Mike Gallagher's Featured Articles

  • Is America too forgiving? Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Tiger Woods -- all get shots at redemption

    Siena College just released its latest ranking of U.S. Presidents, as judged by a confab of 238 presidential scholars.

  • Terror — and Candor

    The administration’s denial of “radical Islam” is dangerous, dishonest, and demoralizing.

  • Mike Gallagher's Star is Rising

    Talker's Magazine profiles Mike acting career

  • Why the Kagan hearings will be a charade

    Since the Robert Bork hearings punished him for his candor, the point is not to give the most honest answer, but the answer that makes it the most difficult for senators to vote against you.

  • He’s Not Our Daddy

    President Obama said at his BP press conference that when he was shaving the other day, his daughter Malia asked him, “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?” If Obama wanted to give her a quick lesson in how the world works, he might have said: “No, dear, that’s beyond my capacity. I can’t stop oil from gushing from a well 5,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface. Now, did you do your homework?”

  • ‘Enough Money’

    The idea that politicians should decide when a citizen has made enough money is morally bankrupt and economically illiterate.

  • David Freddoso: Five things we learned about Obamacare after it passed

    "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., famously said that about President Obama's health care reform package. She was right. We are just finding out what was contained within that Obamacare law that Obama signed weeks ago.

  • The Prez who Cried 'Lone Wolf'

  • Is mandate constitutional?

    The new health care law has states and citizens lining up — but not quite in the way President Obama or Congress had hoped.

  • Smart Aleck-in-Chief?

    There may be good reasons for Obama to go negative, but doing so could wreck his presidency

  • The Tax Police and the Health-Care Mandate

    Is there an IRS agent in your future? Shortly before Barack Obama signed the health-care bill, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee created a stir with a report suggesting our new law will lead the Internal Revenue Service to hire as many as 16,500 new agents

  • Credit Where Credit Isn’t Due

    ‘Victory has a hundred fathers,” John F. Kennedy said, “and defeat is an orphan.” By that standard, George W. Bush has won the Iraq war. Last month, Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed on CNN’s Larry King Live that the peaceful transition to democracy and the (partial) withdrawal of U.S. forces “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.”

  • AWOL in the Bunning Battle

    The Kentucky Republican finally caved in Tuesday after relentless pressure from other senators — including Republicans — to drop what the Politico called his “one man” filibuster of a bill to extend expiring unemployment benefits.

  • Rehab a made-up cure for sex jerks like Steve

    Steve Phillips is the world's luckiest man. He's proven that you, too, can profit from adultery. Fired by ESPN for hav ing sex with an unglued junior staffer who embarrassed the network, stalked his son on the Internet, and terrorized his wife, Phillips has been sentenced to, of all things, residential sex-addiction treatment. Sounds like a great way to meet horny chicks.

  • Obama to deliver health care The Chicago Way

    President Barack Obama will star in his very own televised entertainment spectacular on Thursday — let's call it Federal Health Care Kabuki Theater. The Republicans wanted to dance. Now they'll have to step lightly. They were foolish to get trapped in his so-called summit on national health care. Or did they actually think they could outperform the skinny fellow from Chicago?

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