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Donald Kaul retired earlier this year. Now he has decided to return to writing occasional opinion columns for OtherWords.org. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. brought out all his ugliness. In a column that appeared after the shooting with the headline “Kaul: Nation needs a new agenda …

She came, she cried, she conquered, proving it will take more than a lethal terror attack on her watch to sink the unsinkable Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton sailed triumphantly through Congress last week on her way out the State Department door, shredding expectations she would face a tough grilling. The …

You know what they say — you only get one shot at a first impression. So how does that work for candidates who’ve already given their first impressions and are coming back for another run? Much has been written the last few days about mistakes Hillary Clinton should avoid this …

For nearly two decades, the U.S. Army has provided an honor guard for an Independence Day celebration at a Baptist church that predates the founding of the nation. But this year – that tradition has come to an end. Officials at Fort Gordon say they will not be able to …

My high school colors were green and white. At graduation the boys wore green robes and the girls wore white. No one considered the girls inferior because of the color of their robes. Today, we live in different times. My alma mater, Walter Johnson High School in Montgomery County, Md., …

The gunman walked into the church sanctuary and opened fire. He showed no mercy – firing more than 100 rounds and exploding a pipe bomb in the balcony. There was nowhere to hide from the carnage. Click here to follow Todd on Facebook for conservative conversation! Seven people died that …

President Obama seems to loathe chatting with professional journalists but he relishes at the chance to banter with fringe gadflies –like the YouTube ladywho bathes in breakfast cereal. And then there’sthe guy who runs the “WTF” podcast –an acronym for a word I am not allowed to write on this …

As the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency comes to a close, it is clear that our commander in chief has not emerged as the unifier and “change” agent of he promised he would be on the campaign trail. A closer look at his actions over this past year shows …

President Obama’s most important speech in terms of his long term political fortunes was not his address to the nation last night on the debt ceiling crisis. To be sure, the President felt a need to reiterate the basic argument he has been making about the superiority of his plan …

Another deadline lapsed Thursday in the seemingly endless negotiations over Iran’s nuclear weapons programs. From Vienna Secretary of State John Kerry warned “if the tough decisions don’t get made, we are absolutely prepared to call an end to this process.” That would be a mistake. We should instead keep negotiating …