By MIKE ALLEN & ANDY BARR | 7/21/10 4:24 AM EDT Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday that he will reconsider the abrupt firing of Shirley Sherrod, a Georgia-based Agriculture Department official who was the victim of a media frenzy over comments that turned out to have been distorted by video editing.    “I am [...]

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If you can’t create any jobs, pay people not to work. July 20, 2010 Presidents typically invite Americans to appear at Rose Garden press conferences to trumpet their policy successes, but yesterday we saw what may have been a first. President Obama introduced three Americans—an auto worker, a fitness center employee and a woman in [...]

July 20, 2010 By Bret Stephans The military risks are large; the political risks could be even bigger. Why hasn’t Israel bombed Iran yet? It’s a question I often get from people who suppose I have a telepathic hotline to Benjamin Netanyahu’s brain. I don’t, but for a long time I was confident that an [...]

Voters are ignorant, he suggests. But don’t worry, they’ll learn somehow! July 19, 2010 By JAMES TARANTO Some polls show that a majority of Americans disagree with some Republican congressmen about some things, yet Republicans seem likely to do well in November. An example, according to Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter: Americans “overwhelmingly favor more regulation of [...]

Pat Buchanan Bias and Bigotry in Academia July 20, 2010 A decade ago, activist Ron Unz conducted a study of the ethnic and religious composition of the student body at Harvard. Blacks and Hispanics, Unz found, were then being admitted to his alma mater in numbers approaching their share of the population. And who were [...]

Chuck Norris A Model the President Should Follow July 20, 2010 After President Barack Obama repeatedly and emphatically promised last summer that Obamacare would not use federal funds to pay for abortions (and even signed a supportive presidential order, to boot), last week it was revealed that federal funds are being funneled to provide for [...]

By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Tuesday, July 20, 2010 It’s quite a role reversal: The feds are complaining about getting dragged into court, having to file time-consuming paperwork, and generally being treated like any taxpayer who get crosswise with the IRS. It seems Wal-Mart, the 800-pound gorilla of retailers, is challenging a fine in connection [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Tuesday, July 20, 2010 The latest Washington Post/ABC News Poll tells the story: Nearly six in 10 voters say they have “just some” or no confidence in President Obama to make the right decisions for the country. America — or at least the part of it that voted for Barack [...]

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 By Edwin Mora (CNSNews.com) – The Commerce Department’s Inspector General (IG) has confirmed whistleblower allegations that management at a local Census office in Brooklyn, N.Y., “directed employees to falsify Census questionnaires during” the decennial count’s largest and most expensive operation known as Non-response Follow-Up.     Furthermore, the IG noted that during [...]