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The Republican Party remains in a state of chaos — facing the increasingly realistic possibility of the first “brokered” convention in more than fifty years. Mitt Romney — having won narrowly this weekend at CPAC and in Maine — is now turning his guns on Rick Santorum, whose resurgence last …

Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – Thursday night the Harvard University Department of African American Studies held an extraordinarily interesting event here with a wide diversity of speakers about the education gap between African-Americans and the broader white society. The question presented was “How can the persistent gap between whites and African-Americans …

Sometimes people look at public figures and think they haven’t had to struggle with adversity – that everything has always come easy. In my new book “Getting Real” I get very real about failures in my life from struggling as a fat kid to living with the guilt of giving …

During Bill O’Reilly’s interview with the parents of Kate Steinle, the young woman murdered by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, I was struck by the grieving parents mentioning Kate’s faith and their own as a guiding force in the face of tragedy. How having something to hold onto when …

President Obama will no doubt give an eloquent speech tonight announcing the Obama version of “mission accomplished” in Libya. He will avoid the word “war,” and say we have established a no-fly zone, prevented a slaughter of the innocents, and are turning things over to others. He will talk at …

The latest Iraq war is between Iraq’s pro-Iranian Shiite government and pro-Al Qaeda Sunni rebels. It boils down to Iran vs. Al Qaeda, radical Shiites versus radical Sunnis. The first rule of foreign policy is if your enemies are killing each other, don’t step in to stop them. What we’ve …

Our most recent elections demonstrated Americans are still very worried about the state of the economy and their own job security. However, there is an employer looking to hire young, motivated, and intelligent men and women—the United States Navy’s submarine force. It’s not easy to be eligible for such employment. …

There’s a common misconception that once you’re an Olympic athlete, you’re set for life. In reality, lucrative sponsorships are extremely few and far between, and many Olympic hopefuls are struggling to get by while chasing their Olympic dreams. I know this from personal experience, and that’s why I’m encouraging Americans …

When President Donald Trump chose Saudi Arabia for his first foreign trip of the new term — meeting Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in Riyadh — it underscored how closely U.S. interests now track Saudi change. In turn, MBS is set to visit the White House …

It’s been almost a year since Hurricane Helene reshaped Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia.But as a native of that region, I remember it like it was yesterday: the reports of catastrophic flooding, thousands of mudslides, and infrastructure failures—from interstate closures to cell towers being offline. Four days after the …