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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Tonight marks the eighth year I’ve come here to report on the State of the Union. And for this final one, I’m going to try to make it shorter. I know some of you are antsy to get back to Iowa. I also understand that because it’s an election…

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Tonight marks the eighth year I’ve come here to report on the State of the Union. And for this final one, I’m going to try to make it shorter. I know some of you are antsy to get back to Iowa. I also understand that because it’s an election…

President Barack Obama has promised to make an unconventional State of the Union speech tonight, and it is a safe bet to assume that by “unconventional State of the Union” he means “conventional campaign speech,” heavy with his trademark alloy of intellectual shallowness and risibly inflated self-regard. In 2008 it was “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” but…

According to a Fox News report on Monday, the FBI is widening its investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account while she was U.S. secretary of state to determine whether any public corruption laws were violated. Clinton charges the Fox report is “irresponsible.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been looking into whether classified…

Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal has been a difficult one for the public to understand and for journalists to explain. But Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who helped uncover Watergate 40 years ago, clarified things a lot on Fox News Sunday today when he said that an e-mail in the most recently released batch shows Hillary trying to “subvert the…

President Obama will deliver his last State of the Union address Tuesday at a moment when fear and anger seem to be driving both the American electorate and the candidates seeking to replace him in the White House. His challenge? Communicate a message big enough to rise above the election-season vitriol. To that end, the White House has promised a…

A First Amendment that survived — and even thrived — during the darkest hours of World War II may begin to die a sad death at the hands of troubled transgenders and angry abortionists. On January 9, 1942 — at a time when the fate of our nation hung in the balance — the West Virginia Board of Education passed…

Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) is firing back at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for suggesting there are questions about Cruz’s eligibility to run for president. Cruz brushed off McCain’s suggestion that it was “worth looking into” the issue, saying the 2008 GOP nominee is simply trying to help Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) win the Republican nomination. “I think it is no…

President Barack Obama denies he’s trying to take away the guns of law-abiding citizens with his recent announcement of executive actions to make it more difficult for criminals to buy weapons. At CNN’s town hall program “Guns in America,” Obama said he is happy to meet with the National Rifle Association, but that the conversation has to be based on…

One thing that’s striking about the presidential race, which, finally, officially begins soon, is how much the race has been shaped by Barack Obama. The course of the contests for both the Republican and Democratic nominations would be inconceivable absent the course of the Obama presidency. This is most apparent in the phenomenon that goes by the name of Donald…

The president opens the door for states to take action restricting guns. In the twilight of his presidency, with his goals of gun control unfulfilled, President Obama has pivoted to the long game. During a teary-eyed press conference yesterday, Obama lamented that federal legislation “won’t happen during my presidency.” But with the stroke of a pen, he laid the groundwork…