Virginia Budget Turmoil...

If Virginia’s legislators can’t come to some sort of agreement soon, the Old Dominion’s government may well face the prospect of a shutdown. [ more › ] Read more from the original source:  Virginia Budget Turmoil Could Lead to Government...

GOP Veepstakes: No Susa...

Michael Warren, Weekly Standard As we walk through the Department of Energy's field office in remote Carlsbad, Susana Martinez is explaining the science of nuclear waste management. At the federally managed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, about 25 miles east of here and more than 2,000...

Film Festivals for Kids...

Throughout April 2012 are two fabulous Washington DC film festivals with animated international offerings for kids. Filmfest DC: The Washington, DC International Film Festival has a film for kids with two April weekend showings, and Kids World Cinema 2012 showcases animation for kids...

President of the Twilig...

Michael Tanner, Orange County Register Deconstructing one of President Obama’s speeches can be a bit like taking a trip to an alternate universe. Take his remarks last week to the Associated Press, contrasting his budget vision with that of Paul Ryan and Republicans. All that...

Why We Need a ‘Bu...

Jared Bernstein, Rolling Stone Face it, America.  We’ve got an overly complex, unfair, inefficient federal tax code.  It’s riddled with loopholes, it’s opaque and confusing, it’s less progressive than it used to be, and it...

Can Government Do Anyth...

John Stossel, FOX Business I'm suspicious of superstitions, like astrology or the belief that "green jobs will fix the environment and the economy." I understand the appeal of such beliefs. People crave simple answers and want to believe that some higher power determines...

Setting the Limits of F...

Charles Lane, Washington Post Solicitor General Donald Verrilli got a pretty thorough grilling from the Supreme Court last week. If the government can make individuals buy health insurance on the grounds that it is regulating interstate commerce, the justices wanted to know, what...

Broccoli Mandates and t...

James Stewart, NY Times “If the government can do this, what, what else can it not do?” asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia this week in arguments on the constitutionality of the requirement that nearly all Americans buy health care insurance or face a...

A Ludicrous ObamaCare D...

James Taranto, Wall Street Journal Linda Greenhouse is something of an institution of legal journalism. She became the New York Times's Supreme Court correspondent in 1978. Thirty years later, when she accepted an early-retirement package from the financially stressed newspaper,...

Ryan Plan the Only Game...

Robert Robb, Arizona Republic Critics of Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget resolution are almost universally unserious about getting federal debt and deficits under control. The country will be very lucky if it gets a chance to implement as gentle and gradual a path to fiscal sobriety...