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It will be a long goodbye. Robert Gates confirmed today that he intends to leave his post as Secretary of Defense – at the end of 2011. That is no surprise. The only Bush hold-over in the Obama Cabinet, Gates always vowed to quit before the end of President Obama’s …

Social networking used to mean pouring yourself into a cocktail or three in some setting that looked like it came straight out of “Mad Men.” Now virtually everyone seems to interact online – or everyone online seems to interact virtually. Our whole lives can be lived online – shopping, working, …

President Obama recently warned that the current high unemployment could be “a new normal” in the United States. If his administration doesn’t change course on policies, he may be right. Myriad policy options—from deregulating and cutting taxes to slashing the size of the federal government—remain untried. Add to that mix …

This will not stand. No one should be confused about the outcome of Sunday’s vote. This is not the end of the fight it is the beginning of the fight. The American people spoke decisively against a big government, high tax, Washington knows best, pro-trial lawyer centralized bureaucratic health system. …

Another page of history was added to the bizarre fascination CBS News has with criticizing former Republican vice-presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Sunday night during the network’s “60 Minutes” broadcast. CNN’s Anderson Cooper, acting as a special correspondent for “60 Minutes,” delivered the latest in his occasional …

Break out the bipartisanship. President Obama is ready for another summit. This time he’s invited Republicans to the table later this month to discuss potential compromises on health care reform amid widespread complaints that efforts so far by him, and his Democratic allies in Congress, have been too one sided …

Editor’s note: Fox Forum is pleased to bring you the introduction to Judge Napolitano’s new book, “Lies the Government Told You.” Introduction During the 1980 presidential campaign, a joke made the rounds in the Reagan camp. George Washington, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter die and go to Heaven. In a …

Wednesday in Geneva during the current session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Obama administration became a willing participant in the U.N.’s imposition of an apartheid-style ban on representatives of the state of Israel. Despite the promises made by the administration that by joining the Council the United States …

President Obama, with his speech on Thursday, seems to have heard and acted on some of the criticism of his controversial February budget proposal for NASA. He had proposed then to shift the nation’s astronaut access to orbit to commercial rockets and spacecraft, and cancelled NASA’s Constellation program to return …

Two-and-a-half years into the Nixon presidency, White House Special Counsel Chuck Colson compiled a twenty person “enemies list”. The Colson list included then-CBS reporter Daniel Schorr and the late columnist Mary McGrory. It looks like the Obama administration is off to a head start. Not even having completed a year …