Dec 28, 2010 By Micheal Gerson WASHINGTON — The main achievements of the lame-duck session of Congress were reminders of what might have been. President Obama gave something to get something. To secure a second stimulus, he accepted Republican economic methods. To pass the New START treaty, Obama offered assurances to Republican senators on nuclear [...]

Dec 28, 2010 By Chuck Norris On Feb. 11, 2006, in Iraq, I was honored to meet a model Marine by the name of Cpl. David Stidman. He did two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Commendably, he also left his post to come home and care for his ailing father, Dwayne Stidman, who [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Tuesday, December 28, 2010 You don’t have to be a psychic who forecasts future events for supermarket tabloids to accurately predict what awaits the new congressional Republican class of 2011. The writing is already on the computer screens and in the TV teleprompters. A preview of coming attractions was trotted [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Tuesday, December 28, 2010 The Constitution of the United States begins with the words “We the people.” But neither the Constitution nor “we the people” will mean anything if politicians and judges can continue to do end runs around both. Bills passed too fast for anyone to read them are [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Tuesday, December 28, 2010 If I had to single out one thing that played the greatest role in initially convincing me of the Bible’s authenticity and the truth of Christianity, I’d choose the Old Testament prophecies, especially those concerning the Messiah. The specificity of some of the individual prophecies is [...]

By Debra Saunders (Archive) · Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Twenty-two years ago last week, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Scotland. The terrorist attack killed 270 people, including 189 Americans and 11 Scots on the ground in the small village of Lockerbie. After a comprehensive international investigation and a lengthy trial held in the Netherlands, [...]

By William Murchison (Archive) · Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Top Reason (as Letterman might put it) for Loving the Establishment Media: their alacrity in back-patting-a-president-they-hated-to-be-so-hard-on. Barack Obama’s new-found statesmanship during the pre-Christmas lame-duck session bids fair — if you take the commentators at their word — to give him his second presidential wind. Why, the [...]

Dec 27, 2010 IBD Pension Tsunami: A guest on Fox Business Network said last week that public employee unions are bankrupting state governments. Isn’t it time that legislators outlaw collective bargaining for public-sector workers? Working for the government as a member of a union is an easy path to prosperity. On average, the yearly compensation [...]

Dec 27, 2010 IBD Pensions: Nearly 30 years ago, on the very day Ronald Reagan was sworn in as U.S. president, Chile became the first nation to privatize its social security system. Three decades hence, it has surpassed all expectations. Decades ago, Chile’s then-military dictatorship shuddered at a proposal from then-Labor Minister Jose Pinera to [...]

Dec 27, 2010 IBD Health Care: Unable to attach it directly to ObamaCare, a new Medicare rule will offer incentive to doctors who advise patients on end-of-life care in a program that seeks to control costs. Connect those dots, grandma. The GOP House that comes in January has pledged to chip away, defund and neuter [...]