Voters should absolutely know that a future president has the instincts to react to real-life and unrehearsed situations.
John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.
Every once in a while, brave companies step out and act in ways that move customers and shareholders to also act in good faith.
Consistent conservatives believe people should keep more of the money they work so hard to earn - not because the vulnerable don't deserve assistance, but because individuals can and will make better and more effective financial and charitable choices with their money than government bureaucrats.
China understands economics more than most countries and is usually moved to increase freedoms when the yuan is directly involved.
Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.
Hillary Clinton's Russian re-set policy gave Moscow permission to go from privately challenging U.S. foreign policy to publicly moving military hardware into Syria to prop up Bashar al-Assad and annexing Crimea from Ukraine. And Donald Trump seems to support the idea that Putin will be Putin. It's enough to leave America's allies confused.
No American ambassador has produced more Security Council Resolutions on the issue of Iran than John Bolton.
No one really disagrees that all of humanity has a responsibility to protect fellow citizens in a time of need.
What is needed to pass gay marriage is not a Democratic majority - this past year has proven that to be true - but politicians and judges comfortable enough to ignore what the majority of the voters want and do what is uncomfortable, unpopular - and morally right.
Without American leadership at the U.N., countries just continue to talk and socialize and spend taxpayer dollars.
Cancer taught my family that my mom is much stronger than we ever thought. Faced with a devastating diagnosis, she just kept going and living - never complaining.
When foreigners struggle for their freedoms, they've long expected the U.S. government to be the first to stand with them.