MARCH 10, 2010 By SCOTT RASMUSSEN AND DOUG SCHOEN One of the more amazing aspects of the health-care debate is how steady public opinion has remained. Despite repeated and intense sales efforts by the president and his allies in Congress, most Americans consistently oppose the plan that has become the centerpiece of this legislative season. […]
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OPINION MARCH 6, 2010 By AMY GOODPASTER STREBE The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II will finally be given the recognition and honor they deserve on March 10. That’s when they will receive the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony to be held at the United States Capitol. These pilots were trailbrazers,
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MARCH 6, 2010 By PETER ROBINSON During the “Strike and Day of Action to Defend Education” on Thursday, tens of thousands of students, teachers, professors and administrators marched in California and some 30 other states to protest cuts in education spending. David Patterson, a librarian at Cañada College, a community college in Redwood City, proved
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The ‘Son of Hamas’ author on his conversion to Christianity, spying for Israel and shaming his Muslim family The OPINION: THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW MARCH 6, 2010 Mosab Hassan Yousef By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Nashville, Tenn. ‘I absolutely know that in anybody’s eyes I was a traitor,” says Mosab Hassan Yousef. “To my family, to my nation,
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By CHARMAINE YOEST It’s now becoming clear that Barack Obama is willing to put everything on the table in order to be the president who passes health-care reform. Everything, that is, except a ban on federal funding for abortion. Last September, the president promised that “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and
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By REBECCA SMITH And STEPHEN POWER President Barack Obama’s energy strategy came under attack on at least three fronts Thursday, highlighting the conflict that has hobbled one of the administration’s top domestic priorities. On Thursday, big utility operators and some state officials blasted the administration’s formal announcement that it would drop plans for a federal
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By KARL ROVE The political world is fixated on whether this year’s elections will deliver an epic rebuke of President Barack Obama and his party. If that happens, it could end up costing Democrats congressional seats for a decade to come. Some of the most important contests this fall will be way down the ballot
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OPINION MARCH 2, 2010 KSM Deserves Military Justice By VICTORIA TOENSING In the 1980s, the Reagan administration established a policy for trying terrorists in civilian courts. Why did it do so? And why shouldn’t we try alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in these courts? I was
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MARCH 1, 2010 Why Financial Reform Is Stalled BY PETER J. WALLISON According to the media’s narrative about Washington, the Obama administration’s financial regulation proposals have not gotten through Congress because the town is gridlocked by partisan warfare. It’s a simplistic story that does not require much thought to generate or accept. Here’s a better
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The Shah of Iran wasn’t supposed to fall in the late 1970’s and Iraq’s WMD were supposed to be a ‘slam dunk’. How did our intelligence community get it so wrong? FEBRUARY 25, 2010 The Slippery Nature of Secrets – ‘Why Intelligence Fails’ A Book Review By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD When we hear the sound
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