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Mengele. Kevorkian. Now Gosnell can be added to that awful list. Men who perverted the idea that medicine should indeed “first do no harm.” Dr. Kermit Gosnell was on trial for his life for the first degree murder of four babies born as a result of a failed late-term abortion. …

I remember it so clearly — a memory you can only remember so clearly when it is from sadness. You can’t let it go. I was sitting in the mud by the rear passenger side tire of my old Acura cradling my one-year-old in the steady, driving rain. I was …

Middle East tensions are rising as President Obama prepares to visit Israel, the West Bank and Jordan.Clearly, Iran will be at the top of the agenda. On Thursday, Mr. Obama announced that Tehran was only about a year away from producing a nuclear bomb.“Obviously, we don’t want to cut it …

Unexpectedly, we bear witness to an historic event – a sitting pope resigning his office in our lifetime. This is an extraordinarily rare occurrence, one which has not taken place in more than 600 years. The first question, of course is, simply: Why did this happen? Why would Pope Benedict …

A very wise man once quipped, “Historians have enough trouble predicting the past, so don’t ask me to predict the future.” The same holds true for predicting elections, and Israel’s voters did not disappoint. What we do know is that multiple levels of the status quo were upset. The new …

Time for my take now — the first of 2015. Maybe it’s just me but I’m stoked that we’re kicking off the new year already talking about possible presidential candidates for 2016. I’m a political junkie and never seem to tire of the analysis about who might get in and …

Wading through the daily deluge of Hillary Clinton news, I feel like I’m reading the police blotter. The litany of her shameful shenanigans resembles the litany of neighborhood crimes recorded by cops. There are simply too many to stomach. There is another similarity, too: In both cases, fear and revulsion …

I’m not endorsing anyone for president (yet). But I am on the record as saying Scott Walker has the perfect record (as Governor and anti-union warrior) to be the winning candidate in 2016. I’m also a fan of Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson. I’ve not been …

There is so much chaos in our world right now. And as we face a crisis world-wide, we must remember this: In spite of the chaos Christ came. Everything inside you and every voice around you says, “Get out. Get angry. Get drunk. Get high.” But don’t listen to the …

The U.S. House of Representatives summoned the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania to a hearing this week to address the alarming rise of overt antisemitism on their campuses following the Hamas attacks on Israel two months ago. Their responses made it all too clear why one …