'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
It's a pricey policy landscape. According to National Taxpayers Union Foundation's line-by-line analysis of President Obama's most expensive State of the Union address yet: his 40 proposals weighed in at $83.4 billion worth of quantifiable agenda items. But wait. That could balloon to $100.4 billion, depending on how Mr. Obama deals with the looming sequester March 1.
A Reason-Rupe survey reveals that 52 percent of respondents agreed that "elected officials are exploiting the [Newtown] tragedy for political reasons." Naturally, there's a partisan divide.
Oh, the loneliness of the long-distance president: The topic of President Obama's chilly isolation in the White House generated much buzz in the last 24 hours after he was asked about his socializing habits, or lack thereof, during a news conference. Yet the very same topic came up before Mr. Obama even entered office four years ago.
Radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham soon will be back on the air after taking a short break.
Radio talk show host Laura Ingraham will soon be back on the air after taking a short break.
Conservative radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham is off the air — at least temporarily.
Brace for impact: Time magazine's annual search for the Person of the Year is under way, seeking the person, idea or entity that most influenced the news in 2012.
Radio talk show host Laura Ingraham is off the air _ at least temporarily.
I'm fed up with all the Republican talking heads and wannabes trashing Mitt Romney and even former President George W. Bush ("Top Republicans say Romney didn't offer specifics," Web, Nov. 15). Why not talk behind the scenes of your opinions and suggestions rather than giving sound bites to the left? The answer: These people are out for themselves, whether for political gain or personal adoration.
Woe is us. But next time, the woe will be for the other guys. Keeping that in mind is the secret of surviving the morning after. Losing an election always hurts; winning hurts the other guys, which is why winning is so sweet. This one hurts conservatives a lot, and it’s particularly painful for those with unrealistic great expectations.
Jim Lehrer may be regretting his decision to come out of semi-retirement and moderate his 12th presidential debate.
Serious research from the Weather Channel reveals that lousy weather on Election Day could impact turnout for a "substantial" number of voters, with the most dithering among undecided voters.
For a couple of years now, I have been talking about the Kultursmog, the utterly polluted state of our political culture. Those who pollute it are liberals. Kultursmog is the only form of pollution they approve of, but they approve of it mightily, and, of course, they are the chief contributors to its noxious fumes. Now they are using it to kill off an American value prized by millions of Americans down through the centuries: free speech. As I say in another context, we are watching the death of liberalism.
It isn't what you say that counts, but who you say it about.
She said Tuesday that she's leaving her distributor, Talk Radio Network, after more than nine years because her contract is up.
Laura Ingraham: Conservative talk-show host off the air for now →
Miss Ingraham said she is in discussions with other distributors about her show, which currently airs on 325 stations nationally.
Laura Ingraham: Conservative talk-show host off the air for now →
