Reports have surfaced that Pennsylvania Democrats are in favor of naming the iconic Philadelphia Navy Shipyard after the recently-deceased Congressman Jack Murtha.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.— It was Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said that “you are entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts.” So, let us begin with a fact: we are now in the third winter of this recession.

One of the great catastrophes of American history came to pass because the mainstream media and the public failed to look at the record and associates of a candidate for president, Barack Hussein Obama. We elected a candidate fraudulently sold as a pragmatic mainstream moderate. His record revealed the opposite — a rabid left-wing ideologue dedicated to extremism, socialism, and anti-Americanism.

“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” — H.L. Mencken, “The American Mercury,” 1924.

The Obama health-care takeover plan is an enormous, unconstitutional expansion of the federal government. It will cost the American taxpayer at least $1 trillion, and perhaps closer to $2.5 trillion.

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama spoke repeatedly about the importance of closing our military’s prisoner detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. One of his first acts after becoming president was to announce it would be shuttered within a year.

The arrest and indictment of top military figures in Turkey last week precipitated potentially the most severe crisis since Atatürk founded the republic in 1923. The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country continues its slide toward Islamism or reverts to its traditional secularism. The denouement has major implications for Muslims everywhere.

Compared to prior recessions, something is definitely different this time. If you’ve lost your job, it is harder than ever to replace it.

As an entrepreneur who started a nationwide company that has created hundreds of jobs, I am uniquely positioned in this race to discuss how small business owners think and act.

Growing up, I gained the distinction of mischief maker in my family, readily disruptive and resistant. As a baby, I was given the affectionate nickname “Baby Rambo” because of my penchant for destruction, a trait that eventually morphed into characteristic childhood defiance and eventual teenage foolhardiness. As a result, I heard one word quite often from my parents: “No.”

Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part piece titled  “Our Living Constitution.”

A small plane was intentionally crashed into an office building in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 18, where almost 200 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees work. This wanton act of violence took the life of Vernon Hunter, 68, who served his nation as an IRS employee for almost three decades.

Growing up, I gained the distinction of mischief maker in my family, readily disruptive and resistant. As a baby, I was given the affectionate nickname “Baby Rambo” because of my penchant for destruction, a trait that eventually morphed into characteristic childhood defiance and eventual teenage foolhardiness. As a result, I heard one word quite often from my parents: “No.”

The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement over the past year has developed into a major force in American politics. So much so it lifted a little known state senator in Massachusetts into the U.S. Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy, and last month held a national convention that attracted Sarah Palin and other big names as speakers.

The velocity of money is one of the factors that determines the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The well-known formula is GDP = M x V; that is, GDP equals the quantity of money times its velocity. Velocity refers to how many times a given quantity of money is spent during the period under consideration, usually one year. Less understood is how changes to money’s velocity come about. The formula makes clear that a decrease in velocity can adversely affect GDP and vice versa. But, that just begs the question, what causes changes in monetary velocity?

A group called The Atheist Agenda is once again sponsoring what’s become their annual “Smut for Smut” campaign at the University of Texas–San Antonio (UTSA). Students 18 years or older can visit the lobby of the humanities building this week at UTSA to exchange their Bibles or other religious texts for pornographic materials. The controversial group founded in 2005 by atheist students who attend the university, claims that religious texts such as the Bible are pornographic due to their violent and fanatical content and are, therefore, equivalent to pornography. This is hardly congruent with the mission statement on the student life Web page at UTSA which lists “integrity” as a core value and even includes a hyperlink to the dictionary definition of integrity: “a firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic value.” Perhaps I simply missed the invaluable moral message of pornography?

When I make presentations on end-of-life decision-making, I sometimes have audience members approach me afterwards with comments like, “You know, Father, when my mom died 6 years ago, and I look back on it, I’m not sure my brothers and I made the right decisions about her care.” Remarks like these serve to remind us how the circumstances surrounding death are important not only for the person who passes on, but also for those who remain behind.