The year voters saw the left’s unvarnished agenda and said no. Dec 31, 2010 WSJ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a press release last week headlined “111th Congress Accomplishments.” It quoted a couple of Democratic Party cheerleaders calling this the greatest Congress since 1965-66 (Norm Ornstein) or even the New Deal (David Leonhardt), [...]

One of out three taxpayers will have to wait. Thanks, Congress. Dec 31, 2010 WSJ If you’re one of the nearly 50 million Americans who itemizes deductions, don’t count on filing your 2010 tax return any time soon. The IRS has announced that as many as one of every three tax filers will have to [...]

A continued American troop presence is good for Iraq, and the combustible Persian Gulf region. Dec 31, 2010 WSJ Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in his first interview since forming a new government in Baghdad this month, left himself little wiggle room to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond 2011. “The last American soldier will leave” [...]

Think your taxes are too low? Protest by making them lower! Dec 30, 2010 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO We’d like to offer a last-minute nomination for the nitwittiest idea of the year: GiveItBackForJobs.com. This is the cognitive elite’s version of a tax revolt, made all the more comical because it is the product of two [...]

Dec 31, 2010 By Pat Buchanan With Christmas shoppers out in force and the stock market surging to a two-year high, talk is spreading that the long-awaited recovery is at hand. Perhaps. But gleaning the news from Europe and Asia as U.S. cities, states and the federal government sink into debt, it is difficult to [...]

By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, December 31, 2010 WASHINGTON — Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health care law. [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, December 31, 2010 Every member of Congress takes an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” but the newly elected 112th Congress will be the first in the nation’s history to hear the text actually read aloud when the [...]

By Matt Towery (Archive) · Friday, December 31, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The army of newly elected Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives will be arriving here this coming week. They’ve already capsized the proverbial political apple cart. Now they’re ready to change the nation, or so they say. But they’re about to [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Friday, December 31, 2010 Diligent English farmers of old once shared a motto about the blessings of work: “Industry produces wealth, God speed the plow.” Indolent New York City union officials who oversee snow removal apparently live by a different creed: Sloth enhances political power, Da Boss slow the plow. [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Friday, December 31, 2010 This administration is abusive enough when it acts outside its constitutional authority, but it is even more tyrannical when it affirmatively thwarts the express will of the Congress on matters within the legislative domain. When Congress denied Obama authority to transfer money to the International Monetary [...]