Sept 23, 2009 By Ed Rollins CNN Senior Political Contributor Editor’s note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He was White House political director for President Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. [...]

Sept 22, 2009 By Charles Cooper After taking on the likes of Jim DeMint and John Boehner over everything from billion dollar bailouts to health care reform, how hard could it be for President Obama to sweet talk foreign leaders like Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu or Dmitry Medvedev of Russia? Answer: Harder than it seemed only [...]

  By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 23, 2009 To Bob Woodward, it was the modern-day equivalent of the Pentagon Papers. But to Obama administration officials, the classified assessment of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, if disclosed by The Washington Post, represented a potential threat to the safety of U.S. troops. The [...]

Sept 23. 2009 Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said the US government was wasting taxpayers’ money and could aggravate poverty, said delegates at her first speech outside North America on Wednesday. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, gave hundreds of financial big-hitters at the CLSA Investors’ Forum in Hong Kong a wide-ranging speech that [...]

Sept 22, 2009 By ERICA WERNER (AP) – 14 hours ago WASHINGTON — Congress’ chief budget officer is contradicting President Barack Obama’s oft-stated claim that seniors wouldn’t see their Medicare benefits cut under a health care overhaul. The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, told senators Tuesday that seniors in Medicare’s managed [...]

September 22, 2009   by Pat Buchanan In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia’s former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by Russia but not the West. The Turkish captain was sentenced to 24 years. When Ankara protested, he was released. Abkhazia has now [...]

September 22, 2009   by Chuck Norris Sept. 12 was an amazing day, as thousands marched on Washington seeking to unite Americans and make a stand against tyranny and oppression. At the same time, the Tea Party Express escorted a number of patriots to the U.S. Capitol to culminate its cross-country rallies. But what’s next? [...]

Sept 22, 2009 By Cal Thomas When I was a kid, there was a bully in our neighborhood. He never picked on kids his own size and certainly not on anyone larger. Rather, he punched, pushed and kicked kids smaller and weaker than himself, especially those who refused to respond to his threats. Stirred by [...]

Sept 22, 2009 By Paul Greenberg For those who like their fashions retro, these are the good old days — all over again. Especially if you liked the look of the 1930s. Fashion doesn’t apply just to clothes but to ideas, including those about foreign policy. And now appeasement is in again. Naturally, it’s called [...]

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 By Matt Cover (CNSNews.com) - In his Sept. 9 speech to Congress, President Barack Obama unveiled a new claim that 30 million Americans “cannot” get health insurance, but this statistic is not supported by the government’s latest definitive data produced by the Census Bureau on Americans lacking health insurance. In his speech to Congress, Obama said, [...]