If austerity is so terrible, how come Germany and Sweden have done so well? May 9, 2012 – WSJ By ROBERT J. BARRO The weak economic recovery in the U.S. and the even weaker performance in much of Europe have renewed calls for ending budget austerity and returning to larger fiscal deficits. Curiously, this plea [...]

Roosevelt reluctantly unleashed industry to win World War II, thereby laying the groundwork for America’s economic recovery. May 9, 2012 – WSJ By ARTHUR HERMAN If President Obama still wants to turn our economy around, it’s time for him to act more like Franklin Roosevelt—but not in the way he might think. It takes a [...]

The Democratic left has conceded human rights to the conservatives. May 8, 2012 WSJ By DANIEL HENNINGER It’s a question that keeps coming up: Is it just everyone’s imagination or has the human-rights agenda been demoted by Barack Obama? The unflattering word often associated with Mr. Obama and human rights is “ambivalence.” When Iranian students [...]

The auto bailout makes Bain Capital look like an amateur on job losses and outsourcing. May 10, 2012 – WSJ By KARL ROVE President Barack Obama’s re-election organization is spending a lot of time attacking Mitt Romney over his careers in venture capital (investing in start-ups) and private equity (investing in troubled or failing businesses). [...]

May 10, 2012 – Ken Blackwell When politicians want to look busy while avoiding tough decisions during an election year, what do they do? They form commissions and councils. And when President Barack Obama saw Americans struggling with higher gasoline and home energy prices, did he encourage more domestic oil exploration, off-shore drilling, or coal [...]

By Arnold Ahlert (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 What the successful counterterrorism operations tells us about the war on terror. On Monday it was revealed that the CIA had thwarted a new al-Qaeda-sponsored terror plot hatched in Yemen. The scheme was brought down by a man said to have been a mole for the CIA and Saudi [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 Former NPR and current Fox News political analyst Juan Williams made an excellent point Monday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” Williams said the major reason President Obama had not endorsed same-sex marriage is because of the strong opposition to it in the black and Hispanic communities. [...]

By Larry Elder (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 National Public Radio’s Kai Ryssdal recently talked about the weak economy. His guests, two reporters from The Washington Post and The New York Times, acknowledged the obvious — that the economy is underperforming. Yet, in the 20 minutes of my sitting and listening in the car [...]

By Ann Coulter (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 Elizabeth Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, “Lies on Race Box,” is in big heap-um trouble. The earnest, reform-minded liberal running for Senate against Scott Brown, R-Mass., lied about being part-Cherokee to get a job at Harvard. Harvard took full advantage of Warren’s lie, [...]

By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 Editor’s Note: This column was coauthored by Ken Klukowski Elections are about choices, and 2012′s pivotal election showcases two very different visions for America’s future. Governor Mitt Romney is quickly consolidating the Republican base to enthusiastically support him this November. His speech this weekend at Liberty [...]