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He’s tried homey backyard settings, large campus rallies and teamed up with a crass hip-hop show. Wherever he goes, he floors the rhetorical pedal, as when he likened his slow-motion polices to the time it took to “free the slaves.” Barack Obama has gone from a failing president to flailing …

The Federal Reserve has already injected hundreds of billions of new dollars into the economy since the recession started. Normally, when the government prints up more money, dollars are worth less and that is what we call inflation. But inflation has been surprisingly low. One measure of the money supply, …

In President Obama’s first State of the Union address, only mere months ago, he pledged to focus on jobs and stressed that it would be priority number one. After last night’s contested, contentious and downright partisan vote on health care, one that took rule manipulation and arm-twisting to achieve, it …

Although 2010 has started out with Americans reeling from a terror scare, the passengers on Flight 253 showed a great deal of courage when they took action and stopped a terrorist. The incident prompted me to think about the five most courageous — and cowardly acts of 2009: FIVE MOST …

John Murtha was one of those guys whose influence didn’t really translate that well in today’s media culture. He was a rock-ribbed former Marine who had two key objectives in his Congressional career: Support the troops and take care of his district. He attracted his fair share of controversy in …

Editor’s note: The following excerpt titled “Filling In the Blanks,” is from Rita Cosby’s new book, “Quiet Hero: Secrets From My Father’s Past.” Filling In the Blanks I left my dad’s house that week feeling positively charged. For the first time in my life I felt as if I were …

I don’t often expect to find myself supportive of President Barack Obama. But I didn’t think I’d be as mystified by his actions over the past few months as I have been. Mr. Obama and his team won a well-deserved reputation during the 2008 campaign for message discipline and a …

This weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, NASCAR fans will be assaulted — and I mean that in a hearty capitalistic way — by a dizzying array of corporate media, the kind that bedazzles the cars, the haulers, the drivers, even the race track itself. There’s Tony Stewart’s nod to Office …

According to a report from the Agence France Press agency this week President Obama did not win the confidence of a majority of the five member panel before being awarded the Nobel Committee’s Peace Prize late last week. Even though the committee’s secretary told the press on Friday that the …

I advise all of the critics who scrutinizedthe President, who once again delivered a homerun by demonstrating his platform of hope today after speaking to students in Arlington, VA (a former Red state that he turned blue last fall), to listen to James Brown’s “Talking Loud and Saying Nothing,” because …