Political Commentary
Thomas D. Elias: Arnold salary ploy won't work
Comments | RecommendThe most important thing to know about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's sudden late-July announcement that he wants to pay state workers just a fraction of their salaries until there's a new state budget is that it's been tried before - and didn't work. In...
Linda Chavez: Is it Obama's race to lose?
Comments | RecommendThe professional odds-makers favor Barack Obama two-to-one to win the election. It's no wonder. Americans overwhelmingly believe the country is on the wrong track. They can't stand the current Republican occupant of the White House. The economy is weak...
Thomas Sowell: Government created financial crisis
Comments | RecommendIn one of those front-page editorials disguised as "news" stories, the New York Times blames "the lucrative lending practices" of banks and other financial institutions for helping create the current financial crisis of millions of borrowers and of the...
Michael Reagan: Bush should strip sanctuary cities of federal funds
Comments | RecommendThree good men are dead thanks largely to San Francisco's outrageous sanctuary-city policy, which forbids city authorities from notifying federal immigration authorities when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes they commit, and it's time for President...
Ruben Navarette: Obama's chance to lure Latinos
Comments | RecommendBarack Obama is looking for a way to convince Latino voters that he is simpatico. He may have found it thanks to the cover of The New Yorker....
Cynthia Tucker: Carter's energy ideas deserve second chance
Comments | RecommendEven in his home state of Georgia, former President Jimmy Carter does not receive universal acclaim. He is regarded by many as a weak-kneed appeaser or a naive do-gooder with a puritanical bent....
Linda Chavez: An undeserving hero's welcome
Comments | RecommendAction of its people's values. So what does it say that Lebanon gave a hero's welcome to Samir Kuntar last week?...
Walter Williams: A bit of rebellion welcome
Comments | RecommendOne of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861,erroneously called a Civil War, was its contribution to the erosion of constitutional guarantees of state sovereignty....
Linda Chavez: Slouching toward the center
Comments | RecommendThe Senate has finally passed the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 69-28, after months of dithering, but one vote among the yeas comes as quite a surprise. Sen. Barack Obama, who just a few months ago threatened to...
Robert Scheer: Taiwan declares peace on China
Comments | RecommendYou can't trust the Chinese. I don't care if you're talking about those communists on the mainland or the other guys on Taiwan; they just won't follow the war-games script that our weapons hawks had counted on. Their mutual passion runs not to matters...
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