Free-Lunch Egalitariani...

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Here we go again.At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued that the country’s spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health-care costs. That was true. He then said the cure for these exploding costs would be his...

Mike Wallace & the ...

Andrew Heyward, Time Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes were the perfect marriage of man and medium. It’s hard to picture one without the other. The great news producer Don Hewitt, who imagined much of what we take for granted in broadcast journalism today, brilliantly paired...

NBC News’ Nameles...

Mickey Kaus, The Daily Caller 1) WaPo‘s Erik Wemple wonders why NBC didn’t quickly come clean about its so-bad-it-seems-intentional mis-edit of the Zimmerman 911 call. Why not immediately “go into detail on exactly what had happened and what disciplinary...

Executive Pay: A Rich G...

Natasha Singer, New York Times IS any C.E.O. worth $1 million a day?That’s roughly $42,000 an hour. Or $700 a minute. Or $12 a second.Think of it this way: In the time it took to read those words, you could’ve pocketed $100. Finish this article and — well,...

Why Rubio Has a Tight G...

Juan Williams, FOX News The Republican vice presidential sweepstakes is swinging fast these days. It's playing out everywhere from Florida (think Sen. Marco Rubio)  to Wisconsin (think Rep. Paul Ryan). But win or lose this time around Rubio has a tight grip on the...

The GOP is Stuck With R...

Charles Blow, New York Times The dream is dying. There will be no dynamic, charismatic, Reaganesque Republican presidential nominee this cycle. There won’t even be a consistent conservative. There will only be Mitt Romney.With his wins on Tuesday in Wisconsin, Maryland and the...

Obama Can’t Stop ...

Caroline Baum, Bloomberg Barack Obama isn't the first U.S. president to conjure up scapegoats to serve his political ends. The Roosevelts, both Teddy and Franklin, were masters at the game. TR decided the trusts were an enemy of the people and busted the likes of Standard Oil and...

The Drug Legalization D...

George Will, Washington Post The human nervous system interacts in pleasing and addictive ways with certain molecules derived from some plants, which is why humans may have developed beer before they developed bread. Psychoactive — consciousness-altering — and...

Obama Shouldn’t C...

William Galston, TNR If the Supreme Court overturns key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, it will precipitate the largest confrontation between the Court and a president since the mid-1930s. Yes, the Court prevented Truman from seizing the steel mills and forced Nixon to give up the...

The GOP Primary Rolls O...

Robert Stacy McCain, American Spectator By the time polls closed Tuesday in Wisconsin, Rick Santorum was already in his home state of Pennsylvania, where he is scheduled for three campaign appearances today in Carnegie, Hollidaysburg, and Mechanicsburg. Meanwhile, the media were gearing...