When Barack Obama and I first met he had already become president and was furiously erecting the government-controlled health care system that bears his name and I had already begun a very public crusade to save America from it. Fate would never reunite our mothers who grew up together as …

On Friday, President Obama will meet with Congressional Democrats at their yearly retreat. What should the president say to his Party? Here’s what I think he should say and also what I think he will say. “We should take one step backwards and two step forwards. Our goal as a …

President Obama and Congress face a mess if the federal government hits the debt ceiling Aug. 2. The Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank, projects that the government will receive $172 billion in revenues between August 3 and August 31, but it is on the hook to spend $306 …

Count me in! I am a complete sucker for July 4th. At my town’s Fourth of July parade I am awash in goose bumps while listening to the high school band trying hard to keep their feet moving and their lips working in unison. My family is together, and that …

A Jewish friend who leans right offers a shorthand way to understand how Americans see Israel. Liberals, he says, love Jews and hate Israel, while conservatives reverse the pattern. It’s a crude calculation, but The New York Times is proving his point about liberals. The non-stop screeds against the Jewish …

President Obama has circumvented the Senate and the American public by using a recess appointment to install Dr. Donald Berwick at the helm of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It not only confirms the president’s disregard for the legitimate legislative process, but also exposes the frightening big government …

Every American consumes an average of three gallons of oil a day. Republicans and Democrats call this reliance on oil an “addiction”—an irrational, self-destructive habit that must be broken as soon as possible. This year’s BP oil spill disaster is only making the chorus to “end our addiction to oil” …

For their reputations – and their futures – it was too little, too late. Finally, the combatants came together, the president whose approval ratings have free fallen to below 50% and the oil company whose market value has plummeted by $80 billion and whose dividends are now wiped out. The …

Now that Alex Rodriguez has hit home run number 600 in his luminous career, we baseball fans have to decide what to make of his achievement. He now stands seventh on the list of most career home runs behind Messrs. Bonds, Aaron, Ruth, Mays,Griffey Jr., and Sosa, and with all …

If anyone still needed proof that taxpayer-funded public broadcasting is obsolete and has a negative effect on discourse in America, leftwing NPR provided it on Wednesday. Firing Juan Williams in a spasm of politically correct intolerance, NPR made the case for ending taxpayer support for itself and public broadcasting at …