The cab driver taking me to the Washington Nationals baseball game on July 4 is from Bangladesh. I ask him how he got here. He said his father “won the immigration lottery” some years back, was admitted under U.S. immigration law and eventually became a citizen, as did his son. …

When Yahya Abdi climbed into the wheel well of that Hawaii-bound Boeing 767, the 15-year-old California boy had one main objective: he wanted to make his way to Ethiopia and be reunited with his mother. His father had told him she was dead, but he had learned the truth. She …

Let’s assume that Hillary Clinton was serious the other day when she said that excessive partisanship was taking America “backwards.” That means she’s on the phone right now reading the riot act to fellow Democrats Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer. Yeah, right. [pullquote] Clinton’s pose of rising above the political …

President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, has been off to what can be described, at best, as a rocky start. Thanks to a terribly designed website, far from the Amazon.com-like experience promised by the administration, the first day of open enrollment saw a grand total of six …

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty told Alice, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” To which, Alice responded, “The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.” Clearly Alice had not yet experienced the Wonderland that is …

After much criticism from conservative quarters, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided, at least for now, to withdraw plans for its proposed study of how media organizations gather and report news. The expressed goal of the survey was to determine if the “critical information needs” of the public are …

America has the best health care system in the world. The same freedoms we all enjoy that produce innovations and advancement in technology, in manufacturing, in finance, in science also combine to lift what the nation’s medical community has to offer well above what is available in the rest of …

Boys and girls across the fruited plain were exposed to drag queens prancing about in Kinky Boots during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, leaving moms and dads to explain to their children why grown men were dressed like women. The drag queens were cast members of the hit Broadway musical …

“In God We Trust” may be the official motto of the United States but school officials in western North Carolina say it has no business in classrooms. The Watauga County School District refused to allow members of the Watauga American Legion Post 130 to hang posters in schools promoting the …

Tuesday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the final scheduled speaker at the week-long opening of the UN General Assembly. With the presidents and prime ministers who had earlier descended on New York long gone, he hoped to avoid being last and least. As it turned out, there were two …