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What Abraham Lincoln thought about the Declaration of Independence

Editor’s note: The following op-ed originally appeared in Fox News Opinion on July 3, 2013. In the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln’s rhetoric was suffused with a profound sense of loss. He considered it shameful national backsliding that a new affirmative defense…

Douglas Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, acquitted in NY hospital case

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Douglas Kennedy, a son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was acquitted Tuesday of child endangerment and harassment charges stemming from a scuffle in a hospital maternity ward. Kennedy had tried in January to take…

President Obama jokes with Buddhist monk asking for prayers on budget

BANGKOK, Thailand – President Obama joked with a Buddhist monk at the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok that, “yes we’re working on this budget we’re going to need a lot of prayer for that.” Obama made the remark after…

Our defiant and uncompromising president

This week’s press conference was more of the same President Obama whom we saw on the campaign trail this year. He was resolute and even defiant. And though there was more conciliation at times than we are normally used to…

Dear debate commission, if you won’t kill off this silly town hall format…

Editor’s note: The second presidential debate took place at Hofstra University in New York on October 16. Here are some of the top tweets of the evening. Dana Perino ‏@DanaPerino:I am hereby begging the Romney campaign to ignore questions about…

The truth about 2012 polls

In the 2012 race for the White House President Obama is ahead, but the polls are misleading. ; It seems that each new poll brings good news for Obama. He’s up six points nationally according to the latest Bloomberg numbers.…

Why did Obama use the N-word to describe his grandfather?

“My image of Onyango, faint as it was, had always been of an autocratic man—a cruel man, perhaps. But I had also imagined him an independent man, a man of his people, opposed to white rule… What Granny had told…

How I became George Obama’s ‘brother’

A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George. He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was sick with a chest condition. He pleaded with me to…

Obama campaign turns to Nixon’s enemies list

The Obama campaign appears to have taken a page from Nixon’s reelection campaign playbook — and is now mounting attacks on private individuals. On April 20, the website KEEPINGGOPHONEST.COM published a post titled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of…

Both Obama, Romney making appalling use of bin Laden killing as political fodder

Appalled. That is the only word I can use to describe my reaction to the Obama and Romney campaign’s efforts to politicize the one year anniversary of the successful raid on Usama Bin Laden. It was my sense that president…