Conn Carroll

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

After President Obama captured the White House in 2008, the top-selling conservative books about him basically fell into two categories: 1) unflattering explanations of how America was tricked into voting for this man (like David Horowitz's "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky...

Star Parker

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

Some 25 years ago, I changed my life. A visit inside a church opened my eyes to the destructive life I was living, financed by welfare checks generously provided by American taxpayers. I got off welfare, went to work, got politically active and became a Republican. I didn't become a Republican...

John E. Linder

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

Last week during the House Committee on Ways and Means hearing on the IRS abuses, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, asked, "Is this still America?" Brady summarized the experience one of his constituents had with the IRS. Other than voting, she had never had any real involvement with her government....

David Limbaugh

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

A sagacious Bible scholar told me how important it was for the Israelites to look back and remember what God had done for them in the past because it gave them the strength to persevere through difficult times. Sometimes we need to look back, too, and remember what we have to be grateful for...

Mona Charen

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

If you Google "George W. Bush shredding the constitution," you will get many millions of hits. The New York Times railed, "Ever since 9/11, we have watched Republican lawmakers help Mr. Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism." President Bush attempted to listen in on the...

Shikha Dalmia

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

President Obama is dealing with revelations about the Justice Department's spying on journalists and other scandals by changing the subject. In a major national security address Thursday, he announced the phaseout of the Guantanamo prison facility and the CIA's oversight of the drone program....

Ron Arnold

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Good news is no news, so the cynics say, especially with news cycles hammering President Obama's scandal headaches from migraines into political skull fractures. But this week something came out of the federal bureaucracy so filled with human decency that it deserves some kind of a headline --...

David Freddoso

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

White House press secretary Jay Carney could only explain his problems on Wednesday by telling reporters, "[T]here are a lot of you, and you're good at your jobs and you're smart." As easy as it might be for Carney to lob such insincere praise at former journalistic colleagues, such posterior...

Philip Klein

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

It's an open question whether President Obama's approval rating will remain unaffected by the scandals currently engulfing his administration. But no matter how Obama himself makes out, the scandals are setbacks for the central goal of his presidency -- to restore Americans' faith in the ability...

Sean Higgins

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are set to vote this morning on a full slate of five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board. It will likely okay all five, who will then go into the legislative limbo that is the full Senate. There are plenty of...