Terror — and Candor

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

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.

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction

On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh’s life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer?

Thomas Sowell on Punishing the Productive in America.

First of all, nobody’s taxes — neither on the rich nor on the poor — are going to be cut in this lame-duck session of Congress. The only real question is if our current tax rates will go up in January, whether for everybody or nobody or somewhere in between.

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?”

The Worst Sheriff in America

There are many heroes who showed indomitable courage and grace under fire during this weekend's horrific Tucson massacre. Blowhard Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was not one of them.

A Horrid Crime, a Dishonest Debate

The same Left that embraces terrorist Bill Ayers seeks a tactical victory in Tucson.

‘Enough Money’

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

The Prez who Cried 'Lone Wolf'

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.

Smart Aleck-in-Chief?

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

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.

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