Obama’s Budget &a...

Alana Goodman, Commentary See the original post here:  Obama’s Budget & "The Life of...

Activist Asks to Leave ...

Jane Perlez, NYT BEIJING — Chen Guangcheng, the blind dissident lawyer at the heart of a diplomatic crisis between China and the United States, telephoned in to a Congressional hearing on Thursday to plead for help in leaving his country. A police officer filmed members of the...

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...

Obama & Labor Union...

Tom Sowell, Investor’s Biz Daily Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being — not by what they actually are or what they actually do.Many people, who do not look beyond the vision or the rhetoric to the reality, still...

Obama: Afghanistan Goal...

Alexis Simendinger, RCP President Obama, speaking in Afghanistan after a surprise, 13-hour journey there Tuesday and Wednesday, said during a live, prime-time address that U.S. troops will rotate home at a steady pace through 2014, allowing the United States to stand down from a war...

Mitt Who? The Legend of...

Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine The implosion of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign—the first implosion, before the weird resurrection and inevitable second implosion—came because he used four words: right-wing social engineering. He used the phrase, last May,...

The President’s N...

Dana Milbank, Washington Post The preezy of the United Steezy is making me queasy.I'm not troubled by President Obama's slow jam with Jimmy Fallon, who dubbed the commander in chief "preezy" during Obama's appearance on late-night TV. No, preezy is making...

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...

Rethinking the Hispanic...

Josh Kraushaar, National Journal Mitt Romney was mocked for calling on illegal immigrants to self-deport at a debate last year, but a new Pew Hispanic Center study shows that's exactly what many Mexican immigrants have been doing on their own, with as many leaving the United States...