Take Your Constituent C...

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) has recently gotten up in D.C.’s business, proposing a bill that would prohibit abortions in the city after 20 weeks. Given his newfound concern for what happens here, D.C. voting rights advocacy organization DC Vote is pushing residents to show up at...

About Tonight: April 30...

Tonight: Ommegang beer dinner, a D.C. go-go band, Burning Man talk, and more. Plus, learn about events going on later this week, including the Textile Museum’s rescheduled Bento Box Office, the Curbside Cookoff food truck festival, and more. [ more › ] See the original...

Wisconsin’s New A...

Peter Ferrara, Forbes Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe.  They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the Constitution's Equal...

While Syria Burns...

Charles Krauthammer, National Review Last year, President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing “would have been...

The GOP’s Hispani...

Ronald Brownstein, National Journal It’s unclear whether the lifeline that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is offering Mitt Romney is long enough to lift the presumptive Republican presidential nominee from the hole he dug with Hispanic voters during the primary race. But...

Romney’s Fiscal F...

Lawrence Summers, Washington Post Political arithmetic is always suspect, and one should always examine carefully the claims of those seeking votes. Smart observers have learned to distinguish between the claims of political candidates and their advisers and proposals that have been...

Odds of Obama-Clinton T...

Michael Goodwin, New York Post It was a serious mistake, the result of a class-warfare strategy followed to a fault by a zealous Democrat. But inadvertently, one Hilary’s blunder could open the door to the other Hillary’s rise.We speak of the attack on Ann Romney by...

On Guns, Romney Is No S...

Ted Strickland, Politico When it comes to gun rights, Mitt Romney is anything but a straight shooter. And when the presumptive Republican nominee speaks to the National Rifle Association’s annual convention on Friday, he’s going to have a tough time explaining a Second...

Turbulent Times for Air...

George Will, Washington Post From his office window, Thomas W. Horton, in his fifth month as CEO of American Airlines, can see in the distance the Manhattan-size footprint of Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where American has 85 percent market share; it also has 68 percent in Miami, gateway to...

Can Romney Expand Map I...

Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics WILMINGTON, Del. — In 2008, Barack Obama utilized demographic shifts, his campaign's unprecedented financial resources, and his unique political profile to expand dramatically the electoral map for a Democratic presidential nominee, carrying...