The U.S. Senate recently held a confirmation hearing for President Obama’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. By all accounts, Gina McCarthy has tremendous expertise in environmental health...

Good news: this month the Ohio House did one thing right by removing a pro-abstinence sex education clause from the state budget plan. The provision would have fined instructors who promoted any sexual...

Do you ever get the feeling that we Americans are some of the most selfish, self-centered and immature brats that ever lived? I am not claiming to be guilt-free, but look at our national situation as a...

In the United States, 6 million to 8 million animals enter shelters annually, and about half of them are euthanized. Despite this sobering statistic, some advocates of the deceptively named "no-kill" movement...

Last week in the United States seemed like a never-ending nightmare, full of events that shook our faith in humanity and glued millions of people to their television sets as they watched the news unfold.On...

America is broken. This has been a tough week for our strong country. We’ve seen terror in Boston, heartbreak in Texas and abandonment in Washington. An iconic event was horrifically disrupted on Monday;...

Imagine hearing the phrase: "Wow, you're just like one of the boys!" Then imagine hearing the phrase: "Wow, you're just like every other woman!"Now decide which phrase is a compliment.That didn't take...

When Bill Clinton took the podium to address the country in January 1993, I was moved to tears. Here, then, was my first president.My parents had had all the presidents up to that point. Here was a man...