A cancer charity gets a brutal lesson in abortion politics. Feb 4, 2012 WSJ ‘Politics have no place in health care,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement Thursday. That pronouncement may strike New Yorkers, who’ve spent a decade complying with Mr. Bloomberg’s nanny-state mandates on smoking and trans-fats, as ironic. Most recently, his administration [...]

Posted 02/03/2012 06:54 PM ET Taxes: President Obama’s campaign to soak rich investors is already getting complicated. His small-business breaks would benefit those he says are paying less than a fair share. The State of the Union speech is fast fading into history, but one of its themes — raising taxes on the rich — [...]

Posted 02/03/2012 07:02 PM ET     View Enlarged Image Jobs: Of course it’s good news that 243,000 new jobs were created in January, shaving the unemployment rate to 8.3%. But thanks to massive policy errors by the White House, we’re still way below where we should be. President Obama, speaking in Arlington, Va., immediately took credit for [...]

Posted 02/03/2012 06:38 PM ET Nuclear Terror: The administration claims economic sanctions are working in preventing Iran from making a nuclear weapon. Why, then, is Tehran apparently assembling a missile that can reach the U.S.? To carry TNT? President Obama has described the waves of economic sanctions imposed on Islamofascist Iran as “the sort of [...]

O’Malley’s tax-the-rich schemes will impoverish the Free State By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Friday, February 3, 2012 Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley may be more skilled at implementing President Obama’s agenda than the White House itself. The Democratic governor is bringing the same big-spending, high-tax and class-warfare policies to the Free State. It’s going [...]

Congress should investigate cooked employment books By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Friday, February 3, 2012 The White House hyped the news Friday that January payrolls had risen by 243,000. The hitch is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also dropped 1.2 million from the calculated workforce. Somehow this net loss of a million [...]

Panetta makes the mistake of telling the truth. Feb 3, 2012 WSJ Leon Panetta committed the gaffe of telling the truth on Wednesday when he revealed how eager the Obama Administration is to tell Americans it is heading for the exits in Afghanistan. The Defense Secretary volunteered that the U.S. will stop taking a lead [...]

Posted 02/02/2012 06:52 PM ET  Church And State: President Obama has taken a very powerful name in vain in defense of his class warfare economic policies. In fact, Obama encourages a sin Jesus Christ repeatedly admonished: envy. Attending the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama declared that raising tax rates on higher incomes “coincides [...]

Posted 02/02/2012 06:52 PM ET Scandal: In a shameful performance, the attorney general Thursday reprised his tap-dancing routine before a panel investigating the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation that got U.S. agents and Mexicans killed. ‘It’s Groundhog Day, and Brian Terry’s family and taxpayers are still waiting for Fast and Furious answers from the Justice [...]

World body uses sustainability rhetoric for power grab By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, February 2, 2012 The United Nationsis raising the alarm that unless the world’s governments take drastic action to impose strict development controls, humanity is in grave peril. So what else is new? On Jan. 30, the U.N. High-level Panel [...]