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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez is moving to consolidate his hold on Honduras, after orchestrating the return last Saturday of his puppet, Manuel Zelaya. Officials in Chávez’s inner circle are wondering how their cash-strapped government can finance yet another “revolutionary” government in Central America. What they fail to realize is that …

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Thursday released an estimate of the House Republican bill to fully repeal Obamacare. It found that doing so would increase the deficit by $230 billion. This latest uncertain estimate should be taken with a trillion grains of salt, and Republicans would be foolish to …

Do you get the sense that Michele Bachmann is under attack by the press? I do. And Rep. Bachmann is winning the fight. The Des Moines Register, the largest newspaper in Iowa, ran a poll of likely GOP voters late last month and found that she was statistically tied with …

The Middle East is a dangerous place — and not merely for people who live there. Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly difficult in this country to take a position sympathetic to the Jewish state and in favor of the continuation of America’s historic strong alliance with Israel without being called “an …

Sometimes you hate being right. In chapter 4 of our book, “The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency,”we make the point that Team Obama would try to pull a fast one when it comes to Obamacare’s individual mandate that everyone reading this blog post …

“Dad, why do people who are not Christians still celebrate Christmas?” This is the kind of insightful question that can only come from the mouth of a nine-year-old. My daughter wonders why people who do not attend church still have Christmas trees, bake Christmas cookies, put colored lights on their …

JUAREZ – Editor’s note: Writer and Fox News political analyst Juan Williams traveled to Mexico earlier this year as part of a joint effort by the U.S. Embassy, the United Nations and the Mexican government. The invitation was extended because both governments and the United Nations wanted a well-known American …

Since at least 1978; when it comes to politics, California has often served as a harbinger of things to come, for it was that year that Taxpayer Advocate and rabble rouser Howard Jarvis put Washington on notice when he led a crusade to roll back property taxes through his Proposition …

History sometimes repeats itself in the Middle East, but not always. Twice before, Israel has attacked Arab nuclear reactors before they were loaded with the fuel rods that could have produced plutonium Pu 239 for an atomic bomb. Both strikes against Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981 and Syria’s North Korean-built …

It is annoyingly predictable. When progress towards Israeli-Palestinian peace emerges, Mahmoud Abbas issues demands and threats, while world leaders scramble to appease him. So, once again, we await the Palestinian Authority president’s decision. Will he or won’t he stay in the direct peace negotiations with Israel, recently revived, not without …