By Ralph Z. Hallow (Washington Times) |In what would amount to a slap in the face to a sitting Republican president and the party’s Senate and House leaders, national GOP officials, including the vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, are sponsoring a resolution opposing the resort...

Can principles be suspended or sacrificed? AFP (Breitbard.com) | US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from “collapse.” “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,”...

Barret Sheridan (Newsweek) | It’s not easy being Alan Greenspan these days. As the former Federal Reserve chairman, he urged government regulators to take a light touch while banks like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers buried themselves-and the economy more generally-under a mountain of debt. Now...

REUTERS INDIA | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Communists expect the global financial crisis will cause social unrest and help them challenge for power, the party’s leader said on Saturday. Gennady Zyuganov told the party’s annual congress the Communists should make maximum use of the...

By Matthew Coper - CNSNews.com | (CNSNews.com) – President-elect Barack Obama designated Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) to be his next secretary of state Monday, despite having spent much of the previous two years questioning her foreign-policy credentials. During the campaign for the Democratic nomination,...

By Bob Unruh (WorldNetDaily) | A case that challenges President-elect Barack Obama’s name on the 2008 election ballot citing questions over his citizenship has been scheduled for a “conference” at the U.S. Supreme Court. Conferences are private meetings of the justices at which they...

By Michael Lind (solon.com) | Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism “progressive” and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word. If the conservative era is over, can liberals come out of their defensive crouch and call themselves liberals again, instead of progressives? In...

The questions were submitted by readers to Steven Dubner’s Freakonomics Blog at the New York Times and answered by Dr. Paul. Q: What was your first thought when you found out McCain chose Palin as his running mate? A: At first, I thought it was a pretty savvy choice from a political perspective....

By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Lorenzo Totaro (Bloomberg) | Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system, a “prophecy” dating to a paper he wrote when he was a cardinal, Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said. “The...

by Michael Reagan - Human Events.com | Before the Republican Party even begins to think about curing what ails it, members have to recognize the fact that the party is Balkanized. We are never going to win elections if we remain broken up into separate factions, sometimes barely speaking to one another....