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A 19-year Air Force veteran who was relieved of his duties because he disagreed with his openly gay commander over gay marriage is now facing a formal investigation after he told me his story. Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk found himself at odds with his Lackland Air Force Base commander …

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace. Our own president and his representative Samantha Power, too, have a long history of talking philosophically about war, genocide and the …

Maybe it was the odd coincidence of the Egyptian military coup coming as Americans celebrated our glorious Independence Day. Or maybe it was a gut reaction to the sainted word “democracy” being violated. Whatever the cause, many Americans were not happy about events in Egypt. Some journalists predictably launched into …

Michele Bachmann’s decision last week to leave Congress at the end of this term silences the Republican’s best-known female voice on the national political stage. It’s not a secret that her undisciplined style made her unpopular with the party’s leadership. But with women making up just 8 percent of the …

O.J. Simpson returned to court Monday. The former football star, who was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman, is hoping a judge will grant him a new trial in his 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping conviction. Simpson, now 65, has served four years …

On immigration, voters in 2014, 2016 and beyond will judge Republicans on action, not intentions, and the window for action is closing. As I said earlier this year, here in Fox News Opinion, it is not only politically imperative that Republicans get a comprehensive bill done this year and share …

Six days ago the first Jesuit pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio took St. Francis of Assisi as his patron and declared that he would be called Pope Francis. Today, he begins a post-modern papacy under the banner of a medieval mystic and reformer. Why Francis? What’s in this name? Is it …

There have been a lot of questions about country singer Mindy McCready’s substance abuse and its association with her recent suicide. But the question we should be asking is: “Did Mindy McCready’s brain injury kill her?” Many people know about Mindy’s violent relationship with the father of her oldest son, …

Shortly before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died in 1968, he predicted a black president in the White House in less than forty years. And this year, 2013, the first black president, having been re-elected, will have his second inauguration on Martin Luther King Jr. Day – the federal holiday …

I think the most intriguing part of the “Clinton Cash” book coming out is the possible link back to the story a few months ago that some thought would make it problematic for Hillary Clinton to even kick off a presidential run — and that was her private server email …