BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from the feeherytheory.com
Like the audience that was arrayed in front of him, the President’s State of the Union address was all mixed up in ways that made it unconvincing and inauthentic.

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Townhall.com and mullings.com
The chatter around Your Nation’s Capital among the cognoscenti, the intelligentsia, and smarty-pantses over the past 24 hours was: Is there any real meaning to the House vote to repeal Obamacare?

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Here’s the essence of the gulf between House Republicans and Democrats on the Obama health care bill: According to Kelly Kennedy writing in USA Today:

BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from the Washington Times
What should congressional Republicans’ policy objectives be for the next two years regarding federal deficits and prosperity? Two very different strategies are being considered by authentic conservatives: 1) Attempt to govern from their majority in the House and try to start the process of reducing the costs of entitlements [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Dear Mr. Mullings:
We believe we have had this discussion before. When you go traipsing off to interesting corners of the world, we expect to be along for the traipse. What happened to Friday’s MULLINGS?
Signed,
The Old Town, Virginia Explorer’s Club
Yes, well, we were in Zanzibar, which is a series of islands off [...]

BY GARY JOHNSON
rerprinted from Loose Change, Twin Cities Business
What a shame that it takes the attempted assassination of a public servant and the murder of six people, including a federal judge and a lovely little girl aspiring to be a politician, to divert our attentions from the polarizing political climate we’ve created.
My Facebook page receives [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
In Tucson Wednesday President Obama said what needed to be said and he said it like Lincoln did at Gettysburg: This is an opportunity for us to come together so that those people did not die in vain.
It doesn’t matter what the pundits say or who they claim to be at [...]

 
BY RICH GALEN
From Nairobi, Kenya
Reprinted from Mullings.com
I have been in Kenya since Saturday night on a trip sponsored by the ONE Campaign. I am with seven other political pros – pollsters, advisors, message masters, and me. Later today we move on to Tanzania for about three days before heading home.
We are not spending much [...]

 
 
BY JOHN FEEHERY
 Reprinted from the feeherytheory.com
On July 24, 1998, just as the House of Representatives concluded debate on contentious healthcare legislation, Russell Weston stepped into the Capitol building and fired a gun, killing officer Jacob Chestnut. He then proceeded into the office of then-Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas), where he encountered Detective John Gibson. Gibson [...]

 
BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from the Washington Times
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others, it is predictable that some self-centered politicians and political commentators quickly assumed the killer must have been provoked by political comments. Following on that conclusion, they naturally argue (notwithstanding their exposure last week in the House [...]