Does this sound familiar?  Barack Obama decides to overturn some element of our national security.  The decision is taken without regard for evidence that the consequences could be dire, on the grounds that the President believes that “our values” necessitate…

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” -Pogo Possum

On January 24, 1995, President Bill Clinton delivered his State of the Union address to a Congress that looked radically different than the body of representatives that the President faced…

In my last article, a somber remembrance of Roe v. Wade, I called attention to something that shocked readers: I noted that the Obama administration and Democratic Congress “rejected funding for school vouchers for poor children in Washington, DC, but…

Anyone but Bush.  This was a popular and oft-repeated phrase during the twilight of our 43rd president’s first term.  People incensed by the war in Iraq, people offended at the idea of a plain-talking Texan representing America around the globe,…

A battle of enormous portent is about to begin on Capitol Hill.  When the fight to fulfill President Obama’s oft-repeated commitment to repeal what he misleadingly persists in calling “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) is over, one thing is certain: …

Catholic League president Bill Donohue looks at attempts to persuade President Obama not to attend the National Prayer Breakfast:

The National Prayer Breakfast is held the first Thursday of every February, and is attended by senior members of the incumbent administration…

Republicans have greeted Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts with the sort of relief expressed by Winston Churchill when he learned that Pearl Harbor had prompted America to finally enter the war; for the first time in years, he “slept the…

The left is in trouble in Latin America. Sebastián Piñera’s recent election as Chile’s first elected center-right president in decades owes much to the inability of the center-left coalition that governed Chile after 1990 to rejuvenate itself. Yet across Latin…

I have mixed feelings about it, if you want to know the truth.

I speak of tax-code simplification, another item on President Obama’s to-do list.

Last April, he established a committee that includes some sharp people from both sides of the political…

Any day now, President Obama is expected to unveil a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia.  This so-called Strategic Arms Reduction (START) follow-on treaty will be ballyhooed as an important step towards the realization of Mr. Obama’s goal of…