Mike Gallagher's Featured Articles

  • 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

  • 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.”

  • Learning to Love Lindsey

    In a great old episode of The West Wing, the president's chief of staff, Leo McGarry, is schmoozing up a politician the White House wants to win over. After their chat, McGarry puts the ultimate power move on the pol: he casually ushers the dazzled man into the Oval Office, where the president is waiting to greet him like a dear friend.

  • It’s Up to Iraqis Now. Good Luck.

    Of all the pictures I saw from the Iraqi elections last weekend, my favorite was on nytimes.com: an Iraqi mother holding up her son to let him stuff her ballot into the box. I loved that picture. Being able to freely cast a ballot for the candidate of your choice is still unusual for Iraqis and for that entire region. That mother seemed to be saying: When I was a child, I never got to vote. I want to live in a world where my child will always be able to.

  • Tebow's Super Bowl ad isn't intolerant; its critics are

    I'll spit this out quick, before the armies of feminism try to gag me and strap electrodes to my forehead: Tim Tebow is one of the better things to happen to young women in some time.