On November 14, 2011, the Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of President Obama’s health-care act. The central question is, What limits does the Constitution — specifically, the Commerce Clause — impose upon the federal government’s exercise of power? This health-care act is the defining legislation of the president’s term, and the issue of limited government is at the very heart of the debate between Obama and his opponents

Now is a particularly dangerous moment for American national security interests.

The Islamic democracy project is nothing if not beguiling. From Clinton’s Orwellian “peace process” through Bush’s cloying “freedom agenda” to Obama’s contortion of an Islamist ascendancy into “the Arab Spring,” the dream teems with self-congratulation, so much so that its debilitating downsides go unseen and unaddressed.

All those Occupiers holding their “End the War!” signs better march on over to the White House. President Obama just announced he’s sending U.S.

A little while back, I composed a list of the ten greatest “state-actor” threats to American security interests, both at home and abroad. I ranked Iran #2, given their reckless bellicosity, nuclear ambitions and willingness to fight America by proxy

RT | Obama’s top national security aides are seeking new international sanctions against Iran.

(National Journal) – President Obama threatened on Wednesday to veto any bill that would restrict insurers from paying for abortions, saying it goes too far.

James Carafano Examiner Columnist NOTE TO COPY DESK: Do not send to web site, print edition only “It sure is hell to be president.” Harry Truman spoke from experience. One of his worst days was April 14, 1950

Barack Obama responded to Republican charges of “class warfare” by saying he’s proud to be “a warrior for the middle class.” But what battles-or even skirmishes-has he ever won for working families?

I should note right from the start that I like Stu Rothenberg as a pundit and a political handicapper: he’s a pretty bright person and he has a lot of experience. But Rothenberg is also very much plugged into the professional political establishment… and sometimes, it shows. Case in point: Rothenberg’s otherwise spot-on analysis about the travails of Barack Obama these days has what I will charitably call a ‘howler.’ This president, like Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W

American Spectator senior editor Quin Hillyer appeared on the Fox News Channel’s America’s News Headquarters program on Sunday to highlight the media’s continued silence about the Obama administration’s use of liberal ideology as a criterion in hiring lawyers for career Justice Department positions, even though the media leaped on similar accusations during the Bush years. While Bush’s DOJ was subjected to media condemnation and an official investigation over it’s hiring practices, Hillyer recounted, “cut forward to the Obama administration and they are doing not just the same thing, but to the Nth degree

Obama’s presidency lurches from fad to fad — from gays in the military to “green jobs” to the “Buffett rule.” Hyped as a profound presidency, it has turned out to be an embarrassingly frivolous one.

Journalism, they say, is a rough draft of history.

Let the sun shine in… After I blogged last week about Barack Obama’s burgeoning LightSquared scandal, I received a miffed e-mail from billionaire hedge fund manager/Obama donor/LightSquared principal backer Philip Falcone under the subject line “Tip.” Falcone defended the Obama administration and noted that the predecessor to LightSquared, called Skyterra, had benefited from some previous regulatory approvals under the Bush administration. (Sound familiar

Sara A. Carter National security correspondent The assassination of Afghanistan’s former president, who was heading the government’s efforts to reconcile with the Taliban, has shattered the fledgling peace process there and raised fresh questions about whether the U.S

The Obama Pentagon’s faulty report was sheer denial of the harm to our armed forces’ effectiveness.

When it comes to compromising national security, Obama goes for it when it gets him good PR.

From CNS News: President Barack Obama still opposes enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, the White House spokesman said on Tuesday, the same day that CIA Director Leon Panetta did not deny that waterboarding was a tactic that in part led to the successful operation on Sunday to kill terrorist Osama bin Laden. On Tuesday’s [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: According to a report in The New York Times, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said on Tuesday that North Korea is becoming “a direct threat to the United States” and was within five years of developing a missile with the potential of hitting Alaska or the West Coast. The Times adds: “Mr. [...]

From NewsMax.com: Russia’s legislature says the New START nuclear arms treaty ratified last month by the U.S. Senate restricts the U.S. from building and operating missile defenses against nuclear attacks. President Obama says the opposite: that the treaty “places no limitations on the development or deployment of our missile defense programs.” There may never have [...]