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Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: Obama says jobs summit won't hike deficit

News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher. As he left for a weeklong trip to Asia,...

 

Meghan Cox Gurdon: The Wall separates Reagan from Obama

If you knew nothing more of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama than what each man said about freedom...

 

David Freddoso: All fun and budget games, until you lose an election

Imagine that you are back at the height of the housing boom, and a banker makes you an offer: You...

 

Gregory Kane: Where was Fort Hood's security?

After the assorted forces of the FBI, the House Intelligence Committee, and the Department of...

 

Mark Tapscott: No, term limits is not a fool's errand

Somewhere in the liberal print and broadcast media today very important people are using the...

 

Timothy P. Carney: Pfizer deserts its monument to corporate welfare

Susette Kelo's little, pink house in New London, Conn. -- like the houses of all her neighbors --...

 

Marta Mossburg: Pro-choice legislators or thugs?

A few weeks ago President Obama and members of his administration started a war against Fox News....

 

Barbara Hollingsworth: Importing teachers in the District of Columbia

District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is in hot water for firing 266 teachers and...

 

Gene Healy: Obama's arrogance of power

Last year's financial meltdown rightfully destroyed former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan...

 

Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: Journalists raise funds for troubled Fort Hood shooter

News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher. Journalists across the nation, moved by the...

 

Hugh Hewitt: Spotlight Obamacare's 20 Dems for 2010

Memo for Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Congressional...

 

James Carafano: James Jay Carafano: Abandoning the study of military history

General George S. Patton cried. It's true.His son saw it. Major General George S. Patton, the...

 

Star Parker: Star Parker: Challenges for a Republican renaissance

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele and the New York Yankees can look back on a...

 

Gregory Kane: Gregory Kane: Justice Thomas deserves civility, too

George E. Curry is absolutely right: I did make a boo-boo in my column about Rush Limbaugh's...

 

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Newt Gingrich: Berlin Wall is worth remembering

Some consider President Obama's refusal to attend the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of...

 

Diana West: Afghan debate steps forward in UK

Finally, some transparency from the Obama White House. I refer to see-through efforts to affect...

 

Timothy P. Carney: McDonnell should let the market, not developers, guide transportation policy

Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell's transportation plan reflects some constructive original...

 

Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: Obama plans joint library with Bush

News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher. As President Obama marked the one-year...

 

Meghan Cox Gurdon: What a child could teach Democrats

We cut our candy tax in the suburbs this Halloween, and productivity shot up. In past years, in...

 

David Freddoso: Obama's ideas are losers for other Dems

When the White House spin-doctors say President Obama did not lose in this week's elections, they...

 

Gregory Kane: Justice for John Allen Muhammad

Kill him next week or kill him some time thereafter, but John Allen Muhammad has to die, no...

 

Noemie Emery: Death of the salesmen in NY 23

Can they pick them, or not? Boy, those 11 county chairmen who picked Assemblywoman Dede...

 

Jay Ambrose: Illegal immigration cannot be long ignored

It's a heartwarming story, it comes from The New York Times and it tells of how lax enforcement...

 

Gene Healy: Three cheers for divided government

This election day, the punditocracy is closely watching the off-year contests, thinking they...

 

Barbara Hollingsworth: More than a year late and $15 billion short

Now he tells us. Walter Alcorn, vice chairman of Fairfax County's Planning Commission, finally...

 

Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: Obama marks election anniversary with sabbatical

News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher. President Obama marked the one-year...

 

Marta Mossburg: Maryland should fear Bob McDonnell

Best thing that could happen to Maryland in the Virginia governor's race would be for Democrat...

 

Featherbedding stimulus job numbers

When Vice President Biden greeted a group of labor leaders two weeks after President Obama took...

 

Diana West: To remain free, we are also Danes

Pakistani jihad death squads were much in the news this week. In Peshawar, Pakistan, they bombed...

 

 
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