Opinion

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

I have no doubt that President Barack Obama and his advisors engaged in extensive discussions on what our policy should be in Afghanistan and came up with the solution they concluded would best protect the United States. The solution was to add 30,000 more U.S. troops to the 68,000 now in Afghanistan and to begin withdrawing our troops in 18 months based on conditions on the ground and success in turning over combat activities to the Afghan army. Full Story »

Over the years, newsrooms have come to view Rupert Murdoch as the embodiment of what's wrong with modern media. Tabloidization. Growth of ideological news. Blurring lines between business and editorial interests. The prostitution of news, thy name is Murdoch. Full Story »

London - Most of the focus on the United Nations' upcoming Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been about the "what" of any potential agreement – the possibility of reaching a "climate change deal." In truth, whatever is or is not agreed on at Copenhagen, the overwhelming emphasis at this point should not only be upon the what, but more upon the how. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - How low can they go? The desperate Democratic peddlers of a government health care takeover have proclaimed an insurance "holocaust in America" (Fla. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Talk about an inconvenient truth. In ever-increasing numbers, Americans are becoming skeptical about the scientific argument that there's a man-made global-warming crisis that requires immediate and drastic government action. The media's enablers of the radical environmental left have a response: Maybe America just isn't smart or curious enough to save the planet. In fact, they say our growing denial is making us nationally irrational. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Nine women. And counting. Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- Oh, the poor Swiss! Usually they're in deep water -- though many of them live upward of 10,000 feet in the air -- because they won't reveal some poor Kuwaiti's or Saudi's wealth stashed away in a Swiss bank account. Other times, they're the object of jealousy for their prosperity and their self-righteous, Calvinist ways. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Though professional hysterics may seek to "hide the decline," there has been a noticeable drop in the number of Americans who believe that global warming is a man-made phenomenon. Pause on that for a moment. Though Americans have been harangued about global warming for more than a decade, only 35 percent told a recent Pew survey that global warming is a serious problem, compared with 44 percent the previous year. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - At last week's Job Summit, there was talk of a second stimulus package, of tax credits for small businesses that hire new workers, of an Infrastructure Bank to select national priority pubic works projects like the Hoover Dam and TVA of yesteryear. Full Story »

Debate Freezes Out the Majority View: Get Out Now Full Story »

Less than a week before he died, McGeorge Bundy, the brilliant Harvard dean who was an architect of John F. Full Story »

Without regrets, the social secretary declined the invitation. Desiree Rogers skipped last week's congressional hearing to determine exactly who's to blame for the blemish that marred the first couple's big dinner party -- the entry of two interlopers. The guests of honor, the gate-crashing Tareq and Michaele Salahi, also declined to attend. Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama says a lot of smart things. During his campaign last year, in his second debate with Sen. John McCain, in Nashville, he closed by saying: Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - If actions speak louder than words, President Obama is cutting America free of George Bush's wars and coming home. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - People keep asking me whether I agree with the president's troop surge in Afghanistan. I am a lawyer. I know what to do with a hard question: Answer another one that is so similar that even the person asking may not notice you've changed it. So I answer that I absolutely support the president on this one, that I absolutely approve of the process and the decision and the way he's handling his responsibility as commander in chief. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - The left's police-hating chickens are coming home to roost. While partisan liberals have gone out of their way to blame conservative media and the Tea Party movement for creating a "climate of hate," they are silent on the cultural and literal war on cops that has raged for decades — and escalated tragically this year. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - On Sunday morning, Nov. 22, Nickelodeon's cable channel TeenNick was running a series of promos during a rerun of its junior-high sitcom "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide." Which of these ads isn't quite like the others? Full Story »