It is a well-known axiom of presidential politics that when things aren't going well at home, chief executives go abroad.

President Obama's job approval polls are declining, proving Abraham Lincoln's admonition that you can't fool all the people all the time.

The president and his top intelligence advisers are sitting on a major breach of national security, but they have yet to explain how this happened and what they're doing to make sure it can't happen again.

Efforts at creating jobs in this economy have become far less important for the administration than winning messaging wars and riding out the scandals that threaten to engulf the Obama presidency.

President Obama is being hit by new scandals almost weekly in a growing web of investigations and revelations that have further damaged his troubled administration.

Over the long, hard course of Barack Obama's painfully slow, job-scarce, sub-par economy, he may have set a record for persistent media reports that his shaky recovery was finally showing signs of strength.

President Obama's proposed policy changes on the use of drones to kill key terrorist leaders has raised more questions than it has answered.

WASHINGTON - Five months into his improvisational second term, a sluggish economy and severe jobless rate seem to have vanished from President Obama's agenda.

It should be clear by now that the Obama White House has been engaged in another coverup that cries out for the enactment of a special prosecutor. The sooner the better.

Barack Obama's second term may be remembered more for his scandals than for anything else he's done thus far in his troubled presidency.

Barack Obama's second term may be remembered more for his scandals than for anything else he's done thus far in his troubled presidency.

The widening web of lies, deception and abuse of power in the IRS's outrageous targeting of conservative groups in the 2012 election cycle may be just the tip of the iceberg.

When President Obama tries to make the case that his policies have improved life in America, he isn't talking about his hometown of Chicago.

There has been a disturbing increase in America's suicide rate, and our job-scarce economy may be one of the reasons why.

The 2014 election battle for control of the Senate will affect just about everything it does this year and next, because it could take just a handful of upsets to put the Republicans back in charge.

It's not premature now to say that President Obama's second-term agenda is adrift. That is, if he ever really had a well-thought-out agenda to begin with.

President Obama is clearly playing a nasty political game with the air traffic controller furloughs that have forced severe airline delays across the country.

The deadly bombing in Boston and the wave of terror plots in the United States since 9/11 lead inexorably to three conclusions: The terrorist threat is growing; al-Qaida has not been decimated, as President Obama told us in his 2012 campaign; and there are gaps in our security system that need to be repaired.

The national news media have been in hyper-drive since President Obama's inauguration, trying to convince us that the U.S. economy is getting stronger.

The bombing at the Boston Marathon, the first large-scale attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, was clearly another terrorist attack. So why wasn't it labeled as such by President Obama in his first public remarks from the White House?