Melanie Sturm

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Israeli forces' flares light up the night sky of Gaza City on Tuesday. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

National Security

When Hamas succeeds, innocent people die in Israel and Gaza

Melanie Sturm · August 2, 2014 10:00 am

President John F. Kennedy wearing academic robe in New Haven, Conn., on June 11, 1962, after receiving Yale's Doctor of Laws degree. (AP)

Where are America’s leaders who are willing to confront real problems?

Melanie Sturm · July 18, 2014 9:00 am

Imagine a Fourth of July tradition like Hollywood's where each year the Oscars pay homage to fallen stars. (iStock Photo)

Who are the real ‘extremists’ in today’s America?

Melanie Sturm · July 4, 2014 10:00 am

Gesturing as he talks, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, leader of Allied forces organizing in Britain for the second front, watches maneuvers on a miniature tank range somewhere in Britain on March 13, 1944. (AP Photo/Pool)

Being a real leader means accepting responsibility for failures and crediting others in victories

Melanie Sturm · June 16, 2014 6:26 pm

The St. Louis VA Medical Center earlier this year. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)

Why there are more scandals these days

Melanie Sturm · June 7, 2014 10:00 am

Holocaust activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel in his office in New York.ÃÂ Wiesel stresses, "without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."ÃÂ (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Kermit Gosnell reminds of the necessity of bearing witness to truth

Melanie Sturm · May 15, 2014 4:00 am

Catherine Engelbrecht testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, before the House subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation hearing to investigate the Justice Department's investigation into the IRS abuse scandal. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Hydra-headed federal bureaucracy threatens American liberty

Melanie Sturm · April 25, 2014 4:00 am

Perhaps the most liberty-assaulting decree (cunning, too, given its election-year timing) was the unprecedented mandate forcing employers to provide free contraception, including abortion-inducing methods, or face a $100 per day/per employee fine.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

First Amendment freedom can’t survive ‘war on women’ mobs

Melanie Sturm · April 14, 2014 4:00 am

Opposing lawlessness, at home and abroad

Melanie Sturm · March 24, 2014 12:00 am

Economic freedom fuels drive from food stamps to Facebook

Melanie Sturm · March 4, 2014 12:00 am

President Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Jan. 28. (AP Photo/Larry Downing)

Women must beware of politicos making equal-pay promises

Melanie Sturm · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

Boys need a chance to thrive and succeed. (Photo: Thinkstock)

On masculinity and the War on Poverty

Melanie Sturm · January 20, 2014 5:00 am