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America Needs A Venezuela Policy

01/16/2015 Published on Forbes.com
In 2014, troubling trends in Europe and the Middle East held much of America’s attention. And 2015 is shaping up to be similar. I have written extensively and frequently on how America can better defend its interests and allies in…

China Makes Its Move In Latin America

01/09/2015 Published on Forbes.com
For the last five years, President Obama has been talking about an American “pivot” to Asia. It is now common knowledge that the Asia pivot has been a resounding failure – emboldening those powers it sought to keep in check…

President Obama Starts The New Term Off On The Wrong Foot

01/06/2015 Published on Forbes.com
Earlier today members of the 114th Congress were sworn in and took their oath of office for the new term. There has been a lot of talk about the promise for a more bipartisan, conciliatory Congress. This has been coming…

CES leader: Welcome to 2015, the golden age of technology

01/05/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The tech revolution is killing a lot of old jobs. But it’s creating many, many more – not to mention giving us greater choice and levels of convenience that were once the stuff of fantasy. On one hand, devices connected…

Palestinians formally submit documents to UN to join ICC

01/02/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Friday formally submitted to the office of the Secretary-General Palestine’s application to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). It marked the next step in the Palestinian leadership’s drive to pursue war crimes charges…

Outgoing lawmakers make plans for life after Congress

12/31/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
FILE: Dec. 3, 2014: Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (REUTERS) The midterm election now a fading blip on 2014’s radar screen, retiring and defeated members of Congress have made their farewell speeches, packed up their…

President Obama Moves To Normalize Relations With Cuba

12/17/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Today marks a new era in US-Cuba relations and arguably the first substantive change since 1961. “We will end an outdated approach that has failed to advance our interests,” President Obama said in an address this afternoon. “Neither the American…

Obama Moves To Normalize Relations With Cuba

Published on Forbes.com
Today marks a new era in US-Cuba relations and arguably the first substantive change since 1961. “We will end an outdated approach that has failed to advance our interests,” President Obama said in an address this afternoon. “Neither the American…

House Passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill

12/12/2014 Published on Forbes.com
The latest battle between Republicans and Democrats over the spending bill was anticlimactic in comparison to the past. For starters, the drama really only lasted a week – a far shorter period of time than we’ve seen legislators go at…

Obama’s immigration amnesty: Why aren’t African-Americans outraged by president’s actions?

11/25/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Addressing the nation last Thursday, President Obama sought to justify his misreading of the Constitution by unilaterally granting legal protection to 5 million illegal immigrants. In this, he reminded me of what Richard Nixon told David Frost in a 1977…