As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.