By Michael Gerson (Archive) · Friday, March 19, 2010 WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder is controversial on the left for preserving much of the Bush administration’s legal structure for conducting the war on terror. He is controversial on the right for overturning portions of that structure in ways that seem both clueless and reckless. [...]

By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Friday, March 19, 2010 Marion Berry, a long-time congressman from Arkansas, isn’t running for re-election to Congress, which means the ballot in this state’s First District won’t seem quite legitimate this year without his name on it. It being a mainly rural district, he’s been mainly a voice for agricultural [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, March 19, 2010 John Edwards, when he wasn’t fixing his hair or cheating on his wife, liked to talk about “two Americas.” In one America, things were pretty bad, somewhere between “The Grapes of Wrath” and Thunderdome. In the other America, where Edwards himself lived in a McMansion, things [...]

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, March 18, 2010 “If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may [...]

Posted 03/18/2010 06:59 PM ET Health Reform: What did it take for Congress to schedule a vote on its awful health care reform package? Not much, just a phony low-ball “score” on what the plan would cost from the Congressional Budget Office. By presenting the CBO with incomplete, inaccurate and misleading data, the Democrats in [...]

Mar 18, 2010 Afghanistan Stories:   CJTF-82 in Afghanistan, Bagram Media Center     Mrs. Eikenberry delivers a message of unity to women   By AF 2nd Lt. Katherine Roling   Ching Eikenberry, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, shakes hands with an 8-year-old Afghan girl at the Forward Surgical Clinic on FOB [...]

Nationalized health care will mean fewer people are covered Mar 19, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Obama keeps saying America needs the Democrats’ health care bill to reduce costs. In reality, the government takeover of health care will raise costs and cause a large number of people to lose their health insurance. “Well, if [...]

Mar 18, 2010 By Stephen Dinan President Obama gave a thumbs up Thursday to the outline of a plan to legalize illegal immigrants and create a flow of low-skilled foreign workers for the future, saying the immigration bill being worked on by a Republican and a Democrat is “promising.” In their broad blueprint, Sens. Charles [...]

  By Ruth Marcus Friday, March 19, 2010   Here’s a phrase you can expect to hear a lot in the next few days: “According to the CBO.” The CBO is the Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper of the costs of proposed legislation. Rarely has a CBO report been more anxiously awaited than the [...]

  By Neil Irwin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 19, 2010   The latest estimate of what health-care reform would mean for the government’s finances was such a hot document Thursday that at times the Congressional Budget Office‘s Web site couldn’t handle the traffic. But as much as the 25-page “score” of the legislation [...]