The Democrats have decided to include a government takeover of the student loan business as part of the health care package in order to convince some reluctant Democrats to vote Yes for Obamacare. As reported by

Nancy Pelosi, Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod claim it’s over, they have the votes. Just about everyone else, including some Democrats in the House, say it ain’t so yet.

We cannot believe anything that comes from the mouths...

It’s hard to know if this really is the week when Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid finally get their way.

Regardless of outcome, these have been some of our finest hours.

From the Tea Parties which sprang to life last April, to the townhalls over the summer, to the voters in...

Three students have committed suicide on the Cornell campus recently, including two last week, by jumping from bridges over the numerous gorges which run through campus.

The mood is somber.

We need to do a better job helping students keep life in perspective.

We place so much pressure on our young people to achieve...

Ronald Reagan’s words on the foundation of freedom, so timely now as we are on the verge of the subservience of the individual to the state on the most fundamental aspects of our lives:

“Rejection of...

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

On February 25, 2010, the People for Change group in Prince George’s County Maryland held a town hall forum to discuss the impacts of illegal immigration on local communities. NumbersUSA President Roy Beck and DC...

Eric Massa has issues. So does The Other Eric:

Attorney General Eric Holder

Ok, so Eric Massa has issues. But sometimes people with issues are correct.

As we roll towards the latest deadline to pass Obamacare, it is clear that Massa’s departure at this moment in time...

There is something about skirting the normal legislative process which seems so appealing to people (in this case, Democrats) who cannot otherwise pass legislation but seek to expand government.

We are seeing it most clearly in the health care issue, where the end product of Democratic maneuvering, the Senate bill plus fixes,...

The ruling by the Senate Parliamentarian requiring that Obama sign a health care bill into law before the reconciliation process could begin is damaging to the Democrats’ procedural maneuvers.

But is it fatal? Hard to say. Allahpundit has...

Don’t think government, if given the chance, will try to control the most minute aspects of your life?

Don’t worry that once the bureaucracy gets ahold of the right to regulate your health care decisions — starting with what type of insurance you are required to buy — the end result will...

I understand that some people were upset when Scott Brown voted for the $15 billion “jobs” bill in February.

Brown’s voting for cloture on the $140 billion spending bill earlier this week, although he voted against the bill on the merits, also was worrisome (although Brown may be onto something, since one...

Chief Justice John Roberts, in responding to a question during a law school forum, took the very reasonable position that what happened at the State of the Union address was troubling:

“First of all,...

There have been numerous allegations that a “Tea Party” candidate is running a false-flag operation in Nevada to get Harry Reid reelected. Here’s a CNN report:

Some are accusing Jon Scott Ashjian, a new Tea Party candidate running for U.S. Senate, of being a fake. The allegation? He was put in the...

The Democrats not only are throwing Eric Massa under the bus, they are stomping on his head, ripping his heart out, disemboweling him, and then making him go to Canada for treatment.

But let’s rewind a little. Eric Massa was the rock star of the “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party, the ...