Are Republicans Trash Talking Into a Healthcare Reform Trap? - Beware adversaries bearing gifts.

Rich Galen: A Massa Dirty Laundry - The biggest question I have about former Rep. Eric Massa is: How have we missed this guy for so long? For those of you who have been hanging around the teacher's parking lot smoking cigarettes for the past week...

David Harsanyi: Repeal Obamacare? Unlikely - There seems to be growing optimism among some Republicans that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finagles the votes to pass Obamacare, the GOP triumphantly will sweep into power and immediately repeal it. Though...

Ken Blackwell: Guess Who's Coming to Your House? Hidden Dangers in Obamacare - It's all supposed to be voluntary, those "home visits" that are tucked into the mammoth ObamaCare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section...

Jonah Goldberg: Where Feminists Got it Right - In Cameroon, some mothers "iron" their daughters' breasts to delay or prevent them from having sex. The procedure often involves grinding a very hot rock into the chest of the girl, but sometimes kerosene or hot...

Maggie Gallagher: Marco Rubio Republicans - He came, we saw, he conquered. I met Marco Rubio in Naples, Fla., this weekend, where he gave the keynote speech at the Council for National Policy. Never fall in love with a political candidate, I tell myself;...

Brent Bozell: The Shameless Abortion Carnival - If anyone was looking for a self-righteous extreme feminist, they found one in Angie Jackson. This is a woman who was so proud she was aborting her baby that she announced she would "tweet" her chemical-cocktail aborti

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Obama's National Security Team Plays Well Together - For President Obama, last week was rather like a major exam on his skills as a diplomat and architect of foreign policy. He can count on being tested again and again by unexpected events. But in his debut at the United Nations and as host to the Group of 20 economic powers in Pittsburgh, Obama was given more scrutiny by foreign leaders and domestic constituencies than at any other time in his young presidency.

Obama's 'Policy Presidency' - A new publication came across my desk this week containing an essay that offers as good an insight into President Obama's approach to government as anything I have read -- and is particularly useful in understanding the struggle over health-care reform.
Max Baucus's Bumpy Middle Road on Health Reform - In the early 1970s, when Max Baucus, now the senior senator from Montana and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was contemplating entering politics, he sought advice from many veteran public servants.

The First Strike in a Trade War? - In an economic debate measured by staggering multibillion-dollar sums and unemployment figures logging in the hundreds of thousands, the stakes in the rubber tire import dispute with China seem stunningly small.

Obama's Two Speeches - A great speech is a combination of words and music, of content and color, of substance and emotion. When the speech is as important as the health-care address that President Obama delivered to Congress on Wednesday night, it is worthwhile to go back and analyze the parts.

Accountability, but at What Cost? - My friend and fellow columnist Eugene Robinson has written a characteristically passionate and well-reasoned piece commending Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by interrogators of terrorist subjects during the last administration.
Obama's Challenges on Health Reform, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan - I sure hope that President Obama and his family enjoyed their week's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, because what he faces on his return to Washington is sheer hell.

Kennedy: A Man Unbowed and Unchanged - When I first encountered him in Beckley, W.Va., in the spring of 1960, Ted Kennedy was an impossibly handsome 28-year-old, campaigning for his big brother in the Democratic primary against Hubert Humphrey.

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David S. Broder on honestly tackling the deficit - When I wrote a few days ago about the growing nervousness of moderate Senate Democrats over the approaching vote to raise the federal debt limit, I had no idea how quickly evidence of that shift in the political winds would appear.

David S. Broder on the possible Senate uprising over deficits and debt - Within the next few weeks, probably as soon as the votes on health-care reform have been taken, the Senate faces the painful duty of once again raising the statutory limit on the national debt, as the House already has done.

Delaware's Obama Referendum - A year from now, when we are in the final weeks of the midterm election campaigns, voters across the country will probably be focused on a state that has rarely drawn attention from any but its own residents. Delaware, noted only for its gentlemanly politics, will probably be the site of one of the most hard-fought and headline-grabbing Senate races in America.

Will the Health Reform Bill Be Substantive? - It has taken much longer than President Obama had hoped, but we are finally at the point where he can -- and must -- put his personal stamp on his main domestic initiative, the overhaul of the health-care system.

When Fitness for Office Becomes a Weighty Issue - Every time you think politics has hit a new low, it finds a way to go lower. I thought we had reached the nadir last month when Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted "You lie!" at President Obama while he was speaking to a joint session of Congress.

A Health-Care Rift Between Old Allies - One of the intriguing mysteries of this year is why the initial broad support from American business for overhauling the health-care system has not translated into more than a handful of votes from Republicans in the House and Senate.
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