After careful deliberation, I am declaring my candidacy for President of the United States. I know where our party is headed and I believe that we can reach our destination within a single term. While other candidates may shrink from…

No matter how you look at it, Israel agreeing to release 104 Palestinian prisoners — many of them terrorists — is emotionally devastating. On Tuesday, Israel will release the first 26, of whom 17 have killed Israelis. The list of…

Is the IRS scandal this generation’s Watergate? More and more, all signs point to yes – though not necessarily for the reason many assume. Watergate is most often remembered for a president who was brought down for targeting his political…

It’s been almost a month since Egypt’s massive June 30 protests that led to the military taking control from Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet the unrest hasn’t settled and there is no sign that it will quiet down…

Getting involved in the Syrian civil war is a bad idea for America. We have no legitimate reason to do it and many reasons not to. I’ve said for months that the Syrian rebels are not a homogenous group of…

After four months of seemingly endless shuttle diplomacy, John Kerry has succeeded in getting the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit down and talk to each other about peace. No real plan was announced and both sides are still pretty…

The European Union must be clueless. That’s the only way to explain its newest decision regarding Israel’s borders. Haaretz: The European Union has published a guideline for all 28 member states forbidding any funding, cooperation, awarding of scholarships, research funds or prizes…

Remember how Democrats laughed at Republicans for saying that the White House may have been involved in the IRS targeting of conservatives? Yet again the joke is on them, as new evidence shows that the scandal goes higher up on…

If there was an award for bureaucratic incompetence, the IRS would win it by a landslide. We already know that the IRS targeted conservative groups (and not liberal groups, though Democrats are still in denial about that one) and inappropriately…

Is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell part of our future? It might be, if Nate Silver is correct in his Senate race predicitions for 2014. Silver, who is well known for correctly predicting the outcome of the 2012 elections, thinks that the…