The Big Danger With Big...

Tom Frost, Wall Street Journal In the early 1950s, when I was a young college graduate and a new employee of the Frost Bank, my great-Uncle Joe Frost, then CEO, told me that the very first goal we had was to return the deposits we received from customers. Our obligation was to take care...

Issa’s Monstrous ...

Juan Williams, The Hill Since taking over as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last year, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has been investigating President Obama's administration with the tenacity of Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick. Read the original...

Ready for the Battle in...

Arthur Brooks, Big Government You probably think I’m talking about the election. No, I’m talking about the battle around your Thanksgiving table. The dinner conversation will turn to politics and the economy, and it will be your job to stick up for capitalism and free...

Romney Team’s Pat...

David Lightman, McClatchy Over the last 100 years, only five incumbent presidents have lost second-term bids. Mitt Romney is trying to become the 21st century's first challenger to topple a sitting president, and his camp says it could reach the 270 electoral votes needed for victory...

The Health-Care Mandate...

Cohn & Strauss, Bloomberg Illustration by Ryan Cox As they await the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, legal critics of the law say their case is about liberty. If the government can instruct people to obtain health insurance, they keep asking, what's to stop it...

Obama: Afghanistan Goal...

Alexis Simendinger, RCP President Obama, speaking in Afghanistan after a surprise, 13-hour journey there Tuesday and Wednesday, said during a live, prime-time address that U.S. troops will rotate home at a steady pace through 2014, allowing the United States to stand down from a war...

Don’t Miss a Must...

John David Dyche, Courier-Journal If you read only one political book before the presidential election make it "The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government is Up for Grabs "” and Who Will Take It" by Sean Trende, senior elections analyst for...

While Syria Burns...

Charles Krauthammer, National Review Last year, President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing “would have been...

The Bachelor Vote...

Charles Blow, New York Times “Even if you like Barack Obama, we can’t afford Barack Obama.”That was Mitt Romney’s line of attack this week in Charlotte, N.C., during a speech that his campaign ridiculously dubbed a “prebuttal” to...

Grope and Change...

Mark Steyn, National Review Unlike the government of the United States, I can’t claim any hands-on experience with Colombian hookers. But I was impressed by the rates charged by Miss Dania Suarez, and even more impressed by the U.S. Secret Service’s response to...