The Fed doubles down to reflate the housing market. Jan 27, 2012 WSJ The two most powerful men in Washington have a big disagreement. No, not President Obama and Speaker John Boehner. We mean Mr. Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who can’t seem to agree on the health of the U.S. economy. On [...]

The sooner the higher-education bubble bursts, the better. Jan 26, 2012 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO In the Chronicle of Higher Education, economist Richard Vedder notes a new development in the education marketplace that should make many of his fellow academics nervous: The announcement of agreements between Burck Smith’s StraighterLine and the Education Testing Service (ETS) [...]

Jan 26, 2012 Guy Benson JACKSONVILLE, FL – We had two winners tonight: From a ‘micro’ perspective, Rick Santorum was terrific and narrowly won the evening.  On a macro level, Mitt Romney came awfully close to winning the debate outright, and just owned Newt Gingrich during three dramatic exchanges.  Because Newt didn’t have a particularly [...]

Jan 27, 2012 Paul Greenberg For those fortunate souls who didn’t have to sit through the president’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night out of a sense of duty, or maybe just masochism, here is a brief summary and free translation — very free: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, [...]

By Arnold Ahlert (Archive) · Friday, January 27, 2012 Apparently a better relationship between Democrats and Republicans is in the eye of the beholder. One day after his State of the Union speech, where he told Americans that genuine reform can’t happen unless we “end the notion that the two parties must be locked in [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, January 27, 2012 President Obama’s State of the Union address was disgusting. The president began with a moving tribute to the armed forces and their accomplishments. But as he has done many times now, he celebrated martial virtues not to rally support for the military, but to cover himself [...]

By Oliver North (Archive) · Friday, January 27, 2012 WASHINGTON — It’s an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Barack Obama delivered on the evening of Jan. 24 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol came in at just longer [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Friday, January 27, 2012 Only a president long shielded from criticism and accountability could make the kind of State of the Union speech President Obama did Tuesday night. It’s hard to know where to begin, given his repetition of tired ideas from his previous SOTUs, his taking credit for successful [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, January 27, 2012 One thing was missed in Newt Gingrich’s victory in the South Carolina primary: Conservatives embraced a pro-amnesty candidate without batting an eyelash. This should come as a wake-up call to those who’ve been pushing a hard-line anti-illegal immigrant position in the Republican Party. Granted, Gingrich didn’t [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Friday, January 27, 2012 So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, [...]