The time for prolonged gossip in the scandal surrounding the Penn State football program has passed. The question now is, what can we learn and what do we do? The situation presents a new opportunity...

A layperson examining the 2012 GOP presidential candidates may feel burdened by the number of great candidates. For instance, there's Herman Cain, the financial mastermind of Godfather's Pizza and...

If the Republican presidential contenders wish to remain truthful to their rhetoric of decentralization of power in Washington, they should take a break from wooing social conservatives and stand for...

Picture a mythical time in the future, but not too-too far in the future — and picture a place that used to be the greatest place on Earth. In this future and at this place (the United States),...

It looks like Georgia businessman Herman Cain will drop out of the Iowa caucus race soon. Cain isn't the brains of the party, and he probably wouldn't have ended up the candidate anyway. Still, the...

Learning languages early in childhood is vital to the growth of our students. School districts should start as early as elementary school to implement programs in order to provide students with the...

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's social-media staff isn't doing him any favors. Taking exception when they came across a disrespectful tweet by a suburban Kansas City high-school senior participating in...

Controversy continually surrounds the prospect of administering vaccines to America's youth. Recent efforts to combat the human papillomavirus, and ultimately cervical cancer, through vaccination have...

According to a recent survey, the BBC reports, the good news is that the United States is pretty much the only nation whose politicians don't believe that humans create global-climate change — or...

Talking about the "Occupy" movement, a guy I know said, "I admire it, but it's not very well-defined; sounds more like a class warfare complaint." Let's juxtapose that comment...

Bars with food-related exemptions to the 21-ordinance should be required to keep their kitchens open until the entire bar closes. The city currently allows establishments that make a certain percentage...

Unless you've been trying to avoid the subject for the last year, you probably know that American budget reform has become something of a train wreck, especially when it comes to any discussion over...