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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:04:40 +0000 – By S.E. CuppConservative Commentator/Co-Author, “Why You’re Wrong About the Right” The 100-day tribunal is underway, with partisans on both sides of the aisle eager to declare the first third of President Obama’s first year a wild success or an utter failure. Of course, …

Wed, 06 May 2009 08:30:43 +0000 – By Michael GoodwinNew York Daily News Columnist/FOX News Contributor The news that federal prosecutors are investigating John Edwards’ presidential campaign payments to his mistress brings a sense of satisfaction. The phoniest man in American politics is finally getting the comeuppance he so richly …

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:21:39 +0000 – By John R. Lott, Jr.Author, “Freedomnomics”/Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland The stimulus bill had to be passed quickly. President Obama warned that not passing it would result in disaster. He warned that any delay was “inexcusable.” The 1,071 page stimulus billhad to …

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:01:04 +0000 – By Richard MillerAuthor, “In Words and Deeds: Great Speeches in History” I read with a mixture of amusement and despair the Democrats’ recent announcement that they intended to make talk show host Rush Limbaugh the “face of conservatives.” It won’t work. But in …

On October 24th, Benjamin Crump, an attorney for Michael Brown’s family, told MSNBC that “All Michael Brown’s family has asked from day one is equal justice for their son. The concept of due process, this notion of all the laws in the legal proceedings being fair for them, just like …

Loretta Lynch loves Chaucer. Have you ever tried reading The Canterbury Tales? I couldn’t even make it through the Cliff Notes. It takes a special intellect to make sense of Chaucer and come out of the experience with all your marbles. So, I give props to President Obama’s attorney general …

Chalk it up to karma, fate or bad luck. Whatever you call it, the Ebola scare is proof that Bad Things Happen to Bad Presidents. The morphing of what is a single case into near panic is, according to medical experts, unwarranted. They point out that, so far, one person …

Earlier this year, while at a casino in Atlantic City Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punched his then-fiancee in the face. The football player knocked her out cold, and should be punished for it. While the legal system placed him into a pretrial intervention that allowed for no punishment …

There is growing outrage among sailors and religious liberty advocates over a directive that calls for the removal of Bibles from lodges and hotels run on U.S. Navy bases. The directive comes after an atheist group filed a formal complaint earlier this year over the placement of Bibles in the …

Editor’s note: The contractor running the refugee camp at Lackland Air Force Base is “BCFS,” not “Baptist Family and Children’s Services” — as noted in a previous version of this story. A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat …