It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

With the Arab Spring, came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation, and opportunity for greater participation on the part of women in public life, and in economic life in the Middle East. But instead, we've seen in nation after nation, a number of disturbing events.

Those who have come to the United States illegally should not be given amnesty or an easier path to citizenship over those already in line.

Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.