By CAL THOMAS     2/10/2012 10:45 AM   

For 60 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a nonpolitical event where speakers put aside their earthly biases and focus on a higher authority. Last Thursday, President Obama departed from that tradition to claim the endorsement of Jesus for ...

By David Lauderdale   McClatchy-Tribune   2/8/2012 11:06 AM   

South Carolina's legislature finally has produced a bill it can understand. And if the bill introduced by the honorable gentleman from Lexington succeeds in mandating that Clemson and the University of South Carolina play football against each other ...

By BILL O'REILLY     2/8/2012 11:00 AM   

The story is grisly: a husband and wife murdering their three young daughters, ages 19, 17 and 13, by drowning them along with their stepmother. The couple was assisted by their 21-year-old son. All were found guilty of first-degree murder in Ontario ...

By CINDI ROSS SCOPPE     2/5/2012 10:34 PM   

Perhaps it's a coincidence that the Catawba Indian Nation renewed its efforts to force our state to authorize high-stakes gambling just as the Cherokees started trying to build political support for a casino in Jasper County. But there's much the sam ...

By LEONARD PITTS JR.     2/5/2012 9:25 PM   

A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, we have only about 550 with which to appraise a picture that has raised eyebrows across the country: In it, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is seen wagging her finger in President Obama's ...

By KATHLEEN PARKER     2/5/2012 12:30 AM   

Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or abortion. The more compelling questions concern a person's or an institution' ...

By CLINT WOLFE     2/3/2012 10:56 AM   

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future issued their long-awaited report after two years of study, interviews and panel discussions. The Commission members were very able people who rendered a great service by serving and we should be ...

By CAL THOMAS     2/2/2012 11:02 AM   

Summertime is usually when TV networks air repeats of shows we've already seen. In his State of the Union Address last week, the president got a five-month jump on the summer season by re-running a class-envy video he has broadcast more times than lo ...

By KATHLEEN PARKER     2/1/2012 10:22 AM   

A Friday New York Times story that essentially indicted and convicted a 22-year-old star football player on an alleged sexual assault charge by an anonymous accuser should have begun as follows: "We know absolutely nothing about this rumor except ...

By BILL O'REILLY     1/29/2012 12:21 AM   

If Newt Gingrich is elected president of the United States this year, he will owe it all to John King and to his former wife, Marianne. Let's go back to the recent presidential debate in South Carolina. There stood Gingrich, gripping his podium, s ...

By BILL O'REILLY   Columnist   1/23/2012 12:02 AM   

Growing up in Levittown out on Long Island, I remember my father buying pants through the mail. This seemed strange to me. There was a Robert Hall clothing store nearby, and it had pants all over the place. But my dad said he could buy two pair for t ...

By KATHLEEN PARKER   The Washington Post   1/23/2012 12:02 AM   

My recent column about Michelle Obama, which I wrote to counter the negative responses to Jodi Kantor's new book, "The Obamas," apparently has been misinterpreted by some. I did not intend to indict Kantor, who, in fact, wrote a mostly complimentary ...

By BILL O'REILLY   Columnist   1/17/2012 1:50 PM   

A few days ago, a Democrat handed me an Obama fundraising brochure even though he knows I never give political donations. I guess the guy wanted me to see what I'm missing. Anyway, the two-sided pamphlet extolled the president's record on, among othe ...

By CINDI ROSS SCOPPE   The State, Columbia   1/16/2012 12:01 AM   

The hallways outside The State's newsroom are lined with framed front pages from some of the most important events in our state's history. My favorite, since long before I understood our Byzantine governmental structure well enough to comprehend its ...

By KATHLEEN PARKER   The Washington Post   1/16/2012 12:00 AM   

I can't speak for Michelle Obama, but call me an angry white woman. If the first lady isn't angry, she certainly has every right to be. Like every woman I know, black or white, I've watched Mrs. Obama with respect, admiration and arm-envy. Every w ...

By CAL THOMAS     1/13/2012 10:45 AM   

Even fair-minded liberals, of which there must be a few, should acknowledge that the Saturday-Sunday "blitz" of the Republican presidential candidates by ABC and NBC correspondents looked like a play designed by the left wing of the Democratic Party. ...

By bill o'reilly     1/10/2012 2:52 PM   

President Obama may not know it, but he has a nice advantage in the world of late-night TV. A new study by The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University says that in 2011, late-night comedians mocked Republicans three times more ...

By KATHLEEN PARKER     1/9/2012 10:36 AM   

Iowa front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have a little problem. Both are too nice to be mean to each other. Who can throw the first punch in a tight race growing tighter? This is why God made Newt Gingrich. The formerly self-anointed "n ...

By CINDI ROSS SCOPPE     1/9/2012 10:36 AM   

It's been a rough few weeks for our transparency governor, from the discovery that her office was routinely deleting the sort of emails that most state employees understand they are legally required to keep - including a particularly embarrassing str ...

By CAL THOMAS     1/6/2012 10:09 AM   

A friend of mine hands me what looks like a business card. It says, "Don't Die Stupid." As America begins another round of voting to select the next president, or retain the current one, what we need is a stupid test. Flunk it and you shouldn't vote. ...