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Boehner threatens to shut out Senate bills if filibuster rules changed

House Speaker John Boehner escalated a battle in the Senate this week to make rules more favorable to...

Our divisive tax code

The current “fiscal cliff” drama drives home, once again, how incredibly divisive our current tax str...

U.N. upgrades the Palestinians to “observer state” status

On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly voted to “upgrade” the Palestinian Authority to “non...

Susan Rice’s foreign investments

In what might turn out to be the final set of nails in the coffin of her Secretary of State ambitions...

The Obama Cliff: $1.6 trillion in tax increases, zero spending cuts

After all of his talk about $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases… all the prattle about ...

Fiscal cliff update Nov. 30

Much of the day will be driven by the Obama administration's latest plan, released Thursday, which is...

Gitmo north returns: Obama’s shady prison deal

If you thought President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had given up on closing Guantanamo Ba...

Will Obama nominate Rice amid scandal?

Since her 2008 confirmation as U.N. ambassador, many believe that Rice has been too soft towards host...

Nomination for Defense secretary may be delayed

A John Kerry nomination would come with what may be a positive externality for the GOP: the Massachus...

PAT BUCHANAN: Americans are already seceding from one another

While no one takes the secession movement as seriously as men took secession in 1861, the sentiments ...

Cliff jumping with Barack

Obama's audacious new gambit is not a serious proposal to solve our fiscal problems. It's a raw parti...

Rates will go up: White House takes harder line on taxes

The view that "rates would never go up," held by some Republicans "is not plausible anymore," says Ja...

Benghazi concerns lead to embassy security ramp-up

A defense budget bill amendment that would evaluate and beef up Marine Security Guard presence at U.S...

Don’t let it burn

There’s a lot of talk about Republicans taking a “let it burn” approach to America’s fiscal crisis. T...