America has two words for Kanye West: “Bah! Humbug!” Kanye West and Lady Gaga A new survey that recasts celebrities as famous holiday characters was released Wednesday, with the Chicago rapper as the grumpy, heartless Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel A Chri...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Now, it’s personal. President Barack Obama invoked his own anguish over the death of a loved one as he challenged the debunked notion that Democratic efforts to overhaul the nation’s health care would include “death panels.” Sorry Granma... ...

WASHINGTON–They came, they quaffed, they left. And despite U.S. President Barack Obama’s vow to salvage a “teachable moment” from a White House session designed to dampen racial tensions with ice-cold beer, last night’s lesson left the rest of America little the wis...

Today is the first part in a series on Czars. This is a hot topic in the media right now, because in a little less than six months as President, Barrack Obama has hand selected over thirty “czars.” Which will rule over various issues, including the private sector. So what is really going...

Plenty of current and former U.S. senators had memorable professions before they got to Washington: country fiddler (Robert Byrd of West Virginia), astronaut (John Glenn of Ohio), jewelry-maker (Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado). But none were dogged by a satirical persona, as is already ...

Sarah Palin says David Letterman owes an apology to young women across the country for his joke about her daughter. Letterman Owes Women An Apology The Alaska governor appeared on NBC’s “Today” show Friday, continuing a feud with the CBS “Late Show” funnyman o...

WHEN a Fox News anchor, reacting to his own network’s surging e-mail traffic, warns urgently on-camera of a rise in hate-filled, “amped up” Americans who are “taking the extra step and getting the gun out,” maybe we should listen. He has better sources in that underground than most...

FBI hostage negotiators joined U.S. Navy efforts Thursday to free an American cargo ship captain held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates. A U.S. destroyer and a spy plane kept a close watch in the high-seas standoff near the Horn of Africa. The pirates took Capt. Richard Phillips hosta...

There is a new acronym in the lexicon of Obama administration national security moguls. “AfPak” stands for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The term denotes the administration’s desire to take a unified approach to policy and strategy for these two countries. President Barack Obam...

For all of the keen intellect that President Barack Obama showed in his online town hall meeting, he didn’t seem to know much about reefer economics. When asked whether legalizing marijuana might be a stimulus for the economy and job creation, he played the question for laughs. PRESID...

There are growing indications that the Obama administration is melting down, unraveling and falling apart. The clearest indication is Barack Obama and his treasury secretary failing to come up with a plan to fix the bank/credit crisis. He is proposing solutions for every social problem ever ...

Everyone from President Barack Obama on down to fans has criticized how college football determines its top team. Now senators are getting off the sidelines to examine antitrust issues involving the Bowl Champion Series. Orrin Hatch The current system “leaves nearly half of all the ...