Apr 25, 2012 Governing: Asked why the Senate hasn’t produced a budget in three years, the head of the Democratic Party instead stoked fear about the “Romney-Ryan budget that ends Medicare as we know it.” FDR, call your office. ‘The Romney/Ryan budget is painful for Americans,” head Debbie Wasserman Schultz said on that same Fox [...]

Apr 25, 2012 Campaign 2012: Putting aside 59-point plans, the certain Republican nominee for president now frames the debate in terms of our children’s future. Will we toss away the faux Greek columns for a real American renaissance? In what was billed as his de facto acceptance of the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney took the [...]

The Administration tries to nullify a state immigration statute. Apr 24, 2012 WSJ The Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday in that other major case that has the political class on edge—Arizona’s immigration law. As with health care’s individual mandate, the Obama Administration is again making claims about the scope of federal power that upset [...]

Apr 24, 2012 Cool Down: Not many years ago, a celebrated scientist predicted a global warming disaster awaited humanity. Today, that same scientist admits his warning was too “alarmist.” It’s time Al Gore turned his limousine around, too. James Lovelock, father of the “Gaia” theory that the entire earth is a single living system, was [...]

Apr 24, 2012 War On Terror: The State Department declaring the global war on terror over is no surprise, even with Islamism thriving worldwide. The Obama administration never believed there was such a war. The Taliban is regaining control in Afghanistan, Islamofascist Iran is building the atomic bomb for its ruling ayatollah, and in Egypt [...]

Getting out of Afghanistan won’t be cheap or easy By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, April 24, 2012 America and Afghanistan are in the middle of a lengthy break-up, but they say they want to stay friends. After 18 months of contentious negotiations, the two countries announced Sunday that a deal was close [...]

President’s signature project is an Amtrak bait-and-switch By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Trainmakers interested in getting a big slice of taxpayer cash have until May 11 to notify federal officials that they want to build America’s next-generation high-speed rail cars. Over $550 million is being made available for these [...]

An $8.35 billion ‘demonstration’ to get past November. Apr 23, 2012 WSJ Re-electing President Obama is really important to President Obama, which isn’t news. What is news are the out-of-liberal-character acts that his Administration is committing to serve this political goal. Recall how last year the White House rudely overruled the EPA on its ozone [...]

New federal rules would raise costs for hiring the disabled. Apr 23, 2012 WSJ America isn’t Italy, but U.S. employment laws are creeping in that direction if the latest brainstorm from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is any clue. This week the agency may change its “guidance” on how companies treat disabled workers in a [...]

Apr 23, 2012 Free Speech: The former speaker, echoing the president, says the Supreme Court got it wrong in ruling we have the right to pool our money for purposes of political speech. Leave it to Nancy Pelosi, who said we had to pass ObamaCare in order to find out what’s in it, to suggest [...]