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In what will rank as one of the all-time presidential P.R. disasters, we’re now well over half way through what the White House called “the summer of recovery.” And what a recovery it’s been. Earlier this month, first-time claims for unemployment hit a nine-month high. The unemployment rate remains at …

How can President Obama save the U.S. economy and create all the jobs we need? The answers are perfectly straightforward and even simple. They’ve worked brilliantly three times in the past 90 years.Warren G. Harding did it in the 1920s, Dwight D. Eisenhower did it in the 1950s and Ronald …

A Rutgers University freshman committed suicide this week after two classmates secretly recorded him engaged in a sexual encounter, and then broadcast the video over the Internet. Tyler Clementi jumped off a bridge to his death, virtually pushed off, frankly, by the sick act of vicious bullies who thought it …

“Count your blessings” was my mother’s lifelong advice, and now it’s official: She was right. People who feel grateful have more energy, enthusiasm and a more positive outlook on life than those who don’t, The Wall Street Journal reports. It notes that a “growing body of research” finds gratitude is …

It’s almost too bad the health debate has moved so slowly that it missed the Oscars. Perhaps our newly indignant president would have been eligible for a Best Actor nod. But then again, sequels rarely do well with the Academy. And this act clearly isn’t anything new. President Obama has …

As President Obama’s first year in office wraps up this week, it’s a good time to review where he stands on fulfilling some of the high-profile promises he made in the campaign and as president. During the campaign, Mr. Obama seemed purposefully vague on what he was actually going to …

For the next three days, thousands of conservatives from across the country are gathering in Washington, for the Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC. Those of us who are CPAC veterans are here to mobilize our elected officials and channel the energy that the country is feeling into …

Although media coverage of President Obama’s unfolding nuclear policy has focused on its implications for the United States, it is no less important to understand its effects on America’s friends and allies. The New START arms control treaty with Russia, the administration’s nuclear posture review, the recent Washington nuclear security …

The new unemployment numbers released today are decidedly mixed news. On the one hand, the unemployment rate remained constant at 9.7 percent in March and the share of the workforce taking part-time jobs because they couldn’t find full time unemployment rose by a tenth of the percentage point. For the …

August was the worst month of Barack Obama’s presidency. And he seems to know it–he is now planning to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress 232 days into his administration in a desperate attempt to save his biggest domestic priority, overhauling health care. He has already had …