Many families in this great country have been forced to look at their monthly budgets and see where they can make cuts. Maybe they can spend a little less on food, eating more vegetables than meat one week or maybe they need to cancel cable or forgo their summer vacations. …

America’s commitment to Iraq has come to an end — not with a bang or even a whimper, but with a retreat greased by Joe Biden’s blather and bull. If you pray, now would be a good time. The vice president spent three days in Iraq last week, attending a …

While major media outlets from the major television networks to the Wall Street Journal viewed the showdown over the extension of the payroll tax holiday through a political lens in 2011 and judged House Speaker John Boehner the loser, the reality is that Boehner’s courageous stand – in the face …

Like the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, oil spill victims are about to get kicked by the IRS while they are down. According to a recent Associated Press report, payments by British Petroleum to oil spill victims will be taxed as regular income. The same report quoted several Gulf Coast residents …

At the end of November something historically quite significant happened in Russia. The State Duma passed a statement conceding Soviet responsibility for the Katyn Woods massacre, one of the 20th century’s worst war crimes. The roots of this atrocity date to September 1939, when the Nazis and Bolsheviks jointly invaded, …

The health care debate of 2009 is over, but the hard work is just beginning. Cost-curve-bending rhetoric aside, the government can’t make medical care more affordable by waving its hands and saying: “It shall be done.” Now it will be up to the health care community to find ways to …

Now that Arizona’s immigration law has at least temporarily been put on hold, President Obama may well be tempted to put the whole immigration issue on the back burner for a while, as his Justice Department’s lawsuit against the state winds its way through the courts. After all, he has …

Even before Israel announced it was not going to continue the 10-month settlement construction freeze it imposed in September 2009, the Palestinians were threatening to withdraw from newly started peace talks, insisting that settlements are an obstacle to peace. The Obama administration has also repeated this canard and George Mitchell …

In my last article for Fox News Opinion, I introduced the idea of pre-partisan ground rules which set the table for honest partisan debate in our shared political life. Here I will itemize them. I also defined the unreality of the non-partisan, bipartisan and post-partisan – terms used principally as …

While you congratulate yourselves today on what you’ve done, this is a sad day for the rest of us. Last night you had enough votes, 219 (3 more than a bare majority) to impose your will on the American people. A vast new army of federal bureaucrats will soon start …