Harry Reid’s anti-Koch crusade eats up precious Senate time
by Byron York • Washington Examiner If you’re sick of cynicism in politics, you might want to avert your eyes from the Senate for the next…
Affordable Care Act’s Own Words Should Be Its Undoing
Las Vegas Review-Journal The Democrats who forced the Affordable Care Act on the American public are predictably outraged that Obamacare appears headed back before the U.S. Supreme Court for another…
Empty Rhetoric is Fleeting and is Not Leadership
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The inclination to uncontrollable urge for verbal diarrhea, motivated by narcissism and shallow intellectual abilities and not by wisdom and experience, is the ubiquitous attribute…
IRS experts: Lois Lerner hard drive was just ‘scratched’ — not damaged beyond recovery
by Byron York Top IRS officials told congressional investigators that Lois Lerner’s hard drive — the one containing emails that could shed light on the IRS targeting scandal — was…
Tea party groups’ suit against IRS moves forward
Tea party groups’ lawsuit against IRS over reported extra scrutiny moves forward by Amanda Lee Myers A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit by 10 tea party groups to move…
Liberalism as an Instrument of Coercion
by Michael Barone Liberals just aren’t very liberal these days. The word “liberal” comes from the Latin word meaning freedom, and in the 19th century, liberals in this country and…
Selling Obamacare
The weird, misleading propaganda behind the federal health care law by Mark Hemingway It might seem odd that Joanna Coles, editor in chief of Cosmopolitan, was invited to the White…
The Left’s Assault on the First Amendment
Congress has too much power already; it should not have the power to silence citizens. by Ted Cruz For two centuries there has been bipartisan agreement that American democracy depends…
Speaking Freely at the University of Minnesota
by Carl M. Cannon I still think of myself as a reporter—my role for three decades—although as Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics, the bulk of my job these days is…
Harry Reid Abuses Power to Slander Private Citizens
What protections are there for the tax-paying American citizen from a tyrannical bully if that bully happens to be a member of Congress using his powerful position to slander, smear…
The Silencing of Global Warming Critics
The rigid tone, blind appeal to authority and constant use of the terms “denier” and “settled debate” do not reflect true scientific thought or serve the public well. by Cory…
The Left’s Thought Police Force
Each week seems to bring another incident. Who will the thought police come for next? by Kirsten Powers Welcome to the Dark Ages, Part II. We have slipped into an…
The Left Mistakes 8 Million “Sign-Ups” as Happiness with Obamacare
Just because people have purchased something — in the case of Obamacare, under penalty of law — doesn’t mean they like it. by Byron York There’s been a dramatic turnaround…
A Selfie-Taking, Hashtagging Teenage Administration
The Obama crowd too often responds to critics and to world affairs like self-absorbed adolescents. by Eliot A. Cohen As American foreign policy continues its long string of failures—not a…
I Checked My Privilege, And It’s Doing Just Fine
by Kurt Schlichter Liberals have a new word for what normal people call “success.” They call it “privilege,” as if a happy, prosperous life is the result of some magic process…