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A colonel’s column was removed from an Air National Guard newsletter because the writer violated military policy by including references to Jesus Christ and God, an Ohio National Guard spokesman said. Col. Florencio Marquinez, the medical group commander of the 180th Fighter Wing, wrote an essay in the September edition …

Politics is the art of wealth redistribution, an eternal truth illustrated well by the various machinations employed by bureaucrats and politicians to force goods and services uncompetitive but favored politically upon the market, despite adverse economic pressures. One central recipient of this largesse is expensive electricity—wind and solar power in …

Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst will bring a much needed perspective to the debate in Congress on military sexual assault. As a lieutenant colonel in the Iowa National Guard and U.S. Army Reserves, she will bring a voice to the table that few in the halls of the U.S. …

This year,Ramadanstarts onJune 29. Over 1.5 billion Muslims, despite their sectarian differences, will be unitedto reinvigorate their faith. In a country where nearlyone in four Americansdon’t want to have a Muslim neighbor and someemployers are not eagerto recruit them, this poses a problem. Because in July 2014, folks may notice …

Is the Tea Party washed up? The country better hope not. Like an unruly teenager, the Tea Party movement got too big for its britches; it has now been smacked into place. Candidates who identified with the movement suffered bruising defeats in Kentucky, Georgia and Idaho in Tuesday’s GOP primaries, …

America marked a dubious milestone in its history last year – the 100th anniversary of federal taxes levied “on incomes, from whatever source derived.” Ensconced in the Sixteenth Amendment, the federal tax code totaled 400 pages when the income tax first took effect in 1913. Today this tax code is …

After his son published a scathing article on Salon.com titled, “I lost my dad to Fox News,” Nevada dad Gary Lyngar is telling his side of the story. Lyngar spoke to The Five’s Andrea Tantaros about the article, his family and Fox News. “Gary, are you really a hysterical, angry, …

Here’s the good news for Peyton Manning: he didn’t get sucked into talking about what a Super Bowl win would mean to his legacy. He had the good sense to know that performance comes first, legacy follows. As he said to reporters before the big game, “…I’m not sure you …

Regardless of whether Americans consider Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor, anyone concerned with the national security of the United States should want one thing: to get him back. How to get him back is fraught with unsavory compromises and unfortunate consequences, but he is more valuable to the …

As bloodshed and nuclear menace mount in the Middle East, China and North Korea flex their military and nuclear muscles in Asia, and America retreats almost everywhere, how will history judge Barack Obama? Is he the wise Dwight D. Eisenhower who understood the limits of American power and used military …