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The gossip industry is getting so big, it could be an S&P 500 company. Gossip drives TV ratings: Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, TMZ, The Insider, Extra, E! News, The Real Housewives series, to name some. Television programs increasingly are built on gossip—shows that pull apart the personal failings, appearances, character …

There are beautiful rocks of all varieties on the bike trails at Prairie Chapel Ranch, former President George W. Bush’s home in Crawford, Texas. The shifting terrain and slopes challenge riders. The single track weaves between the trees with just the width of a bicycle so there is little room …

To head off a tough bout with stagflation—slow growth and high inflation—the Federal Reserve should start raising interest rates soon. Most economists expected 2014 to be a breakout year. A surge in new home construction was anticipated to instigate growth and jobs creation throughout the economy, even as inflation remained …

Quietly last month — in the midst of Ukraine, the search for flight MH 370, David Letterman’s retirement and the final hours of March Madness — Washington witnessed a ruling that will affect all of our lives: the redefinition of water under the Clean Water Act. The redefinition – formally …

What a small and politically vicious man New York’s new mayor is. Bill de Blasio doesn’t like charter schools. They are too successful to be tolerated. Last week he announced he will drop the ax on three planned Success Academy schools. (You know Success Academy: It was chronicled in the …

I once put together a wedding for some friends in one week. They had no time or money and were going to show up at a small chapel with only two witnesses. So I got on the phone, called 60 friends, had everyone bring a side dish and a bottle …

Years ago when I was a pastor, I was speaking at a Christian summer camp. I was about to give the evening message and my son David, who was around age 10, was misbehaving because he wanted to do something that we did not have time to do at the …

An unnecessary fight came to an unsatisfying end earlier this month, as theDC Circuit Court struck downthe FCC’s net neutrality regulations, finding that they illegally imposed common carrier (telephone) regulations on broadband. However, the court accepted the FCC’s argument that the 1996 Telecommunications Act gave itauthorityto make “rules governing broadband …

ESPN has reversed its decision banning a Christmas commercial from a Catholic children’s hospital because of its religious content — a stunning reversal in the face of widespread outrage from Christians. The sports programming juggernaut had originally passed on the ad because it included references to God and celebrating the …

Even Wal-Mart is too expensive for recession battered America. Everyday low prices are no longer enough—middle class consumers are fleeing to Dollar Stores to stretch shrinking paychecks. Yet, Democratic politicians and economists who fashioned their failed policies tell us the economy is on the mend. Janet Yellen at her confirmation …