Newsmax RSS FeedTue, 18 Jun 2013 16:07:37 EDTRich Lowry, editor of the National Review and Fox News contributor, has authored the new bestseller “Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream -- and How We Can Do It Again.”Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:24:40 EDTCongress is boring. It can't even make new false promises. On border security, it keeps making the same assurances.Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:32:04 EDTThe Internal Revenue Service hadn't spoken four sentences about its targeting of conservative groups before it blamed "our line people in Cincinnati."Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:10:26 EDTBefore Barack Obama became president, he reveled in the irresponsibility of his powerlessness. He could denounce Bush administration counterterrorism initiatives from a glorious position of civil-libertarian purity and posit the need to strike a perfect balance "between privacy and security."Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:37:26 EDTWhen Barack Obama announced his presidential campaign back in February 2007, he did it in front of the old Springfield, Ill., statehouse in a speech full of references to Abraham Lincoln.Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:17:49 EDTWhat you are now hearing across the land is a collective whine. Blue-state Democrats are upset that Texas Gov. Rick Perry dares come and play in their sandboxes, and worse, threatens to "poach" jobs from their states.Fri, 31 May 2013 10:34:53 EDTIt is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration — the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservatives — is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over their fellow citizens.Thu, 30 May 2013 10:41:59 EDTPresident Barack Obama has been mocked for learning about untoward conduct in his administration from the press. But he's on the ball compared with his attorney general, who wouldn't know about his own poor judgment without reading about it in the papers.Fri, 24 May 2013 15:54:20 EDTOn "Fox News Sunday" recently, White House aide Dan Pfeiffer was asked about President Barack Obama's whereabouts the night of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi.Thu, 23 May 2013 10:40:02 EDTPresident Barack Obama believes in the public sector. He thinks it should be made ever more expansive and entrusted with ever more complicated tasks. Its unions should be powerful. It should be hailed by all the great and good, and attract the nation's best and brightest. Fri, 17 May 2013 10:06:21 EDTRarely has the White House briefing room so resembled the main ballroom at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference.Tue, 14 May 2013 09:56:02 EDTIt sounds like the plot from a dystopian libertarian novel. The word "patriot" and the phrase "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights" triggered heightened scrutiny from the most intrusive agency in the federal government.Fri, 10 May 2013 15:25:37 EDTNakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws.Tue, 07 May 2013 22:44:42 EDTSomeone had to take the fall for President Barack Obama thoughtlessly drawing a "red line" threatening serious consequences if Syria used chemical weapons. It turns out that it is the president himself.Fri, 03 May 2013 10:56:21 EDTPresident Barack Obama was proud to become the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood the other day. But not proud enough to utter the word "abortion."Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:56:38 EDTAbraham Carpenter Jr., a farmer in Grady, Ark., has more insight into human nature than the average sociologist. "Anytime you are going to throw money up in the air," he told The New York Times, "you are going to have people acting crazy."Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:37:08 EDTThe air traffic controller furloughs are the White House tours of the sky. From time immemorial, a government that doesn't want to tighten its fiscal belt finds high-profile ways to inconvenience the public to try to turn it against spending cuts.Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:44:23 EDTWe are in the midst of the least-suspenseful investigation ever launched by American law enforcement. Hundreds of investigators are seeking leads around the world to discover the motive of the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:12:07 EDTEveryone presumes that Sen. Chuck Schumer, the media-hungry Democrat from New York, wants to be the next Senate majority leader. His performance in the negotiations over the Gang of Eight immigration plan should bolster his case for an eventual promotion.Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:42:51 EDTBefore he triumphed over prejudice, Jackie Robinson triumphed over himself. The signal achievements of the pioneering baseball star, whose story is recounted in the top-grossing biopic "42," were perseverance and self-control.