May 17, 2012     IBD/TIPP Poll: “The Great Distracter” has failed to distract from his failures as his support among women and independents falls. And it will only get harder to make voters forget the weak economy. The latest IBD/TIPP survey, which polled 778 registered voters over the eight days ended Wednesday, found that while [...]

Government bureaucrats are bankrupting the country By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, May 17, 2012 Fat cats with big salaries are once again the enemy of the left. At the local, state, federal and even international level, liberal politicians are clamoring for new levies on the selfish few living it up on easy [...]

Every other president merely set the stage for the coming of Barack By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, May 17, 2012 In 2008, Michelle Obama said her husband believed that Americans were “going to have to change our traditions, our history.” Who knew she meant it literally? Word broke this week that the [...]

Regulators get ready to expand the too-big-to-fail club. May 16, 2012 – WSJ The ire over a trading stumble at J.P. Morgan shows how little taxpayers enjoy standing behind too-big-to-fail institutions. Remarkably, the same Federal Reserve that didn’t blow the whistle on J.P. Morgan’s “whale” trades is planning to make more such institutions. The exercise [...]

May 16, 2012 Politics: The victory of the little-known Deb Fischer in Nebraska’s Republican Senate primary is a reminder that the Tea Party is alive, well and volatile. And so is the phenomenon named Sarah Palin. Deb who? That was the reaction Tuesday after the state senator and her modestly funded campaign scored a huge [...]

May 16, 2012 Budget Policy: As another fight over the budget looms, Democrats again choose to do nothing except blame those who try to fix the problem. President Obama and Senate Democrats are masters of this do-nothing game. House Speaker John Boehner went to the White House Wednesday to talk budget with President Obama. With [...]

Economic disaster looms for the birthplace of democracy By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 The forces of big spending will have another shot at the polls next month in Greece. The Syriza party, which is strongly opposed to austerity programs, is expected to gain in the upcoming election. Unfortunately for [...]

Greeks have to face the consequences of their own political choices. May 15, 2012 – WSJ One way to look at this week’s events in Greece is as George Papandreou’s revenge. As Prime Minister last November, he proposed that Greeks vote on whether they could live with the conditions the EU and IMF were imposing [...]

May 15, 2012 – WSJ One of President Obama’s campaign themes is that government spending—he calls it “investment”—is the source of most American economic progress. So eager is he to make this point that, well, let’s just say he sometimes wanders beyond his area of expertise, as he did last Thursday in Seattle. “When I [...]

May 15, 2012 Subprime Scandal: Analysts now say the housing market is so weak it may not rebound in our lifetimes. Yet the White House is pursuing the same policies that put it on its back. Worse, many of the officials it has put in charge of reviving the housing market are the same ones [...]