In a day when the foundation of our country seems to be crumbling

away in so many ways and at breakneck speed, it’s time to reflect

a little on our origins.  Families and respect for each other are

in free-fall and actually abetted by our corrupt government.

President Carter’s Department of Education has become a debacle

of politicization and indoctrination, twisting young minds with

the worst that the world has to offer. …

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American people believe is false.” William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Over and over again at each event that I speak at across the country, I always highlight how this administration is using the Saul Alinsky…

LONDON (AP) - HSBC Holdings, Europe's largest bank by market value, will cut up to 25,000 jobs globally to reduce costs and shift its center of gravity further toward the fast-growing Asian economies where it started operations 150 years ago.

The bank, which is based in London and has a value of around 120 billion pounds ($184 billion), said Tuesday it is "undertaking a significant reshaping of its business portfolio" and "redeploying resources to capture expected future growth…

“I think Hillary is not the Hillary of when she was 30 years old. She made peace with the power structure." Former Green Party and independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader labeled 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a “deep corporatist and a deep militarist” who has made peace with the nation’s power structure.

“I think Hillary is not the Hillary of when she was 30 years old. She made peace with the power structure and she is a deep corporatist and a deep…

Syria's brutal conflict has left more than 230,000 people dead, including almost 11,500 children since it broke out in 2011, a monitoring group said Tuesday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 230,618 people.

The toll includes 69,494 civilians, among them 11,493 children and 7,371 women.

Combatants account for a majority of those killed, with 49,106 regime forces and 36,464 government loyalists among the…

Israel's defense minister said on Tuesday he did not believe a stable peace agreement could be reached with the Palestinians in his lifetime — one of the bleakest assessments from a top-level cabinet member since talks collapsed last year.

Moshe Yaalon, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest allies, accused the Palestinians of having "slammed the door" on efforts to keep discussions going, and said they had rejected peace-for-land deals for at least 15…

President Barack Obama huddled with allies Monday on the sidelines of an international summit to address pressing Mideast problems while trying to convince European leaders to maintain sanctions against Russia in the face of fresh violence in Ukraine.

Obama participated in the final day of the Group of Seven summit under the strain of an intimidating list of global pressures and little signs of movement to address them among the world's largest industrial democracies. Climate change…

As I write on Sunday morning, I'm still reeling from attending (only until intermission) perhaps the worst production of a play I've ever seen, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Tartuffe (trigger warning !). We've been subscribers to the…

I’ll be quite frank: I have very little respect for the Associated Press and the quality of their reporting, which tends to range from mediocre to abysmal in terms of factual accuracy, and which seems to be far more interested in publishing propaganda in recent years than reflecting reality.

Their latest attempt to generate controversy, “…

(Reuters) - Former Olympic champion and reality television star Caitlyn Jenner who came out as transgender in April is facing a second lawsuit in connection with a fatal car crash on a Southern California highway in February, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Jessica Marie Steindorff, a Hollywood talent manager, filed a personal injury suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday accusing Jenner of driving "negligently, carelessly, recklessly and wantonly" and causing the crash, according to…

Many parents and staff members have reached out to me and said the man in this picture is a custodian at Alan Shepard Elementary School in the Bourbonnais Elementary School District in Illinois.

According to a Facebook post accompanying the viral photo on June 3, the man, Steve “Mr. Steve” Weidner, “reached Rock Star status as he autographs yearbooks for his ‘fans’!”    …

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a controversial 2002 law enacted by Congress that would have permitted Americans who were born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their official birthplace on U.S. passports, the Associated Press reported.     …