The House voted on and passed legislation yesterday to reauthorize the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program and provide additional school improvement funding for the DC public schools and charter schools.  The Legislation passed by a vote of 225 to 195.  (Click here to see how your representative voted.) Sadly, the Obama Administration continues to stand in [...]

By Ralph Reed The liberal media has been swooning over the prospect that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak might be replaced by a coalition government led by Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). ElBaradei is a darling of the left for his open opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq [...]

By Ralph Reed Watching Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, it was hard not to close one’s eyes and hear the voice of Bill Clinton.  The only thing missing was: “The era of big government is over.”  Had Obama used those words, he would have had to pay royalties to Dick Morris, who actually [...]

By Ken Blackwell Ken Blackwell The child porn allegations made against MTV for its “Skins” show must be investigated by the Obama Justice Department. Child Pornography is not protected by the First Amendment, and producing child porn is a crime. Whether these allegations are true or not, even allegations of it are something most responsible [...]

By: Ken Blackwell Ken Blackwell It was twenty-two years ago, in the spring of 1989, that thousands of Chinese students gathered in Beijing’s Tienanmen Square to demand democracy. The students even fashioned their own 30-foot high replica of America’s Statue of Libety. It represented the aspirations for democracy of young Chinese. They yearned to join [...]

By Ralph Reed The ascension of a new Republican majority in the House of Representatives this week contrasts sharply with an event that will unfold next Monday 1,300 miles away in a courtroom in Austin, Texas: the sentencing of former House majority leader Tom DeLay. Known as “The Hammer” for his sharp-elbowed legislative tactics, the [...]

Last week at a private meeting with incoming governors at Blair House, Governor-elect Nikki Haley of South Carolina pointedly asked President Obama if he would allow repeal of his signature health care law.  The people and small businesses of my state cannot afford the mandates in the new law, she reportedly told the president.  It [...]

Tom Friedman offered up this unsolicited advice to Israel in yesterday’s New York Times:

Israel, when America, a country that has lavished billions on you over the last 50 years and taken up your defense in countless international forums, asks you to halt settlements for three months to get peace talks going, there is only one right answer, and it is not “How much?” It is: “Yes, whatever you want, because you’re our only true friend in the world.”

Really? “Whatever you want”? Does Friedman literally mean to suggest Israel should suspend its own judgment about its legitimate national security interests because the U.S. has defended its right to exist?

By Ralph Reed Obama’s Betrayal For those wondering whether Barack Obama would respond to the new reality of Republican control of the House with Clinton-like triangulation or ideological intransigence, the answer is now in, and it is both.  By cutting a deal with the GOP on extending the Bush tax cuts and cutting Democrats in [...]

Ken Blackwell By Ken Blackwell Appearing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY.) told host Christiane Amanpour he would push for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This is an idea whose time has come. In 1994, Republicans campaigned– and won — on a balanced budget amendment (as part of the [...]