President Obama’s vow to destroy ISIS by way of a bombing campaign sets the course for another American misadventure. His strategy fails to recognize that global terrorism is inspired and well financed by systemic flaws in the international economy, and that global security cannot be accomplished without greater commitments of …
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As evidence mounts of a looming taxpayer-funded bailout of health insurance companies under ObamaCare, the urgency grows for Congress to take this possibility off the table for good. As expected, ObamaCare’s costs are rising, and health insurers are passing them along to patients in the form of higher premiums and …
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Independence Day is my personal favorite holiday of the year, the day we celebrate our freedom from tyranny and oppression and the basic and self-evident right of American citizens to live free. That isn’t the case in most other places in the world. Ronald Reagan put it best in his …
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Before I had kids, I thought my perfect family would be two boys and a girl. I pictured my daughter and I having the close relationship I share with my mother. We would go shopping, get manicures, and whisper secrets. She would borrow my clothes and I’d tell her and …
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America has produced an amazing list of illustrious figures over the past three centuries, but we’ve had our share of nefarious characters as well. When I began researching my new book, “Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem (Prometheus Books, March 4, 2014),” I found myself …
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Some are calling it the “smoking gun” in the Benghazi scandal. A just-released email from a top White House communications adviser clearly shows the political strategy behind then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s appearance on Sunday news programs — blaming the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya — which resulted …
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There appears to be a double-standard at the Air Force Academy. The Academy is defending its promotion of an atheist event just a week after a Christian cadet was pressured into removing a Bible verse from his personal white board because it allegedly offended non-Christian cadets. “Ask An Atheist Day” …
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This week America observed Valentine’s Day. A day that is about honoring the person we admire most in the romantic tradition of courtly love. But if you’re a young woman using ‘Lulu,’ chances are that the guy you’ve trashed online didn’t rush over with chocolates and roses. Seventeen years ago, …
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is in Tampa today, Monday, January 13, for an ObamaCare outreach event, and she owes Floridians an answer. Why should taxpayers have to bail out health insurance companies in the increasingly likely event that ObamaCare leaves them with financial losses? The answer should …
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“Almost Orwellian” — that’s the description a federal judge gave earlier this week to the massive spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on virtually all 380 million cellphones in the United States. In the first meaningful and jurisdictionally grounded judicial review of the NSA cellphone spying program, U.S. District …
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