Jobs are created, jobs are eliminated. But, alas, there’ll always be a market for the writers of obituaries. And for such writers, 2016 was a very busy year. A boxer and a Brady; a dictator and a first lady; a Prince…and now a princess.
Once he is sworn in, President Trump's administration should swiftly announce it will take steps to undo the damage President Obama has done to career education in America.
The latest diplomatic ambush of Israel (at the U.N. last week) was only made possible by the U.S.'s historic reversal of its decades-long Mideast policy of vetoing one-sided anti-Israel initiatives at the United Nations Security Council.
I, and many others, have studied historical, astronomical and biblical records, looking for clues to what led the Magi — Zoroastrian priests of ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia — on their journey.
American voters made clear in the 2016 election that border security needs to be a priority for the country, and the Trump administration can answer that call by taking these five common sense steps.
Recent terrorist attacks in Ankara, Turkey, and Berlin, Germany, add to a growing list of incidents that are becoming increasingly difficult to remember.
December 26th is St. Stephen’s Day—the Feast of Stephen—long an important celebration in the Christian calendar and now largely ignored. It’s time to bring it back.
The vicious condemnation of Israel at the UN Security Council on December 23, 2016 is a watershed moment in U.S.-UN relations – albeit not as President Obama hoped. Following the vote of fourteen in favor and one American abstention, Palestinian representative Riyadh Mansour and American Ambassador Samantha Power exchanged a telling handshake. Evidently, President Obama believes that he has put one over on Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the incoming Trump administration. But here’s another possibility: treachery at the UN will not be cost free.
The Egyptian decision to withdraw the one-sided anti-Israel Security Council resolution should not mask the sad reality that it is the Obama administration that has been pushing for the resolution to be enacted.
The Russian hacks were the culmination of a failed foreign policy, namely the Obama administration’s blindness to the threat from Moscow and unwillingness to deter our adversaries.
Former President Bill Clinton said in an interview days ago, “Donald Trump doesn’t know much. But one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”
This past week I was in New York on business and experienced the city’s storied holiday season in full swing—Christmas lights twinkling, the bustling holiday market in Union Square, and my friends and family in the Jewish community preparing to celebrate Chanukah, our festival of lights.
It was not so much as a Christmas miracle as it was a Christmas compromise, but the good news is the cross has been returned to the town Christmas tree in Knightstown, Indiana.
