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James Carafano: How will leaving Afghanistan help?

By: James Carafano 08/02/10 12:00 AM
It's 2021 -- 10 years on, the Kabul Declaration of 2011 isn't looking so good. Read More

Voters want supersized government to crash diet

By: Michael Barone 08/01/10 12:00 AM
Let's put government on a diet. That's what voters seem to be saying in response to the Obama Democrats' vast expansion of the size and scope of government. Evidence comes from pollster Scott Rasmussen. He asked likely voters -- his usual sample, which tilts more Republican than all adults -- whether increased government spending is good or bad for the economy. The results were unambiguous. Good for the country? 28 percent. Bad for the country? 52 percent. Read More

Timothy P. Carney: How GOP can trump Dems on special interests

By: Timothy P. Carney 07/30/10 12:00 AM
Democrats' failed DISCLOSE Act, which would restrict political speech in the name of reducing corporate influence, is hard to read as anything but a political cudgel and a cynical sham to empower incumbents. Republicans should respond with real reform measures that curb special interests rather than aiding K Street and congressmen. DISCLOSE doesn't check the power of big business -- it instead picks winners and losers. Read More

Mark Tapscott: State AGs are shocking the 10th Amendment back to life

By: Mark Tapscott 07/29/10 12:00 AM
While Tea Partiers like Sharron Angle in Nevada and Rand Paul in Kentucky are challenging Washington's politics-as-usual on the campaign trail, Greg Abbot, Mike Cox and Ken Cuccinelli are opening a crucially important second front against the federal Leviathan in the courts. Read More

Sarah Palin shows the limits of womanly wisdom

By: Amity Shlaes 07/29/10 12:00 AM
Women just feel it. They sense trouble and will instinctually right it. They're like mama grizzly bears, "who kind of just know when something's wrong" and when to raise a paw to stop it. So women should get to govern now. Or else. That's the message of Sarah Palin's latest video, "Mama Grizzlies." She isn't the only woman who is finding feminine judgment to be a selling point. Read More

K Street goes to the defense of Charlie Rangel

By: Timothy P. Carney 07/28/10 12:00 AM
Every person accused of a crime or an ethics violation deserves a competent defense. Charlie Rangel's legal defense, fittingly, comes from K Street. Two of the three firms providing legal counsel to Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., in his pending ethics cases are lobbying firms. In fact, one firm, Oldaker, Belair & Wittie, conducts much of Rangel's political fundraising, while operating four different lobby shops. Read More

James Carafano: BP compensation fund gets right appointment

By: James Carafano 07/26/10 12:00 AM
Kenneth Feinberg specializes in tragedy. In the wake of 9/11, the attorney general asked him to manage the Victim Compensation Fund set up by Congress. He chose who would get compensated, and how much money they would get. His firm did all the work pro bono. Feinberg did not bill anyone. That alone was a remarkable service. He did so well, in fact, that after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, he was called in again. Read More

Timothy P. Carney: Numbers show Obama favors lobbyists

By: Timothy P. Carney 07/23/10 12:00 AM
"Our special-interest opponents and their Republican allies," President Obama warned in a fundraising e-mail this week, "have now set their sights on the elections in November as their best chance to overturn the historic progress we've made together." This is Obama's standard line. It is the Democrats' line for 2010. It's also utterly false. Read More

Republicans need to show beef or they'll get the hoof

By: Chris Stirewalt 07/22/10 12:00 AM
It should embarrass Republicans to be debating whether to tell voters why they should be elected this fall. Rep. Pete Sessions, who leads the GOP's House campaign arm, has been running away from questions about the GOP agenda like a man chased by angry bees. Senate campaign boss John Cornyn, who's known for his ability to speak off the cuff, sounds like he's been stunned by a sharp blow to the head. Read More

Mark Tapscott: Internet is turning journalism back to its future UPDATED!

By: Mark Tapscott 07/22/10 12:00 AM
Marshall McLuhan said something in a seminar during my graduate school days years ago at the University of Dallas that made a lasting impression on me. "Media is like cancer, which is just a speeding up of cell reproduction," he said to explain why the pace of news must increase as more people have greater access to expanded knowledge and information. Read More
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