If a candidate’s tenure as governor is his road-test for the presidency, Governor Chris Christie just flunked. As a candidate for governor, Christie talked the talk on judges, vowing to “remake” the New Jersey Supreme Court and to transform the most activist court in the nation into one that operates …

I got my first lesson on the subject of climate change more than 10 years ago. My tutor was an internationally famous climate scientist at a major Ivy League university. Unlike most lectures I have heard from professors, this one was brief, to the point and extremely enlightening. At the …

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gets around. She runs a multi-billion dollar company; she gives high profile speaking engagements; and now she’s a first-time author. Her new book, “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” is a spin-off of Sandberg’s infamous TED talk, where she encouraged women to put …

It was a movement that rocked the political landscape, changing forever the way we looked at our nation. Am I talking about the anti-war movement in the Sixties? Nope. The peaceful Tea Party rallies? Nada. The march for sequential hermaphrodite rights? You’re close, but no. I speak of the “Coffee …

I want to have a series of conversations with you tonight and I come to you trying to figure out what’s going on. I’m a real stickler on things like consistency. Things have to be consistent. I mean, you either have principles or you don’t. Principles. Principles. Base everything on …

As activists from groups as wide-ranging as the Girl Scouts and the World Council on Churches converge on the climate change conference in Copenhagen, some critics say it’s turning into a “circus” sideshow, with 20,000 attendees creating an international echo chamber of climate piety. Apart from the main proceedings, there …

In your family and circle of friends you no doubt know someone who’s germaphobic. I bet you’ve also got a buddy or cousin who’s forgetful, another who’s anxious, yet another who’s careless, and at least one with a lousy sense of direction. For better or worse, all of these people …

A quick trip around Hannity’s America… Counting Illegals The 2010 Census is fast approaching and it’s stirring up a great deal of controversy. An op-ed in The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out that the Census will count illegal immigrants currently living in the United States. Experts say that this …

A 17-year-old girl who fled to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity will almost certainly be forced to return home to Ohio, experts say, despite her fears that she will become the victim of an honor killing for abandoning her parents’ faith. Rifqa Bary, who hitchhiked to an Ohio …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: Urgent Letter to U.NEleven House Democrats, led by Texas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, have sent an — “urgent” letter to the U.N., insisting that its Electoral Assistance Division — which has supervised elections in such countries as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Liberia and Jamaica — should …