Presidential Fathers an...

Michael Medved, Wall Street Journal Voters this year look set to continue an odd pattern that's prevailed in presidential politics for a quarter century. They will elect either a candidate with a famous father or with no father.The surviving serious contenders—Barack Obama,...

The Citizens United Cat...

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post WASHINGTON — We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, and it doesn't work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their...

Box-Checking Obama in a...

Michael Barone, DC Examiner It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice.The first time was in an article last April on Obama's foreign policy in which he quoted...

Russia: The ‘Sort...

Thomas Friedman, NY Times Moscow Thomas L. Friedman AS a journalist, the best part of covering the recent wave of protests and uprisings against autocrats is seeing stuff you never imagined you'd see "” like, in Moscow last week, when some opponents of Vladimir...

U.S. "Friends"...

Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Former US congressman Robert Wexler is a man worth listening to. Wexler served as then-senator Barack Obama's chief booster in the American Jewish community during the 2008 presidential campaign. He appeared everywhere and said anything to convince the...

The Importance of Ameri...

Robert Kagan, Washington Post These days “soft” power and “smart” power are in vogue (who wants to make the case for “dumb” power?) while American “hard” power is on the chopping block. This is, in part, a...

Indiana Spikes Union Co...

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Read the original here: Indiana Spikes Union...

Romney Gaffes Alarm Rep...

Cameron Joseph, The Hill Congressional Republicans are worried Mitt Romney's propensity for verbal gaffes will hurt him in the fall.The former Massachusetts governor has had a series of foot-in-mouth moments that have set off alarm bells for the GOP and brought on gleeful attacks...

Obama’s Electoral...

Ron Brownstein, Natl Jrnl The Gallup state-by-state average approval numbers for 2011 released this week don't necessarily predict where President Obama will finish on Election Day, but they do measure the hill he must climb to win re-election.The most important number in...

Obamanomics vs. Reagano...

Daniel Mitchell, Cato @ Liberty On this day last year, I posted two charts that I developed using the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank’s interactive website.Those two charts showed that the current recovery was very weak compared to the boom of the early 1980s.But perhaps that...