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When I heard that Jack LaLanne had passed away I started watching his old exercise shows and it was hard to stop. — It became obvious that if I followed his advice I could be stronger and live longer. Anything in life is possible if you make it happen, he …

Fifteen years ago this week, on Jan. 1, 1996, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz became regent and effective ruler of Saudi Arabia. His anniversary offers an opportunity to review the kingdom’s changes under his leadership and whither it now heads. His is perhaps the most unusual and opaque country on the planet, …

Read the June 27 Newsweek cover story, with a smiling Bill Clinton filling the cover and the headline “14 Ways to Save America’s Jobs,” and you will be reminded why and how Clinton began his first term as president with a $300 billion deficit and a stagnant economy emerging from …

Both of us have many acquaintances who discover late in their busy lives:”There must be more to it than this.” Who feel that Life is asking more of them, although they wrestle with what that might be. At night under the stars with the wind on their faces they sometimes …

Once again Congressional Republicans have made the immigration debate political. Senator Lindsey Graham (S.C), who thought that the Arizona law ( S.B.1070) was unconstitutional back in April now thinks that the Justice department lawsuit against the State of Arizona is an attempt by the Obama administration to get out the …

The Environmental Protection Agency turns 40 this week, marking four decades in pursuit of a simple goal: ensure the safety of our land, water, and air. After the Cuyahoga River caught fire near Cleveland in 1969, Americans recognized steps needed to be taken to get pollution under control. Unfortunately, the …

Does Barack Obama want to be the president of the world or do the job he was actually elected to do be president of the United States? The Oval Office speech Tuesday night was a clue that President Obama may have finally decided that, yes, he wants to be an …

Mr. President, I didn’t expect to wish you a happy birthday today, but since I wrote a column for the Fox Forum (aka FoxNews.com’s Opinion section) on President Bush’s birthday last month, I thought I’d extend you the same courtesy. First of all, in all fairness, whoever became president in …

I used to enjoy reading Maureen Dowd. I think she has a way with words and at times she even promotes thinking outside of conventional wisdom. Unfortunately, those columns are few and far between. Reading her column in the Sunday New York Times irritated me. I guess that’s her specialty …

And so the great global warming circus moves on. For the next two weeks the world’s carboncrats will gather in Cancun for the latest United Nations climate conference. The aim is to negotiate a vast new international emissions trading scheme that Barack Obama wants the United States to join. But …