Newsmax RSS FeedThu, 13 Jun 2013 15:57:36 EDTSo it seems we have now gone from the case of the lone 20-something gunman in the 1960s to the lone 20-something "leaker" of the 2010s. Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:09:05 EDTMany in the media are already castigating conservatives and Republicans for overreaching and overacting to what some are dubbing IRS-Gate.Thu, 30 May 2013 09:44:23 EDTLast week, I listened to a loud, obnoxious woman interrupt the president of the United States numerous times during a speech on national security. She is the leader of the group Code Pink. Fri, 03 May 2013 09:27:05 EDTAn ABC News-Washington Post survey shows that well over 70 percent of Americans want the surviving accused bomber of the Boston Marathon to be executed if found guilty in a court of law. Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:07:08 EDTMention his name to most Washington, D.C., insiders and plenty of his GOP colleagues, and you will hear everything from "frustrating" to "crazy." But Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky might be just conventionally unconventional enough to stun his party and the nation in 2016.Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:08:09 EDTMention his name to most Washington, D.C., insiders and plenty of his GOP colleagues, and you will hear everything from "frustrating" to "crazy." But Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky might be just conventionally unconventional enough to stun his party and the nation in 2016.Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:07:48 EDTIf you are over the age of 49, you need to take the story of a comedian and a hopelessly lost television network seriously. And even if you are younger, it's worth considering that you likely hope to live way past 49, as well.Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:48:26 EDTIn choosing Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to become its next Pope, the Catholic Church offers those of us who are a part of its membership, and the rest of the world as well, the hope of a spiritual leader who can rekindle the common touch for which Pope John Paul II was so beloved.Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:35:05 EDTBeing a native of Atlanta, I always resented media depictions and popular culture images of Georgia as a state where everyone wore overalls, had three teeth in their head, and liberally used terms like "ain't" and "gonna" in their daily vocabulary.Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:41:46 EDTThe Wall Street Journal of Feb. 27 tells the story in its own headlines. On page C1, the story was, "JPMorgan Pulls Belt Tight," while on C3 the headline read, "Wall Street's Bonus Pool Hits $20 Billion." If that doesn't describe this crazy false recovery we are allegedly undergoing, nothing does.Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:49:09 EDTOf course, just like the "fiscal cliff" we never jumped off of, the nation will likely never see the so-called "sequester" or "automatic sequential budget cuts" that were agreed to by President Obama and Congress in the fall of 2011 come to fruition in March.Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:22:53 EDTNow we have literally seen it all. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida takes a few sips of water in delivering the Republican response to the State of the Union address, and it becomes the coldest "splash" the media have allegedly seen in years.Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:27:55 EDTFor most in the political commentary business, labels come and go. I've read reactions to columns throwing about labels like "RINO" (Republican in Name Only) and "Establishment," coupled with others using terms like "radical," "ultraconservative" and "Neanderthal."Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:34:24 EDTShazam! Gomer Pyle, USMC, in his 80s, just got married to some guy from Hawaii; some player from Notre Dame had a dead virtual girlfriend who really wasn't alive; and the media are reporting that we've been out of the recession since March of 2009. Well as Gomer would have said, "Golly!"Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:21:57 EDTSpeaker John Boehner finally declared last week that President Obama's goal over the next few years is to "annihilate" the GOP. Wow, he finally figured that out.Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:35:46 EDTPresident Obama in his inaugural address made it clear he intends to protect the nation's entitlement programs. In the world of Washington politics, this amounts to a pledge that the president will make sure that no changes will be made to programs like Social Security and Medicare.Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:19:09 EDTIt's always funny when I'm in Washington to see the staffers, aides, lobbyists and elected officials as they do their thing. Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:25:43 EDTFor years now, we've heard from all types, ranging from the "over-informed" to the just plain ignorant, claiming that under President Obama the nation isn't just moving toward "socialism," but rather in a direction in which liberty truly disappears quickly and tyranny creeps in and takes its place.Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:20:22 EDTFor my money, the single most talented voice in the modern history of talk radio is retiring later this month. Not "one of" the most talented — the most talented.Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:53:36 EDTOh, the carnage. President Barack Obama played his cards masterfully, as the Republican Party once again caved in one of his endless games of legislative chicken.