As a candidate for the U.S. presidency, Barack Obama touted himself to foreign audiences as a “citizen of the world.”  As President, Mr. Obama is determined to make sure we are such citizens, too.
The President’s serial apologies, bowing and…

“It isn’t hard to find Democratic pollsters who privately concede that the [polling] numbers they are looking at now are worse than what they saw in 1994,” says Charlie Cook, the knowledgeable pundit and editor of the authoritative Cook Report.…

Maybe this is what John Paul II had in mind when he referred to the “culture of death.” Wednesday, a fellow, a xenophobe and eco-terrorist, if his explicit statements are to be taken at face value, stormed into the Discovery…

When even a centrist Democrat such as Mort Zuckerman calls the Obama administration “The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History,” you know the nation is in peril.
They just don’t seem to get it in Washington.
Fortunately, the U.S.…

As Doug Bandow recently explained in The American Spectator, last Thursday, August 19, was “Cost of Government Day” (COGD), the date of the calendar year on which the average American worker has earned enough gross income to pay off his…

Most conservative commentators, pundits and writers, including some affiliated with TAS, have been stalwart supporters of the remarkable Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and his consequential “A Roadmap for America’s Future,” which aims to reform entitlements, most notably Medicare, the tax code…

The recent survey by Gallup indicate that Americans rated Congress dead last among 16 institutions. Only 11 percent of respondents expressed confidence in the deliberative bodies.
This was a drop of 17 percent from last year.
There is, of course,…

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Who remembers that famous day and year.
Other than recalling a fragment of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wonderful, if historically…

Last week National Public Radio (NPR) released its new poll conducted by one of Bill Clinton’s old pollsters, Stanley Greenberg, and Republican colleague, Glen Bolger.
In a June 15 story, NPR political correspondent and Fox News Channel contributor, Mara Liasson,…

A European-style value-added tax, or VAT, seems to be heading nowhere fast, notwithstanding Delphic pronouncements by Obama administration officials, including the President himself, which seem to keep it open as a real possibility.
The U.S. Senate voted, overwhelmingly (85-13), for…