February 28, 2010

 
by Salena Zito
As both political parties consider how to gain the fickle support of Tea Party activists and independent voters in the 2010 midterm elections, another increasingly dissatisfied tribe exists for both to lure: Hillary Democrats. 
No other candidate has captured their frustration better than U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Democrat trying [...]

February 28, 2010

 
by Steve Chapman

Last week, facing a congressional committee acutely dissatisfied with his company’s safety record, the head of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, was asked what he would tell President Barack Obama if he had the chance. His surprising reply: “Toyota cars are safe.”
It was surprising because more than 8 million Toyotas have been recalled [...]

February 28, 2010

 
by Ken Connor

On February 22, 2010, nine months after President Obama signed the legislation, new credit card rules designed to protect consumers from the unscrupulous and manipulative tactics of credit card companies went into effect.  The legislative momentum that led to the passage of the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act (Credit [...]

February 28, 2010

 
by Austin Hill

“…Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. I believe businesses like yours are the engines of economic growth in this country. You create jobs, you develop new products and cutting-edge technologies, and you create [...]

February 28, 2010

 
by Kevin McCullough

This week when President Obama concluded the seven-hour, made-for-television faux summit on health reform, and more or less announced his intention to cram his signature bill through the Senate in the form of reconciliation, he sealed his choice in moving forward with a great wager. This is a bet that he [...]

February 28, 2010

 
by Paul Jacob

It’s hard to fathom, but 10 percent of Americans believe Congress is doing a good or excellent job. That high, eh? The recent Rasmussen Reports survey also reveals that 71 percent of us rate Congress’s job performance as poor.
Additionally, the firm’s polling found that only 9 percent of us think “most [...]

February 28, 2010

 
by David R. Stokes

In the immediate aftermath of the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before the nation accepting the total blame for what had happened. He referred to an old saying about victory having a thousand fathers, but defeat being an orphan, and identified himself as the [...]

February 27, 2010

 
by Doug Giles

Why in God’s name would ACORN fold its national name and rebrand itself under a new make and model? I thought Bertha Lewis, the L.A. Times, the New York Times, Wade Rathke, Carrot Top, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Beelzebub and Ed Schultz declared ACORN to be innocent, lily-white virgins of virtue [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, February 28, 2010
WASHINGTON — Peter De Vries, America’s wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago but his discernment of this country’s cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America’s therapeutic culture to medicalize character flaws:
“Once terms like identity doubts and midlife crisis become [...]

By Debra Saunders (Archive) · Sunday, February 28, 2010
The villain in “A Time to Run,” Sen. Barbara Boxer’s first novel, is a conservative writer for The San Francisco Chronicle. A salvo at moi? Hardly. His name is Greg Hunter, and Boxer’s alter ego, Ellen Fischer, also a Democratic senator from California, has a personal [...]