Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013

Authorities: Hofstra University student killed in home invasion was fatally shot by police MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Hofstra University student being held at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home,...

Updated: 5 hr ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain. The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at...

Michael Barone

Updated: 8 hr ago

Noemie Emery has an excellent article in the latest Weekly Standard on the case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion provider who has been sentenced to life in prison on three counts of murder. She raises the issue of whether the spotlight on this late-term abortionist–a spotlight shined only...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

Despite all the White House scandals this week, President Obama is more concerned about a Buzzfeed article listing things that will make you feel old. This spoof video was put together by Jimmy Fallon and the ‘Late Night’ show crew.

Michael Barone

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days. The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand...

Steve Contorno

Updated: 23 hr ago

RICHMOND, Va. – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal traveled to Virginia Friday to bolster the gubernatorial campaign of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and to introduce himself to voters in what is likely to be a critical swing state in the 2016 presidential election. Jindal was the keynote speaker...

Conn Carroll

Yesterday

After one full week of votes in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is now clear that no major changes will be made to the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill before it reaches the Senate floor. The fix is in. The Republicans members of the Gang of Eight on the Judiciary Committee, Sens. Lindsey...

Charlie Spiering

Yesterday

Speaking at Ellicott Dredges’ factory in Baltimore this afternoon, President Obama joked that he couldn’t wait to have a dredge named after him. After taking a tour of the factory, Obama explained that a customer of the factory once named a dredge after former President Bill Clinton....

Sean Higgins

Yesterday

  Deirdre McCloskey, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is set to be honored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a leading Washington, D.C., free market/libertarian think tank, with its annual Julian Simon Award at a major dinner event in June. CEI...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Fri, May 17, 2013

During the House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock R-Ill. grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a group in Iowa. “Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to the Coalition for Life for Iowa ‘Please detail the content of the...