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President Obama and his political team — starring David Axelrod, Rahm Emmanuel, and Robert Gibbs — will begin a full court press with the American public today to sell their $1 trillion dollar plan to drastically increase government involvement in, and control over, the nation’s health care industry. The president …

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:02:00 +0000 – By Peter FerraraDirector of Entitlement and Budget Policy, Institute for Policy Innovation Yesterday President Obama said that average Americans: “. . . need a government that is working to create jobs and opportunity for them, rather than simply giving more and more to …

Facta, non verba. For those of you who have forgotten your Latin, it means “deeds, not words.” There’s been a lot of overheated rhetoric about health care reform, but this saying is one that all Americans should return to when considering plans for a government-dominated health system.In other words, we …

Mon, 04 May 2009 17:03:12 +0000 – “We are not losing blue states and shrinking as a party because we are not conservative enough. If we pursue a party that has no place for someone who agrees with me 70 percent of the time, that is based on an ideological …

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:27:02 +0000 – By Judith MillerWriter, Manhattan Institute/FOX News Contributor Obama Iraq George W. Bush

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:08:42 +0000 – Today Pope Benedict XVI began a five-day pastoral trip to Africa where the Catholic Church is growing in leaps and bounds, even while its members and charitable institutions face enormous social challenges. Statistics of church attendance, baptisms and other sacraments, and priestly and …

If there were a website devoted exclusively to the subject of foreign policy, who should run it? Of course, there are countless such websites, but only one that actually bears the name ForeignPolicy.com – and it is run by a veteran of the Clinton presidency whose resume only got better …

Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced on Tuesday that a man who flew from Liberia to Dallas last week is infected with Ebola and being treated at Texas Presbyterian Hospital. The CDC should discourage panic. But Frieden went overboard. Listening to him,you’d think C-D-C …

A second parent has now come forward acknowledging their child received a Nation of Islam “handout” in a third grade class at Harold McCormick Elementary School in Elizabethton, Tennessee – contradicting claims by the school district that the document was not distributed in the classroom. I first told you about …

The quote of the week comes from James Clapper, the director of national intelligence. Noting that criticism of surveillance programs forced the government to “throttle back,” he told The Washington Post that means “we are accepting more risk.” Tapping a deep well of sarcasm, he continued: “We are supposed to …