NASA administrator Charles Bolden must have felt like Astronaut Frank Poole in the cult classic, “Space Odyssey: 2001.” In that film, the menacing computer HAL 9000 cut Poole’s tether and let him drift off into space. In this case, it was President Obama’s press spokesman Robert Gibbs who, on Tuesday, …

I smell progress. Maybe it’s Judge Hudson’s ruling on the insurance mandate in Obamacare, or maybe it’s the EPA backing off from imposing new pollution rules. It could be better-than-expected retail sales, higher home starts and declining unemployment claims. Possibly it’s having just finished my Christmas shopping. Whatever the cause, …

America’s most senior foreign policy officials defended the merits of the first strategic arms control treaty to be brought before the Senate in almost 20 years last week. Secretaries Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, and Admiral Michael Mullen went to bat on behalf of the Obama administration, which is anxious for …

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and other congressional Republicans are floating the idea of abolishing birthright citizenship, which makes the children of undocumented immigrants automatic citizens, to decrease undocumented immigration. The negative consequences would be an affront to conservative values and vastly outweigh any imagined benefits. Legally, there is some controversy …

I don’t know about you, but I have nightmares about Rand Paul, Sharron Angle and Jerry Brown as a result of the onslaught of political ads on television these past few weeks. And, with less than a week to go, there literally isn’t enough time in the day on some …

“The Social Network,” the movie about the creation of Facebook, was number one at the box office again this past weekend for the second week in a row. Who knows? It may even be #1 again this weekend, as well. — Talk about a public relations crisis for Facebook founder …

Can the standard image of the United States government drawn from popular culture and leftist fantasy survive the WikiLeaks revelations? That image suggests the U.S. government controls everything and everybody and does so in a manner that would charitably be described as immoral — almost as though Satan were the …

President Obama was in Pennsylvania on Monday, trying to sell his health care plan to America at a town hall meeting. As Congress continues to debate how to move forward with health care reform its members should take this time to revisit the “purchase requirement” included in both the House …

It has been almost a year since President Obama was sworn in as our nation’s fourty-fourth president. The hype over the “Obama brand” and the promise for “change” was deafening from Obama supporters and much of the media leading up to and after the inauguration. Now, after a year in …

This morning I was in a Northern Virginia grocery store and while waiting in line struck up a conversation with a little girl and her mother. The girl looked as if she might be in first or second grade. “Did you enjoy all the time off from the snow?” I …