May 15, 2012 Budget: Congressional Democrats plan massive tax increases and crippling defense cuts after November. Why not now? Because the voters would realize the Obama presidency has set the stage for fiscal catastrophe. ‘The way to deal with sequestration is put revenues on the table.” That is third-ranking Senate Democrat Charles Schumer of New [...]

Politically convenient release of classified information hurts national security By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, May 15, 2012 When word broke last week that a terrorist underwear bomb plot had been foiled, it seemed to be an impressive American victory. The initial Associated Press report revealed a CIA informant penetrated high levels of [...]

Write the President a check and escape eternal damnation. May 14, 2012 – WSJ Maybe the Obama re-election campaign isn’t the error-free juggernaut of media lore. Consider the puzzling decision to start trashing Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital on the same day that President Obama was hitting up private-equity grandees for campaign contributions. Did [...]

Multi-employer plans look to be in big trouble. May 14, 2012 – WSJ Imagine the panic if investors discovered that many of the nation’s biggest public companies had hidden liabilities so large as to make them worth a fraction of their value. That’s something akin to the shock created by the recent Credit Suisse report [...]

A federal judge finds the NLRB abused the law. May 14, 2012 – WSJ Some of the Obama Administration’s worst regulatory abuses have arrived via the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—think of its lawsuit to stop Boeing from making airplanes in the right-to-work state of South Carolina. But such overreach is too much for at [...]

May 14, 2012 Media Bias: The Washington Post defends its Mitt Romney hit piece by claiming it didn’t collude with the Obama White House on timing. Collusion isn’t the problem. The fact that they both share the same goal is. Three years ago, former CBS News correspondent Bernie Goldberg wrote the aptly titled book “A [...]

May 14, 2012 Hypocrisy: While the president blasts Mitt Romney’s private equity successes, he happily takes private equity campaign cash. If this election becomes “the company fixer” vs. “the economy wrecker,” Obama is in big trouble. How you made your money is evil, but to get re-elected president I’m happy to take lots of cash [...]

The president can’t have it both ways on same-sex ‘marriage’ By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, May 14, 2012 Barack Obama has been dubbed the “first gay president.” All the hype surrounding Mr. Obama’s position in favor of same-sex “marriage” may help guarantee he will be the last one for awhile. This week’s [...]

No more slow-walking Fast and Furious probe By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, May 14, 2012 Justice has waited long enough. It’s time to pull the trigger on contempt charges against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for withholding documents from Congress in the Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. Allowing further delay [...]

J.P. Morgan’s failed trades may well have passed the Volcker rule. May 13, 2012 – WSJ Employees at J.P. Morgan may think that CEO Jamie Dimon’s primary rule is to minimize risk. But Washington politicians now have their own Dimon Principle: Use mistakes at a bank run by an admired CEO to expand government control [...]