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Soft on Terror
by Charles Krauthammer
The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration — but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came [...]

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Obama’s Populist Impersonation of Truman Can’t Possibly Work
by Michael Medved
Barack Obama’s embarrassing new attempt to channel Harry Truman with his angry populist appeals is doomed to failure for three reasons: wrong guy, wrong Congress and wrong country.
Wrong Guy. Everything about the real Harry Truman made him a perfect representative of the little guy: [...]

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Great Scott!
by Thomas Sowell
Some of the most melancholy letters and e-mails that are sent to me are from people who lament that there is nothing they can do about the bad policies that they see ruining this country. They don’t have any media outlet for their opinions and the letters they send to [...]

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After Massachusetts, What’s Next for the GOP?
by Star Parker
Have you ever watched as a dear friend becomes smitten with someone you know is not for them?
You listen as they swear how Mr. or Ms. Right has finally arrived, wondering how they cannot see the obvious. Your only option is to watch and wait [...]

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That Old Obama Magic is Back
by Ann Coulter
Once again, the people have spoken, and this time they quoted what Dick Cheney said to Pat Leahy.
Less than two weeks ago, The New York Times said that so much as a “tighter-than-expected” victory for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley would incite “soul-searching among Democrats [...]

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The Democrats’ Massachusetts Meltdown
by Michelle Malkin
By early afternoon on Tuesday, several hours before the polls closed on the special Senate election in Massachusetts, the Democrats had already thrown in the towel and started throwing punches. At each other. There was more finger-pointing among Bay State and Beltway Democrats than in a “Three Stooges” [...]

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Dems’ Lock on Senate Is Mixed Blessing for Obama
by Michael Barone
Year One of the Obama administration ends Wednesday. Another era may come to an end the day before, when Massachusetts voters — or at least those of them motivated enough to vote — choose a senator to fill the three years remaining [...]

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Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On
by George Will
You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving badly and you are thinking: Really, things cannot continue like this.
Washington feels that way on the rare and fleeting occasions when it [...]

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Leader Hints At New “Contract With America”
by Jillian Bandes
Heading into the 2010 mid-term elections, House Republicans want to re-focus their efforts towards providing solutions to failed Democratic policies. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), has said that could include a new version of the the 1994 “Contract with America,” which led to Republican [...]

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Harry Reid’s Negro Problem
by Ann Coulter
The recently released book Game Change reports that Sen. Harry Reid said America would vote for Barack Obama because he was a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
The book also says Bill Clinton called Sen. Ted Kennedy to ask for his endorsement [...]