Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Mort Zuckerman and Guy Taylor.

CNN's Jake Tapper interviews former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell and actor Mark Wahlberg about the new movie Lone Survivor. Tapper asks Luttrell about the "hopelessness" that is portrayed in the movie about a failed mission in Afghanistan that resulted in him being the lone survivor. For a primer of this interview,

DAVID BROOKS: I wouldn't say it was a total failure, and I'm a skeptic of it. There were programs that were clearly successful, the food stamp program. There were programs that were successful, but they just got the costs wrong, Medicare. So they estimated what Medicare would cost today. They were off by huge factors. There were some programs th

DAVID GREGORY: This is part of the problem of peaking so early and he has had a good ride in the media, and he is in a huge media market, in two, in New York and Philadelphia. But, of course, he's been a national figure, even before now. So he's going to get this scrubbing in realtime. He doesn't have the ability to kind of go under the wraps a lit

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Yet another summer of recovery, turning into a winter of recovery, turning into a summer of recovery. It doesn't come. And the astonishing news is that half a million Americans have quit working. And it's not those approaching retirement age, it's those in their mid-50s who are leaving, looking at the prospects of the future an

"A pretty atrocious act, and that was to snarl traffic. What an inconvenience. What a dangerous situation," Sarah Palin said about the Christie bridge controversy. "I'm glad that he fired the people that were involved in that. But still, in the grand scheme of things, it's nothing compared to what some leaders in our White House have engaged in and

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tells a reporter not to use the term Obamacare when referring to the Affordable Care Act, even though she has used that term in the past. QUESTION: The three “Obamacare” bills on the floor tomorrow in the House, some Democrats have indicated they might be open to supporting them. How strongly a

Dan Rather explains why he did heroin once.

White House: In this week’s address, President Obama called 2014 a year of action, which should start with Congress quickly passing emergency unemployment insurance for the 1.3 million Americans who lost this vital lifeline as they fight to find jobs and make ends meet. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hi, everybody. Yesterday, we learned that in

GUTFELD: Thanks to the coddling media, the president never has to face his mistakes.

GOP: In the Weekly Republican Address, Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi says the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, isn't living up to the promises made by its supporters and he called for repealing the defunding the law because of its cost and complexity. SEN. THAD COCHRAN (R-MISS.): "Hello. I'm Thad Cochran, United States Senator