opinion

Our nation’s veterans are struggling to find jobs – especially young veterans. As of November 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that9.9 percentof veterans of post-9/11 wars were out of work. That’s241,000men and women who started their professional lives by sacrificing for the rest of us, who now …

In his State of the Union address, President Obama reaffirmed, to great applause from his Democratic colleagues, his promise to make 2014 a “year of action.” Despite the obvious harm caused by his administration’s single-minded implementation of ObamaCare, he plans to pursue his ideological agenda on his terms, regardless of …

Adriana Garcia, 21, is about to become a very unusual poster girl for immigration reform. Beginning this week Ms. Garcia and the American flag appear in an on-line advertisement for immigration reform called “The Pledge.” Garcia is one of more than a dozen undocumented young people appearing in the advertisement …

Costco has apparently had a “Come-to-Jesus” epiphany. The national warehouse chain has apologized for labeling Bibles in a Simi Valley, Calif. store as fiction, calling it an error that they are working quickly to correct. “We deeply regret the mislabeling of the Bible and meant no offense to anyone,” the …

If nothing else, credit the 2013 partial government shutdown with adding “shutdown theater” to the political lexicon. That’s the best way to describe the Obama administration’s ham-handed attempts to inflict pain on Americans by taking blatant steps to deny access to government services, thereby stoking public outrage and putting political …

Football season officially began this week. The most popular sport in America will once again headline sports pages, influence workplace conversations and impact family life. Many Americans love their football and many love their faith. For some, football is a religion, but for many more, football and their faith are …

Egypt is in turmoil again. Syria is embroiled in civil war. Iran continues building a nuclear device. Militants in Iraq have killed more than 4,000 people so far this year, more than 800 of them in July alone, according to the aptly named Iraq Body Count. And what is Secretary …

One can only imagine what it must have felt like to be a passenger on an international flight for over 10 hours, to feel the aircraft at last coming in for a landing at San Francisco International Airport only to come up short, then to experience parts of the plane …

Several women’s advocates recently put the spotlight on misogynistic postings to Facebook promoting and celebrating violent attacks on women. As a result of their pressure on advertisers and others, Facebook eventually responded — admitting it could do better in policing online hate and outlining a series of steps that it …

We are dealing with a modern-day Nixon. The IRS admitted Friday to targeting and intimidating conservative and Tea Party groups. But why? The answer: the IRS thought a quick apology and throwing a few “low level employees” under the bus could nip it in the bud and make it all …