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EDITORIAL: Declaring independence
In the summer of 1776, the date when independence was publicly declared depended on where you lived. Back in the ...
EDITORIAL: Voices of liberty
Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will ...
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Cap and traitors
Conservative activists are angry at eight Republican members of the House of Representatives for voting in favor of the American ...
Fred L. Smith Jr. and William Yeatman
Welcome to ObamaCare Theater
The White House sure likes to put on a show. Fresh off its joint stage production with ABC News, the ...
Michelle Malkin
The 'moderate' Taliban
For the past five years, President Hamid Karzai has been trying negotiation and reconciliation with the "moderate Taliban" to resolve ...
Hassina Sherjan
Wrong-turn Obama
It took the Obama administration less than eight hours to side with Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua's ...
Oliver North
New worries in suburbia
Soon after the end of the Cold War, I met a young Russian who had been a member of the ...
Edward Goldberg

Why we need better ships
Congressional testimony by the leadership of the U.S. Navy has crystallized key issues facing the seagoing service.
Adm. James Lyons

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EDITORIAL: Passing unread laws
This weekend's Fourth of July festivities celebrated the birth of representative government in America. As the Declaration of Independence set ...
EDITORIAL: A stimulus for the rich
President Obama billed the stimulus package as a national effort, one that would involve spending "in communities across America." But ...
EDITORIAL: Putting a chill on bank transparency
Banking industry experts are warning about the economic dangers of U.S. lawmakers making confidential Federal Reserve information public. The concern ...
Commentary
Bad news on job front
After nine months of explosive monetary and fiscal stimulus, you would think economic recovery would be upon us. But the ...
Lawrence Kudlow

GOP finds a hot button
Republican prospects in next year's Senate races are not good, with most analysts forecasting deeper Republican losses, though they could ...
Donald Lambro
U.S. armed forces stretched thin
Today, U.S. forces are smaller and stretched even further around the world. The U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, for instance, ...
Richard Halloran
Obama isn't cool -- the globe is
President Obama was supposed to be "cool." But he isn't. He's square. Not just mildly so, but embarrassingly square.
Mark Steyn

BOOK REVIEW: Damned by 'those in the know'?
Reading CNN producer Suzanne Simons' "Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War," it becomes apparent ...

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EDITORIAL: Green light to bomb Iran
Even the Saudis know something has to be done to stop Iran's nuclear program.
EDITORIAL: Return of the Black Panther
Rarely does the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights vote unanimously on anything.
EDITORIAL: Robert S. McNamara, RIP
Of the many stories being told after Robert S. McNamara's passing Monday at age 93, we are reminded of his ...
Commentary

Sarah agonistes
Professional politicians and political journalists don't waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy -- positive or negative -- ...
Tony Blankley
Post-election showdown
There is no time to lose. The Islamic Republic is derailed and must get back on track. The recent election ...
Asieh Mir
Like a collapsed souffle
The soon-to-be former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is like one of those souffles my mother sometimes made. The recipe ...
Cal Thomas

No easy answers
The Obama administration waited until 5:45 p.m. on a Friday in late June to float the idea that it is ...
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Charles D. Stimson

BOOK REVIEW: Revering human decency
For even the most assiduous reader of literary fiction, the list of great German 20th-century writers generally begins with Thomas ...
What's at stake
As he proposes further, dramatic cuts in and otherwise weakens the United States' nuclear arsenal, it's your deterrent that is ...
Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
Editorials
EDITORIAL: America in Vietnam
Few Americans have heard of Bien Hoa, but the Vietnam War started there 50 years ago today. At the time, ...
EDITORIAL: Get Smart
The House Intelligence Committee is working to give more lawmakers access to secret information about covert operations. This undermines the ...
EDITORIAL: Sotomayor plays the race card
A biased judge should not be promoted to a higher court. Yet the Obama administration has not been able to ...
Commentary

Responsible for those in custody
The effort to end rape in U.S. prisons and jails has emerged as an unlikely unifier of civil society in ...
Lovisa Stannow

The expanding Fed role
Why is it that those who specialize in individual athletic events hold almost all the records as contrasted with those ...
Richard W. Rahn

You can't go home again?
UPDATED: Costa Rican President Oscar Arias reportedly will negotiate a resolution of the impasse between the ousted president of Honduras ...
Diana Villiers Negroponte
Chaos theory -- and practice
It must be comfortable over there on the wrong side of history, because President Obama seems to have settled in ...
Monica Crowley

BOOK REVIEW: His Princeton years, with venom
Twenty years ago, I was an editor at the Wilson Quarterly. One day, I spent a half-hour filling in for ...
Martin Morse Wooster

Editorials
EDITORIAL: Dancing with the bear
President Obama went to Moscow this week to hit the reset button with Russia, but he invoked the Stalin era ...
EDITORIAL: The fate of FedEx
Senators are considering a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration that could foul up overnight delivery for medical patients, ...
EDITORIAL: Rewriting economic history
"It was only after the [fourth]-quarter numbers came in ... that suddenly everybody looked and said the economy shrank 6 ...
Commentary

Bring on the balloons
You took a fine time to leave us, Sarah. Can't you imagine Kenny Rogers singing about it? "We've had some ...
Suzanne Fields
Could prove a health hazard
Most of us are familiar with the old expressions. Look before you leap. A stitch in time saves nine. If ...
Cal Thomas

BOOK REVIEW: Private schooling for the poor
It's not hard to understand why the affluent might choose to send their offspring to private school, especially when the ...
Marcus Winters
Israeli know-how
He speaks like an American, looks like an American, and acts like an American -- because he is American-born. He ...
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Recession tea leaves 'misread'
The Obama administration's latest lame excuse for its failed stimulus spending plan is that it underestimated the severity of the ...
Donald Lambro
Editorials
EDITORIAL: Rockets' red scare
Americans will celebrate their freedom on Independence Day with a certain irony tomorrow. Not all Americans have the freedom to ...
EDITORIAL: Our Declaration of Independence
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...
EDITORIAL: July 4 tea parties
The tea party movement has become more than a one-time tax protest. The grass-roots political crusade is growing and expanding. ...
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Government growth challenges liberty
As any schoolchild could tell you, our Founders rebelled against British rule because they wanted to escape a too-intrusive government. ...
Carrie Lukas
Cap-and-trade's sucker punch
The recently passed House bill on global warming is a 1,500-page political sucker punch that could give family finances a ...
Jay Ambrose
None dare call it Marxism
All right already. I won't call President Obama a Marxist in this column. Instead, I'll point to some signs that ...
David Limbaugh
Grouchy gaucho on no trail of lust
As loyal readers of this column no doubt noticed - and let me just say you are half a dozen ...
Reg Henry
Drug cartels control crossings
Judging from recent reports by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), you could come to the conclusion that Mexican drug ...
Terence P. Jeffrey

Outsiders plot their own 'coup'
News that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post and spirited out of the country by the Honduran ...
Mona Charen

Croatia's leader resigns
Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader unexpectedly resigned Wednesday. The news shook Croatia's political class to its very foundations.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner
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G-8 focuses on continent
When the Group of Eight industrialized democracies meet each year, the topics usually ...
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Mr. Obama goes to Moscow
President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed in principle Monday to cut ...
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