By Rich Galen (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 The investing community is agog at the prospect of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Facebook on Friday. If you’re under 103, you probably have a Facebook page. You and about 901 million others. I have a Facebook page. I started it about four years ago [...]

By Ben Shapiro (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 According to President Obama, he’s a historic figure. That’s no figure of speech. This week, journalist Seth Mandel discovered that President Obama had authorized his staff to add his name to the biographies of former presidents from Calvin Coolidge to George W. Bush on the White [...]

By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote a story about a family that discovered a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel sitting beneath a mountain in a remote corner of Montana. The big rock presented a great dilemma. Selling off tiny pieces could yield a massive fortune. [...]

By L. Brent Bozell (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 When it comes to opposition research, there is often only one difference between a candidate’s vicious negative ad and an “investigative” news report: the undeserved patina of media “objectivity” and respectability. Take the Washington Post’s Jason Horowitz’s 5,400-word “expose” on how Mitt Romney may have [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this: A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama’s pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will [...]

By John Stossel (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 When my wife was a liberal, she complained that libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and losers — and many losers did nothing wrong — market competition is cruel. It must seem so. President Obama used the word “fair” in his last State of [...]

By Jacob Sullum (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Last Thursday, the day after President Obama finally endorsed gay marriage, his campaign released a video that faults his presumptive Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, for not doing likewise. “President Obama is moving us forward,” the ad says. “Mitt Romney would take us back.” In a sense, [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Perhaps Mitt Romney played it right when he was meek and contrite in response to the Washington Post’s front-page allegations that he bullied a kid half a century ago in high school. Romney no doubt feels embarrassed by the charges, even if most of us struggle [...]

By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Let’s think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law — and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional — requiring American families to attend church services at least three times a month. Should we obey such a [...]

May 16, 2012 By J.R. Dunn The myth for today is that of Obama Invictus — the undefeated champion, the master campaigner, the man who could have taught lessons to Honey Fitz, Dick Daley, and Lyndon B. Johnson himself.  Obama is the epitome of the politician for our time and perhaps for all time.  His [...]