Michael Walsh is a journalist, author and screenwriter. He has worked for the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner and Time Magazine. He is also the author of eleven books, including the novels As Time Goes By, And All the Saints, Hostile Intent and Early Warning. Under the name "David Kahane," he wrote Rules for Radical Conservatives. He lives in rural Connecticut.
Then there was one. With the Senate's tabling of Majority Leader Harry Reid's debt-reduction deal yesterday afternoon, the only game in Washington is a nearly $3 trillion, two-stage compromise plan worked out between...
August 01, 2011 12:00 AM
Operation Fast and Furious -- the Obama administration's lethal gun-running fiasco -- keeps getting uglier and uglier. In a series of hearings, Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley have been systematically...
July 29, 2011 12:00 AM
President Obama likes to present himself as the only adult left in Washington, but last night's televised address to the nation had more than a whiff of childish desperation about it. It's clear: The only thing...
July 26, 2011 12:00 AMConfused by the manic, frantic activ ity going on inside the Beltway as the days dwindle down to Aug. 2 -- the supposed drop-dead date for an increase in America's $14.3 trillion national-debt limit? Don't be. Last...
July 22, 2011 12:00 AMForget all the numbers being tossed around in Washington -- the millions and billions and trillions of dollars being taxed, borrowed, printed and spent as the country approaches the Aug. 2 debt-ceiling deadline....
July 18, 2011 12:00 AM
Here's a joke for you: President Obama nearly bankrupts the country with his out-of-control deficit spending -- then demands responsible fiscal leadership from the Republicans. OK, this is no time for humor: The...
July 14, 2011 12:00 AM
As Congress and the president pursue their high-stakes game of chicken over the debt ceiling, another war of wills is being waged halfway around the world in Pakistan. In response to Pakistani intransigence and...
July 11, 2011 12:00 AMDon't look now, but the real action in Washington this week isn't the parti san wrangling over the debt ceiling but something -- literally -- even more incendiary: Operation Fast and Furious, which seems about to...
July 07, 2011 12:00 AM
In the Obama administration's third year, an air of unreality and disbelief has settled across the nation. Much of the media is focused on the trial of a trashy young woman for the murder of her daughter -- even as the...
July 05, 2011 12:00 AM
Listen carefully to those screams of outrage and sounds of shattering glass you hear wafting from the streets of Athens as rioters "protest" the end of an internationally funded gravy train: This is what happens when...
June 30, 2011 12:00 AMAl Gore, America's loopiest ex-vice president, is at it again. Not content with pocketing a fortune by scaring his fellow citizens with the imaginary boogeyman of "man-made climate change," the prophet of doom now...
June 28, 2011 12:00 AMSo now we know: After 10 years, billions of dollars and thousands of American casualties, victory in Afghanistan come 2014 will consist of having killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The rest is process, as we wind down...
June 23, 2011 12:00 AM
There's a war along the Mexican border all right, but it's not necessarily the one you're thinking of. In fact, this one has spread all the way to the halls of Congress. This week, the Obama administration is...
June 20, 2011 12:00 AMThe state university's fight song is called "On, Wisconsin," but ever since Gov. Scott Walker and the Re publican-controlled Legislature in Madison began their epic battle with public-employee unions, it's been more...
June 16, 2011 12:00 AM
"Pakistani Intelligence Announces Its Full Cooperation with US Forces During Upcoming Top Secret June 12 Drone Strike on al-Qaeda At 5:23 A.M. Near Small Town of Razmani in North Waziristan," read a recent headline in...
June 13, 2011 12:00 AMNo billions or trillions needed -- here's the simplest num ber to describe the dismal state of the US economy: One. With the departure of chief economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, that's the number of members...
June 09, 2011 12:00 AMThe best thing you can say about Mitt Romney's roll- out week as an official candidate is that it wasn't as bad as Newt Gingrich's. He didn't blow himself up on "Meet the Press" by denigrating Paul Ryan's bold budget...
June 06, 2011 12:00 AMPrivate-sector job growth is ane mic, new jobless claims are still well over 400,000, the unemployment numbers are grim, manufacturing has slowed to a crawl, home prices are falling again, the dollar keeps sinking, 44...
June 03, 2011 12:00 AMAfter the lopsided Senate vote, 57-40, against his "Path to Prosperity" bud get bill last week, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin must be feeling like Paul Revere riding through Washington shouting "bankruptcy is coming" --...
May 31, 2011 12:00 AM
Its big electoral victory last fall now six months in the rear-view mirror, the party that perfected the art of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory seems busily positioning itself to fall on its face in November...
May 26, 2011 12:00 AM
So the world didn't end Saturday night. Millions didn't suddenly vanish from the earth, taken bodily into heaven by the Rapture, leaving the rest of us to suffer five months' worth of the Antichrist, Armageddon and...
May 23, 2011 12:00 AMA series of recent court rulings, in cluding one this week from the US Supreme Court, appear to erode one of our bedrock defenses against the arbitrary, abusive power of the state. At risk: the Fourth Amendment...
May 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Orrin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah, didn't mince words the other day on Hugh Hewitt's national radio show. The Democrats, he said, "play politics very, very tough, they play it well, and they don't give a damn...
May 16, 2011 12:00 AMIn the wake of the takedown of Osama bin Laden, it's time to take things to the next level -- finishing the job abroad while restoring some sanity to security here at home. Since 9/11, Americans have regarded al...
May 09, 2011 12:00 AMIn the late 19th century, a charismatic ji hadist named Muhammad Ahmad ibn as-Sayyid Abd Allah -- who called him self "the Mahdi" -- swept across the Sudan, routing the "infidel" forces of the Egyptian rulers and...
May 06, 2011 12:00 AMHaving lost the House of Representa tives in the last election, the Obama administration is now imposing "fun damental change" via executive order, regulatory fiat and political pressure. Talk about the unitary...
April 29, 2011 12:00 AMAmerica is rapidly approaching its statutory debt limit -- established just last year, when Congress raised it by $1.9 trillion -- of $14.3 trillion dollars. Already, we're hearing that action is urgent. If the limit...
April 25, 2011 12:00 AM
The stakes for 2012 couldn't have been set out more clearly than two recent speeches by a pair of women who aren't making the decisions these days in Washington. Speaking at Tufts University -- right in the midst of...
April 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Well, looky here: Hard on the heels of the House's passage of Rep. Paul Ryan's bold "path to prosperity" budget -- and just in time for the big debate over raising the nation's $14 trillion debt ceiling in order to...
April 19, 2011 12:00 AM
Talking about the deficit is all the rage in Washington these days. On the heels of Rep. Paul Ryan's bold "path to prosperity" proposal to dramatically slash the deficit and retire the national debt, there was...
April 14, 2011 12:00 AM
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