Newsmax RSS FeedThu, 16 May 2013 11:09:04 EDTBreaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.Tue, 14 May 2013 11:04:31 EDTThis, we are supposed to accept, is the conclusion to be drawn about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, despite congressional testimony Wednesday suggesting that significant efforts were made to camouflage those mistakes.Wed, 08 May 2013 10:08:13 EDTEnough with this "enough" business. Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz — the conservative Texas senator who happens to be of Hispanic descent.Tue, 07 May 2013 13:22:27 EDTThey lost me at the word "women." As so often happens with contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly younger) to buy the "morning-after pill" without adult supervision are false on their premise. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:16:48 EDTIn a reprieve from the horror of the most recent terrorist attack, the nation's attentions turned to the man who declared the war on terrorism, George W. Bush.Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:28:22 EDTAs the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief.Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:25:04 EDTYou know the feeling. You wake up filled with dread but, still groggy, you can't put your finger on the reason. Possibilities flitter across the landscape of near-consciousness: An exam? A deadline? A speech? What day is it?Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:00:10 EDTThe recent kerfuffle over a secret recording of Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign strategy meeting, which focused on opposition research about a likely opponent, actress Ashley Judd, has divided observers into two groups.Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:32:07 EDTThe biggest obstacle to the Obama administration's push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown.Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:34:36 EDTThe striking juxtaposition of the preternaturally perfect Angelina Jolie, waifish and wispy in a ghostly gown, and the scrappy Pakistani schoolgirl Malala, her face cruelly misshapen by the effects of a Taliban bullet to the head, captures the confluence of feminine power assembled here.Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:21:12 EDTIt isn't often that one gets to hear both the strains of "Dixie" and an African drum concert in the same public square. Nor, usually, are statue unveilings the riveting stuff of storytelling.Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:23:38 EDTNo matter what Barack Obama does, he cannot escape the shadow of his former political opponent. Hillary Clinton, back from her global travels visiting places and peoples hardly heard of on this continent, is stealing the spotlight without even touching the stage.Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:16:28 EDTThe recent rape conviction of two teenagers, one of whom also distributed a photo and sent cruel text messages about their victim, has captured the "bystander effect" in graphic and nauseating detail. Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:34:09 EDTAll things considered, I'd rather be in Rome. Isn't everyone? Tout le journalism monde has descended on Rome since Pope Benedict XVI's surprise retirement last month.Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:29:27 EDTThe media love optics and no one understands this better than President Obama. Thus, he invited a gang of Republican senators to din-dins at the swank (and legendary) Jefferson Hotel, one of the city's more discreet (and expensive) gathering places.Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:05:27 EDTExcuse me while I roll my eyes over the latest "mommy war." It's not that I don't care about the substance, but because I've lived long enough to know how it turns out. Some wars can't be won because to the victor go spoils no one really wants.Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:51:00 EDTTo the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in. This would be an oversight.Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:24:24 EDTIf second-term presidents feel liberated by re-election to pursue bolder agendas, first ladies often become more comfortable to be their own person. Witness Laura Bush, who in her husband's second term discovered that she, too, had a voice and a bully pulpit.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:14:34 EDTFirst they came for the drones. No, not the unmanned kind that kill strangers from a safe distance but the sort who sit in meeting rooms and repeat slogans until they absorb the proper way of thinking.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:16:34 EDTRINO hunting, the long-popular political sport that morphed in 2008 into a sort of hysteria-driven obsession, lately has become a suicide mission.