By DEROY MURDOCK, Scripps Howard News Service
McCain-Palin will flush big-spending GOP ways
NEW YORK -- They are the ones we've been waiting for.Arizona Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are poised to rescue the GOP's core commitment to limited government. Alas, it has been stomped to pieces by top Republicans such as President Bush, former House leaders Dennis Hastert and Tom DeLay, Senate GOP chief Mitch McConnell, and his predecessor, Bill Frist.
'RomneyCare' should keep Mitt off McCain ticket
Just as most folks maintain a healthy distance from those with contagious diseases, John McCain would be wise to keep Willard Mitt Romney at arm's length. Choosing him for vice president would infect McCain with the worsening symptoms of RomneyCare. The former Massachusetts governor's signature "achievement" already looks destined for the emergency room.
Democrats should apologize for blowing it on Surge
TEMECULA, Calif. -- As top Democrats address their national convention in Denver, they will propose "ending" Operation Iraqi Freedom, demand a speedy withdrawal of U.S. forces there, and insist that "Bush lied, and people died."
Offshore oil drilling: cleaner than Mother Nature
NEW YORK -- Painfully high vehicle- and jet-fuel prices are propelling popular demands for extracting the estimated 18 billion barrels of petroleum that rest beneath America's coastal waters.
Reagan returns to radio, and not a moment too soon
Ronald Reagan started on radio, and to radio he returns. America's 40th president will share his conservative and free-market ideas on 60 stations from coast to coast. And not a second too soon.
Ground Zero debacle demands return of Twin Towers
NEW YORK -- In olden days, Americans needed just 13 and a half months to erect the Empire State Building, four and a half years to build Hoover Dam, and six years, four months to install the Transcontinental Railroad.
Alternative energy not Big Oil's responsibility
Rather than do something productive to increase fuel supplies, Congress wastes time hunting bogeymen and fabricating distractions. Lately they have excoriated Big Oil for the cardinal sin of "under-investing" in alternative energy.
Saudi hate no worry for clueless energy crowd
Look what your petrodollars helped finance:-- "The cause of the discord: The Jews conspired against Islam and its people."-- "In these verses is a call for jihad, which is the pinnacle of Islam. . . Only through force and victory over the enemies is there security and repose."
America should discontinue "Don't Ask" policy
Pentagon officials evidently trust military inductees with felony rap sheets more than they do law-abiding gay GIs. The Defense Department has granted "moral waivers" to criminal convicts. Simultaneously, it uses the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to jettison gays in uniform, usually for merely disclosing their sexuality.
