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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Thursday, July 29, 2010
No one IS ever likely to mistake me for the president of the John F. Kerry Fan Club. I rued Kerry’s election to the Senate in 1984, I have voted faithfully for his opponents ever since, and when he ran for president in 2004 I was [...]

Will raise fees elsewhere
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
8:42 p.m., Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Call it the law of unintended consequences.
That’s what many finance experts are saying will be the result of Congress‘ latest attempt to micromanage the world of consumer credit through the financial-reform measure President Obama signed into law last week.
Many are predicting [...]

Published July 28, 2010
FoxNews.com

Millions of families will be faced with thousands of dollars in tax increases if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire at the end of the year, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. 
A preliminary report obtained by Fox News shows that several tax increases would hit hard [...]

By GLENN THRUSH | 7/28/10 12:38 PM EDT

It looks like Rupert Murdoch has finally figured out a way to make the White House pay — literally.
 
The Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has jacked up the rate it charges the administration’s news clipping service by a jaw-dropping $600,000 per year — and is steering the White House towards a [...]

By Dunstan Prial
Published July 28, 2010
FOXBusiness

So much for transparency.
Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.
The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts [...]

Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)
Tuesday, July 27th at 5:00AM EDT

A lot of the media and all of the Democrats seem to forget one simple fact about the Bush tax cuts: they were passed in response to a recession occurring as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney entered office.
Moe Lane wrote an excellent post about the [...]

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Afghan Report Hits Obama Where It Hurts
July 28, 2010

The leaked Afghan war documents will prove politically devastating to President Obama, hitting him in his most vulnerable place — his liberal base.
Having already lost all Republicans and almost all independents, Obama is shedding Democrats these days. According to the FoxNews poll, his [...]