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Romance and finance are at the heart of a national crisis this Valentine’s Day. The decline of “I do” in America today is a harsh but rational decision by women who prefer men who bring paychecks. When the men are unable to keep a steady job, a lot of women …

The new Bob Gates book is a serious warning to the Obama White House and future occupants that playing politics with national security issues is not only bad for America but dangerous for the world. If you wonder why the Middle East’s Arab Spring has turned into the Islamic Awakening, …

When people discuss television ads and a championship sports game in the same breath, you have something special. To accomplish this is no easy task and it takes time to develop. Singer Eddie Cantor got it right when he said, “it takes over twenty years to become an overnight success.” …

Less than two years ago I thought sex trafficking was an exclusively foreign horror. A terrible but remote thing like Ebola that would never affect me, so long as I didn’t make any unfortunate travel plans. I wasn’t quite as naïve as those who say they believe sex trafficking is …

America is brimming with young, gifted and talented students. We should never lose sight of that. Even amid the challenges we face we should never stop believing or praying for our children to become the best they can be. Case in point. I recently had the pleasure of meeting some …

U.S. Commandos scored a tactical victory against Al Qaeda by swooping into Libya and capturing Abu Anas al-Libi earlier this month, a former Bin Laden confidant and terror kingpin. Now President Obama must follow through with a strategic win. That means extracting valuable intelligence from al-Libi, whose name literally means …

Was the character of Billy McMahon (played by Vince Vaughn) in the film, “The Internship,” the final straw that killed Google’s once famed interview riddles? Less than a week after “The Internship” appeared in theaters, the tech megalith confirmed the rumors and publicly admitted that the riddles it used to …

The difference between the hard-left media and a school of sharks is … well, there isn’t much difference. Both get fighting mad and keep attacking when they smell blood in the water. (“Sharknado” jokes are on hold till the sequel.) That’s how left-wing sites like Huffington Post and Salon treat …

Editor’s note: Author Michael Amerhom Youssef was born in Egypt in 1948. He studied at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia and was later ordained there as a minister. His ancestors, like all Christian ancestors, belonged to the Coptic orthodox church. He is a third generation protestant. Youssef moved to …

It is long held that the government can look at the outside of an envelope as it passes through the postal system. The government can see who is sending a letter, to whom it is being sent, and from which postal location the letter was mailed. The government, in the …