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An Ally Imperiled: What Egyptians are demonstrating against, whether they know it or not, is socialism. What they — and we — could end up with is another Iran. Is President Obama repeating Carter’s Shah betrayal? Revolutions are like fires. They can make life better, or they can destroy. Three decades ago, Iran — after being [...]

The Senate is set to begin debate on minor changes to its own rules, but it will likely stop far short of significantly affecting the filibuster.

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Governance: It is an anachronism a constitutional amendment tried to kill. It lets defeated legislators wreak political and economic havoc without consequence. Like the dodo, the lame duck should be extinct. Elections are supposed to have consequences, one of them being occasionally throwing the rascals out. Yet here the rascals we threw out on…[Read more]

The best of the season. Two years ago, I posed the opposite question to Hot Air readers in a burst of Christmas Eve misanthropy, so consider this a long-overdue penance.  What Christmas carols simply must be heard in order to make a joyous season more complete?  Which specific versions do you like best?  For instance, one might [...]

From all of us. No irony, no snark, no wittiness; just a Christmas salute to our men and women in uniform, past and present, wherever they may be. The Republican caucus of the House Oversight and Reform Committee launched this earlier in the week, but politics has nothing to do with it. This comes from all of [...]

Double dog dare ya’. I can still remember quite well the period in 2004 which spurred the feeling of deja vu that hit me this week. Republicans not only held the White House, but majorities in both houses of Congress as well. The problem, of course, was those pesky Democrats who were gumming up the works on [...]