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After weeks of ups and downs and unknowns in the special election for the 23rd congressional district of New York with conservative candidate Doug Hoffman losing to Democrat Bill Owens (one that which played out much like a political telanovela) analysts can agree on one absolute: we love drama. This …

As a former (recovering) professional magician, I’ve seen and perpetrated my share of sleight-of-hand. But I have never seen anything quite like the linguistic and budgetary legerdemain Democrats have performed to make President Obama’s health-care plan appear “affordable.” Congressional Democrats have been forced into such chicanery because of the price …

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:47:47 +0000 – By Kathleen Troia “K.T.” McFarlandNational Security Expert President Obama’s new policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan– or “Af/Pak” as it’s now known — is bound to drive the anti-war left and neo-con right wingers crazy … Because it both broadens and narrows the war. …

Christopher Hitchens is dead and it’s a loss. As a believer in both God and religion, it may come as a surprise to some that I mourn the loss of a man who not only wrote a book called “God Is Not Great,” but sub-titled it, “How Religion Poisons Everything.” …

The land of make believe where creatures of myth flourish – unicorns, ogres, dragons and fair journalists. Well, one of those seems mythical anyhow. Unicorns, ogres and dragons you can find aplenty on the network news shows. Fair journalists and the stories they should be covering, not so much. There …

On the same day President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., The Washington Post published a curious story by Anne E. Kornblut on the role religion plays in the Obama White House. If we’re to believe Kornblut and the long list of oh-so-helpful unnamed Obama advisers …

A State Department official has all but validated concerns that the Obama administration sees the United States as an unexceptional nation, morally equivalent to the world’s authoritarian countries and best served by self-loathing and supplication to tyrants for its purported sins. That is the implication of a dialogue between Assistant …

Rahm Emanuel is a legend in Washington politics. In many ways he reminds me of the late Lee Atwater, another legendary Washington political operator who was a Republican kingmaker in the 1980s. But here is a key difference between Emanuel and Atwater. Atwater never held elected office. Atwater was a …

As a former (recovering) professional magician, I’ve seen and perpetrated my share of sleight-of-hand. But I have never seen anything quite like the linguistic and budgetary legerdemain Democrats have performed to make President Obama’s health-care plan appear “affordable.” Congressional Democrats have been forced into such chicanery because of the price …

2009 was a heck of a year. Here are my five dramas, two surreal things and five of my preferred personal things. Strategic Dramas of 2009 1) In June, the Obama administration abandoned one million youth, boys and girls in the streets of Tehran and other cities facing the murderous …