Since conservatives are scorching the paint off the walls denouncing the House and Senate health care bills, do they have an alternative? The libertarian Cato Institute advocates health savings accounts as a free market alternative. Newt Gingrich also advocates health savings accounts. ...more

December 31, 2009

Rationale for war Within President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, I heard more rationale for war than plans for peace. ...more

December 11, 2009

Otto von Bismarck at one point called the prospect of Germany waging preventive war against other European powers "committing suicide out of fear of death." Little did the Iron Chancellor know that he was forecasting 21st-century Democratic political strategy. Democrats so fear the consequences of failing to pass ObamaCare that they've convinced themselves that embracing $370 billion worth of tax increases and more than $400 billion worth of Medicare cuts is good for them. This will long make for a compelling case study in the Annals of Abnormal Political Psychology. ...more

November 28, 2009

Let everyone stay mindful that the Rev. Al Sharpton throughout the primaries of President Barack Obama was a supporter of Hillary Clinton. ...more

November 22, 2009

HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. "The Lost Symbol," by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $29.95). Robert Langdon among the Masons. ...more

November 8, 2009

Holly Benson, former state health care administrator, made her expected announcement Thursday that she's running for attorney general, entering a Republican primary that already includes Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp and may include others soon. ...more

October 30, 2009

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has endorsed a third-party candidate over the GOP-backed contender in New York's congressional special election, saying her own party has abandoned its core values. ...more

October 23, 2009

Alice Coolbaugh of Port Richey says Republicans ar spewing "hateful and erroneous" venom about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. ...more

June 3, 2009

Ben Jonson was a cantankerous, 17th century British dramatist who despised the early days of journalism because he thought it was overrun with propagandists and charlatans. ...more

January 24, 2009

On the heels of an election that has left Republicans with no clear vision about how to regain power, the normally low-profile race to head the GOP's national committee has turned into a six-man showdown that has opened rifts along racial, regional and ideological lines. ...more

January 18, 2009