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With just a month left before the midterm elections, and with the Republicans leading by six points in Rasmussen Reports’ Generic Congressional Ballot, it has become increasingly clear that dissatisfaction with the Democrats is going to result in a swing to the Republicans this fall. While it seems almost certain …

The Democratic Party is facing a crisis. With President Obama’s approval rating reaching an all-time low at 42%, the Republicans with a six-point lead in Real Clear Politics’ Generic Congressional Ballot, and the general increase in dissatisfaction with those in charge, the upcoming midterm elections will almost certainly swing Republican. …

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” What Winston Churchill said in 1942 following a British military victory in North Africa might also be said about Friday’s narrow 5-4 decision by the Supreme …

The video is gruesome and appalling. It purportedly shows a Planned Parenthood executive sipping a glass of wine in a Los Angeles restaurant while casually explaining how they sell body parts from aborted babies. The undercover video was filmed in July 2014 by the Center for Medical Progress, an advocacy …

No one knows what will happen in Egypt in the next few days — will the Mubarak government succeed in clamping down on demonstrators and put an end to the reform movement? With his speech on Friday, explaining that he’s asked his cabinet to resign, will Mubarak’s moves quell the …

The world is riveted by the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, and the world media has focused on it non-stop for over a week. We’ve long since exhausted our national supply of ‘experts’ to the point where every man is now an expert, each with his own theory about what happened, …

The Lame Duck session presents the first test for Republican leadership in the House and Senate since the American people overwhelmingly spoke on Election Day. As usual, President Obama and congressional Democrats are playing their Washington games. They are trying to scare and intimidate Republicans in Congress into funding their …

Is this the dumbest idea of the 2016 campaign? Or is it the smartest? The New York Times recently reported that several top Republican donors wanted GOP candidates to boycott the primary debates to signal their distaste for billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump. Turning their backs on Trump would …

Over the last four years, I have lived with the constant threat from a stalker – a stalker who is now in jail for the third time for violating a restraining order. Every day I live with these questions: What if today is the day that my stalker posts bail? …

There was no halftime show under the Friday night lights at Mississippi’s Brandon High School — the marching band had been benched. The band was ordered off the field because the Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art” was a part of their halftime show — in violation of a federal …