With the convictions in the case against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell -- three counts of murdering live babies and one count of involuntary manslaughter -- abortion is back in the national discussion. It's pretty clear from the grand jury report th ...

Put me down as happy to see former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford coming back to Washington. He just handily defeated Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election for a House seat he himself once held. I hope he brings his piglets with him. While ...

In 1854, Abraham Lincoln confronted America's first "pro-choice" senator, Stephen Douglas, in a speech in Peoria, Ill. "Choice" then was about slavery, not abortion. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which addressed the sticky question of ho ...

Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's trial, in which he faces the death penalty for the deaths of four infants and one woman in his clinic, is over. America has moved on. It's exactly what the pro-abortion contingent wants. They want Gosnell ...

Kirsten Powers has done a national service, by virtue of her now-famous USA Today column, of putting the news of the trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell on the national radar screen. This, of course, is the horror story of a cesspool in Philadelp ...

A bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Eight has put together a framework for the immigration reform for which America is supposedly waiting. Provisions of the agreement have been widely leaked, and, from what I see, these senators shoul ...

We are now hearing the usual voices of protest in Detroit in the wake of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointing an outside expert to take over financial management of the near-bankrupt city. Detroit is the largest city in American history to be seized ...

As President Obama prepares for his first trip to Israel, I hope when he gets there he sees what I saw. Several weeks ago, I returned from my first trip to Israel. I went with a delegation headed by former Gov. Mike Huckabee, who visits Israel at lea ...

In April 2007, a mentally disturbed student showed up at the campus of his school, Virginia Tech, brandishing two semi-automatic pistols. He murdered 32 students, teachers and school employees and wounded 17 others before taking his own life. It was ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has become the eighth Republican governor to agree to expand Medicaid coverage in his state under the provisions of Obamacare. Is the last line of Republican resistance to Obamacare disintegrating? In 2011, 26 states jo ...