It's time for Hillary to negotiate terms of surrender

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 5/9

Going left proved disastrous for Hillary Clinton. It abolished all significant policy differences between her and Barack Obama, the National Journal’s 2007 most liberal senator.

Send money in lieu of flowers to veterans’ moms

KATHLEEN PARKER | 5/9

A mom who doesn’t receive a card or flowers for Mother's Day is likely to feel let down. Then there are other mothers for whom flowers are of little concern, who gather on Web sites to exchange stories and sympathy for the sons and daughters lost to or damaged by war.

Why is it she can’t close the deal?

RICK HOROWITZ | 5/8

If you’re anything like everyone else, there’s been only one question bouncing around your brain lately: “Why can’t she close the deal?” Why can’t Hillary Clinton put Barack Obama away once and for all?

Obama might reach women through his late mother

ELLEN GOODMAN | 5/8

Barack Obama will soon have to reach out to Hillary’s supporters, especially to women of a certain age who attached their hopes to having a woman in the White House. Obama has not yet had a “gender conversation” with those women. What better link does he have than his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham?

For Democrats, campaign falls beyond irrelevance

DAVID BRODER | 5/8

Indiana and North Carolina were doubly irrelevant this year because the “issues” that Clinton and Obama were discussing in their two weeks there were some of the phoniest of this entire election cycle.

Hillary Clinton becomes Terminator IV

KATHLEEN PARKER | 5/7

Hillary Clinton’s life as a political spouse and candidate has been a kaleidoscope of shape-shifting and morphed identity. In the past 15 years, Americans have witnessed her transformation from a more feminine first lady to lately becoming a manly whiskey slugger with “testicular fortitude,” as an Indiana labor leader recently described her

They is jes’ folks like us

RICK HOROWITZ | 5/7

Lately Maw Clinton's been spendin’ all her time runnin’ back and forth from North Carolina over to Indiana and back again, and now that she’s done with them, it’s off to West Virginia and Kentucky where she’ll be workin’ as hard as ever, meetin’ folks and bein’ regular, not like them elites you see with them other campaigns.

Inmate inflation: We could cut food costs by incarcerating fewer people

JOEL MCNALLY | 5/7

Instead of trying to figure out how little we can feed the people we incarcerate, isn’t it time we came right out and admitted the number of people we lock up in this country has become certifiably ridiculous?

With teachers, we must appreciate everyday greatness

MARY BELL | 5/6

Teachers and education support professionals help put children in touch with their potential and introduce them to some of their possibilities. And because great schools benefit everyone, helping students prepare for their futures helps all of us live in better communities and enjoy better lives.

Lack of energy policy claims jobs in Janesville

REP. PAUL RYAN | 5/5

As a fifth generation native of Janesville, I grew up learning the old saying, “As GM goes, so goes Janesville.” These layoffs are a blow to our town and a harsh reminder of the consequences of our incoherent national energy policy.