The Obama Administration opposes a bill to rein in the NLRB. July 28, 2011 WSJ Teenagers in the 1960s listened to Beatles records backwards in search of hidden meanings—a trick akin to the task of deciphering President Obama’s statements on the battle between Boeing and the National Labor Relations Board. Since the NLRB sued the [...]

The liberal elite’s rhetoric takes an authoritarian turn. July 27, 2011 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO Yesterday we noted that President Obama had mused about how much better it would be if he could rule unconstrained by constitutional checks and balances. “Some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own,” Obama [...]

July 28, 2011 WSJ By DAMIAN PALETTA The Treasury Department will detail how it will handle the government’s 100 million monthly payments if Congress doesn’t raise the federal debt ceiling, pulling back the curtain on a closely held plan that could have dramatic consequences for the economy, the U.S. credit rating and America’s political standing. [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Thursday, July 28, 2011 Texas Republican governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry will headline a “Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis” on Aug. 6 at Reliant Stadium in Houston. The ACLU of Texas and liberals are predictably upset. Liberals aren’t against prayer, so long as it advances [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Thursday, July 28, 2011 Many of us never thought that the Republicans would hold tough long enough to get President Obama and the Democrats to agree to a budget deal that does not include raising income tax rates. But they did — and Speaker of the House John Boehner no [...]

By Larry Elder (Archive) · Thursday, July 28, 2011 To hear Democrats tell it, two things cripple the chance for a budget deal: the dastardly tea party, and the GOP’s failure to understand that its beloved Ronald Reagan was actually militantly pro-tax. Gag me. The same we-won-the-election-and-elections-have-consequences lefties now cry out for “bipartisanship.” Those who [...]

By Matt Towery (Archive) · Thursday, July 28, 2011 About a year before he made his first run for the presidency, I had a chance to sit down and talk extensively with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. I found him more personable than much of the media had portrayed him. He was as sharp as [...]

By Debra Saunders (Archive) · Thursday, July 28, 2011 Here is what I do not understand: President Barack Obama is acutely aware of what will happen if Congress fails to raise the government’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. As he told the nation Monday, if Washington does not raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, rating [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Thursday, July 28, 2011 Most presidents affect the standing of their political parties. Ronald Reagan advanced his party’s standing among young voters. So did Bill Clinton. In his first term, George W. Bush helped Republicans equal Democrats in party identification in the 2004 exit poll — the first time that [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Thursday, July 28, 2011 President Obama does not care much about deficits — other than worrying that big debt might matter in his re-election campaign. In his first three budgets, Obama borrowed nearly $5 trillion. Currently, the government is borrowing about 45 percent of everything that it spends. Obama’s [...]