By Ann Coulter (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 Of all the details surrounding the liberal mob attack on Glenn Beck and his family in New York’s Bryant Park last Monday night, one element stands out. “No, it won’t be like that, Dad,” his daughter said when Beck questioned the wisdom of attending a free, [...]

By Lawrence Kudlow (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 Here’s a question: Why is repealing the Bush tax cuts such a constant obsession for the Democratic Party? Especially the top rates for the most successful earners and small-business entrepreneurs? It seems this is the Democratic answer for every single issue, every problem, every debate. This, [...]

By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 Editor’s Note: This column was coauthored by Ken Klukowski Our media colleague Chris Matthews just got a thrill up his other leg. He announced on MSNBC that he’s figured out what the black community needs: Same-sex marriage. He’s wrong on religious liberty, and he’s wrong on the economics [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 Intellectually, I understand the Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision that the First Amendment protects the most violent of video games. Experientially, I don’t. It’s fine for the majority to say parents have ultimate control over what their children see, but how many members of the Supreme Court [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 What’s the fair way to run a large organization? That’s a question that is squarely, and interestingly, raised by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, a Supreme Court case decided last week. The lawyers for the plaintiffs, women who work or worked [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 For the last 235 years, on the Fourth of July, Americans have celebrated the birth of the United States, and the founding ideas that have made it the most powerful, wealthiest and freest nation in the history of civilization. But as another Fourth of July [...]

By Michael Reagan (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 If the GOP is really serious about winning back the presidency they need to win the deficit debate. The government of these United States is broke — flat broke — and if the nation is to survive as the prosperous nation it has long been, Republicans [...]

By Larry Elder (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 Ronald Reagan did nothing. Barack Obama saved the nation from total collapse. How else to explain the absence of jobless pitchfork-wielding Americans storming the White House? How else to explain the contrast between the explosive Reagan Recovery and the dud on our hands right now? Fortunately, [...]

By Matt Towery (Archive) · Thursday, June 30, 2011 Here’s a news flash for every Republican candidate who wants to replace Barack Obama in the 2012 election cycle — it’s Florida, stupid. Candidates can spend all the time they want in Iowa. They can visit every household and sip a cup at every coffee shop, [...]

June 30, 2011 By Randall Hoven One can learn quite a bit just from looking at federal spending over time.  The history of our relationship with our government can almost be summarized in a graph.    Data source: White House Office of Management and Budget, Table 1.2 Here is my take on that graph, using [...]