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Today, the U.S. House is expected to vote by a wide margin to stop the EPA’s job-crushing backdoor energy taxes. Unfortunately it was a different story yesterday in the Senate, where 64 senators agreed the EPA must be stopped, but only 50 voted for the amendment that would actually stop …

Usama Bin Laden is dead. The President of the United States Barack Obama ordered the successful SEAL Special Forces operation that killed him. The nearly 3,000 innocent Americans who were massacred on 9/11 have been avenged. Let there be no mistake. The president acted wisely and decisively in this matter. …

Who was the first black president? Two decades before the election of Barack Obama, novelist Toni Morrison dubbed Bill Clinton “our first black president.” She even said that Clinton was “blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime.” Well, I could make an …

This week marks one year since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 was signed into law. It’s been one year since Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and former Senator Chris Dodd (R-Conn.) chose to ignore our concerns that this bill would stifle the recovery, harm job …

President Obama is at it again. Our economy stuck in first gear, the president is again indulging in revisionist history–blaming the rich and his predecessors for high unemployment and misadventures in statism. Sadly, his claims are all too easy to debunk. Sunday, on “60 Minutes,” Mr. Obama declared that he …

He knows Lindsay Lohan’s a jailbird. He’s chagrined at Mel Gibson’s anger mismanagement. So how could Barack Obama be so embarrassingly clueless about a national figure as important as Snooki? Appearing on “The View,” the pop-savvy president drew an uncharacteristic blank at the mention of the overtanned dimwit from MTV’s …

When naturalized U.S. citizen Faisal Shahzad was arrested for his terror plot to detonate a bomb in Times Square, it exposed more than the ongoing attempts by international terror organizations to attack America and the weaknesses in our intelligence gathering. The arrest of Faisal Shahzad was another in a long …

Congressmen and women have lots of reading to do every year, especially when lawmakers try to pass 2,700 page bills like ObamaCare. But whatever, we all know that Congress doesn’t read bills before they pass them. It’s only after bills are passed that we get to find out what is …

I missed the Super Bowl this year and I still haven’t recovered from it. I was at home recuperating from a near fatal road accident. Then the record snowfall in the greater Washington area blew out our local transformers and trapped the entire neighborhood in their houses. Well, that’s Global …

What should President Obama do after a new Commerce Department study finds that economic recovery has lost momentum? The study shows gross domestic product slipping sharply, consumer spending and confidence remaining dim, private sector hiring staying anorexic. Still, government spending is ballooning. Here’s a novel idea, Mr. President: to help …