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The news that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is to be tried for desertion casts the 2014 prisoner swap in a new light. President Barack Obama traded five senior Taliban leaders, who had been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, for Bergdahl--and did so without giving Congress 30 days' advance notice. In doing so, the Obama administration broke the law, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. That violation was not just a crime, but also, in context, a high crime.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali should be the perfect feminist hero. Viewed from a certain level of abstraction, it is hard to imagine one person who fits the role on so many levels: She’s an escapee — literally — from an abusive patriarchy. She’s an African immigrant who made her own way in a Western country, the Netherlands, starting from...

Q&A with National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke about his controversial new book.

A federal watchdog on Thursday faulted the Drug Enforcement Administration over allegations that agents attended sex parties with prostitutes while stationed overseas on government-leased property.

Gov. Walker's spokesperson Kirsten Kukowski says a Wall Street Journal report that the governor shifted his stance on amnesty is wrong.

On February 12, the Pentagon quietly declassified a top-secret 386-page Department of Defense document from 1987 detailing Israel's nuclear program – the first time Israel’s alleged nuclear program has ever been officially and publically referenced by the U.S. authorities. In the declassified document, the Pentagon reveals supposed details about Israel’s deterrence capabilities, but it kept sections on France, Germany, and Italy classified. Those sections are blacked out in the document.

Bowe Bergdahl and Our Leaders' Lost Honor -

Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES I am, for the most part, a partisan hack. Accordingly, the last two months have been difficult because in an ideal world I would spend all or almost all my time criticizing Democrats. However, Republicans have failed so spectacularly and repeatedly since taking over control of Congress that it’s difficult to find the time and energy. The latest of | Read More »

The ground has truly shifted when a policeman actually says it's perfectly reasonable for a rape victim to just do nothing, or to let educational officials handle one of the most serious of crimes facing society today, Neil Macdonald writes.

As he pulls together his expected presidential campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire, Rand Paul is confronted by defections from an unexpected quarter: the die-hard idealists whose energy powered his father’s campaigns. That network of committed supporters was expected to convey to Rand Paul, the natural successor to Ron Paul’s libertarian...

The 2016 Republican nomination contest spilled onto the Senate floor Thursday, turning a marathon budget debate into a battle over which candidate is prepared to lead the country at a time of war. Four GOP senators are trying to gain the upper hand on the commander-in-chief test — Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham — and...

Leaving wealth in the hands of the wealthy, an author argues, is the best way to benefit all Americans.

Children climbed on to armoured vehicles while troops stopped to pose for pictures in the main square of the Polish town of Bialystok as a U.S. convoy passed through after a NATO exercise.

MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC: So should we dial back on the words that [Yemen] is a success story, when you have the president fleeing on a boat? JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN: Mmm. Hmm. You need to separate out two things here. The measure of U.S. policy should not be graded against the success or the stability of the Yemeni government, that is a separate enterprise. The goal of U.S. policy towards Yemen has never been to try to build a Jeffersonian democracy there. The goal of U.S. policy in Yemen is to make sure that Yemen can not be a safe haven that extremists can use to attack the West and the U.S. That involves trying to build up the capacity of the government to help us in this fight. There is no doubt we would prefer a situation where there is a stable government where there was a place where U.S. personnel could operate in Yemen coordinating directly with Yemeni security forces to take the fight to these extremists.

To be so "pro-life," anti-choicers sure do love them some violence, don't they?

A senior House Democrat has once again issued an apocalyptic warning that climate change will hit women harder than men, and that it could drive millions of poor women to engage in "transactional sex" in order to provide food and water for their families. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)...

Iran is refusing to commit to a written nuclear deal ahead of the March 31 deadline that American officials had touted for a general framework to be signed, the New York Times reports.

Do you work in the media and have the gall to think that the entire Webster's dictionary is at your disposal? Think again, you sexist. When it comes to reporting on Hillary Clinton, George Carlin's

In an unprecedented move, our Muslim president and his administration declassified a top-secret document from 1987 that gives secret details on Israel's nuclear weapon's program, something Israel h...

It's the "the world’s first and only gay object." Meet the Gay Sweater, an apparel item knitted from the hairs of more than 100 LGBT kids. The sweater was created by the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity and was intended to raise awareness of LGBT issues and warn against using the word "gay" as a slur.

Members of the Scientific Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) recently criticized the Royal Society’s positions on climate.

The Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap was because of President Obama's lack of experience, according to Scott Walker. The Governor of Wisconsin and likely 2016 Republican presidential hopeful said the prisoner swap that freed five Taliban prisoners frustrated him. The unfortunate reality is this is what happens when you put someone in office who's never led before, Walker told Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday night — hours after Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. This president, unfortunately, having been a senator, a state senator, a community organizer, never led anything, and so he's never been in a position to make those sorts of judgments. Bergdahl, who was released last May after being held captive in Afghanistan since 2009 in exchange for five Taliban members being held in Guantanamo Bay, could get life in prison.

A GAO report confirms Planned Parenthood and other groups are using taxpayer funds to advocate for abortions as “reproductive health care.”

Tehran can’t be trusted on a nuclear deal. Force is the only option.