Sean Higgins

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, is set to have his nomination as secretary of labor voted on by a Senate committee Thursday. One question the senators might want to ask before they vote: Why is Perez ignoring a congressional subpoena? Last month, Republicans led by...

Noemie Emery

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

How much does former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wish she were still in the Senate? Don't ask. If she had only said "no" back when, she would now be beginning her third term in the Senate, an institutional fixture respected by many, able to say and to do what she wants. She wouldn't...

Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Energy companies in Pennsylvania have been extracting natural gas through hydro-fracturing ("fracking"), but a state moratorium in place since 2010 has prohibited companies from doing the same thing in New York. Later this year, New York's state government will decide whether it will permit...

Gene Healy

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

President Obama has a sharp comedic delivery for a politician, but sometimes you wish he'd joke a little less about abuses of federal power. He, er, slayed them in the aisles at the 2010 White House Correspondents' Dinner, warning the Jonas Brothers to steer clear of his daughters: "Two words...

Cal Thomas

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

In his defense of President Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon's spokesman. Carney only has to use the word "inoperative," as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that proved his previous statements untrue....

Gregory Kane

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Baseball great Jackie Robinson being subjected to a political litmus test of racial loyalty? Apparently that's the case. Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947, was black, Republican and somewhat conservative. That's more than some blacks today can bear. One...

Hugh Hewitt

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior staff conducted a conference call with Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Libya, in the early morning hours of Sept. 12, 2012. Hicks was overseeing a chaotic scene in Tripoli, where his staff was busy destroying classified...

James Carafano

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

They pitched their tents in orderly, military fashion. All was quiet on the windswept plain, except for the sharp bark of guard dogs. But the sign tacked in front of the tents sent tremors through capitals around the world. It read, simply: "You are on Chinese Side." That changed last week....

Star Parker

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

Put me down as happy to see former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford coming back to Washington. He just handily defeated Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election for a House seat he himself once held. I hope he brings his piglets with him. While governor, Sanford once showed up at the...

Shikha Dalmia

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

Those who deny that germs cause disease shouldn't call their opponents anti-science. But that's exactly what HBO comedian and germ-theory-denier Bill Maher routinely calls Republicans to hearty applause. The core trait of a scientific mind is that when its commitments clash with evidence,...