At this moment, as I write this for Fox News Opinion, the Syrian border town of Kobani sits on the precipice of falling to ISIS. All this while the Turks watch the action from across the nearby hills and the U.S. runs sporadic airstrikes that are not likely to save …

To the extent that Democrats dream in Technicolor, the grand dream would be turning Texas from red to blue in future presidential elections. Why? Add Texas’ 38 electoral votes to the mega-state troika of California, Illinois and New York and the sum is 142 – more than midway to the …

A recent documentary chronicled the pandemonium as North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon. Efforts to evacuate South Vietnamese were terminated and U.S. military personnel ordered to board the last helicopters. But several Americans ignored the order, continuing – until the last possible moment – to help Vietnamese allies and their …

As sure as Sherman’s march through the Confederacy, which began 150 years ago this November, the future control of the United States Senate rests in the heart of Dixie and a handful of 2014 contests. Starting at the mouth of the Mississippi River, that includes Louisiana, Arkansas and Kentucky, before …

Karl Rove, the bete noir for Democrats (and some Republicans), has dared to raise questions about Hillary Clinton’s health. The New York Post first reported a conversation between Rove, former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Dan Raviv of CBS News about Mrs. Clinton’s fall and concussion in December …

When the Revered DeForest Soaries attends gatherings of his fellow leaders in the Black Church, he often finds himself the youngest man in the room. Soaries, the senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, is 62-years-old. The graying of the church leadership (both among …

It’s official: Treason is cool and traitors are acceptable sources for journalists. The Pulitzer Prize says so. In giving the 2014 Public Service award to The Washington Post and The Guardian for publishing stories based on Edward Snowden’s stolen documents, the Pulitzer judges gave their stamp of approval to news …

I had the privilege of being invited to President Obama’s announcement of “My Brother’s Keeper” earlier this year, representing my partners and colleagues at Deloitte. I was moved by the frankness and forthrightness with which the president spoke regarding the issue of supporting young men of color. It is obviously …

They are heroes of American history whose faces adorn our dollar bills and whose names are attached to cities, universities, streets and national holidays. But the Founding Fathers and Mothers, those people we have immortalized as cultural icons central to our nation’s birth, were people, too. And, as such, they …

American public, beware: we are about to be bombarded with campaign ads on TV and social media. For political junkies, 2014 is a much-needed jolt of activity. Yet, 2014 may be more than just another election season; for those of us in California, we may witness the rise of a …