Though largely thwarted by Israel and its allies, the assault launched by Iran against the Jewish state over the weekend was a powerful reminder that the Tehran regime remains the biggest threat to peace in…

I’ve been a lifelong Republican, born and raised a conservative.  I still have a picture of me standing with George W. Bush in a Bass Pro shirt after working at an event for him.  Although…

As soon as I heard the news that Ecuadorian police had stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito, arresting former vice president Jorge Glas, who had just been given diplomatic asylum, I was transported 50 years…

Almost a week later, my husband and I are still reliving the nightmare. Last Saturday, we fell victim to a phishing attack and were almost scammed out of $50,000. It began with a text that…

One thing I’ll never forget about the O.J. Simspon trial was the collective audible gasp in the newsroom when he was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron…

Lawmakers around the world are proposing legislation that would spare dogs “torture breeding” — reckless practices that intentionally produce deformities such as dangerously flattened faces or abnormally elongated spines. Germany began cracking down on torture…

For the second time in seven years, Kansas has just experienced a near-total eclipse. Both times, I headed outside to view it through my eye-protecting eclipse glasses, here at Emporia State. Each time was a…

The story of the Israel Defense Forces is the story of Israel itself. From the creation of the state in 1948, the IDF has repeatedly fought and won wars with Arab countries that were bent…

In 2024, rent control is gaining traction as one possible solution to a growing affordable housing crisis across the country. While a rent control bill in Washington state ultimately stalled, caps on rent increases, late…

No prison sentence begins the same, but they all become the same relentless struggle against disappearing. Almost 20 years after my release, prison still has not let me go. I return to prisons now with…