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President Obama’s campaign fundraising last quarter was impressive — he raised $48.7 million for his campaign and more than $38 million for the Democratic National Committee. But it wasn’t as good as I expected, especially given how much time Mr. Obama personally invested. According to CBS radio’s Mark Knoller, who …

Fox News Opinion is pleased to present an excerpt from “Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama” by Marvin and Debra Kalb. Mr. Kalb is a Fox News contributor and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice (Emeritus) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. His daughter Deborah, …

I had planned to spend my Christmas vacation with St. George’s School of Medicine in South Sudan, but instead, South Sudan came to me. I am assisting Fox News Contributor Ellen Ratner with a young blind boy named Ker Deng. Ellen and her brother brought Ker to the United States …

If an honor killing is committed by Muslims in North America, chances are you won’t read about it in the mainstream American media, except perhaps locally, and briefly. However, if the honor killing has been perpetrated by Hindus or Sikhs, and in faraway India, the crime merits prominent treatment in …

All the economic numbers being thrown around as the year draws to a close are bewildering. Some are positive, some are negative, but for many this week it is hard to get an overall feel for how well the economy is doing. On the upside, GDP is rising, though slowly, …

Contrary to myth, when a perfectly good mother is custodially challenged by her child’s father, she is immediately at risk—most certainly in any Muslim country where the custody of children is viewed as a male religious, tribal, and legal right. If the mother has grown up in that country, she …

America prides itself on religious tolerance. We welcome all houses of worship. Increasingly, however, Islamist leaders are demanding even more religious tolerance, more mosques. However, there is absolutely no reciprocity in the Muslim world. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, do not allow Christians, Jews, or other “infidels” to pray openly or …

At an April 2008 fund-raiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama let loose with his famous “they cling to their guns or religion” line. Last Saturday at a West Newton, Mass., fund-raiser, the president said, “facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning . . . because we’re …

A new publication entitled “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct” recently made its way onto the bestseller list, in part because when Amazon.com decided to sell it, the public’s rage-filled reaction caused even MORE publicity. Not so ironic, I know. At the risk of …

This year’s NCAA basketball tournament—better known as March Madness—has been especially memorable for the many upsets that have occurred. Americans love rooting for the underdog (It started from our beginning, I think, when we pulled off a pretty big upset against the British), so when Northern Iowa took out No. …