Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen During the 2012 campaign, President Obama often resorted to his favorite substitute for thinking: ridicule. Before enthusiastic audiences (who were assured his reelection would spell a thriving economy and a revived middle class), the president would mock Republicans by suggesting that “they have the same prescription they’ve had for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin In his 967-word statement to the nation about the Ferguson grand jury decision on Tuesday night, President Obama devoted precisely one sentence to the risks and sacrifices police officers make to keep the peace. One. Obama delivered a tepid, obligatory acknowledgement that “our police officers put their lives on […]
Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times The sudden fall of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was unexpected because he spent years in Washington getting close to Barack Obama while upbraiding the president’s predecessor. At one time an almost-lonely Republican senator from Nebraska who was not often quoted, Mr. Hagel reached news media stardom by becoming President George W. […]
C. Edmund Wright, American Thinker Inside Washington, the Republican establishment — and everyone else in the beltway to Manhattan media bubble for that matter — is still obsessed with the few days of shutdown late last year. They are all convinced that it did great damage to the Republican Party, and moreover, will do so […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The Islamic State [Islamic State of Iraq and Levant] beheaded another American this week. The Obama administration’s response revealed its stubborn determination to deny reality. Peter Kassig was a former Army Ranger and emergency medical technician who was moved by the suffering of Syria’s civilians and returned to the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Just what happened last week on election day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead? The most important thing that happened last week was that the country dodged a bullet. Had the Democrats retained control of the Senate, President Obama could have spent his last two […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen A prayer has been answered — not for a massive Republican victory at the polls, though that, too. No, I’m thinking of the perennial prayer of losers: “Oh Lord, let my enemies go too far.” The results of the 2014 midterms will be chewed over for weeks and months. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Gird your loins, Beltway Republicans. Election Day is barely over, but the progressive left is locked and loaded for battle over President Obama’s next U.S. attorney general. Liberals unhappy with the administration’s failure to deliver a mass illegal alien amnesty fast enough want a consolation prize. The Congressional Hispanic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting. Reporter John Fund has written three books on voter […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager In almost every area of American life, the better things are, the worse it is for the Democratic Party. And vice versa. Marriage: Even today, after decades of feminism, most Americans agree that it is better for women (and for men) — and better for society — when women (and […]