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Wed, 13 May 2009 18:51:30 +0000 – By Lanny DavisAttorney/Former White House Special Counsel It was the second night of Passover, in spring 2007. Jack and Joanne Kemp were with us at our Seder table. The story of the Jews’ escape from slavery in Egypt is told, year after year, …

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:00:12 +0000 – By Phil KerpenDirector of Policy, Americans for Prosperity The once-great insurance behemoth American International Group, or AIG, is now the living dead. It lives only because of massive taxpayer life support that is because of bailout after bailout of ever-increasing size. It started …

The bomb shelter I share with my Jerusalem neighbors was uninhabitable when I first moved into our residential building five years ago. And that wasn’t surprising, since air-raid sirens hadn’t wailed over Jerusalem since the early 1970s. Of course, Jerusalem wasn’t exactly peaceful all those years. During the two Arab …

The administration’s decision to release five top Taliban leaders in exchange for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl without consulting Congress violated the clear language of two laws and has put American lives in more danger. This is not an issue of partisan politics. Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle have …

Faith is making a comeback among liberal Democrats, but they still have a way to go. First, some history. Hoping to attract some Evangelical Christian votes more than 20 years ago, former vice president Al Gore wrote that the biblical story of Noah and the Ark could be paraphrased in …

President John F. Kennedy’s assassination 60 years ago on November 22, left an indelible scar on the American psyche that transcended my family’s loss of an uncle, brother, husband, and father. That national trauma robbed us of something else that day. With him died a vision for our country that …

President Reagan believed “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” When Reagan was sworn into office in January 1981, the United States had record inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. It was commonly assumed our military had fallen behind that of our superpower rival, the Soviet …

In July, some of the brightest minds in American technology descended on Washington to celebrate a major milestone: the launch of President Donald Trump’s bold initiative to ensure the United States remains the world’s unrivaled leader in artificial intelligence (AI). Let me be blunt: the AI arms race is no …

President Donald Trump recently canceled public-employee union contracts for thousands of federal workers. The employees worked in agencies tied to national security, allowing Trump to invoke a national security exemption to the normal rules governing federal employees. Trump’s decision builds on his March executive order expanding the agencies covered by …

With the possible exception of cosmetic plastic surgery and dermatology, the world of medicine involves managing imperfection rather than aspiring to perfection, staving off the pathology of illness and death as long as possible, not worshiping a transcendent ideal. We doctors know too much to worship a perfect body. The …