We knew the unions wouldn’t let the lame duck session pass by without extracting some big payback for all the time, effort, and money they put into creating the Democratic congressional majority. Senator Tom Harkin had promised a push for card check, but that was a bridge too far. We …

Today is Flag Day, a holiday that celebrates the adoption of our nation’s standard by the Second Continental Congress in 1777. Ironically, there is currently an e-mail circulating the Internet that contrasts a press conference held by President Obama with those of several of his predecessors, including George W. Bush, …

This was no “one off,” as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano so memorably described the young bomber who nearly blew up his plane over Detroit last Christmas. This was a “network,” a “deadly pipeline,” said Attorney General Eric Holder as he unsealed four terrorism indictments against 14 people, most of …

In the fury of the firing of Juan Williams much of the tenor of what is happening at NPR is being overlooked. His firing is completely outrageous but it is a symptom of a larger problem at the news organization. NPR is saying that Juan Williams crossed a line with …

Only the government would consider it a success to buy stock at $43.84 a share and sell it at $33. — But President Obama and those who supported his bailout of General Motors and Chrysler are claiming just that today. First, the alternative to the government bailout wasn’t to “give …

Today, North Korea threatened to unleash “unprecedented nuclear strikes” on the United States and South Korea. The reason for Pyongyang’s extreme unhappiness? Washington and Seoul are making plans about what to do should the North fall apart. Kim Jong Il’s regime called the possibility of internal unrest a “pipe dream.” …

President Obama’s team has scared the nation over the past week with pronouncements so crazy they leave you breathless. But worse still are the decisions they’ve made, decisions that show America is in danger, and that those charged with protecting us are failing to treat this life-and-death struggle as the …

Some of that PETN (the explosive that nearly brought down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Detroit on Christmas Day) must have seeped into the atmosphere. There’s so much cloudy thinking floating around! It started with Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano declaring giddily: “the system worked.” Before she backtracked. It continued …

Today, President Obama released his proposed 2011 budget, which forecasts the federal deficit will fall to $706 billion by 2014 or just 3.9 percent of GDP before rising again in 2015. To accomplish this feat, he proposes letting the Bush tax cuts expire and other spending cuts the Congress has …

Sex. Some of us do it, most of us like it and we all think about it…. A lot. I know I do (though I was told that it’s normal). Gettin’ busy really isn’t the taboo subject that it once was. Whereas once upon a time the conversation was relegated …