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The numbers portraying how many square miles ISIS controls across Iraq and Syria, how many towns and villages it has captured or put under siege and how many fighters it commands all continue to rise. ISIS’ tentacles continue to sweep out across the region, even as National Security Adviser Susan …

Editor’s note: September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. I first wrote about this subject for FoxNews.com in March. At that time, I wrote about this topic as a reaction to a rash of suicides among the young and our returning military personnel. More powerfully, I wrote this as an …

I was born in Tennessee. And even though I’ve lived in New York City for the past decade, I still take my tea sweet, my chicken fried and my biscuits buttered. I’m proud to call myself a gun-toting, Bible-clinging Tennessee Volunteer. JOIN TODD ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSERVATIVE CONVERSATION. CLICK HERE …

Inflation is soaring, and the Federal Reserve is looking away. It has printed trillions of dollars to save big banks from their financial crisis debauchery and to keep interest rates low to spur economic recovery, but those have not improved the lot of ordinary Americans. Here are five things you …

Tuesday the U.S. Government’s Global Change Research Program released its latest “National Assessment” report on climate change impacts in the United States. As with previous editions, the new report is an alarmist document designed to scare people and build political support for unpopular policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and …

The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year. For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all the victims at these attacks that I have talked to over the years, the …

The new book by French economist Thomas Piketty, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” has rocketed to the top of the Amazon.com and New York Times best-sellers list. It accomplished this feat by offering yet another apocalyptic vision of capitalism in the tradition of Malthus, Ricardo, and Marx. To American workers …

What happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may eventually be discovered, but there is something else that has been missing for much longer and its “disappearance” has far greater implications for America. It is our foreign policy. Can anyone say what it is? With Russia’s Vladimir Putin behaving like a …

At this very moment inIran, an America pastor namedSaeed Abedini sits in a prison cell: his crime: refusing to be quiet about his faith in Jesus Christ. Across the globe inNorthKorea, another America named Kenneth Bae also a devout Christian languishes in aNorthKorean prison camp: his crime: also refusing to …

There is a whole lot of fascinating information about to come out in “Duty” the new memoir by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.Here are a few issues that are notable. Gates goes after Vice President Biden on foreign policy.Gates essentially states that Mr. Biden has “gotten wrong” foreign policy …