Today's Washington Post contains an editorial placing responsibility for the failure or passage of the Colombian free trade agreement squarely at the feet of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and suggests she open a dialogue with President Bush to assure passage of the mutually beneficial agreement.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published today, Pete Du Pont argues that the most troubling liberal trump card thus far in 2008 is economic protectionism and the anti-trade rhetoric coming from the left.

It has been discovered that several of the leading anti-war members of Congress (and one former member) traveled to Iraq in 2002 - on Saddam Hussein's dime.

Lisa Appleby of USA Today compares and contrasts the leading Presidential candidates' positions on health care reform. 

The Wall Street Journal has called into question the motives of at least one liberal Congressman in opposing the U.S. - Colombian free trade agreement currently stalled in Congress. 

The Wall Street Journal continues to call for passage of FISA renewal legislation, claiming that liberals in the House have alienated moderates and exposed themselves as soft on national security.  They have risked our national security as part of a political payoff to the trial lawyers.  That is one payoff with too high a price.

A Wall Street Journal editorial describes the long and difficult road the United States has taken in Iraq, but now that victory is within reach, is calling us America to stay the course and win the war.

Politico is reporting that since liberals in Congress passed a FISA extension bill that did not contain immunity for companies that cooperate with law enforcement, this debate is likely to extend through the elections this November.

This week, Americans and Iraqis mark that fifth anniversary of the US lead coalition that toppled the brutal 24 year dictatorship of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Several news outlets recently conducted a poll of Iraqis about their daily lives and state of mind.  The results show a remarkable increase in their optimism about their lives and the state of security in the nation.

A Washington Post op-ed written by Micheal Gerson traces the evolution of Senator Obama's positions on the Iraq War as they seem to evolve with popular public opinion.

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote an op-ed in today's Washington Times about the House of Represetatives' failure to compromise on legislation renewing key portions of FISA.

A Los Angeles Times article today examines Big Labor's increased concern over blue-collar workers embracing the conservative candidacy of Senator McCain versus the liberal policies of Senators Obama and Clinton. 

A column in today's USA Today continues to criticize Congressional liberals for failing to see the success in Iraq over the past year, despite a 75% drop in violence and signs of significant political progress.

Author Mark Mix is President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and National Right to Work Committee.

Current federal labor law prohibits employees who do not wish to join in a union, but work for a unionized business, from bargaining with their employer for themselves.  Under American traditions of limited government, affiliation with private organizations is, the vast majority of the time, a purely personal decision.  But under federal labor law and the labor laws of most states, union affiliation is primarily a collective, rather than a personal, decision.

A Wall Street Journal editorial printed today discusses the debate in Congress over the Columbian free trade agreement, suggesting that the far-left is stalling the treaty to appease their big labor and protectionist friends, even though they may privately feel the agreement should be ratified.

Since the inception of Freedom’s Watch, I have received countless words of encouragement and support from conservatives across the nation – influential elected officials, prominent business leaders, and ordinary Americans whose day-to-day contributions to this nation are anything but ordinary. This outpouring has validated for me what I already knew: there is a very real and pronounced desire among conservatives for a well-funded, vocal and effective organization that can help shape and influence the critical public policy debates of the day.

A Wall Street Journal editorial examines the failure of the liberal majority in Congress to embrace fiscal discipline, with original plans of "pay as you go budgeting" abandoned by Budget Committee leadership when politically convenient.

Politico is reporting on the continuing deadlock in Congress over renewal of FISA legislation.  Three weeks have now lapsed since the U.S. lost the critical ability to wiretap calls between suspected terrorists overseas, and liberals in Congress continue to fight within their ranks, causing further delay.

A Washington Post editorial asks Sens. Obama and Clinton to provide more details on their health care plans, both of which call for drastically more government control over health decisions that should be made by doctors and patients – not government bureaucrats.  The main distinction between the two plans is that Senator Clinton has called for mandated coverage for all Americans, while Senator Obama only mandates that all children be covered.  At heart, however, both plans are major steps toward government-run health care.

Special thanks to COL Gibbs, LTC Crider, LTC Watson and Major Luedeke for graciously hosting me with Task Force Dragon while in Iraq.

“It’s time we started viewing Iraq as an ally, not an enemy.” Lieutenant Colonel James Crider could not have spoken truer words as we ate a traditional Iraqi meal in the home of Dr. Mouyad. The doctor is a progressive community leader in Doura who is helping politically reconcile and rebuild war- torn Baghdad mullahas in cooperation with Coalition Forces.

Much has been said about the economies of the Texas and Ohio as Clinton and Obama slug it out for their party's nomination.  The Wall Street Journal compares the states' two divergent economic stories since 2000, arguing that it is Texas' pro-business environment with low taxes and right-to-work status has enabled it to acheive economic success whereas Ohio, a closed-shop state, has faltered.