Jan 30, 2009 – pre-emptive strikes, military might and bullying" is over and that the United States "led by President Obama will return to our national … NEW LEADER Speaking of political satirist Mark Russell, we see that he is the entertainment for Saturday's National Press Club … "People who work in television news are hardworking professionals.…

Jan 25, 2009 – General Drew Edmondson dismissed charges of “conspiracy to defraud the state” against the Oklahoma Three: Rick Carpenter, a Tulsa political … activist; Susan Johnson, head of National Voter Outreach, one of the country’s top petition management firms; and yours truly. … Instead, the state took a swipe at     • one local political activist,     • the head of a major petition company that had worked…

Jan 23, 2009 – main talking points, particularly among left-wing bloggers, was that Wurzelbacher was a tax cheat because, it was revealed by ABC News … My National Review colleague Byron York reports that, at least according to the World Bank, Geithner's "mistakes" are actually quite … Lindsey Graham, "These are not the times to think in small political terms."…

Jan 22, 2009 – Who in the National Cathedral's pews, President Obama and former President Bill Clinton included, wasn't stirred by Wednesday's … National Prayer Service rendition of “Amazing Grace” by Wintley Augustus Phipps? … us wondering whether it's worth listening to the endless drivel of political pundits who appear round-the-clock on the cable TV news…

Jan 21, 2009 – generous time estimates given the reality of molasses-slow bidding and contracting processes -- bogged down by the usual weight of political … Not to be left out, the National Endowment for the Arts is on the Santa stimulus list for an additional $50 million cash injection. … Kent Conrad told Bloomberg News that "his committee projects the plan will reduce the unemployment rate by 'maybe' 1 percent, or about…

Feb 8, 2009 – As John Cornyn (R-TX) said this morning on FOX News Sunday, "This bill is not an economic document, it's a political document. … alcohol and substance abuse reduction.• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National…

Feb 6, 2009 – director, Marcus Epstein; Peter Brimelow, the author of a seminal work on U.S. immigration, "Alien Nation"; Jim Pinkerton of Fox News … A news conference at the National Press Club, where the Times reporter failed to show, and release of a dry report by Epstein that … Both diatribes reveal much about the fall of a great newspaper and the degeneration of a political philosophy that was once hegemonic…

Feb 5, 2009 – embarrassingly tried to defend an appropriation in support of family planning services as somehow related to the economy, even a news … This didn’t get much national attention, but it just might when Congress considers another funding item in Washington, D.C. … (NAEP), a national standardized test.…

Feb 4, 2009 – This time, in the midst of the national publicity tour for his new book We Can Have Peace In The Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work, … And they made a simultaneous statement—the leader of Hamas, to Al Jazeera and a large collection of news media--that Hamas will accept … Danny’s murder would be a turning point in the history of man’s inhumanity to man, and that the targeting of innocents to transmit political…

Feb 2, 2009 – Let's take Michael Steele first, because he's the good guy and the good news. … On Friday the Republican National Committee, a group of 168 people who are largely the National Commiteeman, Committeewoman and State … That's the good news for the GOP. The bad news for the Democrats is Tom Daschle.…

Feb 19, 2009 – "People have been calling for national dialogues and conversations for decades. … Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, but "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other … Also, the Left has made convincing black Americans that white people hate them a bedrock part of their political strategy.…

Feb 18, 2009 – Is this an alarmist fret given Europe's 21st century political, economic and information connections? ... … News and World Report reported that the Obama administration's new director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, had identified … "The biggest challenge comes from the "unresolved political status of the Serb minority in Kosovo, particularly in northern Kosovo,…

Feb 17, 2009 – She described how stealth provisions provide massive new funding of billions of dollars to an Office of the National Coordinator of … Americans are waking up from their political anesthesia to realize that Obama's "change" really means government control over access … The news has spread like wildfire on the Internet and talk radio, and nonpolitical patients in doctors' waiting rooms can be heard…

Feb 17, 2009 – Just for beans, I Googled "free enterprise," then clicked on "news." Results: 11,303. … Ah, but "news" with "federal government" as the search item: 272,332. You see? … Federal spending, which accounts for 21 percent of the national wealth, is headed toward 30 percent.…

Feb 14, 2009 – From what I can tell from news reports about the contents of the final bill, it is clear that what really got stimulated over the past … When the pendulum finally swings back toward the economic and political values that made this nation great, I hope that Americans will … If we fail as a people to experience this epiphany, then it will take more than some messianic spin-doctor to save our national soul…

Feb 13, 2009 – even if it worked to stimulate the economy beyond the president's wildest expectations, it would cause a further explosion of the national … Twice during his tightly controlled prime-time marketing infomercial, billed as his first presidential news conference, he aimed partisan … He said, "First of all, when I hear that from folks who presided over a doubling of the national debt … I just want them to not engage…

Feb 13, 2009 – Capitol Hill to visit Republicans in their lair, even invited some of them to the White House, and they responded with "the usual political … "When I hear from folks who presided over a doubling of the national debt, then I just want them to not engage in some revisionist … When Fox News' Major Garrett quoted Joe Biden's remarks suggesting that the stimulus might not work -- "If we do everything right,…

Feb 11, 2009 – The president, who ran as a liberal, has filled out his government with appointees more in the political center." … Zinni, a former Bush administration envoy but an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, said he was told by Hillary Clinton, new National … But several days later, he said, Jones called him with news that the post would go instead to Christopher Hill, who had been handling…

Feb 26, 2009 – But "out there" in books, columns or blogs is not the same thing as breaking news, and that is what these ideas become when an international … political celebrity promotes them. … Lately, thanks to a series of nefarious governments' missteps and the boldness of a Dutch political "firebrand," this conversation…

Feb 24, 2009 – Still, Kaine's response introduced him to the nation, and helped propel him into becoming a national political figure.Three years later … news for his strong opposition to the stimulus.- Sarah Palin - Her charisma and high-profile land Sarah Palin on any short-list of … the leader of the so-called "Wal-Mart Republican" wing of the GOP.- Mike Huckabee - The former Arkansas governor's charisma and national…

Feb 24, 2009 – Duncan made news last year with his plan to open a "gay-friendly" public high school in Chicago with a curriculum teaching "the history … the stimulus is to create jobs, but Obama's photo-op to illustrate this at Caterpillar Tractor in Peoria, Ill., turned into a political … National television showed Obama speaking to some of the 20,000 whose jobs have been outsourced by Caterpillar and implied that the…

Feb 23, 2009 – The Tafts of Ohio come to mind, but there is no member of that clan currently bidding for national political prominence. … For all the perils of a political "dynasty," there is a good deal to be said for them. … So there is something to be said for political dynasties after all. They offer us a sense of security.…

Feb 23, 2009 – The Democratic National Committee has a new political director, Clyde Williams, who previously served as senior policy adviser … Republican Party, David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), is on tap to deliver a Tuesday address to the National … Press Club, discussing "the state of conservative activism" following the 2008 elections, previewing the Conservative Political Action…

Feb 23, 2009 – When was the last time you heard good news about our efforts in Iraq? … Thanks to a presidential election season that largely ignored national security and the War on Terror, a struggling U.S. and worldwide … *Mary Katharine Ham: Should Chicago political operatives really be running the Census Bureau?…

Mar 11, 2009 – Either that, or he decided that keeping an old political promise was more important than acknowledging new developments. … Bernadine Healy, director of the National Institutes of Health under the first President Bush, wrote in U.S. … News & World Report that these recent developments "reinforced the notion that embryonic stem cells ... are obsolete."…