June 19, 2013

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  • Hugh Hewitt: What part of 'no fence, no deal' does the Senate GOP not get?

    By Hugh Hewitt | 06/09/13 04:55 PM

    "A fence from left to right, from east to west, except obviously the mountainous areas," Charles Krauthammer told me on air in an interview in late April. "We know that fences work," he continued. "If the president tells you fences don't work, ask him why he's got one around the White House."...

  • James Jay Carafano: Keeping military justice just

    By James Carafano | 06/09/13 04:40 PM

    Norm Cota had to make a lot of tough calls. On D-Day, he brought his men across the beach that became known as "Bloody Omaha." Five months later, he led his exhausted division into the devastating battle of the Huertgen Forest. But the most difficult call of his career concerned Pvt. Eddie...

  • Star Parker: Close wealth gap with personal retirement accounts

    By Star Parker | 06/09/13 07:45 AM

    Social Security trustees just issued their annual report and the news is that there is no news. Social Security is on its way over a fiscal cliff - what we hear every year when the report is issued. According to this year's report, Social Security will be insolvent in 2033 - 20 years from now...

  • Obama makes two troubling decisions about his foreign policy team

    By David Limbaugh | 06/06/13 07:50 PM

    Just try to wrap your arms around the magnitude of defiance and chutzpah that led to and accompanied President Obama's appointment of the discredited Susan Rice as national security adviser. But don't let this outrage distract you from his equally disturbing appointment of leftist Samantha Power...

  • Conservatives shouldn't pressure Kathleen Sebelius to put girl on lung transplant list

    By Mona Charen | 06/06/13 07:40 PM

    If I were the parent of a child who might be kept alive -- if only for a few more years -- by a lung transplant, I too would move Heaven and Earth to get it done. That the parents of 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan have made her an Internet and cable news celebrity in a desperate effort to get her...

  • Anthony Weiner's underage girl problem

    By Michelle Malkin | 06/06/13 07:35 PM

    Touchy, touchy. Despite Team Anthony Weiner's best efforts at political rehabilitation, there's just no way to shore up his sorest scandal spot. As the New York Post reported this week, Weiner had a bit of a snit fit when a local Democratic official boldly slammed his sexting habits with...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Canada's Tories show GOP how to win immigrant votes

    By Shikha Dalmia | 06/06/13 03:25 PM

    Democrats' reason for favoring immigration reform is also why Republicans don't: more Hispanic voters. With whites slated to lose their demographic dominance by 2042, the GOP fears that amnesty will hand the Democratic Party and its Big Government agenda an unbeatable electoral coalition into...

  • What happens in the backroom of a sue-and-settle lawsuit?

    By Ron Arnold | 06/06/13 02:55 PM

    Is Big Green running things in President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency? Wake up and smell the corruption. A virulent 2009 sue-and-settle lawsuit, WildEarth Guardians v. Jackson (as in Lisa Jackson, former EPA administrator) is an outrageous sweetheart deal rife with collusion and...

  • Manhattan Moment: Hail Massachusetts health care reform

    By Stephen Eide | 06/06/13 02:20 PM

    As the economic recovery proceeds, evidence continues to mount that state and local governments can't expect to grow their way out of their fiscal problems. Pension and health care costs are still outpacing revenues, crowding out funding for basic services and sending some cities into...

  • David Freddoso: The only thing we have to overreach is overreach itself

    By David Freddoso | 06/06/13 02:00 PM

    "There's one word that best describes the GOP's efforts in May: overreach." Thus read last Friday's memo from Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Michael Czin, citing nine instances of the word cropping up in media reports from the previous week. His memo may have helped spawn a slew...



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