Hugh Hewitt: The GOP’s Need for Speed

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The GOP’s Need for Speed
by Hugh Hewitt
Mike Pence gets it.
In an interview with CNBC –picked up by The Hill– the House GOP’s number three gave the explicit assurance that a return to the majority for Republicans would mean an extension of the tax cuts.
“Well, we’re going to stay focused on Election Day. But [...]

Dick Morris & Eileen McGann: How Republicans Will Win the Senate

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How Republicans Will Win the Senate
by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
It gets tiresome hearing the conventional wisdom say that the Democrats will likely keep control of the Senate. Far from it.
To gain control, Republicans must win 10 new seats. An analysis of the latest polling data suggests that Republicans currently hold the lead [...]

Thomas Sowell: The Mosque Controversy

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The Mosque Controversy
by Thomas Sowell
The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story middle finger to America.
It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious, so it is not surprising that the intelligentsia are out in force, decrying those [...]

William Wilson: The Real “Radicals”

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The Real “Radicals”
by William Wilson
There was a time in the not-too-distant past – 234 years ago to be precise – when the ideas articulated by the Tea Party movement would have rightly been considered “radical.”
Not just radical in their ideological composition, either, but radical in the more “irrational” sense – in that advancing [...]

Charles Krauthammer: The last refuge of a liberal

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The last refuge of a liberal
By Charles Krauthammer
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy [...]

Victor Davis Hanson: The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer

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The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer
by Victor Davis Hanson
Historian Barbara Tuchman characterized the events leading up to World War I as the “Guns of August.”While there is no statistical evidence that wars break out any more often in late summer than in other seasons, the world was torn apart twice during the [...]

Michelle Malkin: The White House War on Jobs

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The White House War on Jobs
by Michelle Malkin
The “Summer of Recovery” is looking more and more like the Beltway Chainsaw Massacre for America’s workers. As President Obama lolls on Martha’s Vineyard with his well-heeled Chicago pals, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 72 percent of people are very worried about joblessness and 67 [...]

Donald Lambro: It’s the Economy, Dems

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It’s the Economy, Dems
by Donald Lambro
The economy is tanking. Economists say it has slowed to a near comatose 1.5 percent growth rate, unemployment claims were at a nine-month high and jobs are scarce, yet President Obama is focusing on corporate campaign donations.
While the economy is the clear overriding issue in the midterm elections, [...]

Michael Barone: Stimulus and Health Care Have Democrats on Defensive

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Stimulus and Health Care Have Democrats on Defensive
by Michael Barone
Like many Democrats over the past 40 years, Barack Obama has hoped that his association with unpopular liberal positions on cultural issues would be outweighed by pushing economic policies intended to benefit the ordinary person.
In his campaign in 2008 and as president in 2009 [...]

Linda Chavez: Out of Touch

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Out of Touch
by Linda Chavez

His supporters are genuinely puzzled at President Obama’s slip in popularity. They’re racking their brains to explain how a man who swept into the Oval Office on a tide of good will could have fallen so low. According to recent polls, most Americans now disapprove of [...]