Newsmax RSS FeedMon, 13 May 2013 09:31:43 EDT“There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy,” Obama told the United Nations last September 25.Mon, 06 May 2013 11:05:09 EDTNot recently, if ever, has a U.S. president put Americans in physical danger in order to score cheap partisan points. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:56:01 EDTThere are at least 7,518 reasons to get the U.S.-Mexican border under control. That equals the number of aliens apprehended in fiscal year 2011 from the four nations that federal officials label "state sponsors of terrorism" plus 10 "countries of interest."Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:37:53 EDTOne word kept popping into my head as I watched ‘42’: Gandhi. Warner Brothers’ fine new film vividly portrays how the Brooklyn Dodgers’ infielder Jackie Robinson used his athletic prowess to break baseball’s color barrier in 1947.Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:04:01 EDTThis week, like so many these days, began with more bad news. (To paraphrase the blues lyric, if it weren’t for bad news, there would be no news at all.) Baroness Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of Great Britain, succumbed to a stroke overnight. She was 87.Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:53:14 EDTIf President Obama wants to be grand marshal of a one-man parade against the Keystone XL pipeline, he’s doing a heckuva job.Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:41:43 EDTWhat have the Democrats done for you lately?” Republicans should start asking black Americans that question — early and often. Doing so could become the GOP’s secret weapon.Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:19:30 EDTSen. Marco Rubio’s speech to the just-concluded Conservative Political Action Conference pointed to what should be the American Right’s chief message on domestic affairs: Vibrant growth immediately must be restored to this country’s tepid economy. Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:57:09 EDTCourage, leadership, and stagecraft: These active ingredients would help congressional Republicans maximize their significant, if underused, powers.Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:31:07 EDTImagine that your boss nicked your pay by 2.4 percent. Would you dodge next month’s rent, skip your insulin purchases, and unplug your refrigerator to lower your power bill? Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:40:12 EDTHere is one thing that Obama should do to elevate America’s public discourse: Stop lying. Obama has been caught red-handed lying about the sequester, the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that commenced Feb. 29.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:29:38 EDTLet the Jews pay for it.” Are these words anti-Semitic? The U.S. Senate should consider this and many other disturbing statements by Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for defense secretary.Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:29:34 EDTAs Washington politicians aim to restrict the Second Amendment, they should look in the mirror. The time to control government’s guns is now.Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:38:07 EDTIn this winter of conservative discontent, one of the most dispiriting things is the congressional Republicans’ rampant timidity on spending reduction. They lack both urgency and creativity on how to handle one of America’s most enormous challenges.Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:36:55 EDTThe only thing more stunning than the kleptomania of tax-hiking politicians is their unswerving faith that taxpayers, especially wealthy ones, simply will smile and surrender even more of their money.Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:46:53 EDTTo update an old maxim: “He who bids to run away lives to flee another day.” This is now the congressional-Republican battle cry. When it comes to battling rampant federal spending, Republicans surrender more readily than French soldiers.Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:31:31 EDT"We don't have a spending problem." Those soothing words are apparently none other than President Barack Obama's. As The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore reported, House Speaker John Boehner says that Obama insisted to him that America has a problem with healthcare, not federal expenditures. Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:10:28 EDTIf frackophobes are to be believed, natural-gas fracking is the most frightful environmental nightmare since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear-power plant melted down amid an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:40:03 EDTRepublican Tim Scott on Thursday became a United States senator from South Carolina, 150 years to the week since Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:40:39 EDTRaul Castro is right. The powerful brother of dictator Fidel Castro is almost always wrong. But he was perfectly right when he told comrades in Camaguey, Cuba: “No country has the luxury of spending more than it has.”