When an opportunity comes to do something good, one must grab
it.
At 2 p.m. central time Thursday afternoon in Mobile, word spread
that U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, a six-term Republican from a dark red
district, would announce that he is resigning mid-term (Aug....
“He has such an early-morning face and such a palpable
desire to please that to bait him would be like kicking a
puppy.”— Liberal columnist Mary McGrory of Ron
Ziegler, 1969
In the beginning, the press loved Ron Ziegler.
As the young Nixon aide...
Until recently, if a pregnant woman wanted to determine the
genetic health of her baby, she had to endure a series of crude and
invasive tests. Early in her second trimester, she would be given a
blood test called the triple screen, which measures levels...
The Obama administration’s attacks on the Constitution have been
aggressive and unrelenting. They have been complemented by
consistent disdain, from Democratic Party elected officials, for
the notion that there are any limits of any sort on the power of...
President Obama offers only weasel words to explain deaths in
Libya and IRS abuses. He’s the master of verbal evasion. House
Republicans need to replace debate with action to hold the
president accountable on these issues.
To get to the bottom of wh...
Back in the days when we had them, declarations of war were
short, simple, and clear. By contrast, the “Authorization for the
Use of Military Force” (from here on AUMF) cobbled together by
Congress and signed by President Bush after 9/11 reads more li...
WASHINGTON —Where are we now in this morass of Obama
Administration scandals? We have the Associated Press imbroglio. We
have the Benghazi imbroglio. We have the IRS imbroglio. Well, a
synonym for imbroglio is confusion, and in all the above cases
repla...
In my
initial reaction to the terrorist attack yesterday in London
was not to be surprised if the perpetrators were British born. One
of the two men responsible for murdering British soldier Lee Rigby
yesterday has been
identified as Michael Abdebolajo....
Lois Lerner, the official at the center of the IRS scandal, has
been put on administrative leave.
The Washington Post is reporting:
Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizations
division at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed on
a...
That was the takeaway from a discussion of his new book The
End Is Near, and It’s Going to Be Awesome. In it, the
National Review ace noted at Thursday’s event hosted by
the Cato Institute that fiscal crisis is inevitable as a matter of
simple arithme...
Let’s see if you have the same reaction as I did to this section
of President Obama’s speech on drones today:
We will never erase the evil that lies in the hearts of some
human beings, nor stamp out every danger to our open society. What
we c...
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R. 1797, the
“District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,”
which aims to ban abortions after 20 weeks – the accepted time when
pain is felt by the baby.
The bill, which was sponsor...
