By Laura Litvan Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) — There is a “fighting chance” President Barack Obama will propose a freeze in most discretionary spending by the federal government in his State of the Union speech next week, Senator Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, said “The president can say in this State of the Union address, ‘I’m [...]

January 23, 2010   by Bill O’Reilly More than anything else, it was the foolishness of the far left that harpooned Martha Coakley in Massachusetts. Independents broke big for Scott Brown, and his own internal polling showed that national security issues like civilian trials for al-Qaida thugs and the president’s seemingly soft approach on terrorism [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Saturday, January 23, 2010 Winston Churchill, who made a better case for alcohol consumption than all the beer commercials ever produced, is well known for having observed that democracy is the worst form of government…except for all the others. But, in a less avuncular state of mind, he also pointed [...]

Jan 23, 2010 By Mat Spivey Keith Olbermann spent the final 15 minutes of his Thursday night program, Countdown, on a long winded diatribe condemning this week’s Supreme Court ruling on the deregulation of campaign financing.   Olbermann predicted the end of American civilization as we know it, as corporations will now buy candidates and [...]

By MARK STEYN Posted 01/22/2010 06:39 PM ET So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is he overestimated you dumb rubes’ ability to appreciate what he’s been doing for you. “That I do think is a mistake of mine,” the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I think the assumption was if I [...]

Posted 01/22/2010 07:33 PM ET Campaign Finance: The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations have a constitutional right to free speech. But Democratic leaders refuse to accept the decision, and their predictable reaction is to undermine it. Rather than praising Thursday’s 5-4 decision to reverse the 1990 court ruling that banned corporations and unions from [...]

Voters dislike demagoguery Jan 22, 2010 By Donald Lambro Once again, there was President Obama last week, accusing the big banks of selfishness and greed as his advisers were dishing out fictitious jobs numbers in a desperate attempt to distract our attention from his failed economic policies. Only this time, the shamelessly unquestioning news media [...]

  By Neil Irwin and Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, January 23, 2010   The populist brushfire that has burned through Democratic fortunes this week threatened Friday to claim Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, imperiling his nomination for a second term and sending an unsettled stock market tumbling for the third straight [...]

By BOB HERBERT   Published: January 22, 2010 How loud do the alarms have to get? There is an economic emergency in the country with millions upon millions of Americans riddled with fear and anxiety as they struggle with long-term joblessness, home foreclosures, personal bankruptcies and dwindling opportunities for themselves and their children. The door [...]

High court decision is ‘devastating to the public interest,’ president says Jan 23, 2010 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Saturday sharply criticized a Supreme Court decision easing limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, saying he couldn’t “think of anything more devastating to the public interest.” He also suggested the ruling could [...]