One of my favorite people on the planet suffers from a confidence deficit. It’s heartbreaking. We have many mutual friends, and everyone in her path finds her talented, articulate, dedicated, focused and faithful. This friend is lovely inside and out, and she seems to be the only person who disagrees. …

America’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, revealed the name last week of a top secret, very small Al Qaeda cell operating inside Syria called the Khorasan Group. The revelation by Clapper was the latest in a series of seemingly authorized disclosures of highly sensitive national security information by the …

American Christians have been slow to the point of near silence when it comes to speaking out about the atrocities committed against their fellow believers by the Islamic State in Iraq (ISIS). The Jewish people are much better models in solidarity when Jews are persecuted. Members of ISIS have targeted …

Kanye West is a “fool.” That’s not breaking news, but this week, Mr Kardashian earned the “Fool of the week” title — Kanye style. During one of his concerts, Kanye West implored the crowd to stand up — or he wouldn’t finish his song. He refused to go on because …

A  friend who is conservative and  Jewish asks a question: “Given Obama’s hostile treatment of  Israel, isn’t it time for Jews to have their Ronald Reagan moment?” By that, he means when the Gipper said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” Without doubt, the party under …

Today, anyone can access music almost anywhere. Due to the revolution in digital services over the last decade, business models are trending towards streaming platforms and away from individual purchases. This rapidly changing reality has set off a debate about the future of streaming music sales and companies like Pandora …

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was one of the most admired and talked about women in modern history despite her desperate attempts to remain private. I was always fascinated by her grace and style — the Chanel suits, Cassini sheaths, and cultured pearls hung so elegantly on her lithe figure. But I …

I was navigating a ship into San Diego Harbor when it happened, knocking me off balance, stopping us dead in the water. I was in the middle of my final exam for enlisted navigator training, listening to a recording of three bearings every minute, triangulating the ship’s position. The senior …

Lois Lerner’s appearance on Capitol Hill this week reminds us that, to date, she has become the face of the IRS stonewall: the refusal to tell the American people the truth about the agency’s targeting of groups and individuals as part of a political persecution of conservatives. My story about …

Some of us could live 40 years after retirement. Do you think you’ll have enough to retire? It’s not that you don’t know the answer; it’s that you don’t want to think about it. Americans on average are living longer now than ever before. A 65-year-old can expect to live …