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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad clearly is impervious to international criticism of his brutal war against his own people. Perhaps Wednesday’s announcement of sanctions by the Obama administration and six other Syrian officials to isolate the regime will make a difference. We’ll see. So far, rebukes by the U.N. Human Rights …

Washington will soon be engulfed by twin fiscal fights that will largely define the size and scope of the federal government moving forward. The first fight is over federal debt ceiling, and the need to pair any increase in the overall level of federal indebtedness with real, serious spending reductions. …

The Friday jobs report was dismal. President Obama’s response was more dismal. Sounding like a man completely bereft of ideas, he talked of expediting the patent process and pushing Congress to pass the trade agreements that have become hostage to endless bickering. In fairness, he also suggested putting our million …

China is circumventing international sanctions against Iran by enlisting North Korea’s help in providing the Islamic state with its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles and the technical expertise to make those nuclear warhead-capable missiles operational. And now the Communist giant is threatening to come to Iran’s defense should the missile …

George Washington once said, “The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.” Sadly, it seems today that the Constitution is no longer at the forefront guiding Congress if the reckless runaway spending, expansive government overreach, and excessive amounts of debt we have piled on our future generations are …

I have three kids, ages five, seven, and nine, who are going crazy this week over Christmas. Rightly so. But when I told them yesterday that there was going to be a lunar eclipse that hadn’t happened since the time of the Salem Witch Trials, and wouldn’t happen again until …

Americans find long lost friends on Facebook. They meet on Facebook. They post pictures of parties, vacations or even family photos on Facebook. But what Mark Zuckerburg probably never dreamed when he invented this social network tool to connect college students was that Facebook would someday save a life. Social …

“Blessed are the peacemakers,” if you can find any in the Middle East. They seem to be in short supply these days. One place not to look is on the Gaza flotilla. According to a radio communication the IDF released over the weekend, when Israeli warships issued a calm, but …

On Thursday, August 26 in Bahrain, the country’s police stormed into the home where Yazmin Maribel Bautista was hiding her five-year-old daughter, Fatima, an American citizen. She was hiding her child to keep her from being handed over to her Bahraini father for weekend visitation as ordered by a local …

No one in Lebanon seems to know who invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Beirut for a two-day “official visit” — his first since assuming office in Teheran five years ago. No Lebanese official has claimed credit for a trip that Israel and the U.S. have condemned as “provocative.” But …