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President Obama is nice to the “little people” – but his wife wishes he were tougher with his political enemies. Ex-President Nixon was once observed sampling the dog treats he was feeding to his pet. And Hillary Clinton is the most detested person to whom the United States Secret Service …

In her August 6 column Ann Coulter shared her views about American doctor Kent Brantly who contracted Ebola on a mission trip to Liberia. She offered her insights into why “… American Christians go on ‘mission trips’ to disease ridden cesspools.” “They’re [Christians] tired of fighting the culture war in …

Earlier this week, Israel discovered the bodies of the three Israeli boys who were abducted by terrorists three weeks ago. One of these boys was my cousin, Naftali Frenkel, a sixteen-year-old from the Israeli town of Nof Ayalon. Ever since these boys were kidnapped, Naftali’s name and face have been …

My late father was a WWII and a Korean War combat veteran who retired as an Army master sergeant. I would often hear him say that the best officers were the ones who “took care of their troops.” The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to “take …

The economy created 192,000 jobs in March, U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday, down from 197,000 in February, and still well below the pace needed to lower underemployment to respectable levels. Those mediocre results are consistent with a broadly underperforming economy. Manufacturing employment lost 1,000 jobs, and government stalled. Other …

Stop the presses. Charles Krauthammer and I agree on something. On Monday night’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Charles and I were discussing the firestorm over the racist comments made by Donald Sterling, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team. Krauthammer made an excellent point. “I think …

On his recent trip to the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loudly proclaimed that no country on earth is more pro-American than Israel. He was telling the truth. Israelis love America. Trust, however, is a different matter, especially when it comes to the current occupant of the White …

Are schools and colleges dangerous places, with lots of gun violence? Some groups paint a picture of these places being particularly unsafe. Supposedly both murders and firearm suicides are very common at educational institutions. Last Wednesday, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s two groups, Moms Demand Gun Sense in America …

With media attention focused on Chris Christie and Bridgegate, it was easy to miss a more important Washington story last week. The other shoe dropped on the Obama presidency. Still battered at home by the ObamaCare debacle and the permanently sluggish economy, the last thing the White House wanted was …

A&E’s “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson was suspended following a GQ interview where he expressed his personal distaste of the gay rights movement, echoed biblical views that homosexuality is a sin, and rambled about how blacks were happier during the Jim Crow era. The network announced that Phil’s “personal views …