“Looping back to Mr. Obama’s political advice, his government takeover of health care is unpopular because it is arguably the worst legislation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, and the voters know it. Still, it’s amazing to see Democrats now pretend for election purposes that the bill they said would be an achievement for the liberal ages [...]

U.S. workers pay for the Democrats’ Mexican truck ban
Aug 21, 2010
An 18-month trade war between the U.S. and its third largest trading partner took a turn for the worse this week when Mexico announced new tariffs on 26 previously tariff-free items that it imports from America. Washington state apples and California oranges and pistachios, among [...]

Now even liberals are denying paternity.
Aug 21, 2010
“I know this is a tough vote,” President Obama told House Democrats at a March pep rally merely hours before they passed national health care. But he added that he was “actually confident” that “it will end up being the smart thing to do politically because I believe [...]

It’s time to cut costs and promote work and marriage
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
6:54 p.m., Friday, August 20, 2010
Only in Barack Obama’s Washington would the most successful federal reform of the past half-century not only fail to be emulated, but actually be reversed. Yet that’s what Democrats have done to the vaunted 1996 welfare reform instituted [...]

The O Force taps public funds for propaganda campaign
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
6:54 p.m., Friday, August 20, 2010
In the modern era, all presidents have to some degree used their office to promote themselves and their policies. The Obama administration, however, has taken the practice to new heights. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last [...]

American arms created a republic, if Iraqis can keep it.
Aug 20, 2010
When the men and women of Fourth Brigade, Second Infantry Division deployed to Iraq in April 2007 as part of President Bush’s surge, American soldiers were being killed or wounded at a rate of about 750 a month, the country was falling to sectarian [...]

What Senate ethicists didn’t tell us.
Aug 20, 2010
Turns out the Senate ethics committee’s 2009 whitewash of Senator Chris Dodd’s sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial was even worse than we thought. Three times worse.
The committee was asked to examine Mr. Dodd’s 2003 receipt of two “Friends of Angelo” loans, named for Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, who [...]

Posted 08/19/2010 06:22 PM ET
Victory: Our combat troops have departed the faraway country they liberated. The Iraqi people have them and George W. Bush to thank for a chance at long-term freedom, and themselves to blame if they squander it.
It’s by no means clear that the departure of our soldiers from Iraq is not premature. [...]

Posted 08/19/2010 06:56 PM ET

Education: Public school teachers are unhappy with the growing campaign to grade their performance. They shouldn’t be. It’s almost impossible to fire a union teacher, even those who are profoundly incompetent.
From Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, the debate about teacher effectiveness has taken off.
In the nation’s capital, Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee [...]

Posted 08/19/2010 06:56 PM ET
Free Speech: The speaker of the House wants to know how opponents of the Ground Zero mosque are being funded. When Americans can be investigated for their opinions, our republic has arrived at a dangerous place.
In an interview Tuesday with KCBS in her home district of San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi said [...]