By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, January 27, 2012 WASHINGTON – Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, tamer of the rising seas — offered [...]

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, January 26, 2012 AKA, ‘State of the Campaign’ “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” –Article II, Section 1, Constitution of the [...]

Posted 01/26/2012 06:54 PM ET  Journalism: As the president launches his re-election bid by striking a more centrist tone, the partisan press is helping him whitewash his radical past. Teamwork or not, it’ll be hard to bleach. Exhibit A is CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. Earlier this week, she hosted a segment that tried to de-link Obama [...]

Friends of the president are given billions in government largesse By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, January 26, 2012 President Obama said in his State of the Union address that one of the American values that must be reclaimed is “an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair [...]

Time to end 99-week unemployment subsidies By Emily Miller The Washington Times Thursday, January 26, 2012 When it comes to job creation, President Obama has no clue. Under his leadership, the average amount of time spent in the unemployment lines more than doubled from four to nine months. Rather than push those down on their [...]

Hoosier State prepares to eliminate mandatory unionization By Nita Ghei The Washington Times Thursday, January 26, 2012 It looks like the Hoosier State may no longer force employees to pay tribute to union bosses if they want to keep their jobs. The Indiana House adopted a landmark right-to-work bill Tuesday that’s on track to breeze [...]

By Scott Peterson Staff writer Christian Science Monitor updated 1/26/2012 4:54:27 PM ET 2012-01-26T21:54:27 ISTANBUL — Tehran has stepped up its bellicose warnings of conflict in the Persian Gulf as potentially crippling new European Union and American sanctions have been approved on Iran’s oil exports and central bank. The US defied the warning of a top [...]

By Ronald Rotunda Published January 26, 2012 FoxNews.com Last month, Chief Justice Roberts gave his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, but it was quite different from prior ones. For the first time, it focused on when Supreme Court Justices should disqualify (or “recuse”) themselves from a case because of a conflict of interest. [...]

By Matthew Spalding Published January 26, 2012 FoxNews.com “Economic fairness” was the topic of President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. But while he spoke of this as a return to American values, his blueprint for getting us there runs counter not only to the core principles on which our nation was founded [...]

By John Lott Published January 26, 2012 FoxNews.com During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama pushed for higher tax rates on what he called “the wealthiest Americans.”  He declared: “Tax reform should follow the Buffett rule: If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than [...]