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So far, the Obama administration is 0-2 on Egypt. They’ve got just one more chance to get it right. And it’s all about using our aid as leverage, getting something back for our investment. The first time at bat, in the early years of his presidency, Obama missed the opportunity …

A false narrative is being advanced in Arkansas and elsewhere that if a government body displays a privately donated Ten Commandments monument for historical reasons, it is legally required to accept and display any and all other monuments offered by a private individual or group, even those honoring Satan. The …

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton seems to be taking more questions from the media these days — but will the media continue to ask her questions about her State Department emails? During a press avail earlier this week — there wasn’t one question asked on that topic. And now we …

You see it everywhere this time of year: “Peace on Earth, Good Will to All People.” Meanwhile, according to the British newspaper The Independent, only eleven countries on earth are free from violent conflict. There are more than twenty-five full-on wars happening right now and 169 violent militia and rebel …

Formore than 140 years,LaborDayhas been a time to honor the contributions, achievements and sacrifices ofworkers in America. But this year, in the wake of growingeconomic inequalityand agovernment increasingly catering to billionaires and special interests,LaborDayneeds to be more than a long holiday weekend. It must be the impetus of a battle …

As someone whose life’s work is helping small businesses navigate our nation’s complex tax system, I have witnessed firsthand how the Internal Revenue Service has become an outsized force that too often targets those least equipped to fight back. While the agency has long maintained that its enforcement efforts are …

“God ain’t got no power over this hit. God got no power here.” The man gestured like a royal but the scene he revealed was the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. The man then sat down on an overturned milk crate, …

Any person who can survive captivity under extreme conditions is a hero in anyone’s book. Yes, there are variations in the degree of starvation, torture, mental anguish and deprivation; the degree of exposure to respiratory and gastrointestinal infections; not to mention the compounded torment for those who have been injured, …

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recentlydeclaredthat President Donald Trump’s administration is considering declaring an emergency situation forhousing.He pointedouttheweakest summer home sales in a decade, withmore than 15%of transactions falling through in July,thehighest cancellation rate since record-keeping commencedin 2017. Prices, though below pandemic levels,arestill too lofty for working- and middle-class Americans. Bessent …

On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasionfrom Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the specifics of that attack — its immediate toll, the brutality of the mayhem and the extraordinary cruelty of killers …