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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:30:49 +0000 – This week the world’s klieg lights shone on President Obama–and so far, so good. I’m glad, not just because as an American, it makes me proud when our leaders do my country justice, but also because I’m a liberal who up to now …

Over and over again President Obama has promised not to “mess with” private insurance for those who are happy with what they currently have. When challenged, he dismisses it as mere “scare tactics and fear-mongering.” In an address to the American Medical Association in June, he accused his opponents: “let …

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:59:14 +0000 – By Dan Gainor Vice President Business Media Institute Size does matter and that makes this year’s gathering of conservatives in Washington all the more important. The Conservative Political Action Conference — CPAC for short — delivered record numbers of attendees for the annual …

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:30:38 +0000 – Christopher CoffeyRepublican Commentator With his massive wealth transfer proposals, it was hard not to view President Obama as a decent man who was inviting fiscal ruin with the best of intentions. That was until the Washington Times reported that he had secured a …

A recent Quinnipiac poll shows support for illegal immigrants at 48 percent, a historic low. This is what the president’s cynical manipulation of the Hispanic community has delivered: a hardening of American attitudes. The same distancing will likely occur between blacks and whites as the demonstrations over the grand jury …

There are so many ways to make the most of the leftovers from your Thanksgiving table. From the classic turkey sandwich (add a bit of cranberry sauce and a dab of spicy mustard!), to leftover sweet potatoes, which can easily be turned into amazing gnocchi with the addition of some …

Only 20% of the country has a “great deal” of confidence that the federal government will be able to prevent a widespread Ebola outbreak here in the United States, according to recent Pew poll. This is not so surprising. Over the past several years the country has been treated to …

Dear Mr. President, It’s been quite a summer. The world is not a pretty place right now but I see you have had a chance to play golf. In fact you’ve played golf through the worst of it. Right after announcing that American journalist James Foley had been beheaded. Now …

With the commencement of American and allied Arab air strikes inside Syria, the United States again finds itself embroiled in a Mideast war – despite the initial reluctance of President Obama and his aides to embrace that terminology. The length of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has left not …

I was only 5-years-old, but I remember well the cold, dreary Sunday, December 7 in 1941, when our family gathered around my Granddaddy’s big floor model radio to listen to the news that the Japanese Imperial Air Force had attacked the United States naval facilities in Pearl Harbor. That’s the …