OBAMA'S FOOLISH FOREIGN RX

By RICH LOWRY

IN their litany of US presi dents who met with hostile dictators, supporters of Bar ack Obama cite John Kennedy and his meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. They leave out...more >

By RALPH PETERS

DO we still have troops in Iraq? Is there still a conflict over there? If you rely on the so-called mainstream media, you may have difficulty answering those questions these days. As Iraqi and...more >

CORY BOOKER'S NEWARK BARGAIN

By HOWARD HUSOCK

THE welfare reform of the '90s was the most important so cial-policy change in the United States in recent decades. But it was, in a key way, narrow: It focused on women - that is, on getting...more >

By THOMAS SOWELL

THE great Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catchword could stop people from thinking for 50 years. The big catchword this election year is "change" - and it has...more >

By GEORGE F. WILL

May 19, 2008 - WOMEN, we are told by some people who say they know them, are not amused. Women supposedly think that the impatience with the protracted futility of more >

BUILD OUT MIDTOWN NOW

By CHARLES SCHUMER

May 19, 2008 - IN the information age, office buildings are our factories. Within their walls, every day, ideas and capital are generated in sectors ranging from finance to advertising to publishing to high...more >

By DEROY MURDOCK

May 19, 2008 - TODAY, Americans finally will start working for themselves rather than for their government masters. This milestone arrives two days later than in 2007, clearly proving that the era of big government...more >

HEZ HUMILIATES GOV'T AND US

By AMIR TAHERI

May 19, 2008 - 'RWANDA on the Mediterranean!" That's how some Bei rut residents described Lebanon's prospects last week, as Hezbollah gunmen went on the rampage in Sunni Muslim districts and...more >

May 18, 2008 -

Oh, snap!

The Cato Institute (cato.org) has put out its spring letter, and P.J. O'Rourke is in it...more >

HOW AN OUT-OF-CONTROL MEDIA INDICTED NIXON WITHOUT A TRIAL

By JAMES ROSEN

May 18, 2008 - Swarmed by photographers, former Attorney General John Mitchell - once President Nixon's closest adviser, an awesome figure, with his wintry demeanor and trademark pipe, throughout the capital -...more >

FACED WITH DISASTER IN THE FALL, REPUBLICANS ARE MOROSE

By PEGGY NOONAN

May 18, 2008 - Big picture, May 2008: The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving...more >

BUY COFFEE? WATCH TV? SURPRISE! YOU’RE PAYING FOR THE ELECTION

By REED TUCKER

May 18, 2008 - You can vote as much as you want (and in Chicago, some people do), but the sad truth is that money probably has a greater influence on our democracy than "we, the people." So I began to...more >

CARTOONIST MIKE RAMIREZ COLORS OUTSIDE THE LINES

By KYLE SMITH

May 18, 2008 - Michael Ramirez has been fired by the Los Angeles Times, sweated by cops, denounced by politicians and pursued by the Secret Service. He gets death threats. But it comes with the territory. He's...more >

By ROBERT D. NOVAK

May 17, 2008 - AGENTS for Sen. Hill ary Clinton, trying desperately to keep alive her presidential campaign, are privately telling Democrats that she is so "tight" with a dollar that she...more >