Opinion

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

While most called with congratulations, more than a few people offered their condolences last November when I was elected Governor of Delaware. Full Story »

For most of the public policy decisions in the first 10 months of his presidency, President Obama has enjoyed the backing of the liberal wing of his party. However, Obama's latest move -- sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan -- places him at odds with many of his most ardent supporters in Congress. Full Story »

Many decades ago, as a fledgling CIA officer in the field, I was naively convinced that if the facts were reported back to Washington correctly, everything else would take care of itself in policymaking. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Last week, Fox News reported a jaw-dropping story about how our War on Terror has now become a war on ourselves. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - The last Thanksgiving of my childhood started out promisingly enough. It was 1969, and we were going to my parents' best friends' house. I had a crush on their second oldest son, and with luck (a lot of it), we'd end up in his room listening to Led Zeppelin. He was much cooler than I was, but I was who would be there on Thanksgiving. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - "The science is settled," we've been told for decades by zealous proponents of manmade global warming hysteria. Thanks to an earth-shaking hacking scandal across the pond, we now have mountains of documents from the world's leading global warming advocacy center that show the science is about as settled as a southeast Asian tsunami. You won't be surprised by the Obama administration's response to Climategate. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - When tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets last spring and braved the most brutal repression the regime could inflict, Michael Ledeen was the least surprised man in Washington. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Led by a conflicted president of a divided party and nation, America is deepening her involvement in a war in its ninth year with no end in sight. Full Story »

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- For someone who looks and sounds far different from any previous American president, Barack Obama sure invites a lot of comparisons with his predecessors. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - If there is an entertainment trend ripe for satire, it is the begging-for-attention smut routines at nationally televised music awards shows. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - With the House debate on health care at its hottest, the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a stunning ultimatum: Impose an absolute ban on tax funds for abortions, or we call for defeat of the Pelosi bill. Full Story »

a.k.a., Return of the Generation Gap Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- It would seem at first, from the international news, that the elections to be held Sunday in Honduras might offer some resolution to the many political questions on the rise of the Far Left that has been sweeping the hemisphere over the last few years. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - There's nothing to get you into the mood for a Thanksgiving gathering like a little H1N1 in the air. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - The puzzling thing about politicians of either party who claim to be "centrist" or "moderate" is how much they sometimes sound like party-line right-wing Republicans. Distinguishing among these species of politicians can be almost impossible during the current struggle over health care reform, especially when a senator like Blanche Lambert Lincoln of Arkansas tries to explain herself. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Jail, anyone? Perhaps that's too harsh, and at any rate premature, but is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the very banks that caused the financial meltdown? Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - CBS "news anchor" Katie Couric recently whipped out her "reporter's notebook" and closed her newscast with a pro-"health care reform" poem: Full Story »