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Marta Mossburg: What O'Malley's 'State of the State' should say

Two leitmotifs of Gov. Martin O'Malley's speeches this year are: Things are not as bad in...

 

Gene Healy: South of the border, the cult of the presidency

You could almost hear a collective groan go up when Barack Obama announced that he planned to...

 

Star Parker: Tebow's ad puts human face on abortion issue

Why are pro-abortion groups so up in arms about the Tim Tebow ad that CBS will run during the...

 

James Carafano: Obama waging unhelpful war against contractors

Waging war requires serious acts as well as sober words. And in that arena, the Obama...

 

Gregory Kane: In education, it's family, not funding

In his State of the Union speech last week, President Obama nobly intoned, "In this country, the...

 

Hugh Hewitt: Communicating conservative values with clarity, brevity, energy and good humor

On the day after President Obama's appearance before them, the House Republicans invited my radio...

 

Move terrorist trials back to military courts

A semblance of common sense is returning -- albeit too slowly -- to the Obama administration's...

 

There was the president's speech, and there is reality

 

Diana West: U.S. in denial on Iran's influence in Iraq

"The real danger in Iraq is Iran. It controls Iraq with a firm fist." So said Iraqi lawmaker Ayad...

 

Timothy P. Carney: Special interests dominate Obama's State of the Union

President Obama, in his State of the Union address, again pledged to "end the outsized influence...

 

David Freddoso: Dems will face harder questions in November

As a Republican nobody's rear end prepared to make its imprint in Ted Kennedy's Senate seat,...

 

Mark Tapscott: Spending votes expose Jekyll and Hyde Senate

OK, let's stipulate for purposes of discussion that President Obama really means it when he says...

 

Cal Thomas: Retreat to advance?

If you live long enough in Washington, you'll learn there is literally nothing new under the sun....

 

Gregory Kane: 'Culturally relevant' education is a contradiction

"Culturally relevant" education would be the "it" in question. I quake in my boots every time I...

 

Meghan Cox Gurdon: Obama has overstrained the body politic

If you work a human body too hard, too quickly, eventually something will pop. It might be a torn...

 

Noemie Emery: Democrats don't own Massachusetts anymore

In 2004, John Kerry was running for president, and, for a while, he seemed to have more than a...

 

Jay Ambrose: Obama's anti-bank demagoguery is irresponsible

Massachusetts' Senate election as much as grabbed President Obama by the lapels, looked him in...

 

Marta Mossburg: Michael Steele flunks his own 12-step program

Recent election results bolster Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's...

 

Cal Thomas: Corporations have rights, but do the unborn?

Among the interesting arguments in last week's 5-4 Supreme Court decision granting corporations...

 

Gene Healy: Tuning out the State of the Union

Tomorrow night, an embattled President Obama will deliver his 2010 State of the Union. He...

 

Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: State of the Union speech pivots to employment reform

News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher. With his health care agenda on the back burner...

 

Barbara Hollingsworth: Moving past the traffic congestion debate

More mass transit or more highways? The solution to the Washington area's legendary traffic...

 

Hugh Hewitt: Will corporate America fight for capitalism, freedom?

Political chain reactions were initiated this past week with consequences that could flow through...

 

Gregory Kane: Is calling Brown "unqualified" racist?

If this doesn't make the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy turn over in his grave, then what will? A...

 

James Carafano: Trade is no substitute for strong defense

"More than trade follows the flag." -- historian John Keegan. Viking marauders ravaged...

 

Diana West: See no evil, hear no evil

“Do you believe in `radical Islam’?” the famous Dutch parliamentarian, Geert...

 

Meghan Cox Gurdon: Now will they listen?

If Keith Olbermann can eat his words, perhaps there's hope for the Democrats even now. And...

 

Star Parker: After Massachusetts, what's next?

Have you ever watched as a dear friend becomes smitten with someone you know is not for them?...

 

Timothy P. Carney: Beware the Goldman Sachs populist

"If these folks want a fight," President Obama said Thursday, tossing a rhetorical barb at Wall...

 

Mark Hemingway: Are the Reagan Democrats back?

As of press time, I have no idea of what the outcome of the Massachusetts Senate race is going to...

 

 
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In response to the attention we gave him for his old column on how Washington has "anemic winters" because of global warming, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells NRO's Robert...

By a vote of 52 to 33, the Obama administration nominee to the National Labor Relations Board, Craig Becker, just failed to get the 60 votes needed for his nomination to proceed...

The highest form of flattery! Robert, declare yourself! (ap photo) Beltway Confidential knows a crush when she sees one. How else to explain the relentless mocking and...

You're beautiful, Chuck Todd. I mean that. (ap photo) On a day when many White House reporters (ahem) stayed away from the White House for snow or early-deadline...






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