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  • Despite reassurances, surveillance doubts remain

    06/18/13 07:20 PM

    Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday and vigorously defended collection of telephonic metadata. Alexander assured the committee that, despite widespread public worries about the government collecting private...

  • The apology speech Barack Obama will never deliver

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 07:20 PM

    MEMO: Date: June 13, 2013, 5:45 pm To: VJarrett@EOP.WhiteHouse.gov From: POTUS@EOP.WhiteHouse.gov Subject: Proposed draft of nat'l security address Valerie, let me know what you think. I need to get this off of my chest, you know? Barry *** (Applause fades) My fellow Americans, a...

  • Supreme Court set to reveal major ruling

    By Mona Charen | 06/17/13 07:55 PM

    In the weeks before the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the country trembled with anticipation. No such eagerness is evident now -- yet the court is again poised to rattle our world. The case of Fisher v. Texas could upend the system of racial preferences in use...

  • Then what in Syria, Mr. President?

    By Cal Thomas | 06/17/13 06:35 PM

    Two recent newspaper editorials illustrate the double-mindedness some feel about President Obama's decision to provide small arms and ammunition to Syrian rebels. The Washington Post headlined an editorial: "No time for half-measures: Syria's rebels need a robust intervention from the Obama...

  • Syria not yet at war's end

    By James Jay Carafano | 06/17/13 04:25 PM

    "I have said this 38,000 times: ... This tragedy is not something that can be settled from the outside, and it's about damn well time that everybody understood that." — Lawrence Eagleburger, 1992 Then-Secretary of State Eagleburger spoke some hard truths about the Bosnian War. One year into...

  • Star Parker: Traditional values will attract more blacks to GOP

    By Star Parker | 06/16/13 07:35 PM

    Anyone who doubts that the Republican Party can attract black voters need only look south to Louisiana. During @Large -- a conference in Baton Rouge in May aimed at attracting black conservatives -- a black Democrat in the Louisiana Legislature, Elbert Guillory, announced that he was switching...

  • Sen. Charles Schumer's choice: Immigration reform or a campaign issue

    By Hugh Hewitt | 06/16/13 06:20 PM

    Immigration reform, including the regularization of the nation's 11 million-plus illegal immigrants, appeals to a large slice of the conservative movement -- if it is accompanied by genuine border security, specifically a very long, very strong border fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Sen....

  • Somebody owes the Heritage Foundation an apology

    By Conn Carroll | 06/16/13 06:20 PM

    Disagreements happen all the time in Congress. It is a natural part of any democracy. But what doesn't happen all the time is a sitting senator essentially calling a witness a liar. And that is exactly what Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., did to Heritage Foundation scholar Dr. Salim Furth...

  • Gregory Kane: Nothing says NBA must be all-black

    By Gregory Kane | 06/16/13 04:30 PM

    By the time this column runs on June 17, the National Basketball Association championship series will be almost over. So what better time to reflect on what might have been the oddest NBA story of the 2012-2013 season: the Minnesota Timberwolves having the whitest team in the league. During...

  • Memo to network news execs: Ailes is what's good for you

    By Cal Thomas | 06/14/13 02:40 PM

    The Bradley Foundation, a private, independent grant-making organization based in Milwaukee, recently handed out its annual Bradley Prize to four men who have, in the words of the organization's mission statement, "(preserved and defended) the tradition of free representative government and...


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