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Why Israel will rule the new Middle East

01/31/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Jan. 30, 2013: Israel’s President Shimon Peres, right, listens as Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, speaks during their meeting in Jerusalem. (AP/Reuters Pool) If you still think the future of Israel looks bleak,…

Pollution highlights the price China is paying for rapid development

01/14/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
A man wearing a mask walks on a stone bridge in a park on a hazy day in Beijing, China, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. Beijing schools kept children indoors and hospitals saw a spike in respiratory cases Monday following a…

Can Obama change?

11/13/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
Listening to President Obama speak on election night, I thought of the moment in “The Lion King” when Scar took over Pride Rock. My sentiment for America was perfectly captured by the accompanying song, “Be Prepared.” Be prepared, America, for…

Obama Shows That He Is No Clinton

09/07/2012 Published on Forbes.com
President Obama’s speech last night was certainly not the game changer that many expected, and hoped, that it would be. Indeed, if there was one message to take away from President Obama’s convention speech it was not the one of…

What Romney-Ryan and the GOP are missing

08/21/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
Make no mistake, Mitt Romney’s appointment of Paul Ryan as his running mate has galvanized the Republican base. But while a recent Gallup poll found a mere 39% of Democrats are now more enthusiastic about voting than in previous elections…

How I became George Obama’s ‘brother’

08/16/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
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…

Receive a real elfin education in Iceland

07/02/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
Elf Quest According to a 2007 poll, the majority of Icelanders don’t deny the existence of elves and 8 percent believe in them outright. ;The elves live in craggy hillsides and cave near running water, which visitors (like the writer…

Larry Gatlin’s free advice for Mayor Bloomberg

06/02/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
(Reuters) Big hat, no cattle. ; Or… Big bottle, no sugar. ; I saw a bumper sticker in Nashville a while back that read, “We don’t give a rat’s a** how you do it up North.” (Don’t ya just love…

Leading with dignity in the workplace

03/25/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
My work has brought me up close to leaders of all kinds. There is one thing they share: highly developed technical and intellectual capacities, many of them graduates of some of the world’s most prestigious educational institutions. They also share…

Why hunting and gathering makes us smarter and thinner

02/04/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
The great mystery of the human species is how we got here —how we came out of the trees, stood on two feet, and ended up on the trading floor of Lehman Brothers –how we became so smart…and so dumb.…