Dec 22, 2009 By Monte Kuligowski Everyone has gotten the memo by this point: Do not question Barack Obama. Even conservatives have been warned by other conservatives about mentioning the secrecy issue: It’s pointless and can only harm conservatism. Recently, Rusty Humphries broke the rule and asked Sarah Palin if she would make the “birth [...]

Posted 12/21/2009 08:13 PM ET Health Care: Democrats on the take and in the dead of night pass an execrable piece of legislation that they haven’t read, the public doesn’t want and only socialists could love. What has happened to this country? If we hadn’t stayed up past midnight Sunday, we wouldn’t have known what [...]

Obamacare could make lawsuit abuse much worse Dec 22, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES A new report on “Judicial Hellholes” arrives just in time, albeit indirectly, to remind Congress that no health-system changes can qualify as real “reform” if they don’t include serious lawsuit reforms as well. The annual report by the American Tort Reform [...]

Ben Nelson sold his soul so government can fund abortion on demand Dec 22, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES So much for Sen. Ben Nelson’s “line in the sand” against government funding for abortion. “I don’t ordinarily draw a line in the sand, but I have drawn a line in the sand,” the Nebraska Democrat [...]

Unwanted projects included Dec 22, 2009 By Stephen Dinan President Obama won most of his spending fights with Congress over the Defense Department this year, but it cost several billion dollars of taxpayers’ money to buy legislative peace. The $636 billion defense spending bill that Mr. Obama signed into law Monday fully funds his plans [...]

  By Dana Milbank Tuesday, December 22, 2009   Formally, it is known as H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But this week, it has acquired an unhelpful nickname: “Cash for Cloture.” As Senate Democrats finally complete their health-care legislation, those combing through the bill have uncovered many backroom deals that were [...]

  By George F. Will Tuesday, December 22, 2009   It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former’s accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter’s was unsightly. It would have been unprecedented had the president not described the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change summit as “unprecedented,” that being the most [...]

  By Peter Whoriskey Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 22, 2009   The recession’s jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks. The shortfalls are putting pressure on [...]

By ROGER COHEN   Published: December 21, 2009 A sentence I wrote earlier this month has provoked much criticism: “I still believe the greatest strength of America, its core advantage over the old world, is its lack of interest in where you’re from and consuming interest in what you can do.” Wrong, I was told [...]

Dec 21, 2009 By Phil Kerpen FOXNews.com   The “manager’s amendment” which passed in the Senate in the wee hours on Monday morning is an example of corrupt, pay-for-play politics at its worst. In the dead of night at 1:17 a.m. the Senate invoked cloture on the “manager’s amendment” to the Reid health care takeover [...]