Despite a string of high-profile endorsements, the latest Rasmussen poll shows Senator McCain leading primary challenger JD Hayworth by only seven percentage points, down from his 22 point lead in January.  more

UPDATED: Debbie Schlussel posted a disturbing story credibly alleging serious financial improprieties at Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts. Today, Freedom Alliance has released a statement responding to her allegations.  more

In August 2009, defense attorneys at Gitmo showed their clients photos of CIA interrogators and other intelligence officials. FrumForum spoke with former high-ranking intelligence community officials all of whom called on Attorney General Holder to stop stonewalling and to investigate this threat to the safety of our agents.  more

For the past 20 years, I’ve been in contact with Clifford Olson, Canada’s most notorious serial killer.  more

FrumForum obtains exclusive advance excerpts from Senate candidate Tom Campbell’s foreign policy address in San Francisco. Read Campbell’s statements on Afghanistan, terror detainees, and Israel here.  more

Latest data point: Bart Stupak’s complaint’s in today’s Politico. In many times and places, men have braved death to stand up and fight for their beliefs. In the United States in 2010, nobody suffers such a fate – but your office may have to take a lot of phone calls at odd hours of the day.  more

Republicans still have time to unite opponents of the Senate health bill by providing a smaller, more targeted reform measure which could attract the support of moderate Democrats and disaffected progressives.  more

Sen. Dodd’s new financial regulation plan includes a proposal for a federal super-agency which could help close troubled banks. But giving the federal government these vast new powers will only create more problems.  more

Barack Obama filled out his NCAA Tournament brackets live Wednesday on ESPN. Obama probably didn’t let domestic political considerations affect his picks for the tournament. but considering how many of his fellow Democrats are staring electoral defeat in the face this November, maybe he should have.  more

While the media focused their attention on the small colorful gathering of anti-health bill protesters Tuesday, at another location on the Hill, a small group of activists had set up a war room to better organize and mobilize the tea partiers.  more

Last Friday, Illinois GOP Senate candidate Rep. Mark Kirk attempted to rally the crowd during a speech and said of President Obama: “we are on the way to making this guy a one-termer.” Going after the president is a mistake Kirk should not repeat.  more

A new FrumForum survey conducted at a Tea Party protest Tuesday found Tea Partiers to be much more pessimistic than average Americans with vastly different perceptions of the problems facing the country.  more

Today, FrumForum attended the Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill organized to pressure members of the House to vote down the health care bill. Here is a selection of images from the rally.  more

President Obama’s new blueprint for education reform recommends using more than just standardized test scores to broadly measure school performance and student academic growth. These proposals are especially important in allowing low-income schools to address the special challenges they face.  more

As President Obama uses the current rift over settlements to apply more pressure to the Israeli government, Prime Minister Netanyahu may find less support in the U.S. than expected. Today, American Jews appear to have less in common with Israel than in the past.  more

There is a lot of buzzing in the blogosphere about Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli’s campaign-season statements about the Obama birth certificate. Listening to this, I don’t hear Cuccinelli agreeing with the birther madness. I hear a politician striving to avoid disagreement.  more

Many of our current financial regulations no longer reflect the realities of modern finance. Republicans need to put aside partisan bickering and work with Senator Dodd on passing a comprehensive financial reform package.  more

The double standards of the peace process encourage Arab violence towards Israel. While Israel is regularly expected to concede more than it has committed to, the Palestinians are continually excused from honoring any of their own promises.  more

My latest column for CNN.com argues that the peace process itself may be prolonging the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  more

It was at University College, London, that underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was radicalized. But instead of dealing with its extremist problem, the school has cut off all cooperation with British police except when required by law to do so.  more