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Folks, it’s a free country — even for Tiger Woods. So for Pete’s sake let’s leave the guy alone already. The public relations geniuses are screaming that more must be said by the golfing great and fast. Why? To satisfy the public’s insatiable curiosity for dirt? To pull one of …

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:00:11 +0000 – By Jon Kraushar Communications Consultant For those searching for a theme to counter the return of the era of big government, big spending, big deficits and big pork projects, how about returning to the idea that “small is beautiful”? If Republicans want to …

What I remember most about serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq was realizing the extraordinary level of hatred that the Sunnis and Shia Arabs had for each other. To understand Iraq today, one must understand the deep religious divisions within the country. The Islamic faith fractured into two …

On Sunday June 8, Egypt’s former defense minister, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, was inaugurated as the sixth president–a de facto pharaoh, though chosen by the people–of the oldest nation-state on earth. As expected, Egyptians overwhelmingly voted May 26-28 to elect him to lead the country, which he as ruled …

There’s no question that Israel is located in a very tough and dangerous neighborhood. And these are especially grim days. The brutality of radical Islamist militias – particularly ISIS – has stunned the world and now threatens the Israel/Syria border of the Golan Heights. To the north, Lebanon is reeling …

It really is an Age of Wonder, as in: I wonder what the hell those people are thinking. They would be the people arguing against personal responsibility and for unending handouts. Take the Planned Parenthood Association, which blasted New York Mayor Bloomberg for an ad campaign that aims to get …

Remember Polish jokes? They’re politically incorrect these days, so no one makes them. No one, that is, except President Obama. By cancelling the promised missile shield, he in effect cut Poland loose and threw her to the Russians…70 years to the day after of their brutal invasion of the country. …

“South Park,” Comedy Central’s gold-standard animated sitcom, has launched its 27th season on America’s television screens and, with President Donald Trump back in the White House, politics is back on the menu for creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Much like our national media ecosystem, Trump and his presidency are …

It gives me no pleasure to identify the essential problem at the heart of Pope Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum: it condemns the economic progress produced by the Industrial Revolution from the mid-19th century to the present. That progress has made life better for the very people the Holy …

It was a marriage made in whatever lefties call heaven – a brand new president, destined for media success, and an offshoot network trying to make its mark as a TV organization after years as an also-ran. In just less than three years, it has all-but collapsed. Back in the …