“How many of you,” Scott Rasmussen asked the crowd at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, “have ever mocked or made fun of the president’s call for hope and change? Raise your hands.”

Medicaid spending is a matter of urgency almost everywhere in the country right now, but in few places is the urgency as palpable as it is here, where the governor refers to the federal-state health insurance program for the poor as “welfare,” says it’s necessary to eliminate coverage for 65,000 adults, and wants to stop paying room and board for some 2,000 elders who live in group homes.

By all accounts, Barak Obama is, personally, a committed Christian believer. At the National Prayer Breakfast, he told the assembly that he prays and spends some time with the scriptures every day. Before becoming president, he was a faithful member of a Protestant congregation in Chicago.

Not long ago, I participated in a retrospective workshop at Harvard University about the sulfur allowance program.

If you’ve read this column regularly, you know that misrepresentation of polling data is one of my pet peeves.

House freshmen have been on the job for almost exactly a year, and until now they’ve done little more than talk about cutting the national debt.

Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later.