Examiner Editorial: That botched SWAT team raid of a local mayor's home by the Prince George's County Sheriff generated national coverage in part because the only casualties were two black Labrador Retrievers. The lesson here ought to be, according to today's Examiner editorial, that law enforcement agencies are becoming too willing to employ massive and deadly military-style force against civilians and it is time for some self-imposed restrictions on the use of SWAT teams.
Ambrose Column: Examiner columnist Jay Ambrose on liberal Democrats who want to use the FCC's revived Fairness Doctrine to stifle conservative political expression.
Masty's Time Machine: You think the Beijing Olympics will be the end of such competition this year? Think again because Masty's Time Machine found Susan Creamcheese and the Political Olympics that never end.
A special report was carried in the Sunday edition of The Examiner that focused on how a coalition of wealty liberal donors and activists with union poitical operatives and trial lawyers is making major progress toward converting Colorado to a... Read More
This is courtesy of the Independent Petroleum Association of America: FACT CHECK: “BIG OIL” Not Using 68 Million Acres of Oil and Gas Leases? Some Politicians Are Obviously Confused About Securing American Energy. ... Read More
A new Rasmussen survey offers this unexpected insight into what voters are thinking as the 2008 campaign heads to the convention phase in late August and early September. Here's how Rasmussen puts it:"Voters overwhelmingly believe that politicians... Read More
Examiner Editorial:Scratching the itch of the totalitarian temptation seems to be a growing urge among liberal politicos and today's Examiner editorial looks at three manifestations of it, concluding that those who care about constitutional liberty need... Read More
Only once in American history did losing a political debate in Congress lead to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of those on the losing side. We came close in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and during Reconstruction but... Read More
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't having much success with her just-released book; despite her justly laudable status as America's first-ever top leader in the lower chamber of Congress. Thus far and despit extensive favorable publicity from the mainstream... Read More
My former colleagues at The Heritage Foundation took a few minutes to respond to each of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "Top 10 Questions for House Republicans on Energy." I strongly recommend close reading of both documents and their supporting... Read More
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) Rep. David Davis (R-TN) Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) Rep.... Read More
Lots of folks on the Right were absolutely stunned Monday when the White House announced that President Bush would not summon Congress back from its August recess to vote on lifting the congressional ban on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf to... Read More