A mystery from the last days of the Romanovs is solved.

An examination of the civil war inside the Democratic Party.

Bob Novak thinks that Obama has misplayed the hand dealt to him by the Reverend Wright.

Obama walks a fine line when trying to gain white, working class votes. Fortunately for him, most of the African-American community is not infected with the insanity of people like Reverend Wright.

Another woman wins the Silver Star, the second since 2001. I thought the case of the first woman, SGT Leigh Ann Hester, an MP who participated with great courage and aplomb in a fire fight in Iraq in 2005, made the case for women in combat. The case of SPC Monica Brown, a medic, is just another piece of evidence in favor of changing the rules. Brown was pulled from her unit due to those rules, to the detriment of her fellow soldiers. We are at war with a ruthless enemy. We need all the qualified people we can get, and we certainly do not need to discard those who prove themselves capable of soldiering through the crucible of combat.