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Whether or not they win big this November, Republicans need to stop thinking of themselves as the “party of opposition.” (more)

At a meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists in San Diego last week, former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod announced her intention to sue conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart in just two sentences: (more)

Shirley Sherrod, who recently lost her job at the USDA after an excerpt of a speech she delivered to the NAACP surfaced showing her saying she didn’t do everything she could to help a white farmer, is now accusing Big Government’s Andrew Breitbart of, you guessed it, racism. (more)

Here are a dozen premises that appear to be driving Republican and Democratic Party strategies as we approach the 2010 election. (more)

The two-month-old oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is taking a major toll on President Obama’s presidency, according to a new poll released Wednesday evening. (more)

President Obama interrupted my Father’s Day with an e-mail announcing the launch of “The President’s Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative” and an associated Web site, Fatherhood.gov, which honestly I could have mistaken for an elaborate prank undertaken by some libertarian group trying to make the point that the next thing you know, Big Government and President Obama are going to try to insert themselves into the father-son or father-daughter relationship. Except that, sure enough, at the bottom of the Web site is language announcing, “This is an official U.S. Government Web site managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.” (more)

Revolution in California and political regime change come November has been a theme of mine for weeks. Tuesday night’s big victories for Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina moved that agenda nicely down the field. (more)

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It is very frustrating to see some people in the Tea Party movement not get the recognition they deserve; but if I can help one young man receive his rightful place in The Tea Party Hall of Fame it would be Mr. Matthew Perdie. Yes, I would recommend him for “The Teapot Award of Merit and Valor Extraordinaire with Oak Leaf Clusters” (and without kisses on both cheeks- that’s for the French to do.) (more)

ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis praised socialism and said the Tea Party was a “bowel movement” filled with racists in a speech to a left-wing youth group, a new video shows. (more)

The man who takes Sachs of gold is the man who makes the rules. President Obama is that man, and Republicans in Congress should demand an independent special prosecutor to investigate the relationship between gold and rulemaking in the executive branch. With nearly a million dollars of Goldman Sachs money in his hip pocket (rendering that institution his most generous ’08 corporate campaign contributor), Obama appears to be ignoring some serious rule-breaking. (more)

Last month CNN aired the weeklong program “Broken Government,” which addressed whether our current system is broken, and if so, how to fix it. The unspoken assumption behind the series was that there are just a few bad cogs in the system, but if only we could repair and replace them, everything would be splendid. (more)

Another “jobs bill” is crawling through Congress. This one has a mere $15 billion price tag, making it a largely symbolic gesture—$15 billion is roughly what taxpayers spend to ferry Nancy Pelosi and her royal family around, especially when Nancy decides the hors d’oeuvres are not to her taste, and the Air Force must divert the plane to France. If the president wants to use government power to dramatically boost employment, there’s a much simpler program he should propose: (more)

Over the past decade, leftist theology has preached relentlessly about the impending global warming crisis. As awareness has turned to panic, enviro-scare tactics have millions of Americans “going green” to the extreme. Yet, what many people don’t realize (or remember, for that matter) is a similar campaign that scientists and the media waged back in the 1970s—a movement aimed at addressing what adherents referred to as the “global cooling” phenomenon. (more)

In news accounts about fights over new regulation, the story is almost always the same. The media portray the drama as that of well-intentioned experts wanting more regulation to protect the public good versus the business lobby ferociously opposed to the imposition of these new rules. (more)

Investigative journalist James O’Keefe, who was arrested by the FBI this week in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, says he had no plans to tap the phones of the Louisiana senator, but instead was trying to shine a light on her refusal to answer constituent calls. (more)

Within 48 hours last week, two quick victories for individual freedom occurred. (more)