By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 WASHINGTON — The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics have yielded singular clarity. At the federal level, President [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 President Obama’s brazenly calculated move to unilaterally abandon the federal Defense of Marriage Act showcases his attitude that he is above the law. DOMA defines marriage as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife” for purposes of all federal [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 For years, unions have waged war on the GOP, pouring hundred of millions of dollars each election cycle into defeating Republicans at the polls. It worked well for the unions so long as Democrats controlled most state houses and governors’ offices, but with the 2010 election [...]

By Mona Charen (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 It’s hard to imagine the level of outrage that would be flowing in the direction of the Republican Party today if Republicans had behaved the way the Democrats have over the past week. Who can doubt that The New York Times, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution requires that each new president take the following oath: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 Barack Obama’s new era of civility was over before it began. You wouldn’t know it from reading The New York Times, watching Katie Couric or listening to the Democratic manners police. But America has been overrun by foul-mouthed, fist-clenching wildebeests. Yes, the tea party movement is [...]

By Matt Towery (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 In 2006, I examined a series of surveys we conducted nationwide and then predicted a collapse of the housing market. Plenty others followed with similar forecasts and postmortems over the following months and years. But my column was among the first. I’ve made predictions about other [...]

By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 It isn’t T.E. Lawrence’s revolt in the desert, leading a hodgepodge of Arab tribes across the desert in the Arab revolt against the Turks in the World War, Act I. That was the stuff of which legend was made. And myth. This time the Arabs are [...]

By Oliver North (Archive) · Friday, February 25, 2011 WASHINGTON — According to Hillary Clinton, “the safety and well-being of Americans has to be our highest priority.” Oh, really? That comment, proffered by our secretary of state Tuesday, is overshadowed by the serious jeopardy U.S. citizens now encounter thanks to the ideological blindness and national [...]

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, February 24, 2011 “If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. … I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” [...]