In Britain they are mourning the death of Margaret Thatcher. They are also celebrating. Celebrating? Yes, celebrating. 2013-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-14T03:59:02Z John C. Goodman

The communist regime in Cuba was just about to come tumbling down, ending decades of dictatorship and opening the way for freedom and democracy. But before that could happen, Jay-Z and Beyonce took a trip to the island. So Cuba's despotism can expect to survive another 50 years. 2013-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-14T03:59:02Z Steve Chapman

Video gamers have a reputation for preferring their virtual reality over the one the rest of us have to deal with, but they may want to log-in to what’s happening on Capitol Hill before their pastime becomes the latest industry to fall under government control. 2013-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-14T03:59:02Z Neil McCabe

Almost everyone knows the acronym “EMT.” We know that emergency medical technicians will arrive in a hurry if someone calls for an ambulance. Less familiar is the acronym “EMP.” But if an electromagnetic pulse were to hit the United States, we’d need a lot more than an ambulance to fix the problems that would result. 2013-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-14T03:59:02Z Ed Feulner

It's an annual ritual yet always different. Like spring itself. Like the first taste of matzah at the Passover seder. It marks renewal. It brings past memories and future hope together in the pure, unblemished present. Like a blank page waiting to be imprinted. 2013-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-14T03:59:02Z Paul Greenberg

Other than members of the KKK, Nazi Party or Fred Phelps' insane clan, the people in American society who most desperately need sensitivity training are liberals. Liberalism is teeming with arrogant, close-minded, extraordinarily offensive people who seem completely oblivious to how habitually obnoxious and intolerant their behavior has become. Just to name a few examples... 2013-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-14T03:59:02Z John Hawkins

Do not expect any government or central bank to learn much from history, especially Japan and especially now. 2013-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-14T03:59:02Z Mike Shedlock

The calm reaction of the Allies to North Korean threats seems to confound the North Korean propagandists. A few excerpts are worth noting. 2013-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T13:28:52Z Night Watch

Now. . . If I could just figure out how to print my own money, I’d be happy to help Bernanke out with his QE. 2013-04-12T17:20:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Michael Schaus

“The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and drink, the European is forward- looking, organized and intelligent…The Negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths.” 2013-04-12T13:40:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Humberto Fontova

When President Obama declared April to be “National Financial Capability Month” and described plans for his administration to teach young people “how to budget responsibly,” it was easy to mistake the announcement for a Stephen-Colbert-style April Fools’ prank. 2013-04-12T12:30:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Tim Phillips

Ten years ago this weekend, our Fox News team was racing north from Baghdad to Tikrit with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. They knew what needed to be done and had a plan for doing it, and all Griff Jenkins and I had to do was cover it and stay out of the way. Given what I'm doing this weekend, covering the war was less demanding, somewhat better-organized and perhaps less dangerous. 2013-04-12T07:38:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Oliver North

How ironic. Our first black President, Barack Obama, gets over 90% of the black vote in both elections but seems to run from black issues like he’s running from the plague. When was the last time he gave a policy speech on the breakdown of the black family? 2013-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Crystal Wright

With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, and the commemoration of Winston Churchill day, world attention this week was rightly focused on the greatest Prime Ministers of the 20th century. 2013-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Brian and Garrett Fahy

As a columnist, I have my own opinions on issues, and from the get-go I opposed expanded background checks for gun purchases because I viewed it as a slippery slope that could lead to more and more lists of honest Americans and more and more control by the government that would own those lists. 2013-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Matt Towery

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry isn’t the only one cheering for collectivism in education. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis thinks that idea is pretty swell, too. 2013-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Kyle Olson

Er, no. At least not by my lights. But maybe the country singer and the first-term senator are contenders for that title according to the attorney general of the United States, Eric Holder. 2013-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Jonah Goldberg

Analysts agree that "the erosion of the Syrian regime's capabilities is accelerating," that it step-by-step continues to retreat, making a rebel breakthrough and an Islamist victory increasingly likely. In response, I am changing my policy recommendation from neutrality to something that causes me, as a humanitarian and decades-long foe of the Assad dynasty, to pause before writing: Western governments should support the malign dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. 2013-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Daniel Pipes

We tell ourselves, we parents of college-bound kids (not to mention ordinary citizens), that American campuses really aren't as bad as all that, that students can avoid the most tendentious indoctrinators and that the press tends to exaggerate. And then we read headlines like "Kathy Boudin Teaching at Columbia" and sharp reality once again punctures the comfortable cushion of denial. 2013-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Mona Charen

Should you wish to take a chance and put a real risk premium on your bond buying, go Italian and get 4.28% for a 10-year — a much greater yield than current U.S. paper. 2013-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-04-13T03:44:01Z Bill Tatro