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Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:16:09 +0000 – President Obama says he screwed up with the Senator Tom Daschle’s nomination. The issue is not his screw up or Senator Daschle’s but what this really means. Senator Daschle had decades of public service and this yelping by the conservatives shows their hypocrisy. …

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas plans to order 1,000 National Guard troops to his state’s border with Mexico in an effort to stem the tide of immigrants illegally entering from Central America, dispersing around the country once they’ve made it into Texas. Critics will call it a stunt and accuse …

Buffeted by slow growth and too few jobs, Americans now have to deal with more inflation. In May, consumer prices rose at more than a 4 percent annual pace, and inflation has been heating up the last several months. Rapid growth in China is boosting demand for agricultural products, and …

On Wednesday evening, May 7, I will be joining former Governor Mike Huckabee, Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), pastors Jim Garlow and Dan Cummins, Tony Perkins, and others in Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol for an event called “Washington: A Man of Prayer.” This event, …

The next president will face a series of tough foreign policy decisions. How should America manage challenges from fast-rising China and respond to changes in the heart of Europe? What to do about ISIS? Should America become more involved in Iraq? Or Syria? Or Ukraine? What about Iran? Should Washington …

No one knows what will happen in Egypt in the next few days — will the Mubarak government succeed in clamping down on demonstrators and put an end to the reform movement? With his speech on Friday, explaining that he’s asked his cabinet to resign, will Mubarak’s moves quell the …

Fifty years ago, no one could have conceived of an invention as revolutionary as the Internet, let alone the iPad. But neither would anyone then have guessed that educational progress would remain stagnant for the next half century. Since the 1960’s, academic achievement has remained relatively flat. In fact, American …

Mocking Jesus of Nazareth is nothing new. Whether it is today’s Lady Gaga or a “Hunky Jesus” contest in San Francisco, Jesus has been the subject of ridicule by those who do not know Him. Even on the day we call Good Friday, the day he hung on a cross …

There has been no recovery in the job market during the Obama recovery. Despite all the cheerleading by the Obama administration and the media, job creation has been horribly sluggish. The jobs created recently are noteworthy only in comparison to the lack of jobs created during the rest of the …

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s choice to skip this year’s State of the Union Address after President Obama rebuked a Supreme Court decision in his 2010 address might have made Thomas Jefferson grin and say: “I told you so.” Today’s media-driven, theatrical State of the Union address is a far …