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The U.S. State Department recently conducted an assessment of its efforts to counter ISIS propaganda. The conclusion boiled down to the obvious: It is a failure. ISIS is growing in popularity, not only in the Sunni Middle East, but among Muslims living outside the region. Still, the State Department experts …

Arrgh… while Johnny Depp reprises his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” the fourth film in a blockbuster franchise that has already grossed over $2.7 billion, it’s interesting to compare pop culture’s love for the pirate legend with our historic distaste for real …

President Obama recently announced plans to hold a bipartisan summit on health care reform at the end of this month. The president is clearly making an effort to create a politically diverse coalition of supporters for his reform legislation. Many commentators claim that comprehensive health care reform is no longer …

President Obama kicked off his bus tour today. And while his trip to the Midwest may be good politics in the short term it doesn’t begin to address a long term problem that his administration faces if he is to successfully recover from his sinking approval ratings. Mr. Obama, if …

Does Washington take cyber security seriously? Today the director of the office of personnel management in DC resigned — but is that enough to take on the real problem of cyber security growing more serious every day? The massive OPM data breach is just one event — where 21 million …

President Obama has weighed in the Ground Zero Mosque. If you believe in freedom of religion, you’re for the mosque. If you’re against the mosque, you’re obviously against one of America’s founding principles, the right to worship your own God, in your own way. But that’s not the argument. The …

Forty years ago this month the Arabs and Israelis fought their last war against each other. Prior to that, they had fought every decade or so, but the fallout from those earlier wars was rarely felt beyond the region. The 1973 war was different. It led to an Arab oil …

By now you’ve seen the video — a Planned Parenthood doctor discussing baby livers and Lamborghinis over dinner. They were haggling over body parts — harvested from Planned Parenthood’s killing fields. The doctor went on to explain how they perform less crunchy abortions so that profitable organs aren’t damaged. Click …

For generations of Americans, the opportunity to go to college has served as the pathway to social mobility. Today, however, predatory for-profit colleges are giving students and taxpayers the shaft by trading on this American dream—and some prominent Republicans are defending these institutions. This year alone, the two largest for-profit …

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 actually defeating it. That would be one of the best …