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The GOP grassroots starting buzzing late Friday afternoon. Folks who had organized, committed dollars, pledged to be part of volunteer efforts–sizable in historic proportions–were about to finally know the fate of the undisputed front runner for the GOP nomination for 2012. What would Governor Mike Huckabee do? In head to …

Egypt is burning. Its military just imposed a national curfew. The phone networks and Internet arteries have been shut down to preserve order. Rubber bullets and tear gas canisters are flying to dissuade protesters. Yet, a defiant populous is still running through the streets of Cairo, ignoring the order to …

When President Obama announced last spring that he wanted to trim $400 billion from national security programs in an effort to address the country’s fiscal crisis, the question was whether this was a ceiling to further cuts or just its floor. Coming on the heels of $400 billion already cut …

Do we really want paying people not to work for 99 weeks – nearly two years – to be a permanent feature of the American economic system? Is that what the American people voted for in the historic landslide election of 2010? If not, then why are Republicans poised to …

With each passing year, the meaning of Christmas seems to get further and further away from its original definition and its celebration has become just another event on the retailer’s calendar. And unfortunately divisive politics is never far away. Congress bickers over things they should have done months ago and …

So far, this has been the summer of brown. As in rusty brown oil and the devastated brown pelicans it has cast helpless upon the beach. But it’s Louisiana’s rich palette of wading birds, and the fate of the bayous and salt marshes they live in, that should concern us …

With the Senate passing the new tax bill today and the House soon to follow, many liberals are up in arms about not increasing the income tax rates for higher income individuals. According to Democrats, these are the wealthy… the rich… the millionaires and billionaires. And it is only fair …

“What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage… I don’t want to be married. I’m very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should …

President Obama has now blackmailed the government of Israel into submitting its defense forces to the toxic oversight of the United Nations. Today U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created, with Israel’s approval, a UN investigation of last June’s flotilla incident in which Turkish-backed extremists sought to shatter Israel’s lawful naval blockade …

In counterterrorism, patience can either be deadly or its own reward. In the case of Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, a 21-year old New Yorker from Staten Island, it has proven to be a virtue. The New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation watched Shehadeh, born in the USA …