By Joseph Curl
Spoiler alert: The IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal — they go nowhere. In September, we'll all be looking back thinking, "Huh, that was a big waste of time." It will be — in fact, it already is. Published May 19, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Call it "Oval Office Couch Syndrome." By the second term "inside the bubble," presidents have completely lost touch with reality. Published May 12, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Like rats abandoning a sinking ship, Senate Democrats are furiously fleeing the coming disaster that is "Obamacare." Published May 5, 2013
By Joseph Curl
President Obama's charm offensive has been a dismal failure. Of course, he didn't really try all that hard. He bought dinner for a few Republican lawmakers, vowed to meet them halfway, but within a week — after his gun-grab bill went up in flames — he called them "liars" and stomped off in a huff, taking his ball with him. Published April 28, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Shortly after Barack Obama was elected in 2008, a fellow reporter who'd covered President George W. Bush all eight years told me she'd had enough of the travel and stress and strain of the White House beat, that she was moving on. Published April 25, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Moore's Law states that computer processors double in complexity and speed every two years. A similar law applies to news: Call it the Law of More. Published April 21, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Sometimes, the nation's reporters perform their duties to the highest degree: They root out corruption, uncover scandal, speak truth to power. But increasingly, America's "journalists" are falling well short of what the founders envisioned when they sought to ensure a democracy kept honest by a free and vibrant press. Published April 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked members of the Capitol Police to help out her suffering staffers who had to wait in long security lines to get to their office. Published April 11, 2013
By Joseph Curl
President Obama had another tough week in a second term already filled with bad news and blunders — and he's only 10 weeks in. Published April 7, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Being president of the U.S., the most powerful man in the world, is often most about perception. But something remarkable has happened with these occupants of the White House: Neither President Obama nor first lady Michelle appear to give a damn about perception. Published March 31, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Joseph R. Biden took the vice presidential gig, after something like 87 years in the Senate, because he knew in his tiny heart of hearts that that was the end of the line. Published March 24, 2013
By Joseph Curl
After back-to-back drubbings in presidential elections, the Grand Old Party is deep in contemplation — navel-gazing, really — over what went wrong and, more, what to do about what went wrong. Published March 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Rep. Paul Ryan says he won't run for House speaker, but he could very well run for president in 2016. Published March 11, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Sometimes, when you least expect it, Washington can be surprising. Published March 10, 2013
By Joseph Curl
No one can continue to assert that President Obama is simply incompetent. Yes, he is indeed that. But that was all before the "sequester." Published March 3, 2013
