By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Thursday, June 17, 2010 I had an extraordinary experience today. I was welcomed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to the U.S. Capitol. She was greeting those guests who had come to honor the memory of the slaves who contributed immeasurably to building this Temple of Freedom. I sat with my [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Thursday, June 17, 2010 It’s no wonder that Rahm Emanuel, who could play the villain in a James Bond movie, looks a little bit like the Wicked Witch of the West, and who famously said that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, has found a home in Obama’s [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Thursday, June 17, 2010 President Obama’s first address from the Oval Office can be summed up with a song lyric from the 1951 Broadway musical, “Paint Your Wagon”: “Where am I goin’? I don’t know. When will I get there? I ain’t certain. All that I know is I am [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Thursday, June 17, 2010 Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America’s purported sins is not a foreign policy. Ronald Reagan came into office with the idea of rolling back the Soviet Union. Reagan hoped that such an evil empire might collapse from its inability to match a [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Thursday, June 17, 2010 WASHINGTON — Evidently Hamid Karzai did not get the memo on terminology. U.S. military commanders have stopped using the word “operation” to describe the drive, now delayed, against the Taliban in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city. This word connotes danger and stirs dread among the population, whose [...]

Jun 17, 2010 By Rick Moran The Obama administration used the names of drilling experts to justify a ban on deep water drilling – despite the fact that 8 of these experts who were listed in the Interior Department report used as a basis for the moratorium say that their names had been used to [...]

Posted 06/16/2010 06:50 PM ET Climate Bill: Sen. Joe Lieberman believes American households are “willing to pay less than $1″ a day to stop global warming. The Connecticut independent needs a lesson in the history of government program costs. Lieberman and Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts introduced in May a nearly 1,000-page climate bill [...]

Jun 17, 2010 AFGHANISTAN STORIES:   RC-East in Afghanistan, Bagram Media Center     ANA finds weapons on mission to remote village   Story and photos by Army Pfc. Michael Sword      After a successful mission in the village of Kwajangur, June 6, in Kherwar district, Soldiers from 2nd Plt, Troop C, 1st Sqdrn, [...]

The president’s energy speech was fueled by hot air By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 6:19 p.m., Wednesday, June 16, 2010 In his Oval Office address on Tuesday night, President Obama issued a ringing challenge to “embark on a national mission to unleash American innovation and seize control of our own destiny” through developing clean alternative energy. [...]

Two big new twists on anniversary of IG firing By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 6:19 p.m., Wednesday, June 16, 2010 One year to the day after illegally firing AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin, the Obama administration is scrambling to ward off further embarrassments related to the case. On Friday, Mr. Walpin’s lawsuit for reinstatement moved forward [...]