The return of a U.S. official illegally held by Pakistan is welcome news, but the overall incident is outrageous and the U.S. role in directly or indirectly providing a “blood money” payment is potentially scandalous. The Obama administration backed down to lawless behavior by a supposed U.S. ally, and in …

It is not unusual to hear folks say they couldn’t care less about what’s happening in London on April 29. The royals, after all, are hardly people to whom most of us can relate. They live in castles and hop from skiing in Gstaad to the beaches of Mustique. When …

The debate in Washington over the debt ceiling is heating up. The U.S. has now hit the $14.294 trillion debt limit approved in February 2010. With our national credit card maxed out, basic fiscal responsibility requires Congress to vote “no” on raising the debt ceiling unless significant spending cuts and …

In a 5-3 decision this week, the Supreme Court upheld the Arizona law requiring employers to use E-Verify to check the legal status of newly hired employees. The Supreme Court got it right—not only is the law constitutional, it is commonsense. American jobs should be preserved for Americans and legal …

Sometimes, less is more. And sometimes, less is, well, just less. In “SOTU 2,” as the president’s annual State of the Union speech was known in Washington, foreign policy was literally an afterthought. President Obama didn’t get around to even mentioning foreign policy until about eight minutes before the end …

Checking into the hotel in Dublin, Ireland for Google’s Summit Against Violent Extremism, I noticed an extraordinary number of security personnel. It wasn’t clear if they were deployed to protect the 200 invitees from around the world, or to reassure the locals. Along with an array of human rights activists, …

The first volley in the “Happy Holidays” vs. “Merry Christmas” wars has been fired in Rhode Island, where Gov. Lincoln Chafee has announced there will once again be a “Holiday Tree” at the statehouse in Providence. What the heck is a “Holiday Tree”? It’s true this is a “holiday season,” …

The land of make believe where creatures of myth flourish – unicorns, ogres, dragons and fair journalists. Well, one of those seems mythical anyhow. Unicorns, ogres and dragons you can find aplenty on the network news shows. Fair journalists and the stories they should be covering, not so much. There …

This is the first entirely “temporary help service” job recovery. Our current “recovery” might be in its seventeenth month, but the few new private sector jobs have come from companies temporarily hiring staff on a contract basis. What were once jobs reserved for people hired to cover seasonal demand or …

In a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, then-candidate Barack Obama explained that electricity prices would “necessarily skyrocket” under his ideal energy policy of capping carbon emissions from coal plants. “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can,” Obama said. “It’s just that it will bankrupt …