BY MICKEY EDWARDS
Reprinted from Atlantic.com 
            The purification process — hard-core and uncompromising partisans driving heretics from their ranks — has been going on for a long time. 
            The recent Republican convention in Utah, the one in which conservative Senator Robert Bennett was defeated for being not conservative enough (despite an 84 percent approval rating from [...]

BY Gary Andres
From Weekly Standard.com
When Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed her state’s new immigration law on April 23, reaction from the political Left was swift and furious. They predicted jack-booted rogue cops staging midnight raids on the homes of everyone.
But after over a month of national debate and media coverage – including criticism from both [...]

BY RON BONJEAN
Just like the BP camera has allowed us to watch millions of gallons of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico after the collapse of the “Deep Horizon” oil rig, President Obama should install an Oval Office camera or “Oval Cam” in the White House after the botched handling of Rep. Joe Sestak’s job offer. [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
On ABC’s weekly gab-fast “This Week” yesterday, America’s last remaining Whig, the bow-tied George Will, blithely dismissed the kerfluffle surrounding the latest accusations surrounding illegality in the White House.  “Business as usual,” he huffed.
But moments later, on a separate network, the one who was offered the bribe, Joe Sestak, acknowledged that he was [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
            The oil spill catastrophe has set off a new round of finger pointing. Oil company executives were crawling over each other a week ago to place blame on each other. 
            And, the President is doing what he does extremely well, branding oil company executives as villains and the rest of [...]

BY BILL GREENER
 Something that frustrates me most as a conservative and a Republican is my inability to ever, and I mean ever, “win” an argument with a liberal.  Just when I think they are ready to cry “Uncle,” the rules always seem to change.
 Want some examples?  Go to a recent “dateline” in the Sunday Washington [...]

BY Gary Andres
 Reprinted from Weekly Standard
 Two seemingly unrelated news stories unfolded in Washington last week — developments that could further stoke the flames of voter discontent across America. Taken together, these reports could also label the Democrats with an ugly and hard to erase moniker heading into the November elections:  They are now the Party [...]

BY MICKEY EDWARDS
  Reprinted from Politico.com
Given the increased focus on, and increased fealty to, one’s political party as an overriding factor in the decision-making process, it is highly likely that every Democratic member of the Senate will feel a strong sense of obligation to confirm the Supreme Court nominee of a Democratic President. 
Add the fact that many members of the Senate, as [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
From the Feehery Theory
No wonder David Obey retired.
Last night, Alan Mollohan, the West Virginia Congressman and proud member of the House Appropriations Committee, lost his primary against an opponent who attacked the incumbent’s behavior on the Committee.
Over the weekend, Robert Bennett, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, lost in his efforts to [...]

BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from Washington Times
This country is divided into three parts concerning national politics. About a third think President Obama is moving in the right direction, with many of them impatient for the president to be bolder with his leftist agenda. Somewhere in the vicinity of 40 percent to 50 percent of Americans are [...]