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Even before it was official, the news of 89-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens likely retirement from the Supreme Court caused little excitement and with good reason. Liberals and conservatives alike assume President Obama will appoint another reliably liberal justice and the Senate will promptly confirm the choice. That’s the way …

Today, advocates of true health care reform were disappointed to learn that the Kucinich amendment was removed from the latest version of the health care reform bill. At the end of the day, states may be given the option to opt out, but won’t be allowed to opt into a …

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:18:00 +0000 – By Andrea TantarosRepublican Political Commentator/FOXNews.com Contributor The first 100 days of a presidency is a critical time for any commander in chief and will be no different for Barack Obama. Lower expectations.Obama’s honeymoon will last longer than 100 days, and it will take …

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:55:28 +0000 – You can thank our incoming president for extinguishing the faint glimmers of optimism that had driven markets higher in recent sessions. Did you happen to notice yesterday’s market sell-off? The media blamed Wednesday’s market setback on gloomy job loss projections and downbeat profit …

In his crusade to bring health care – one-sixth of the country’s economy – under government control, President Obama is asking Americans to swallow a huge and potentially poisonous policy pill. Just as many Canadian politicians and their families have, hypocritically, come to the U.S. when they prefer our advanced, …

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:57:47 +0000 – By Peter RoffFellow, Institute for Liberty / Former Senior Political Writer, United Press International Editor’s note: Sent to the Forum at 12:20pm ET. I’m at Lafayette Park [in Washington, D.C.], the rain is starting to come down hard now but it’s not dampening …

In Portsmouth, New Hampshire last week, a man carried a handgun a few blocks away from the site where President Obama was scheduled to hold a town hall a couple of hours later. Was it a danger or not? The man carrying the gun, William Kostric, even had permission to …

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:31:59 +0000 – By Jon Kraushar Communications Consultant President Obama can now repeat what he said to Republican congressional leaders when they questioned him on January 23 about his stimulus plan. “I won.” The pronoun is instructive. Obama, personally, won at last night’s press conference. He …

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:00:36 +0000 – By Jon Kraushar Communications Consultant If the guiding principle of the Obama Administration really is “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” then in our economic crisis shouldn’t countries that revile America compete for trade, not foreign aid — especially …

It’s enough to make you feel sorry for Hillary Clinton. Well, almost. Her presidential campaign of celebrity and inevitability got off to a rocky start, mostly through her own mistakes, as when she claimed they were “dead broke” when she and Bubba left the White House. [pullquote] But her gaffes …