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The so-called mainstream media looked down at the Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial last weekend through predictable lenses set on their very long noses. What interested me, though, was the charge by speakers at the other rally at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., the one led by …

As students prepare to head back to school, and as parents begin to prepare them for this very American annual ritual, a great many concerns are on every mind of every participant in this venture—from parents to students, from teachers to administrators. And just lately, the headlines have given cause …

On Friday, WikiLeaks again released a massive amount of classified information stolen from the U.S. government. This time is was 392,000 files about the Iraq war. In July, it was more than 70,000 controlled government documents about Afghanistan. More illegal disclosures are promised. What have Congress and the Obama administration …

At least Eric Holder is consistent. Each time President Obama goes to Asia, the attorney general pipes up about a 9/11 trial. Last week, with Obama in South Korea and Indonesia, Holder said, “We are close to a decision.” A year ago, in November 2009, with Obama in China and …

President Obama has given some 35 speeches on health care, spent entire weekends trying to cut a deal with House and Senate leaders and wasted a full day on a summit to nowhere. All for a monstrosity America doesn’t need or want. Meanwhile, the White House says a decision on …

Make no mistake, I am still in the Obama court as one of the president’s supporters but he needs to “be the change” like the campaign posters said in 2008. He needs to jump out of the Washington D.C. box and do something vastly different. Here is some quick advice …

In the odd dance of diplomacy, tough talk can be a signal that no action will follow. But the tough talk coming from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton about Iran appears to signal an even more disheartening fact: the United States still hasn’t decided what to do about the …

Goldman Sachs is, for President Obama, the gift that keeps on giving. Not only did the firm’s employees donate millions to help elect our young commander in chief, they are now hoisting him out of his ratings slump single-handedly. The president is in trouble, and his handlers know it. Obama …

Dear Speaker Pelosi and Mr. Gibbs: On Oct. 20, Politico published my column in which I explained how the individual mandate in the health care bill is unconstitutional, since there is no constitutional provision authorizing such legislation and it falls outside the scope of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. Then on …

On this anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers, President Obama is set to promise Americans that we will never again be laid waste by the speculative fevers of Wall Street. He is wrong. The nature of capitalism and of trading markets is that they are prone to excess, and …