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AP Exclusive: Accuser has history of filing complaints A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment, saying she should be allowed to work from home after a serious car accident and accusing a manager of circulating a sexually c...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Tax?

Obama Couldn't Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax President Obama's Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees. In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Actin...

Correcting the ‘fairy tale’: A SEAL’s account of how Osama bin Laden really died Forget whatever you think you know about the night Osama bin Laden was killed. According to a former Navy SEAL who claims to have the inside track, the mangled tales told of that historic night have o

Federal Workforce Zooms as Average Americans Go Jobless The federal workforce appears to be immune to the country’s worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, which has left 14 million Americans out of work.

Is Obama Toast? Handicapping the 2012 Election The killer calculus of the president’s re-election chances.

Is the Tide Turning for OWS? Charles C. W. Cooke writes on NRO: With a little help from the residents of Lower Manhattan and a little more from the denizens of Occupy Wall Street’s tent city, significant parts of Community Board 1 (CB1) and the New York State legislature seem finally to have realized that they have been had.“We...

After being handed a winning war, our President blew it.

Who Lost Iraq? Charles Krauthammer writes on NRO: Barack Obama was a principled opponent of the Iraq War from its beginning. But when he became president in January 2009, he was handed a war that was won. The surge had succeeded. Al-Qaeda in Iraq had been routed, driven to humiliating defeat by an Anbar Awakening ...

Cain Shows Initial Resilience in the Face of Controversy Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Herman Cain is showing initial resilience in the face of allegations of sexual impropriety: More than half of potential Republicans voters say the controversy is not serious, fewer than a quarter say it makes them less likely to support Cain, and he’s running essentiall...

The Left’s Pathetic Tea Party Rich Lowry writes on NRO: In the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Left thinks it might have found its own tea party.MoveOn.org and some unions have embraced the protesters. The left-wing Campaign for America’s Future is featuring them at its conference devoted to reinvigorating progressivism. Libera...