President Barack Obama, his wife and two daughter kick off their sixth holiday of the year today, an 11-day splash in Martha’s Vineyard, the fabled destination of the wealthy and elite, according to a report in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper.

A White House spokesman said that the president was “going to spend a little time recharging his batteries” at the Massachusetts island. Click here to read more

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can say the darndest things. He certainly did last week when he proclaimed: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” That must have thrilled his son, Rory, who’s trailing a Hispanic Republican, Judge Brian Sandoval, in the Nevada governor’s race by 16 points in the most recent Mason-Dixon poll. Click here to read more

In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.  They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011: Click here to read article

August 10, 2010 | By Amanda J. Reinecker

They’re back. Today, Representatives scurried back to Washington from their summer recesses to do what they do best: spend.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ordered the rare one-day emergency session to vote on a $26.1 billion bill to bail out state governments. The legislation passed the Senate last Thursday, after the House already broke for recess. Pelosi and her allies claim that the high-priced bill will “save teachers’ jobs and help seniors & children,” but The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Keen argues that the bill is nothing more than “a massive federal bailout for influential teachers unions and irresponsible state governments. Click Here to Read More

By Col. Thomas Snodgrass, USAF (Retired)
Many in the American conservative community have signed on to support President Obama’s Afghan war strategy — counterinsurgency (COIN) — out of the mistaken belief that not supporting COIN would mean abandoning the main theater of war against the Islamic jihadis. But what in this situation is causing normally clear-thinking individuals to back a war strategy that is obviously on a trajectory to failure?

To begin with, there is a legitimate concern that abandoning Afghanistan will signal a major defeat for the U.S. and the West in the broader jihad waged globally by al-Qaeda and its lookalikes, thus inviting increased jihadi aggression. This conclusion is not in dispute; history clearly shows that Islamic jihad feeds on the weakness of the non-Muslim world. When a jihad victory is achieved, jihadis see it as the consequence of the triumphal promise of Islam — that is, Islamic domination of the world is foreordained by Allah in Quranic Sura 24:52 (“It is they that obey Allah and His Messenger, and fear Allah and do right [spreading Islam], that will triumph.”) Click Here to Read More