BY RICH GALEN
 Reprinted from mullings.com
A selection of hundreds of thousands of documents – most of them classified – were released yesterday by the New York Times and several other newspapers around the world having been provided to them several weeks ago by Wikileaks.com.

BY GARY ANDRES
Intra-party fights for political spoils are one of the dark sides of legislative politics.
These battles are divisive and unproductive. They destroy party morale, political efficacy and even lifelong friendships.  Fortunately, the incoming Republican House majority kept most of these internal squabbles to a minimum when it came to selecting their new leadership team.

BY RICH GALEN
 Reprinted from Mullings.com
This is a rewrite of the Thanksgiving MULLINGS first published in 2002.
Please take a moment on Thanksgiving to say a Prayer of Thanks for those brave Americans in uniform, and also for the civilians, who are serving in far off places, away from their families, protecting us, while projecting America’s [...]

BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from the Washington Times
The administration’s Afghanistan war policy seems to be settling into a dismal combination of confusion and cynicism. Before the November elections, the administration was adamant that the troops would start coming home by July 2011. That, it is presumed, was to keep the president’s liberals calm.

 BY RICH GALEN
 Reprinted from Mullings.com and Townhall.com
 If you live in Washington, DC and follow the local Major League Baseball team – the Nationals – you know a little something about slumps.
You know how you can deny that one of their players is heading into one; you can deny he’s in the midst of one; and [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
One of the really nice things about doing what I do for as long as I’ve done it, is watching the growth and success of people I first met years ago.

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from the Feehery.theory.com
On the eve of St. Patrick’s Day in 1978, the New York Times reported that the House approved by legislation, which established the official policy of the United States that the unemployment rate should be 4%. “The bill authorizes the use of fiscal and monetary policy, public service jobs, job [...]

BY FRANK HILL
Reprinted from telemachus.com
 Do you ever get the strange feeling that someone might be getting a better deal under the same federal tax code than you are?
Well, they are…millions of your fellow Americans are.  To the tune of close to $1 trillion in saved tax payments per year. Each year.  And you keep paying [...]

BY GARY ANDRES
 Reprinted from weeklystandard.com

Lots of people asked – before and after the midterm elections – if a Republican congressional majority would help or hurt President Obama’s reelection chances?

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from the feeherytheory.com
Mitch McConnell bowed to reality with his statement on earmarks yesterday.  It couldn’t have been easy and it shouldn’t have been.
Earmarks are essential part of our Constitutional process.  For any member of Congress (House or Senate) to willingly give power away to the executive branch in such a haphazard way [...]