January 30, 2010   by Bill O’Reilly Watch out. America is moving to the right, and it’s happening fast. The vote in Massachusetts was an ideological earthquake whose tremors are still being felt all over the country. When a big-government guy like President Obama takes to the lectern to announce he wants to freeze some [...]

January 29, 2010   by Rich Galen An article in the Washington Post over the weekend quoted a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan as saying: There is always . . . [an] attempt by everybody to get into the State of the Union; every little crappy agency wants their stuff, their agenda, included. Add to that [...]

By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Saturday, January 30, 2010 Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is better than a stopped clock: He’s right more than twice a day. But even as a thoughtful liberal, he bears the burden of knowing many things that are not so. Ten years ago, he wrote a painfully honest column on [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Saturday, January 30, 2010 I watched the State of the Union address and all I could think of was how lucky I was that I had never been elected to Congress. I lost count of how many times during the interminable hour and a half, I would have been shouting [...]

By Peggy Noonan (Archive) · Saturday, January 30, 2010 When you watch a president give a State of the Union Address on television, you’re always watching three people: the president at the podium, and the vice president and House speaker on the rise behind him. As a TV shot it’s awkward. The vice president and [...]

Jan 29, 2010 By Clarice Feldman One of the oft remarked upon ironies of Obama’s untoward attack on the Supreme Court ruling declaring unconstitutional the foreclosing of corporate and union contributions to political campaigns was his unwarranted claim that the decision opened up the floodgates for foreign contributions to US political campaigns.It doesn’t. The section [...]

Jan 30, 2010 By Jim Guirard For almost half a century, the romantic and noble label of John and Jackie Kennedy’s “Camelot” years in the White House has been an integral part of our political lexicon — and a major asset to the once-liberal, now mostly left-illiberal Democratic National Party. How ironic it is that in the [...]

Jan 30, 2010 Afghanistan Stories:   DVIDS Mountain Pinnacle Extraction in Zabul (Army photo by Staff Sgt. Aubree Clute) ZABUL PROVINCE - U.S. Special Forces being extracted from a mountain pinnacle by a US Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Co A, 2nd Bn, 82nd Aviation Regt, 82nd CAB after executing an air assault mission to [...]

The president bats both ways with lobbyists Jan 30, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES OPINION/ANALYSIS: President Obama has been running his mouth a lot lately. Last week, he stabbed his lobbyist friends in the back and attacked his allies in Congress as if he were an outsider. Talking smack isn’t boosting his low popularity though, [...]

Puny savings today don’t compare to real cuts in the 1990s Jan 30, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Obama made a big deal last week about his purported federal spending freeze, but not enough has been said about how meager the supposed savings actually are. Historical context shows that any savings from this public-relations [...]