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 …

Whether the words are “Merry Christmas” or the more politically correct “Happy Holidays,” late December merriment is a given in many parts of the Western world. Either in honor of Jesus’ birth or just because it’s a colorful, glittery season, warm-hearted toasts to friends and loved ones are in order. …

Here is a quick pop quiz. Which presented more harm to human life and personal freedom: the four-week partial shutdown of the federal government last month or the rollout of ObamaCare this month? ObamaCare is the greatest single expansion of federal regulatory authority in American history. In one stroke, it …

To end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling without accepting any meaningful GOP conditions, President Obama has resorted to falsehoods, wounded American democracy and damaged U.S. global leadership. The president has accused the House GOP majority of refusing to pay bills Congress has already racked up, not doing …

I was living in Los Angeleson September 11, 2001. I remember my first visit back home to New York for Thanksgiving that year. My wife and I made the pilgrimage to pay our respects at Ground Zero — at that point still very much the pile of rubble with the …