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As a former (recovering) professional magician, I’ve seen and perpetrated my share of sleight-of-hand. But I have never seen anything quite like the linguistic and budgetary legerdemain Democrats have performed to make President Obama’s health-care plan appear “affordable.” Congressional Democrats have been forced into such chicanery because of the price …

September 11, 2001 –the sunniest day that felt as long as a year of darkness. A few days later as I gave a eulogy for my friend the fire chaplain, Father Mychal Judge. I looked down at the first pew and I saw former President Bill Clinton wiping away tears. …

The Associated Press reports the following: “A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island’s Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties. Bishop Thomas …

The Gates of Hades are open and the Hounds of Hell let loose. They are raping, torturing and beheading their way through Iraq and Syria, killing everyone who stands in their way – Americans, Christians, even their fellow Muslims. We can’t negotiate with them, or buy them off, or contain …

The race to save the Euro lumbers on. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have done a deal for a new European intergovernmental agreement. It’s not an EU agreement, formally, but that’s the way it will work in practice. Nations will have to vet their budgets with …

Too bad Frank Capra’s not with us anymore. If the great director could make a movie about the last week in politics, it could be called “It’s a Wonderful Country.” Even without Jimmy Stewart’s homespun patriotism, it would be a cornball corker. From the federal courts to the halls of …

Editor’s note: The outrage over an Illinois school administrator’s decision to cancel a girls’ basketball team’s trip to Arizona has attracted nationwide attention. George Fornero, superintendent of District 113 in Illinois, which oversees Highland Park High School, defended the decision by Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson and said it was not …

To read a chapter from “Losing Our Religion” click here. From LOSING OUR RELIGION by S. E. Cupp. Copyright © 2010 by S. E. Cupp. Reprinted by permission of Threshold, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Fox Forum is on Twitter. Follow us @fxnopinion.

September 11, 2001 –the sunniest day that felt as long as a year of darkness. A few days later as I gave a eulogy for my friend the fire chaplain, Father Mychal Judge. I looked down at the first pew and I saw former President Bill Clinton wiping away tears. …

The Associated Press reports the following: “A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island’s Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties. Bishop Thomas …