I like Rahm. I like him a lot. I remember when I was asked to take over as the acting White House press secretary when Tony Snow had to undergo surgery and I got a few phone calls of encouragement. The first one was from Rep. Rahm Emanuel. We’d not …

Bishop Thomas Tobin’s request that U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), refrain from asking for Holy Communion seems, to me, to be an eminently reasonable one. While not a Catholic, I understand the hierarchical nature of the church and the role that doctrine plays within it. To put it simply, and …

The FAB FIVE 1) The protests in Iran: The long awaited counterrevolution has not yet occurred, but the preconditions for it did.– Turbans off to the brave men and women who have continued to flock to the streets, defying death and prison, to protest the theft of yet another election …

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:16:05 +0000 – By Mark JosephProducer/Author/Editor, BullyPulpit.comI enjoy American politics on two levels: first and most foremost, because it is where public policy is debated and decided. It’s where ideas either succeed or fail and are enshrined into the law that we all agree to live …

Give him the money! Republicans in Congress need to stifle their hostility towards President Obama, and approve his emergency request for funds to alleviate our border disaster. Only by signing on for the $3.7 billion “fix” will the GOP place this “urgent humanitarian crisis” squarely in Mr. Obama’s lap, where …

In the mad rush to wash their hands of Afghanistan, President Obama and his team have made an embarrassing series of military, diplomatic and policy errors that future historians will closely examine as a case study in folly and blundering. The folly and blundering have now peaked with the prisoner …

Win, lose, or draw, the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in two cases involving religious freedom, expected by the end of June, will not resolve all the questions regarding the legality of the Obama administration’s “Health and Human Services Mandate.” While for-profit employers have been threatened with massive ObamaCare …

Federal deficits are too large and mounting national debt threatens future generations. Both Democrats and Republicans embrace demagoguery and refuse to address facts and acknowledge lessons of history. Since 2007, federal spending is up $1 trillion dollars and deficits jumped from $161 billion to $1.2 trillion over five years. Higher …

An unbelievable show this Friday night in Chicago. Together on one stage: Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright and radical priest Michael Pfleger. They will all be receiving an award called “Living Legends,” and you can see it as a VIP if you have a hundred bucks. The spectacle is being driven …

Those racist cops were at it again. In New York, after the failed car bombing they were just randomly frisking people down with no rhyme or reason, patrolling for “different looking” people when — miraculously — they were able to apprehend the bomber, 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad, just before he left …