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Stop slamming Starbucks: Why ‘Race Together’ campaign matters

03/18/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Can I just get a cup of coffee – hold the rant on race? This week Starbucks is giving its staff the option to write “Race Together” on its paper cups of coffee. The idea is to ignite coffeehouse crosstalk,…

The power of forgiveness: University of Oklahoma’s Isaac Hill and SAE fraternity

03/17/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Turn on the news and you expect to see people of different races and politics denouncing each other. That’s why what happened last week on “The Kelly File,” Megyn Kelly’s Fox News program, was so remarkable. Following the expulsion of…

Maryland Democrats jump at shot for Mikulski’s Senate seat while Republicans stay on sidelines

03/15/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
FILE: Undated: Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, Washington, D.C. (AP) Maryland Democrats are pouring into the race to replace party member Sen. Barbara Mikulski, but her announced retirement appears to have caught Republicans by surprise with top prospects still on the…

School Reform: Congress has stopped looking out for America’s kids

03/10/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Editor’s note: The following column first appeared in The Hill newspaper and on TheHill.com. Last week President Obama invited a small group of journalists, including me, to talk with him at the White House. The conversation was off-the-record. But speaking…

Selma: 50 years after ‘Bloody Sunday’ the unfinished business of civil rights

03/07/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Almost a quarter of the U.S. Congress, along with President George W. Bush and President Obama, will be in Selma, Ala., Saturday for the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march that led to the 1965 voting rights act. At…

Hillary Clinton In Trouble, Again: Are we watching a cheap spy movie or a presidential campaign?

03/05/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
At what point do Democrats give up on Hillary Clinton? We must be getting close. The most recent revelation – that Hillary used an untraceable personal email account during her tenure as Secretary of State — should be a tipping…

Wake Up America: Beware Team Obama’s dangerous plan to ban bullets

02/27/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The president who promised to fundamentally transform America has been busy fulfilling his promise. First, he started by twisting capitalism into a pretzel. A trillion tax dollars saved his donor pals at Goldman Sachs and his union buddies at General…

Department Of Homeland Security Funding Battles And Entitlement Reform

02/24/2015 Published on Forbes.com
We may be headed for another shutdown. This time it’ll be the Department of Homeland Security, caught in the partisan crosshairs over the spending bill which Democrats insist should not have any immigration related amendments. Most Republicans and Democrats want…

Democrats will splinter on trade deals

02/17/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Senate Democrats have maintained a united front as a minority in the new Congress — so far. No Democrats crossed party lines on the Homeland Security funding bill vote. Last week’s vote on the Keystone XL pipeline saw some defections.…

Cost, logistics of Obama immigration plan raise concerns before launch

02/13/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
President Obama’s executive action sparing millions of illegal immigrants from deportation will be the biggest federal program rollout since ObamaCare — and administration officials are hoping its launch, set for May, will be a lot smoother. “The deputy secretary and…