Ten students at an Ohio public high school recently learned that voicing your pro-life beliefs can be a tricky proposition.

As I began my address to the crowd that had gathered in the Embassy auditorium, I couldn’t help but recall my dad’s great love for Israel. During his nearly 55 years of public ministry, dad never wavered from his position of support for Israel. I shared that, as we have moved into the next generation, we must never walk away from our Israeli friends.

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has found that federal workers improperly used several billion dollars on the purchase of “Internet dating, tailor-made suits, lingerie [and] lavish dinners,” among other things, The Associated Press reported.

The GAO said that 41 percent of $14 billion in purchases from 2005-06 did not follow authorization procedures or follow proper signature guidelines. It appears that federal employees were having a field day with taxpayers’ dollars by deliberately avoiding purchasing policies. One Agriculture Department employee was actually sending checks — $642,000 worth — to her live-in boyfriend.