White House interference derails Justice? Jan 19, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Justice Department insists that only “career employees” made a controversial decision last May to drop voter-intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party. An analysis by The Washington Times, however, suggests good reason to ask if the White House itself [...]

The White House undermines government watchdogs Jan 19, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Obama administration needs to learn that inspectors general aren’t the enemy. Last year, Congress looked into five reports of possible political interference with the work of these quasi-independent watchdogs, and now a sixth IG is complaining about political strong-arm tactics. Patrick [...]

Political correctness had a big part in Fort Hood terror attack Jan 18, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Defense Department continues to duck the hard questions about the Fort Hood massacre. As many as eight Army officers might take the fall for not reporting Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s abnormal behavior in the years leading [...]

Transparency undermines the Democrats’ government expansion Jan 19, 2010 By The Washington Times During his first year in office, President Obama has broken dozens of promises. President George H.W. Bush broke his famous campaign promise, “Read my lips – no new taxes,” and he paid the political price when voters decided against re-electing him in [...]

Jan 19, 2010 By Wesley Pruden You have to be a true believer in Barack Obama’s radical agenda to be a Democrat in Congress, and believe with the intensity of a suicide bomber. Mr. Obama can’t even promise a harem of virgins in paradise. With disapproval of their health care “reform” running almost to 60 [...]

  By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, January 19, 2010   SPIN BOLDAK, AFGHANISTAN — The pace of President Obama’s troop buildup in Afghanistan hinges in part on a narrow, pothole-riddled dirt track that is controlled by a 33-year-old suspected drug lord and by the whims of the Pakistani military. It is down [...]

By Juan Williams FOXNews.com   As the nation celebrates Martin Luther King’s birthday today the absence of coverage says a lot about people who don’t want things to change when it comes to the old us-versus-them racial politics. An astonishing poll has signaled a new era in American race relations. It appeared just last week [...]

Jan 18, 2010 By Michael Barone FOXNews.com   Democratic leadership took the partisan path in 2009 and the Obama White House supinely went along. Now they may be very sorry that they got what they wished for.  Year one of the Obama administration ends Wednesday. Another era may come to an end the day before, [...]

Jan 18, 2010 By Bradley Blakeman FOXNews.com   Obama — the candidate — has reached the end of the political line. He, and the advisers around him, have never grasped the fact that the campaign is over and the time to govern has arrived It has been almost a year since President Obama was sworn [...]

Jan 19, 2010 Facing the Prospect of an Africa Dominated by China By Robert O’Brien (CBS)  Twenty years ago, China’s main concern in Africa was upending the diplomatic relations enjoyed by Taiwan with numerous Sub Saharan nations. Now its unprecedented drive to take the preeminent role in continent is being fuelled by China’s vast energy, [...]