Killing Bin Laden, and ...

Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics Whether one finds it unseemly for President Obama to travel halfway around the world to commemorate the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing is primarily a matter of taste. But it can be said that the first president of the United States...

Welcome to the G-Zero W...

Ian Bremmer, RealClearWorld For the first time in seven decades, we live in a world without global leadership. In the United States, endless partisan combat and mounting federal debt have stoked fears that America's best days are done. Across the Atlantic, a debt crisis cripples...

Shrinking Problem: Ille...

Michael Barone, DC Examiner The illegal immigration problem is going away.That's the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States. View post: Shrinking Problem: Illegal...

Lost Sense of Duty at S...

Jed Babbin, The American Spectator The mindless gnomes of the General Services Administration and the highly-trained agents of the United States Secret Service have one thing in common: they are all federal civil servants. But the difference between them, and the import of the scandals...

Spain Could Drag Down t...

Robert Samuelson, Newsweek WASHINGTON — Just when you thought the world economy might be improving, along comes Spain. It's Europe's next economic domino, struggling to cope with big budget deficits, massive unemployment and an angry public. Will it fail — and, if...

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...

Scott Walker Is Dismant...

John Nichols, The Nation Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has attacked the rights of working people to organize unions and to speak up in their workplaces and the political life of their communities, their state and their nation.He has attacked the right of citizens to dissent and to have...

It’s 1936 All Ove...

Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal With a small group of credulous millionaires joining him at a White House séance the other day to support the Buffett Rule, the Conjurer-in-Chief called forth the spirit of Ronald Reagan, who the president averred would have supported his magic...

Debauchery: An American...

Dana Milbank, Washington Post Before we get to the dancing penises at the National Institutes of Health, let’s begin our discussion with the Secret Service agents’ dalliance with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia.“We’re representing the people of...

The 4% Growth Project...

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets How could the United States double economic growth from its recent rate of 2% to 4%? That's the goal of the George W. Bush Institute's 4% Growth Project, launched at a conference in New York on Tuesday. Named for former President...