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Reason for Hope: The 10,000 Women Initiative

For as long as I can remember, we’ve been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations – nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects it…

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

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…

Mitch McConnell: A beaten man presiding over a broken Senate

Editor’s note: The following op-ed originally appeared in The Hill newspaper and on TheHill.com. After a terrible, bone-breaking accident and two eye surgeries, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the former Senate Majority Leader, is scheduled to be back on Capitol Hill…

CPAC 2015: ACU Chairman Schlapp says Republican presidential nomination starts here

Editor’s note: Fox News’ Dana Perino, former White House press secretary and current co-host of “The Five” recently interviewed Matt Schlapp, American Conservative Union chairman about this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The conference runs from February 25 through…

Life lessons from an airport cleaning woman

FILE — Aug. 27, 2014: An airplane takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman) You would have thought she was polishing a brand new Cadillac. Or a beautiful Chinese Chippendale desk. Or Dolly Madison’s White House…

Obama signals he’s out of ideas with ISIS fight request to Congress

Why is President Obama asking for “Authorization for Use of Military Force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”? Why ask for permission to carry on with operations that have been underway for more than six months and…

Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio 2016 showdown would force Miami powerbrokers to take sides

Miami – Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio grew up, politically, in the same power circles in Miami. The two men share many of the same Republican donors and friends who helped them ascend South Florida’s…

Obama shows mixed results in delivering on State of the Union promises

Close Guantanamo. End the Iraq war. Tax the rich. Increase nuclear power. Drill for oil in the Atlantic. President Obama called for all these initiatives and more in previous State of the Union speeches. Some came to pass; others did…

President Obama, here’s how you build a legacy

Two years from now, the country will be on the verge of inaugurating the 45th president of the United States. The presidency of Barack Obama will be over, and to the joy and relief of many Americans, there will be…

Give Boehner a break: GOP Speaker brings real leadership to 114th Congress

FILE — Jan. 13, 2015: House Speaker John Boehner (AP) Some crank apparently has it in for John Boehner. No, I’m not talking about Ted Yoho; rather, the bartender who supposedly threatened to poison the House Speaker’s drinks – a…