Loose Lips Endanger Lives

The U.S. dodged another terrorist bullet when a would-be “underwear bomber” turned out to be a double agent. The news became public this week after rumors had circulated in April that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a Yemini-based group… Read More

Obama Fails On Human Rights

The Obama administration’s record on human rights, never strong, just got a whole lot worse. This week’s dramatic saga of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng’s escape from house arrest in Shandong province to safety inside the U.S. Embassy to the embassy’s… Read More

Rubio’s Lifeline

Marco Rubio has thrown the GOP a lifeline; let’s see whether his fellow party members are willing to grab it. The freshman U.S. senator from Florida has been a hard-line foe to illegal immigrants, both in his home state and… Read More

Romney Should Show He’s a Leader, and Here’s How…

If Mitt Romney is to have any chance of beating President Barack Obama in November, he must win a larger share of the Hispanic vote than current polls suggest he will. And he won’t unless he solves his immigration problem.… Read More

Feminists Limit Women’s Choices

Not since Hillary Clinton’s infamous remark during the 1992 presidential campaign — “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas” — has a prominent Democratic woman so insulted full-time homemakers. Speaking on CNN Wednesday, Democratic… Read More

Americans By Any Name

A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center says a lot about the assimilation of the nation’s largest minority group — both good and bad. Hispanics — those 50 million people who trace their ancestry to a Spanish-speaking country —… Read More

Not Black and White

It may be months before we know what actually happened the night Trayvon Martin was shot in Sanford, Fla. on February 26. But many seem to have already decided that this was a brutal case of racial profiling and vigilante… Read More

True Terrorist Threat

Much of the attention in the Middle East over the past few months has been focused on the suffering of the people of Syria. But the Assad regime in Syria, which is slaughtering its own people by the thousands, does… Read More

Driven By Family

It’s interesting what drives people toward their goals. For some, it is fame, fortune or celebrity. For others, it’s personal achievement, parents pushing or peer pressure that has been internalized. Some seem to have no drive at all — there… Read More

Who Is a Citizen?

Is Mitt Romney in favor of increasing the number of illegal immigrants in the United States? You might not think so, given his tough anti-illegal immigration rhetoric, but his leading immigration adviser wants to do just that. What’s more, the… Read More

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