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Iran deal: Why Chuck Schumer has surprised the heck out of me

Never has being wrong felt so good, nor has a mistake been so worth celebrating. Chuck Schumer surprised me in all the best ways. His opposition to the terrible Iran nuke deal is breathtakingly bold and opens the door to…

Obama’s history lesson

Mike Huckabee is mixed up. The GOP presidential candidate got carried away denouncing the Iranian nuke deal and charged President Obama “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.” The Holocaust reference equates Obama with…

Could Bernie Sanders knock Queen Hillary off the 2016 throne?

Trying to create a presidential persona and a rationale for running, Hillary Clinton relaunched her campaign at a memorial to FDR. She used the glorious setting of Four Freedoms Park to summon Roosevelt’s legacy and frame her theme as “Four…

Obama’s Iran deal: A fiasco built on a fantasy

The gods of news are working overtime. They delivered the twin bombshells from the Supreme Court, President Obama’s moving eulogy for one of the victims of the savage South Carolina church massacre and then the dramatic hunt for the two…

ISIS has a vision for victory, Obama doesn’t

The stirring speeches of yesteryear inspired us then, and still do. In times of grave danger, great leaders rallied their nations with appeals to duty and visions of victory. “With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of…

Murdered NYPD cop: Called hero in death by same people who saw him as villain while alive

If you are grateful for small things, it is a good sign that even constant critics of the police are denouncing the murder of NYPD cop Brian Moore. No less than President Obama, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Al Sharpton…

Obama’s leadership tank is out of gas: President shrinks as our challenges grow

If ever America needed a president who could speak to and for all the people, this would be such a moment. If only we had such a president. Wherever you look, whatever the topic, the Founders’ spirit of American exceptionalism…

Baltimore proves need for ‘Broken Windows’ policing

Here’s hoping Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t too busy playing political games and barnstorming the country to absorb the right lessons from the Baltimore riots. If he’s paying attention, he’ll learn a thing or two about policing and that the…

Hillary Clinton: Is Democratic candidate on verge of collapse?

A passage from Ernest  Hemingway fits the moment. In “The Sun Also  Rises,” one character asks,  “How did you go bankrupt?” and another responds: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” The exchange captures Hillary Clinton’s red alert. She’s been going politically…

Bill and Hillary Clinton and all that cash: A modern-day Tammany Hall operation

Officially, they hail from Chappaqua and Washington, by way of Arkansas. But when it comes to integrity, they’re straight out of Tammany Hall. They are the Clintons of Tammany, and they set their moral compass to the reckonings of George…