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Virginia got a lot redder tonight. A state that went for Obama just one year ago and has had a Democratic governor for the past eight years did an about face tonight by overwhelming electing Republicans to the highest offices in the Commonwealth: Bob McDonnell for governor, Bill Bolling for …

It appears that officials in three states–Illinois, Montana, and Colorado–are salivating over the hope of landing a federal contract to house some of the remaining Gitmo detainees. The reason for such desperation appears mostly to be driven by desperate economics. Amid reports this weekend that President Obama’s home state of …

John Kerry must be joking. Fresh off his role as chief scrivener for Barack Obama Chamberlain, the secretary of state called it “very disturbing” that Iran’s supreme leader vowed to continue opposing the United States despite the nuclear deal. Did Kerry sleepwalk through the last 18 months? Iran’s leaders continually …

Do we really want paying people not to work for 99 weeks – nearly two years – to be a permanent feature of the American economic system? Is that what the American people voted for in the historic landslide election of 2010? If not, then why are Republicans poised to …

Tony Hayward is gone at last from BP. Weep no crocodile tears for him. Without doubt he will rise again to wreak havoc on other parts of the world in his lethal combination of arrogance, complacency and incompetence. The City of London financial establishment looks after its own. But 100 …

What a great week to be rich in America! On Monday, President Obama compromised with the Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts, leaving no millionaires or billionaires behind. By Thursday, a generous estate-tax exemption was heaped onto the deal, permitting wealthy couples to leave up to $10 million to …

Words matter. Just ask the State Department. On the day President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the New START Treaty, the two countries already had a different spin on how the agreement would impact U.S. missile defense programs. The Russians released a statement arguing the treaty would work …

This is shaping up as one of those goose-and-gander parables. What’s good for one is good for the other. The plan by a fiery Florida preacher to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 to protest radical Islam is drawing criticism from all sides. Civil-rights and religious leaders are …

It appears that officials in three states–Illinois, Montana, and Colorado–are salivating over the hope of landing a federal contract to house some of the remaining Gitmo detainees. The reason for such desperation appears mostly to be driven by desperate economics. Amid reports this weekend that President Obama’s home state of …

There was much to like in President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, including admitting his achievements are “slight” and others are more deserving. Candor becomes him. Other welcome passages defended the “just war” in Afghanistan and sang the praises of America as a peacemaker in ways that contradict his misbegotten …