January 24, 2012 By John W. Howard We live in cynical times.  Ours is an epoch in which, more often than not, values are trumped by political expediency.  It is a time when self-righteousness masquerades as morality.  Those who claim — and truly believe — that theirs is a profoundly moral political movement see that [...]

Posted 01/23/2012 06:50 PM ET  Election ’12: In a scandal reeking of electoral fraud, a Democrat-linked political hack was arrested Friday for identity theft in an apparent bid to defame and replace Iowa’s GOP secretary of state. How far up does this go? Zachary Edwards, who served as President Obama’s Iowa “New Media Director,” and [...]

Posted 01/23/2012 06:50 PM ET  Leadership: If State of the Union speech leaks are any indication, the president wants his re-election campaign to be about fairness. But why should anyone believe him, since his own policies have made America much less fair? ‘We can go in two directions,” Obama told supporters in a State of [...]

Posted 01/23/2012 06:50 PM ET  Congress: The last time the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate passed a budget was April 29, 2009 — 1,000 days ago. It’s no mystery why: They don’t want taxpayers to know about the trillions they’re wasting. A published budget would be an election-year death warrant for Senate Democrats, because Republican Senate candidates [...]

America isn’t leading the world during the Obama presidency By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, January 23, 2012 In 2011, President Obama pledged to help the United States win the future. Now that the future has arrived, Mr. Obama will have a hard time explaining why we are losing it. Foreign-policy and national-security [...]

2011 was no Sputnik moment, it was the president’s Solyndra moment By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, January 23, 2012 State of the Union speeches provide presidents an opportunity to lay out what they hope to accomplish in the year and years ahead. The last time around, President Obama’s grand oration sketched his [...]

When the president says he wants more spending, he gets it By Emily Miller The Washington Times Monday, January 23, 2012 President Obama  delivers his fourth – and potentially last – State of the Union speech Tuesday night. Obviously, not everything he promised in his third speech came to pass. White House press secretary Jay [...]

By Frank Donatelli Published January 23, 2012 FoxNews.com TAMPA, Fla. –  Florida is easily the largest, most important and diverse state to vote in the Republican primaries so far.  It’s the fourth largest state in the country and winning there is an absolute must if the eventual Republican nominee is to win the White House. [...]

Published January 23, 2012 FoxNews.com The White House is delaying for one week the release of President Obama’s budget for the 2013 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, a decision that administration officials say was based on “the need to finalize decisions and technical details” but which Republicans say is a direct violation of law. [...]

Jan 24, 2912 ABC News’ Amy Walter and Michael Falcone report: TAMPA, Fla. — Here’s something we haven’t seen at many debates: Mitt Romney on the offense. “I’m not going to sit back and get attacked day in and day out without returning fire,” Romney vowed on the debate stage in Florida tonight, kicking off [...]