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"Moving forward" is suddenly everybody's cliche in a city that thrives on political cliches, but there's another Washington that looks to the past -- or at least a commemoration of the past, and how we pay homage to the men who shaped the nation's destiny. Our most famous marble testifies to the memory of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZSuzanne Fields

In 1919, after Boston police went on strike to protest the city's refusal to recognize their new union, Gov. Calvin Coolidge ordered the National Guard into the streets.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZPat Buchanan

The CIA was simply unable to recruit case officers who understood the region's culture, issues and actors and who could move imperceptibly within the local milieu. Instead, the case officers are obviously foreigners.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZStewart Scott

A raft of new polls underscore the political free fall Barack Obama finds himself in.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZHugh Hewitt

Watching Bill Clinton act as Barack Obama's "No. 1 surrogate," in the words of National Public Radio, is as exquisitely painful as watching a runaway monkey with a paintball gun at a museum.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-09T02:10:02ZJonah Goldberg

Free speech is under fire. Online thugs are targeting bloggers (mostly conservative, but not all) who have dared to expose a convicted bomber and perjuring vexatious litigant who is now enjoying a comfy life as a liberally subsidized social justice operative. 2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T11:10:07ZMichelle Malkin

As Ronald Reagan noted, Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T11:10:07ZJohn Hawkins

There are two powerful market currents converging. And where they meet, there is a well-positioned company that is poised to make a ton of money simply by riding along and doing nothing. 2012-06-08T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T11:10:07ZNathan Slaughter

After testifying about Fast and Furious for the eighth time, Attorney General Eric Holder still evades questions, but admits DOJ and White working together on messaging to the the "facts" out about the case. 2012-06-07T13:05:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZKatie Pavlich

In this life, a number of relationships are of great significance, such as the relationship between a customer and his banker, a patient and his doctor, or even a congregant and his pastor. These are important relationships—some of which produce near-familial emotions, binding people together at a deep, deep level. And while all of these relationships are important, they are but proximate compared with the ultimate earthly relationship—and that is marriage.2012-06-07T11:25:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZAlan Sears

This week, the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to hear any more arguments on gay marriage.2012-06-07T10:04:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZMaggie Gallagher

Four years ago, Israeli “dove” Avi Primor cooed over the prospects for a comprehensive peace settlement in the Mideast. The “key” to peace, wrote Israel’s former Ambassador to Germany, lies in Damascus. Amb. Primor wrote if Israel would only agree to give up the Golan Heights she had captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, Syria might yet come around to accepting the existence of the Jewish state and break its dependence on the mullahs in Iran.2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZKen Blackwell

WASHINGTON -- Frankly, I wish the Pew Research Center would occasionally keep its thoughts to itself. Sometimes those thoughts are merely insipid and beneath the attention of serious minds. Sometimes they are alarming and capable of stirring up an already excitable populace. There is talk of cannibalism being practiced by the criminal element. There is Lady Gaga. These are worrisome times. Yet the Pew Research Center has gone and done it again.2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZEmmett Tyrrell

President Barack Obama's re-election turns on his ability to convince voters that 1) Obama inherited a "Great Recession," 2) every "independent" economist supported the "stimulus," 3) "bipartisan" economists agree that Obama's stimulus worked, and 4) as actor Morgan Freeman puts it, racist Republicans say, "Screw the country ... we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here" -- nothing to do with deeply held policy differences.2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZLarry Elder

Last summer, the debt crisis in Europe was in the front of most investors' minds, prompting some wild sell-offs in global stock markets regardless of corporate fundamentals. And, in recent weeks, traders have become increasingly concerned about some softening in U.S. economic data, a bright spot for the world economy since late last year. 2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZPaul Tracy

Barack Obama lately has been accusing presumptive rival Mitt Romney of not waging his campaign in the nice (but losing) manner of John McCain in 2008. But a more marked difference can be seen in Obama himself, whose style and record bear no resemblance to his glory days of four years ago. 2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZVictor Davis Hanson

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's most popular politician, garnered 49.3 percent -- less than half -- of the vote on election day Tuesday. Winning 1.8 million votes, Feinstein trounced her 23 challengers handily in what wags call California's "jungle primary." There was no big-name challenger, yet more than half of voters went for Anyone But DiFi.2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZDebra J. Saunders

The sudden enthusiasm for gold on Wall Street may signal that we’re at a bottom for gold selling. As I mentioned last month, it’s not unusual to see investors selling gold during times of down markets when they’re fleeing to cash. Once the markets are awash in liquidity, all that money has to go somewhere. 2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZChris Poindexter

The Army wants to shape the constitution so that it recognizes and respects the Army's control of defense matters, including the budget and its economic holdings, which are extensive. 2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZNight Watch

The results are in, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has beaten Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in the recall election. That's in line with pre-election polling, though not the Election Day exit poll.2012-06-07T00:01:00-04:002012-06-08T03:10:03ZMichael Barone