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Hugh Hewitt: The Placebo President Practices Placebo Economics
House Republican Leader John Boehner's call this week for the resignation of Treasury Secretary Geithner and senior White House economics advisor Lawrence Summers was more than a brilliant stroke of political...
Cal Thomas: Lower Expectations
In 2008, "60 Minutes" visited Denmark to report on a survey of international happiness conducted by Leicester University in England that concluded Danes are among the happiest people on Earth. The reason? They have low...
Humberto Fontova: Congressional Black Caucus Still Stuck on Castro
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who also serves as chairperson for the Congressional Black Caucus, has composed an entreaty to President Obama for an end to the "embargo" on Cuba. "Mr. President: Lift the travel ban,"...
Marvin Olasky: How Will We Get Our Kicks?
It's poignant to drive Route 66 southwest from Chicago. As Tom Teague writes in Searching for 66, "At its birth in 1926, this road was hailed as a great agent of progress-concrete ribbon tying the west coast to the rest...
Steve Chapman: Inconvenient Facts About Stem-Cell Research
When he announced his policy expanding federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, President Barack Obama was not timid about proclaiming its benefits. It would, he announced, hasten "a day when words like...
Michael Barone: Redistricting Could Prolong the Democrats' Pain
Every 10 years, it's time for reapportionment and redistricting. The framers of the Constitution created the first regularly scheduled national census and required, for the first time that I am aware, that...
Matt Towery: Come November, Will There Be a Democratic Tree Left in the Forest?
I was among the first pollsters and pundits to float the notion that 2010 could be a reprise of 1994, when Republicans abruptly took control of a U.S. House of Representatives that had seemed irreversibly controlled by...
Jackie Gingrich Cushman: How to Win the Argument -- Thatcher Style
We know we're not happy with our current government. A Rasmussen poll released last week noted that 40 percent of voters are very angry, and 25 percent are somewhat angry "at the current policies of the...
Larry Elder: What About the Stupid Lies Democrats Believe?
Thirty-one percent of Republicans, according to the Pew Research Center, believe that President Barack Obama is a Muslim. And more Republicans, 74 percent, than Democrats, 39 percent, oppose the construction of a mosque...
Brian Walsh: 2010 Race of the Day: Gabby Giffords Grates on Voters
Republican roots have run deep in Arizona for decades, but the wave of 2006 and 2008 swept across the Grand Canyon State, putting Democrats in control of three Republican-leaning House seats. In one of those districts,...
Emmett Tyrrell: The Future for a Radical
WASHINGTON -- They are beginning to die out or, at least, to retire. So long, suckers. Surely the Clintons, Sen. Jean-Francois Kerry, Al Gore and dozens of others who presented themselves as reasonable alternatives to...
Victor Davis Hanson: The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer
Historian Barbara Tuchman characterized the events leading up to World War I as the "Guns of August."
While there is no statistical evidence that wars break out any more often in late summer than in other seasons,...
Maggie Gallagher: A Basic Human Right to Obamacare?
Under President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the United States for the first time joined the U.N.'s Human Rights Council. The U.S. has long steered clear of this council, reluctant to participate in a...
Ben Shapiro: Is Barack Obama a Muslim?
Is Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim?
No.
But there's a reason 24 percent of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim: Obama spends an inordinate amount of time stumping for Islam. Obama's...
Ann Coulter: MSNBC Swears to Allah that Obama's Not a Muslim
MSNBC's Monday programming was dedicated to denouncing Sen. Mitch McConnell's response to a question about whether Obama is a Muslim.
McConnell said: "We all have to rely on the word of (Barack Obama) -- something...
Michael Reagan: Obama Making Everybody Angry
It's almost as if President Obama's agenda includes provoking anger at himself.
And it's not just Republicans he's provoking. It's just about anybody who crosses his path, even his party's deranged left wing....
Marybeth Hicks: And the Winner Is: Sperm Donor
Next year's Academy Awards program ought to have a new category: Best Portrayal of a Sperm Donor. At least, that's the role that's being cast with increasing - and alarming - frequency.
First came the cinematic...
Terry Jeffrey: Why Does Obama Tell Muslims America Is Nation of 'Non-Believers'?
Why has President Barack Obama on at least two occasions told specifically Muslim audiences that America is a nation of -- among other things -- "non-believers"? The Pledge of Allegiance says America is one nation under...
Austin Bay: August 1990 and the War for Modernity
The Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi invasion of Kuwait stunned Washington and the world. Within days, the Bush administration (George H. W. Bush) deployed American military units to thwart further assaults by Saddam...
Jonah Goldberg: Islamophobia? Not Really
Here's a thought: The 70 percent of Americans who oppose what amounts to an Islamic Niketown two blocks from ground zero are the real victims of a climate of hate, and the much-ballyhooed anti-Muslim backlash is...
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