January 27, 2010   by Jillian Bandes Being a centrist Democrat in Congress these days is awfully hard. Especially if you’re Blanche Lincoln. Lincoln has been fighting off rumors that she’s dropping out of the Arkansas Senate race, a key Republican battleground in the November mid-term elections. The state has elected a Republican to the [...]

January 26, 2010   by Michael McBride Where to start? The President has a bullet proof majority in the Senate. He has a reasonable majority in the house. He was swept into the White House with all the force of a Pacific tsunami. The Republicans were collapsing faster than a Las Vegas hotel implosion, and [...]

January 27, 2010   by Brion McClanahan With the ongoing debate over Obamacare and socialized medicine occupying much of the collective attention of the American public the past few months, Americans have become more familiar and focused on Senate rules and procedures, particularly the possibility of a Senate filibuster to stifle a vote on national [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Wednesday, January 27, 2010 It is always dangerous to mistake your ideological preferences for shrewd political strategy, but that is precisely what President Obama and his advisors have done with the war on terror. On the right, the prevailing critique of the president’s approach to the war on terror is [...]

By Michael Gerson (Archive) · Wednesday, January 27, 2010 WASHINGTON — One of the kinder explanations for President Obama’s failed first year is that his agenda was just too darned ambitious. Like Bill Clinton on health reform and George W. Bush on Social Security restructuring, Obama found that, in columnist Ron Brownstein’s words, “big legislative [...]

By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Wednesday, January 27, 2010 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” –First [...]

January 27, 2010 Ed Lasky Barack Obama will propose major increases in funding for education in his State of The union speech tonight, according to reports. Federal education spending will be set to rise by at least 6.2 percent, with much of the funds flowing to elementary and secondary education but also will include boosts [...]

January 27, 2010 Jason Abston According to various polls, many educators at all levels consider themselves to be liberal. This political ideology often makes its way into the classroom.While some liberal educators do a good job at educating students, it is unfortunate that others are more interested in promoting their political views. Various news stories [...]

Posted 01/26/2010 07:10 PM ET Energy: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Monday that his agency would look into drilling for oil in the Atlantic soon. It sounds good. But a glimpse at the strategy suggests Salazar’s real aim is to block drilling. Ordinarily, even a little motion from federal bureaucrats to open America’s offshore to [...]

By THOMAS MCARDLEPosted 01/26/2010 06:54 PM ET A full year into his presidency we suddenly discover what it takes to get Barack Obama all worked up. Not terrorism. In the president’s estimation, a near repeat of the Lockerbie bombing Christmas Day wasn’t worth remarking on until three days later. Not the risk of a fiscal [...]