Newsmax RSS FeedTue, 06 Mar 2012 20:21:22 EDTUniversity of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato tells Newsmax that Mitt Romney “averted disaster” by narrowly edging Rick Santorum to claim a near-midnight victory in the Buckeye State. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:46:29 EDTNEW YORK An Archdiocese of New York clerk has been arrested on charges of manipulating the church's accounts payable system to steal more than $1 million in education money.Anita Collins allegedly wrote checks to herself or a relative but recorded them as payments to...Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:57:55 EDTOne of the nice things about human history is that no matter how much people or their leaders misjudge events and make a hash of things, within a few centuries, the debris is cleared away, and we can have another go at getting things right. Yes, I am thinking about the...Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:19:41 EDTSunday on Meet the Press Colin Powell blamed divisive, poisonous Washington politics on the media and the Tea Party. The essence of Powell's argument was: Republicans and Democrats are focusing more and more on their extreme left and extreme right. And we have to come...Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:40:48 EDTAs we approach the festive season the elongated, enchanting month from Thanksgiving through Christmas to New Years my mind has been drifting through various memorable past holidays. Some have been personal the last one with my father before he died. But one that...Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:32:29 EDTA just released book, Bowing to Beijing by Brett M. Decker and William C. Triplett II, will change forever the way you think about China even if, like me, you already have the deepest worries about the Chinese threat. As I opened the book, I was expecting to find many...Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:17:12 EDTNow is a particularly dangerous moment for American national security interests. Not just because threats are growing. Not just because the current administration is making a historic bungle from China to Iraq to Iran to Russia to Europe to Mexico to our historic allies in...Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:00:38 EDTFor the past few years, fear of China's predatory mercantilism has been steadily growing in America, both amongst the public and in elite business and political circles. But last week, for the first time, one could discern the genuine possibility that America might actually...Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:12:36 EDTHow dangerous is the European financial condition? On Monday, while stock markets from the DAX and FTSE to the New York Stock Exchange were up sharply on reports of French and German cooperative murmurs regarding sovereign debt negotiations (and on temporary easing of U.S....Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:28:03 EDTWilliam F. Buckley, Jr., founding father of the modern conservative movement, famously asserted his doctrine of voting for the most conservative candidate who is electable. Let me presume to add an analytic codicil: The GOP and the conservative movement have tended to...Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:30:25 EDTPresident Barack Obama, like most American presidents, is lucky that the public pays little attention to foreign policy and rarely casts its votes on the basis of presidential foreign-policy performance. It required something as dramatic as the November 1979 Iranian...Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:42:27 EDTIn one of the least-needed reassurances in modern political history, President Barack Obama's top political man David Plouffe told Democrats late last week that the White House would not suffer from overconfidence. What I don't want to suggest is that we're sitting around...Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:07:03 EDTSince the end of World War II, in both the United States and Western Europe, the best way to win a national election has been to be the incumbent political party. But that three-generation-old predisposition of publics in Western democracies may be coming to an end. We may...Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:56:03 EDTIn the last few weeks, leading Democrats in Congress have called tea party constituents terrorists, said they should go to hell and accused them of wanting to lynch black people. Last weekend, at an event attended by President Obama, the head of the Teamsters Union, Jimmy...Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:37:54 EDTPresident Barack Obama's post-Labor Day jobs speech will be his last chance to launch an economic policy with any chance of manifesting its effect both economic and political before the November 2012 elections. He has three options. In order of descending likelihood...Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:13:32 EDTIn the weeks during and since the debt-ceiling debate, the media, pushed by the Democratic Party, have peddled the propaganda that our government is broken because the Republicans in the House of Representatives negotiated a better deal than the liberals wanted. While it...Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:24:48 EDTExcept according to the Lord's plans which are not known to man the end of the world is not nigh, although to listen to politicians and pundits, we should be packed and ready to go by next Thursday. Recently, the headlines have read like Woody Allen's 1979 My Speech...Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:28:38 EDTThe debt deal, if it sticks, is a triumph for the bipartisan, status quo-clinging Washington establishment. Here is a prediction: Between now and January 2013, total actual spending cuts will be minimal. That will result from the following: The $900 billion deficit...Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:48:24 EDTHow have we arrived at this place where the fate of our federal budget our economy, indeed our capacity to have a functioning federal government seems to depend on what two men (the speaker of the House and the president) may or may not be secretly talking about in an...Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:18:02 EDTIn Atlanta, the teachers cheat on exams so the students don't have to. It doesn't raise the knowledge level of our children, but it gets the school system past the next exam even as the system continues its death spiral. We will know the spiral has reached its terminal...