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On Tuesday, I argued that former President Trump would greatly advance his chances in the fall if, upon winning the nomination — and that could effectively be over on the night of the New Hampshire primary or Super Tuesday, March 5 — he names his running mate very early and …

Editor’s note: The following column is excerpted from Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson’s new book, “Getting Real” (Viking, June 16, 2015). I like to joke that when I joined Fox News I hit the “bimbo trifecta”: Former Miss America. Blonde. Fox News host. I say that with tongue in cheek, …

Over the past few years, there has been much discussion about the problem of rape on college campuses. Media outlets have covered the crisis, Rolling Stone magazine published a piece meant to expose the problem (but instead exposed their inadequacies and bias) and the White House created a Task Force …

On the morning a friend had a speech due to President George W. Bush, his first daughter was born. My former colleague said he was trying to figure out a way to get the edits the president wanted back by the deadline when the phone rang – it was President …

Wednesday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced he is running for president of the United States. As a native Louisianian, I have seen first hand the transformation of the state for the better under Bobby Jindal’s stewardship. I am from East Feliciana Parish. The per capita income in East Feliciana is …

My firm recently conducted polls in ten different states for the Manhattan Institute on public opinion of state fiscal and economic issues and public sector employees. While voters generally expressed a great deal of dissatisfaction with their state government and with their state’s economy, Montana voters were a notable exception. …

Unions will lose big and Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker will win big this Tuesday in Wisconsin. Here’s why. Government employee unions are a real threat to national security, far worse than the unproven fraud called global warming. Government employee pensions threaten our children’s future. They will destroy the American …

As we struggle to comprehend the growing evil of the terrorist group ISIS, we need to look no further than our own neighborhood bullies to understand key weaknesses within ISIS’s tactics in order to thwart them. Terrorists aren’t the only villains who use violent acts to create fear in part …

What’s likely to be the decisive factor in the Afghanistan War and just about every war from now on? Wikileaks. You heard me….it won’t be drone aircraft, or smart bombs or IED’s, important as they’ve been. It will be the lone disgruntled soldier, staring into his computer screen and clicking …

In one of the most deft diplomatic maneuvers of all time, Russia’s President Putin has saved the world from near-certain disaster. He did so without the egoistical but incompetent American president, or his earnest but clueless Secretary of State, even realizing they had been offered a way out of the …