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By the time this article will be read, a new resident will occupy the White House.  Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States.  For former President Barack Obama, the main effort in the years to come will be to secure his legacy.  In domestic affairs, Obamacare will remain the overriding achievement of the administration.  Whether the Republicans will replace it, alter it, or keep most of it in tact, remains to be seen.  What is clearly visible however, is the mess and mayhem that is today’s Middle East.  It is in the Middle East that the...

John Brennan, the CIA director, told a Senate committee Tuesday that the violence and instability in the Middle East was the worst it had been in 50 years, painting a dire picture of a region he said was facing "unprecedented" bloodshed. Brennan spoke at the Senate Intelligence Committee's annual worldwide-threats hearing, emphasizing the threats the US faces as the Middle East devolves further into chaos. "The Middle East right now I think is racked by more instability and violence and inter-state conflict than we've seen certainly in the past 50 years," Brennan said. "And the amount of bloodshed and humanitarian...

By Howard Kurtz August 22, 2014 FoxNews.com President Obama has few remaining friends—either in his own party or in the media. That’s the unmistakable conclusion of two pieces this week in the New York Times. Just about everyone, it seems, is down on his single, solitary nature. I’ve been saying for a year now that the president’s liberal media allies have soured on him. It started with the ObamaCare debacle and continued through his seeming passivity or slow reaction time in the wake of the VA scandal, the Bowe Bergdahl mess, the military collapse in Iraq and so on. At...

Muslim and Israelis have found common ground in one area, neither of them rate Barack Obama very highly.

Has he said a word about this? Does he have a secret plan that will be enacted on January 20?