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New Jersey substitute teacher, Walt Tutka, was fired earlier this year by the Phillipsburg School District for handing a Bible to a student who requested it. When the young man was last to enter through a door, Mr. Tutka told him, “The first shall be last, but the last shall be first.” The student repeatedly inquired, over the course of…

Twelve people were killed today at the Paris office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for mocking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed and thereby offending their murderers. Let us therefore begin by considering blasphemy and other offenses. Someone who kills another human being for blasphemy grievously offends his own God. God will respond to insults in His own good…

PARIS (AP) — Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people Wednesday, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France’s deadliest postwar terrorist attack. Shouting “Allahu akbar!” as they fired, the men also spoke flawless, unaccented French in the military-style noon-time attack on the weekly newspaper…

Republicans blasted President Barack Obama on Tuesday for threatening to veto the $5.4 billion Keystone XL pipeline, charging him with pandering to liberal environmentalists instead of passing legislation that has strong bipartisan support in Congress. “President Obama’s veto threat comes as no surprise,” said Sen. John Hoeven, the North Dakota Republican who co-sponsored the legislation. “He has held the Keystone…

John Boehner is getting revenge. After he secured his third term as speaker Tuesday afternoon, losing 25 votes on the House floor to some relatively unknown members of the Republican Conference, Boehner moved swiftly to boot two of the insurgents from the influential Rules Committee. That could be just the start of payback for the speaker’s betrayers, who might see…

There will be one noticeable difference when Republicans take over the Senate on Tuesday, says Sen. Rand Paul: there will be votes. Republicans have complained that outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, refused to allow votes — even from members of his own party — if the legislation was something President Barack Obama didn’t want to sign. With the…

Shelene Bryan was a Hollywood producer but she freely admits, “My lens back then was severely limited.” Like many good Americans, she and her husband, Brice, signed up to support two children in Africa for $50 a month. As far as Shelene Bryan knew, they were supporting child # GBB 8348 and child # GBA 8453. But curiosity got the…

Time is running out to do something stupid and irreversible. Act now! “Now,” especially when followed by an exclamation point, or written in all capital letters, or both — Now! — is the least conservative word in the English language. “We must act now,” proclaims a gentleman bearing the appropriately apocalyptic name of “Flood” in the letters section of the…

With former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s announcement this month that he would “actively explore” a run for the White House in 2016, the race for the Republican nomination has begun. Bush is among many possible contenders. They span the full conservative spectrum, from tea party-based legislators like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to former three-time New York Gov. George Pataki and…

The federal budget is almost certain to be the central battleground between President Obama and the new Republican Congress in 2015. The GOP has vowed to use control of the House and Senate to slash the size of government, with entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security a potential target for cuts. But Obama has made clear he will…

Obamacare’s insurance mandate on employers will quietly take effect for large companies Thursday, one year later than planned after a pair of unilateral delays fed into Republican claims the White House plays fast and loose with the implementation of its signature law. Starting in 2015, companies with 100 or more workers have to provide affordable insurance to at least 70…