Neil W. McCabe

Magnolia mischief mars McDaniel v. Cochrane primary

In GOP politics, the 2014 is shaping up as a national road production of “The Empire Strikes Back.”

Beware: Obama ready to Fort Hood-wink America on gun rights

The spree stabbing at the Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa., that left at least 24 individuals injured comes as President Barack Obama was ready to spin up a national gun-panic while standing on the fresh graves of the victims of the April 2 spree shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.

McCutcheon decision means Roberts back on the ‘Right’ team

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, released April 2, means that free speech triumphs over government restrictions—and that Chief Justice John Roberts is back with the conservatives.

Report: Obama uses asylum as de facto amnesty

As soon as the primary season is over, the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill is looking for ways to pass an amnesty bill for illegal aliens.

Trudeau gets 10 years; Obama still at-large

Now comes word that Kevin Trudeau, the author and infomercial genius or man who claimed the federal government was out to get him, was sentenced March 17 in a federal courthouse to 10 years in federal prison and fined $37 million for making false claims in his book, still available on Amazon.com after sentencing: The Weight Loss Cure ‘They Don’t Want You to Know About.’

Obama-led Democrats forfeit House, bracing to lose Senate

I remember so well walking around Somerville and Cambridge listening to my progressive friends tell me about this great man Barack Obama.

A Barack lookback: Like other president’s Obama’s campaign rhetoric lost to reality

I have a little game I play comparing a president’s campaign rhetoric to what he did in office.

A look at GOP Senate leadership for 2015

When the Senate meets for its next session in January there will be new faces no one expected to see and some old faces no one expected to see amongst the august 100.

GOP, conservatives can’t rock DC with a broken Speaker

One year after committing himself and his speakership to reducing the federal budget deficit, Rep. John A. Boehner (R.-Ohio) delivered to President Barack Obama and the Democrats a one-year hall pass that will suspend the debt ceiling until 2015.

McMorris Rodgers' GOP SOTU response a lame, lazy waste of time

President Barack Obama's State of the Union address was a dreary exercise, but it was not nearly as dreary as the Republican response to his address by Washington State's Rep. Catherine McMorris Rogers.

So, what are we to do with these Gitmo detainees?

The Turkish government arrested two dozen Al Qaeda operatives Jan. 22, including Ibrahim Sen, who was released from the Theater Internment Facility at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.

The day Cruz took Teller

In Washington Monday, Sen. R. Edward “Ted” Cruz (R.-Texas) poked his finger in the eye of the Republican House leaders, when he hired Paul S. Teller as his deputy chief of staff.

Gates’ book exposes Obama’s ‘demolition by neglect’ of our ally Iraq

The new book by former defense secretary Robert M. Gates, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War exposes the folly of President Barack Obama’s handling of our war in Iraq just in time. Iraq is back in the headlines as we harvest the fruits of our abandonment of the Iraqi people and the functioning democracy there that was treated like a true secret by the American press. There is no issue more responsible for the election in 2008 of President Barack Obama than Iraq.

Times Benghazi exposes strange embed-fellows

When The New York Times first published its Dec. 28 story “A Deadly Mix in Benghazi” by top national security and foreign affairs reporter David D. Kirkpatrick, it seemed just another Christmas present for President Barack Obama and his Times-anointed successor Hillary R. Clinton.

Have yourself a civil Christmas

The Christmas I grew up with is never coming back. In fact, there is a good chance that by the time I was growing up, it was already gone. Just to give some context, Christmas Day, Dec. 25, is the religious celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Christians mark this day as one of the high points of the calendar.

‘Corrosive kindness’ Cato study: Welfare pays Bay Staters $42k/year

Almost 20 years after its study comparing welfare benefits to the minimum wage, the Washington-based Cato Institute released a new study showing there are 36 states with welfare benefits more generous than the minimum wage. In 13 states, including Massachusetts, welfare pays more than $15 an hour.

Three years later, Terry’s death and the press

Three years ago, a four-reporter team from The Washington Post, James V. Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz on the team with research editor Alice Crites and staff writer William Booth, embedded inside President Barack Obama’s Fast and Furious program.

GOP 3-D gun ban gives early Christmas to Obama, Democrats

The House Republican leadership with its Dec. 3 vote to extend the ban on “undetectable” guns proved again it excels at political cowardice and betrayal of conservatives.

Veritas Project exposes Enroll America, Team Obama’s Rule No. 17

Before James O’Keefe and the Veritas Project, conservatives could only speculate whether liberals and government officials would facilitate prostitution or fraud.

The mighty Warren at bat

As a son of Massachusetts in exile, I watched with horror and amazement at the chain of events that in two years began with the shooting star of Scott P. Brown and ended with the election of Elizabeth Warren, a woman who always sounds like she is lecturing me about something.