Federal Spending: If you want to know why Washington can't get spending under control, this week provided a prime example, when the Congressional Budget Office said President Obama's "budget-cutting" plan would actually boost spending $1 trillion. When O

Energy: Just as President Obama was lecturing the country about how more drilling won't lower gas prices, oil markets called his lie — cutting prices $2 a barrel in mere talk of releasing some oil from the strategic reserve. As the Washington Post repo

China: As he prepares to leave office, Premier Wen Jiabao has a surprising message for the Communist Party: Get ready for democracy, or face trouble. Has the China Spring begun? The media are filled with tales of how China will soon pass the U.S. as the

Bias: Having lost that tingly feeling up his leg, MSNBC's Chris Matthews savages GOP presidential candidates as belonging to cults. Well, at least they didn't spend two decades listening to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Imagine the uproar if Rush Limbaugh ha

War On Terror: Publicly, the president talks tough about the Taliban. But privately, he has waved the white flag, begging for a truce while even promising to free Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. At Wednesday's joint White House press conference wi

Geopolitics: The U.S. has reportedly been reduced to warning Iran about its nuclear weapons program by Russian messenger. Maybe Moscow can just use the packing slip in its next shipment of nuclear components. America's global influence is in pretty pathe

Budget: Our out-of-control federal debt is a lot like a bad disease: Just because you ignore it doesn't mean it will go away. Even as pundits and economists tout a U.S. recovery, our fiscal picture just keeps getting worse. Weird, isn't it, that politici

Incivility: Misogyny and hate-mongering are not things President Obama wants his re-election campaign tainted by. There's no avoiding getting his Super-PAC to return sleaze merchant Bill Maher's million dollars. Just when you thought there couldn't be an

Public Trust: The Beltway elite mock critics who say the president's hiding his radical past from voters. They say there's nothing there, move along. But if there's nothing to hide, why is so much hidden? And if the White House isn't worried about the pu

Vetting: That a U.S. congressman has been honored by a communist group is in itself noteworthy. That the congressman is a political ally of President Obama whose values he shares is even more so. Late last month, Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat who has repr