Jan 28, 2011 AP If anyone thought Sen. Harry Reid’s near-death political experience last fall would chasten the Senate majority leader, think again. The Nevada Democrat is back in his familiar perch, directing the Senate’s actions and firing shoot-from-the-lip zingers at powerful politicians, including President Barack Obama. Shortly before Obama used his State of the [...]

By Suzanne Fields (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 Rep. Michele Bachmann, founder of the tea party caucus in the new Congress, gave more than a response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night. We got a look at the new political woman in Washington. Some of the old Republican bulls looked [...]

By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 WASHINGTON — The November election sent a clear message to Washington: less government, less debt, less spending. President Obama certainly heard it, but judging from his State of the Union address, he doesn’t believe a word of it. The people say they want cuts? Sure they [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 Obama’s latest watchword, “investments,” is not, as I originally assumed, simply a euphemism for government spending. It captures his entire economic philosophy — a philosophy that is permanently engrained in the core of his being and disastrous for America’s “future.” President Bill Clinton shrewdly used the [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 For years, conservatives have rightly decried the distortion, misrepresentation and downright ignorance of American history that has sometimes infected left-wing rhetoric. We’ve complained that public schools do a poor job of teaching our history and an even worse job of transmitting American values. History matters; as [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 President Obama’s storytellers recently launched a White House blog series called “Voices of Health Reform,” where “readers can meet average Americans already benefiting from the health reform law.” I propose a new White House series: “Voices of Health Reform Waivers,” where taxpayers can meet all the [...]

By Matt Towery (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 With the celebration of Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday now in full swing, I find myself reflecting on the despair that so many of us felt at the midpoint of his first term in office. By “us,” I mean those who had worked in GOP campaigns in [...]

By Oliver North (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 WASHINGTON — This year’s State of the Union address has been parsed, analyzed, applauded (80 times), celebrated and derided. The rhetoric has been described as “visionary” and “myopic.” The president’s promises and pledges have been depicted as “important” and “hollow.” None of that really matters in [...]

By Mona Charen (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 “This is our generation’s Sputnik moment,” declared President Obama in his State of the Union address. It was the first of several references — some oblique, some direct — to the Kennedy presidency. He issued a “challenge” to America’s scientists and engineers, offering to fund an [...]

By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Friday, January 28, 2011 “He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” –Article II, Section 3, U.S. Constitution “I have noticed that a politician always has a special [...]