"Two Terrible Week...

Hugh Hewitt, Washington Examiner Of the many possible interpretations of President Obama's erratic behavior of the past two weeks, the most benign is that he is simply and thoroughly overwhelmed by the office he holds.The other is that he is reaping what he sowed.Author Malcolm...

Obama’s Tax Decis...

Doyle McManus, LAT Op-Ed Obama is shown speaking during a town hall meeting on healthcare at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee on Aug. 20, 2009. (Alex Wong/Bloomberg / March 28, 2012) March 29, 2012In 2009, President Obama was asked whether the individual mandate in...

Activist Judges On Tria...

E.J. Dionne, The New Republic WASHINGTON — Three days of Supreme Court arguments over the health care law demonstrated for all to see that conservative justices are prepared to act as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate...

U.S. Has 60 Times More ...

John Merline, Investor’s When he was running for the Oval Office four years ago amid $4-a-gallon gasoline prices, then-Sen. Barack Obama dismissed the idea of expanded oil production as a way to relieve the pain at the pump."Even if you opened up every square inch of our land...

Obama Kicks the Can Dow...

Michael Barone, DC Examiner Kicking the can down the road. That's been the Obama administration's response on issues from Iran's nuclear weapons program to America's entitlement systems.Start with Iran. In a statement in the Oval Office before his meeting with...

GOP Debate Offers Plent...

Bill Maher, Huffington Post The Republicans sure have the right symbol with the elephant. Republican debates are nothing but elephants in the room.The biggest of which must be: to someone out there who's hurting, they spend the whole two hours yammering away about earmarks and...

The Totalitarian Ethics...

Steven Greenhut, Reason In my last column, I documented how California’s pro-union Attorney General Kamala Harris provided an unfair and dishonest title and summary to a pair of pension reform initiatives submitted to her office, thus effectively killing the measures. Last week...

Gov. Daniels: Obama &qu...

National Journal Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels attacked President Obama on Sunday, characterizing his first term as a “failed presidency” and saying the president was “AWOL” on debt reduction. The election will be “a choice between...

Spencer Bachus: It̵...

Andrew Breitbart, Big Government When Peter Schweizer uncovered evidence of insider trading by Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Spencer Bachus (R-AL), and 60 Minutes reported on it, I was the first person to call for Rep. Bachus to resign.That was...

The Return of "Cul...

Gary Younge, The Guardian No wonder the Republicans have lost their way. For a party that considers itself socially conservative with a base that takes the bible literally its moral compass is seriously askew.After a slew of women came forward to accuse one presidential candidate, Herman...