Col. Dan Caine reflects back to when he was ordered to protect the Washington area skies on 9/11.
About 8 o'clock on the night of September 11, 2001, President Bush's staff received word. The president had returned to Washington. The White House had reopened.
As others have, and more will as the presidential election heats up, David Frum went after the Recovery Act on these pages. I'll address his critiques in a moment, but first let's just get this right out there: Though we can never know alternative histories -- in this case, how the economy would have performed absent the stimulus -- the weight of the evidence is that the Recovery Act did what we expected it to do.
The GOP suggested the move from Wednesday to Thursday because of security and timing concerns.
How do you score partisan points against a president who looks to have won a military victory in Libya at very low cost? Simple: Attack him for being away from Washington at a summer house when the victory was won.
Howard Kurtz, Jonathan Karl, and Julie Mason discuss reporting on the debt ceiling solely through leaks.
I was a strong opponent of same-sex marriage. Fourteen years ago, Andrew Sullivan and I forcefully debated the issue at length online (at a time when online debate was a brand new thing).
CNN's Don Lemon talks to NY1 political anchor Errol Louis about the impact of New York's same-sex marriage law.
Almost every parent has heard the question:
Sweden is making a political right turn, in a very Swedish way: cautiously, consensually, unflamboyantly. But decisively even so.
The exit of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from the 2012 presidential race opens a huge void in the Republican field.
So much to say about the long-awaited visiting of justice upon Osama bin Laden.
President Obama announces Osama bin Laden's death to a nationally-televised audience.
In the fall of 1984, I was a student living in Boston. A high-tax manufacturing state, Massachusetts had been hit hard by the economic troubles of the 1970s. But now suddenly there were signs in every shop window: "Help wanted." Or: "Help wanted!" Or even: "Help wanted!!!"
You might think the big banks would be too embarrassed to ask Congress for more special favors.
Banks are considering capping spending on debit cards to only $50 to $100 due to new fees.
President Barack Obama is wrestling with a decision whether or not to intervene in Libya.
The New York Times reported this weekend on the story of the juvenile detention center in Wisconsin's rural Manitowoc County, on the shores of Lake Michigan.
There was widespread support among scores of human rights groups and many others for recent efforts to have Switzerland open a preliminary investigation for torture against former President George W. Bush during his planned (and now canceled) visit to Geneva.
Ten percent unemployment that has persisted for years. Pervasive under-employment for the highly educated. Women largely excluded from the labor force. One out of seven adults who cannot read.
Senators are a lot like college students. For months on end, they seem to do no work at all. And then everything gets crammed into the last weekend of the term.
More than 1/3 of Americans are obese, and it's affecting both their health and wallet. CNN's Ali Velshi reports.
"An army travels on its stomach," said Napoleon Bonaparte.
We're approaching the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Ronald Reagan: February 6, 2011. It's time to begin thinking seriously about an appropriate national commemoration of this good man and great president.
In 2009, a statue of former president Ronald Reagan was unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda.
"Be not afraid" was the message of Pope John Paul II's Inaugural Mass. It's a message American conservatives need to take to heart again in the era of Barack Obama.
Which American politician of the past 25 years has had the most lasting influence? Ronald Reagan, with his vision of low taxes and limited government? The triangulating Bill Clinton? More and more I'm beginning to fear: It's Al Sharpton.
William Safire used to write a column in which he'd try to read the mind of some world leader and imagine what Mikhail Gorbachev or Anwar Sadat really thought, as opposed to the diplomatic niceties they were obliged to utter aloud.
I stopped on a recent night in front of the palace of the Polish president. I had no choice: The crowd stood so thick that I could not move. We were hemmed between the buildings on one side of the sidewalk and a police barrier on the other. The wide pavement between was obstructed by gawkers watching a strange performance: a weird seemingly incomprehensible little passion play of stereotyped figures.
Last week, a federal judge declared same-sex marriage a constitutional right. Meanwhile, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston again broke up their on-again, off-again romance.
Levi Johnston discusses his relationship with Bristol Palin and his appearance in an upcoming music video.
With all eyes focused on how the Democrats will do this November, the story about the divisions unfolding within the Republican Party have equally important long-term consequences for national politics. And now with the Tea Party movement as an additional force in the party, Republican leaders are struggling to contain tensions between right-wing activists and fiscal conservatives.
Some say that the United States is incurring too much debt, more than $1 trillion in the past fiscal year.
In a column on CNN.com on June 7, David Frum wrote, "Cyprus may offer a good model for how the Israeli-Palestinian dispute might eventually be resolved" because "peace has in fact settled upon Cyprus." Nothing could be further from the truth.
President Obama is right: We can take the U.S. off oil. But he omitted to mention the fine print: Doing so will be slow, will be expensive, and will involve huge dislocations in American lifestyles and business.
It's wrong to mischaracterize an entire group of Americans in an effort to prevent members of a culturally related group from ever having a chance at sharing in the American dream.
When Arizona police ask suspected illegal immigrants for IDs, they are protecting your grandchildren's economic future.
"Why do you assume that we want Western democracy?" The question was put by an English-speaking Chinese woman, a graduate of an American university, over an elegant dinner served in a private dining room at an expensive restaurant in the most fashionable neighborhood of Beijing.
I belong to that class of person once mocked by The Onion: "If it's shiny and made by Apple, I'll buy it."
Israel may have to retire its title as the only democracy in the Middle East. With Sunday's free and fair national election, Iraq joins the honor roll as one of the very few Islamic democracies.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria analyzes what's at stake in Iraq's second legislative election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
At the end of his career, former House Speaker Tip O'Neill was asked how Congress had changed between the 1950s and 1980s. O'Neill answered: "The people are better. The results are worse."
President Obama's State of the Union speech Wednesday will be a tough sell for millions of Americans struggling under the weight of an economic recession, political analysts said.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that office rents in Washington are poised to overtake rents in New York City. Washington now boasts the lowest office vacancy rate in the nation.
I spent the Christmas holidays in two very similar nations, with two radically different histories.
Health care reform is proceeding toward the president's desk, likely to become law in the new year.
I asked a knowledgeable environmentalist earlier this week: "How big a story is the CRU scandal in your community?"
You've heard the saying: "In war, amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics."
"Transparency like you've never seen it before," the White House calls it.
Meet David Frum
updated: Mon Oct 26 2009 12:30:00
David Frum is the newest contributor to CNN.com.
David Frum, former speechwriter for President Bush, critiques President Obama's trip to Europe.
President Obama is ending his first overseas trip as U.S. leader with a stop Monday in Turkey after conferring with NATO allies on Afghanistan strategy and meeting with world leaders to tackle the economic crisis.
The notion of President-elect Barack Obama creating a team of former rivals to be in his Cabinet has attracted a lot of attention, especially with news that Sen. Hillary Clinton reportedly is on track to be secretary of state.
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer talks about a possible GOP rift.
Election Day is still days away, but Republicans are already caught up in a heated debate about Sarah Palin's future role in the party should the GOP ticket fail to win the White House.
Republican strategist and CNN contributor Ed Rollins spoke with "American Morning" anchor John Roberts on Monday on the status of the presidential campaigns and the weekend's events leading up to the November 4 vote.
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