BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from Weekly Standard
 The day Abraham Lincoln delivered his electrifying speech at New York City’s Cooper Union in 1860, he sat for a now famous photograph by Mathew Brady. Lincoln’s stem-winding perorations that night won him high praise from political elites, but the picture – widely used and reproduced in the campaign that [...]

BY STEVE BELL
      At the end of this calendar year, the so-called Bush Tax Cuts of 2001 and 2003 expire.  In order for any of the cuts to continue, Congress must pass a bill the President will sign.  So far, so simple. 
      President Obama proposed in his budget that all Bush tax cuts for filers [...]

BY BILL GREENER
The White House, in one form or another, offered Joe Sestak some sort of political deal to get him to refrain from running against Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania.  The first time I heard this, I thought to myself, why would this surprise or upset anyone?  [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
 My Democratic friends and one very close relative often ask me why I’m a Republican.  Another of the many reasons revealed itself to me recently from the window of a cab.  I was traveling down historic Pennsylvania Avenue on my way to Capitol Hill.
             Pennsylvania Avenue is America’s Avenue.  It is a [...]