American Conservative

Democrats are struggling to raise money for the party’s national convention this summer in Charlotte, in part because they’ve barred corporations or lobbyists from contributing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tossing out President Barack Obama’s health care law would have major unintended consequences for Medicare’s payment systems, unseen but vital plumbing that handles 100 million monthly claims from hospitals and other service providers, the administration has quietly informed the courts.

Although the law made significant cuts to …

The Trayvon campaign is accurately described as “disinformation” because deception is a fundamental part of its planning, strategy, and implementation. Leftist disinformation campaigns are common but are not widely understood.

Wondering where things stand on global warming? Let’s go to the science of it.

Recreational politics lacks anything resembling officially certified dogma, let alone leaders who can impose orthodoxy. This is make-it-up-as-you-go-along politics, and the result is, naturally, a cacophony of strident voices.

The recent “Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan” is merely paint hiding the reality of a complete Afghan quagmire.

If the Supreme Court declares the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, almost assuredly John Glover Roberts, Jr., the chief justice, will write the majority opinion. His words will weigh heavily on America’s future.

True, 2012 is not your parents’ 1980 demographically…but if Mitt Romney is shrewd, he can still lock this one up.

Polls might show widespread distrust of and contempt for the federal government, but Democrats don’t have a campaign angle to play beyond “government is best.”

Indiana’s Richard Lugar has been a well-known Republican senator for more than three decades, but his political life now may hinge on whether he can attract independent voters to the polls in Tuesday’s primary.

For months Republican leaders fretted because Mitt Romney’s rivals wouldn’t leave the playing field. Now the concern is that they won’t play ball.

The long-term partnership that President Obama signed with the Afghan government commits the U.S. to a role in the troubled nation for at least a dozen more years, leaving critics fuming over the uncertain costs of a conflict that already has stretched for a decade.

Details of the agreement are …

Tea party sympathizers continue shelling Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana as they work to defeat him in next week’s primary, which is shaping up as the premiere chance for the political movement to capture a senior Republican scalp in this year’s elections.

The pressure on Mr. Lugar, a six-term …

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and a top FTC staffer traded emails in 2010 about whether Facebook and other tech companies were secretly funding a nonprofit group pushing hard for regulators to investigate Google Inc.

The messages, revealed in internal emails recently obtained by The Washington Times through …

ATLANTA — While a black preacher told about 100 immigration protesters that incarcerated blacks and detained immigrants faced similar challenges, Jesse Morgan stood to one side of the May Day demonstrators, holding a large sign that read, “Radical Queers Resist.”

Although the rally was geared toward illegal immigrants, the 24-year-old …

SAN FRANCISCO — An appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a terrorist’s lawsuit accusing a high-ranking Bush administration lawyer who wrote the so-called “torture memos” of authorizing illegally harsh treatment of “enemy combatants.”

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo is protected from such lawsuits because the law defining torture …

Or maybe it’s just Anita Lotta Doe: A new biography centered on the college years of President Obama has created instantaneous mirth among his nimble-minded critics. An excerpt of “Barack Obama: The Story” by Washington Post associate editor David Maraniss appeared in Vanity Fair on Wednesday, offering details about the …

No more phony appeals to women or attempts to charm on late-night TV.

NEW YORK — An independent group backing Republican Mitt Romney is spending nearly $4 million on ads in nine battleground states.

An organization that tracks TV spending by political campaigns says the Romney-aligned Restore Our Future has bought television ad time in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, …

President Obama has admitted that a white girlfriend he depicted in his 1995 autobiography [-] in which he wrote about their searing argument over racial attitudes — was actually a composite of several girlfriends from his past.

Mr. Obama told biographer David Maraniss in an Oval Office interview that the …

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Many people think the best way to deal with China is to make it a stakeholder in the international system. The idea is that, if China were part of the system, it would play by the system’s accepted rules.

This is a good idea with respect to international trade …

Vowing to stay involved in America’s political conversation, an at-times-emotional Newt Gingrich closed the curtain Wednesday on an up-and-down Republican presidential bid that saw the former House speaker re-establish himself on the national stage, but rack up millions in campaign debt.

Mr. Gingrich, though, stopped short of offering a clear …

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Newt Gingrich now can call himself a former presidential candidate.

As expected, the former House speaker has bowed out of the Republican presidential contest just short of a year after he got into the race. It was “an amazing year” for him, his wife, Callista, and his …

Mitt Romney said Wednesday that it was “inexcusable” for President Obama to try to shut down the District’s federally backed voucher pilot program that has sent thousands of the city’s students to private schools.

The Opportunity Scholarship Program, which falls under the direct jurisdiction of Congress, has been politically contentious …

WASHINGTON — As Newt Gingrich prepared to abandon his presidential bid, President Barack Obama saw it as an opportunity to swipe at Mitt Romney.

Obama’s re-election campaign on Wednesday released an 80-second web video of clips from the Republican primaries in which Gingrich criticizes Romney — Obama’s likely Republican opponent …

Much is made of the fact that Obama okayed the kill. Do you mean to tell me he could have said no?

Liberals think that attacking Romney as a robotic, “untouched by the ’60s” weirdo will repel voters. They understand neither Romney nor the way the 1960s were experienced by most Americans.

An Obama campaign based heavily on gaffes and primary attacks on Romney will backfire, because the president’s own gaffes are far more damaging. Scandals and blunders suppressed by the media are ripe.

Hounded out of her school as the members of the early 21^st century’s protected class proved her criticisms true.

The goal behind fiddling with student loan interest rates is not to help students. It is to continue the cycle of union payoffs, campaign kickbacks, and fostering a learning environment where government decrees go unquestioned.