Now, I have to admit to being a bit skeptical …

For more than a decade new military recruits at Maxwell Air Force Base – Gunter Annex in Alabama have received a Bible from Gideons International volunteers. But that tradition has come to an end after volunteers said they were told by the military that they would no longer be allowed …

It comes every year and arrives silently one early spring morning. There are soft sounds of birds and the warm light of the sun coming up. And, as the day unfolds, there is the grunting of young men exercising, and then the crack of bats as baseball begins once again. …

Editor’s note: The following commentary originally appeared on “The Foundry,” the Heritage Foundation’s policy blog. Excerpts from a new tell-all book made quite a splash in Washington yesterday. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates apparently blasts President Obama on foreign policy and the U.S. military in his upcoming book, “Duty: Memoirs …

On Sunday, an estimated 110 million people will be glued to the television for Super Bowl XLVIII. To put this in perspective, that is roughly everyone in the top five most populous states (California, Texas, New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania) watching NFL’s most coveted game, according to the most recent …