Opinion

The Nation -- The official unemployment rate of 10.2 percent is the worst in a quarter century. Full Story »

Every year around the holidays, many of us spend time thinking about what truly matters in our lives. For a lot of people in my home state of South Dakota, and around the country, that includes the peace of mind that comes with knowing they will be able to get good health care when they need it. There is much we in Congress can do to help bring about a health care system that provides that peace of mind and works for the American people. Full Story »

It was a year for the political jackass. Headlines were filled with politicians' private improprieties exposed. Full Story »

Monrovia, Calif. - Like most Jews, I don’t take offense when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas. I take it in the spirit in which the salutation is intended: a generic greeting that doesn’t hold deep religious meaning. I put it up there with “Have a nice day.”  Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - By bowing to Sen. Joseph Lieberman and his obstructive pals in both parties on health care reform, President Obama has confirmed what Republicans always say about Democrats: They simply aren't strong enough to govern. Or at least the Democrats elected last year — and their colleagues in the Senate leadership — don't seem to be. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Americans overwhelmingly like their health care and their health insurance. While Americans reject ObamaCare, the President and Congress insist on driving it through. Full Story »

Girls, can we talk? Full Story »

If Barack Obama has given black politicians reason to reconsider shattering the glass ceiling, Artur Davis may be the man -- aside from the president himself -- who has taken up the most audacious hammer. He hopes to become Alabama's first black governor. Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- There was something special about Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva. Everybody felt it. He was a mixture of the deeply spiritual and the supremely competent with the profound intention to transform Chile. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Liberal newspaper people are so predictable when it comes to internal party fights. If it's inside the Republican Party, it's the conservative Republicans who are wrong. If inside the Democratic Party, it's the conservative Democrats who are wrong. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Most Americans now know that Wall Street bankers are so greedy as to never be trusted, and I suppose it is a sign of progress that our president now seems to grasp the obvious. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - President Obama's hometown cronies lost their bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to the Windy City. But this week they got a consolation prize: the Gitmolympics. On Tuesday, the White House went public with its official plans to purchase the Thomson Correctional Facility from financially strapped Illinois to house Guantanamo Bay detainees. The War on Terror meets the Chicago Way. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Whatever it takes. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - The U.S. Civil Rights Commission (yes, it's still around and yes, it's outlived its usefulness) is about to subtract from national wisdom about college admissions by focusing on exactly the wrong problem. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - "It's time to stop worrying about the deficit — and start panicking about the debt," the Washington Post editorial began. "The fiscal situation was serious before the recession. It is now dire." Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- So, our extraordinarily rational and articulate president went to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and identified himself as a wartime commander-in-chief. True, but he neglected to mention that his nation is not at war. Full Story »

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - The campaign for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination offered a glimpse into the soul of Joe Biden. Asked by a prospective voter where he went to law school, Biden responded with a tirade that, had the claims been true, would have been bizarre. But as most of them were outright lies, it qualifies as one of the strangest political statements on record: Full Story »

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - In his Nobel acceptance speech last week, President Obama spoke eloquently on what he called a "just peace"--a peace that is not possible without the recognition of basic human rights. Where human rights are not protected, "peace is a hollow promise," he said. Full Story »