Not long ago, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was, according to some Democrats and media talking heads, Obama 2.0.The tall, photogenic Booker was going to be our next African-American president, we were told. Booker bounded to the U.S. Senate in a special election after Gov. Chris Christie declined to appoint …

If Republicans win the Senate, President Obama risks another bruising recession if he doesn’t embrace compromise and abandon ineffective populist prescriptions. Slower growth in Europe and emerging markets like China and Brazil threaten U.S. exports and demand for American-made products. At home, stock market volatility threatens consumer confidence and sales …

I strongly believe that within the next four weeks U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi will be released from El Hongo Federal Prison in Mexico and able to walk on American soil once again. Young lawyers are taught to manage expectations. “Under-promise and over-deliver” is the rule – but there are …

The rematch between a career Air Force pilot and careerbureaucrat in Arizona is shaping up to be a key opportunity for a GOP pick-up in the House of Representatives. Republican challenger, retired Air Force Colonel Martha McSally, is poised to unseat Democratic Representative Ron Barber in the all-important Arizona Congressional …

In his 2010 book The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East, Dr. Walid Phares, the renowned scholar of Mideast politics and terrorism, predicted that a “greater clash” was “yet to come” in the volatile region. And he held out the possibility that “the small camp of anti-Islamist …

According to a recent research report from CNN/ORC International, 59 percent of adults believe the American dream has become impossible. As the son of a grocery store manager and a homemaker from Omaha, Nebraska, this troubles me deeply because I see myself as a reflection of the American dream. I …

As Barack Obama enters the twilight of his tenure, the debate over his legacy is beginning, but one conclusion already seems certain. It can best be described as “Honey, I shrunk the presidency.” Not since Jimmy Carter was held hostage by Iran has the Oval Office seemed so inconsequential against …

Fifty years later we are locked in a time of deep political division in America, frustrated by a Congress that can’t deal with a national immigration crisis, protect the right to vote or even pass a jobs bill to help the struggling economy. But this Thursday, four presidents – Barack …

Editor’s note: The following column by Ben Velderman’s column originally appeared on EAGnews.com, the website of the Education Action Group. When future scholars write the history of the school choice movement, Jeb Bush will be remembered as one of its founding fathers. Bush was a charter school advocate years before …

Except for the definition and mechanism of proving treason, no area of the Constitution addressing the rights of all persons when the government is pursuing them is more specific than the Fourth Amendment. The linchpin of that specificity is the requirement that the government demonstrate probable cause to a judge …