Trampling Democracy to Fight Climate Change
by Ramesh Ponnuru Republicans are calling President Barack Obama’s new coal-plant regulations a “power grab.” The truth is more complicated, and ominous, than that. This isn’t a case where the…
America: Beware of Single-Payer Health Care
The real lesson of the VA scandal. by W. James Antle III Before Bowe Bergdahl dominated the headlines, the country was engrossed by the Veterans Affairs scandal. The VA was…
VA Scandal Further Discredits Obama’s Big Government Policies
Long queues are the price of free care. by Michael Barone President Obama evidently was caught by surprise by the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs. So, apparently, was…
The Operational Miracle That Was D-Day
by Victor Davis Hanson Seventy years ago this June 6, the Americans, British and Canadians stormed the beaches of Normandy in the largest amphibious invasion of Europe since the Persian…
When the President Goes Rogue
by George F. Will What Winston Churchill said of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — that he was a bull who carried his own china shop around with him…
The Left’s Assault on the First Amendment
Congress has too much power already; it should not have the power to silence citizens. by Ted Cruz For two centuries there has been bipartisan agreement that American democracy depends…
What About Meriam, President Obama?
Sen. Inhofe calls for a Sudanese woman sentenced to death to receive asylum. by Peter Roff No one knows how much attention the Obama administration is paying to the plight…
When the Left Turned Against Free Speech
The long, ugly journey from the Free Speech Movement to professors assaulting protesters. by Matt Welch On March 4, in a designated “free-speech zone” at the University of California, Santa…
The House agrees that the Internet should remain American
Frontiers of Freedom Praises the House of Representatives for wisely agreeing that the Internet should remain under the authority of the United States May 30, 2014, Washington, D.C. – George Landrith,…
What Obama’s Many Messes Really Mean
Dems blame . . . big government? by S.E. Cupp Another week, another scandal. From Fast and Furious at the ATF to the Pigford fraud at the Department of Agriculture,…
Speaking Freely at the University of Minnesota
by Carl M. Cannon I still think of myself as a reporter—my role for three decades—although as Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics, the bulk of my job these days is…
You Have the Right To Be Offended
Gone are the days when campuses served as places where unpopular ideas could be given voice; now, universities purge ideas from the public square if they don’t fit their infantilizing…
White House Exposed a Chief CIA Operative in Afghanistan
Editor’s Note: In 2003, the mainstream media and Democrats in Congress went epileptic when a Washington, DC-based CIA employee was publicly disclosed by someone in the Administration. They demanded a…
Four Lessons Barack Obama could learn from George Washington
Things aren’t going so well for President Obama. Maybe it’s time 44 listened to 1. Paul J. Saunders Eroding support for President Barack Obama’s domestic and foreign policies—reflected both in…
When A President Learns Everything On TV
Having an absentee president is bad for both the health of veterans and the nation. The president may have gotten away with treating the IRS scandal as no big deal…