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In what a Washington Post columnist describes as a rout of Rand Paul isolationism, the Senate just voted overwhelmingly to send another $1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt.

Why are so many people so desperate to hold onto the idea that America is as racist as it has ever been?The phenomenon is apparent in much of the commentary on the George Zimmerman case.

WASHINGTON -- A combination of early presidential maneuvering and internal policy debate is feeding yet another iteration of that media perennial: the great Republican crackup. This time it's tea party insurgents versus get-along establishment fogies fighting principally over two things: (a) national security and (b) Obamacare.

After a long three-year gap since their last exclusive sit-down interview with President Obama, you might think The New York Times would be ready to ask tough questions on the most contentious issues of the day, beginning with the deepening Obama scandals.

DETROIT -- In 1860, an uneasy Charles Darwin confided in a letter to a friend: "I had no intention to write atheistically" but "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars."

In his second term, Richard Nixon had Watergate, but also the rescue of Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

Is anyone else confused about the new standard of sexual propriety in the post-Clinton impeachment world? So much of what seemed to have been settled has been thrown into disarray this week.

We have a president who loves to give campaign speeches to adoring crowds, but who doesn't seem to have much interest in governing.