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How the tech industry is working to combat veteran unemployment

Our nation’s veterans are struggling to find jobs – especially young veterans. As of November 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 9.9 percent of veterans of post-9/11 wars were out of work. That’s 241,000 men and women…

Egypt Highlights The United States’ Impotence

The situation in Egypt highlights the quandary the United States also finds itself in in Syria and, to put it bluntly, our nation’s impotence. To be clear, the quandary is three parted. The first part is the question of whether…

What Same-Sex marriage decisions tell us about America, Constitution

American University students Sharon Burk, left, and Molly Wagner participate in a rally for rights for gay couples in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP2013) The preservation of explicit inequality in the law is hard to defend and…

Meet one of NASA’s newest astronauts now (before she heads to Mars)

June 18, 2013: Jessica U. Meir, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, poses outside the hospital in Boston. On Monday NASA announced that Meir was chosen as one of eight new astronauts its first new…

Progressives must hold Obama accountable for NSA phone spying

FILE- In this Dec. 8, 2005, file photo, a man walks out the Verizon’s new corporate headquarters(AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File) (AP2005) Friday, the New York Times published an editorial about the recent revelation that our federal government is collecting broad…

South Carolina veterinarians say their business is being neutered by shelters

Veterinarians in South Carolina want state lawmakers to rescue them – from animal shelters they say are taking away their business. The shelters, which not only spay or neuter feral animals, but also provide heartworm tests and dental care, have…

How Pope Benedict’s courage changed my life

Editor’s note: Roman Catholic priest and Fox News contributor Father Jonathan Morris will be contributing reporting and analysis of the events in Rome for the next few weeks. He will also be providing updates on Facebook at Facebook.com/Father-Jonathan Morris and…

Rubio trumps Obama as both men offer competing visions of America’s future

If we needed a reminder as to the greatness of our country, we had to look no further than our televisions or computer screens Tuesday night. Two men of modest beginnings—born to immigrant fathers, and both with a personal drive…

We’re now one step closer to America’s coming civil war

FILE – In this Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, file photo, the dome of the Capitol is reflected in a skylight of the Capitol Visitor’s Center in Washington. ((AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)) FILE – In this Dec. 10, 2012 file photo,…

10 years of DHS: Blessing or ‘bureaucratic monstrosity’?

Aug. 6, 2012: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano talks with a video crew for a TV show in Hangar One at Air Station Kodiak, Alaska. (AP) Ten years after its creation, the Department of Homeland Security continues to push against…