National columnists

Where have all the feminists gone?

They killed a killer last week.

It’s somewhat disconcerting, but the Obama administration continues to dance around the terrorism question. While a new Rasmussen poll shows 60 percent of Americans want the Fort Hood massacre investigated as a terrorist act, the president sees the mass murder as a “tragedy” and a violent crime. He told ABC News: “In a country of 300 million people, there are going to be acts of violence that are inexplicable.”

Opposing gay marriage is a losing proposition. That is, at least, what everyone seems to say, on all sides of the political spectrum. Everyone, that is, except voters.

The recession is over! The economy is growing! The Dow Jones is above 10,000! Bankers are pocketing profits and fat bonuses! Happy days are here again!

We don't know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-'90s, and it's unlikely he'll be able to tell us anytime soon. He's in jail in Maricopa County, Ariz., at this writing, in lieu of a $5 million cash bond.

The day before Halloween, the White House released a partial list of visitors since Jan. 20 of this year. The list is fascinating and highlights exactly what kind of house the Obamas are running.

Lopez: I do not live in New York's 23rd Congressional District, and I've never hiked the Adirondacks, which run through it. I've never met Doug Hoffman, who is running for Congress there, and hadn't heard his name until fairly recently. But he's my guy this November. Along with a few other elections I'm following closely this coming Election Day, I will be rooting for a Hoffman victory. I'm not a constituent; my support is about integrity.

On a conference call with liberal religious leaders and activists this summer, President Obama said, “I know there’s been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness, but I want everyone to know what health insurance reform is all about.” He uses words like “ludicrous” and “fabrications” to dismiss criticisms of his health care plan – which is still, in fact, a work in progress, making a lot of people’s legitimate worries about the uncertainty of it all very relevant. But here he wasn’t just getting into a political dust-up with Sarah Palin – a prominent critic of the reform – nor was he dismissing Republicans in the House and Senate. He was dismissing concerned citizens