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Barack Obama knows taxes define worldview. The GOP should offer voters an alternative.
By Daniel Henniger
July 29, 2010
If the Obama presidency didn’t exist, we would have to invent it.
At a time when the American people need to make some decisions about the nation’s purpose, along comes Barack Obama to make the choices crystal clear.

In one corner [...]

The website has endangered the lives of Afghan informants.
July 29, 2010
Julian Assange, the editor of the WikiLeaks website that on Monday released some 92,000 classified military documents, has told the German newsweekly Der Spiegel that he “loved crushing bastards.” We wonder if the “bastards” he has in mind include the dozens of Afghan civilians named [...]

Protectionism again masquerades as security.
July 27, 2010
The Obama Administration has lately rediscovered the virtues of freer trade, but the message still isn’t getting through to everyone in Congress. For an example, look no further than the objections of the 50-member Congressional Steel Caucus to a Chinese steel investment in Mississippi.
Members of the bipartisan caucus object [...]

Democrats have nothing to offer but fear, at a time when Republicans are not at all fearsome.
July 28, 2010
By JAMES TARANTO
Say you’re a Democratic congressman running for re-election in the age of Obama. How do you persuade voters to stick with you?
Roll Call reports that a Democratic senator who won’t have to face the voters [...]

July 29, 2010
By JONATHAN WEISMAN And STEPHANIE SIMON

Jane Norton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Colorado, had a hunch that by dinnertime Wednesday, conservative voters across the state would have heard about a federal judge blocking much of Arizona’s immigration law.
She had a hunch they would be angry.

So Ms. Norton’s campaign ordered up [...]

By Michael Reagan (Archive) · Thursday, July 29, 2010
The man behind the torrent of leaked documents wants to end the war in Afghanistan, and he doesn’t care how much damage he does to the troops on the ground in that hostile environment. Now hailed by anti-war liberals as some kind of a hero, Australian [...]

By Ann Coulter (Archive) · Thursday, July 29, 2010
While engaging in astonishing viciousness, vulgarity and violence toward Republicans, liberals accuse cheerful, law-abiding Tea Party activists of being violent racists.
Responding to these vile charges, conservative television pundits think it’s a great comeback to say: “There is the fringe on both sides.”
Both sides? Really? How about: [...]

By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Thursday, July 29, 2010
Liberals have been looking for a new name, most likely driven by the uncharacteristically sensible realization that most Americans reject their big-government philosophy.
When the Gallup poll asked Americans last year whether they considered themselves conservative, moderate or liberal, only 21 percent said they were liberal, while [...]

By Debra Saunders (Archive) · Thursday, July 29, 2010
The Senate Democrats’ “DISCLOSE” Act — “DISCLOSE” stands for “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections” — represents perhaps the baldest, if failed, power grab attempted this year. But you wouldn’t guess it reading news stories on the bill.
As The New York Times [...]