By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 Editor’s Note: This column was coauthored by Ken Klukowski Elections are about choices, and 2012′s pivotal election showcases two very different visions for America’s future. Governor Mitt Romney is quickly consolidating the Republican base to enthusiastically support him this November. His speech this weekend at Liberty [...]

By Ben Shapiro (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 This week, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan essentially endorsed same-sex marriage. The Obama campaign, however, wary of minority and blue-collar voters, promptly announced that President Obama was against same-sex marriage — sort of — but that his position was “evolving.” Like [...]

By Lawrence Kudlow (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 While President Obama is out on the campaign trail talking about how bad things were four years ago, and how we have to go “forward” to his second term to see just how great things are going to be in the next four years, the biggest [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 Sometimes a trivial embarrassment can become a teachable moment. It was recently revealed that Harvard professor and U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren had self-identified as a Native American for nearly a decade — apparently to enhance her academic career by claiming minority status. Warren, a [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 I’m sure I’m not the only person who periodically finds himself wondering if it’s all just a dream or if he’s found himself starring in one of the more bizarre episodes of “The Twilight Zone.” For instance, Bret Baier reported that Joe Biden recently had the [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple’s birthplace. Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare [...]

May 9, 2012 Energy Security: Do America’s enemies wish us well? It’s an important question because they’ve made a big push to halt U.S. energy production. So why does the Obama administration’s policies support their aims? Energy is the lifeblood of the mighty U.S. economy, and it ought to surprise no one that America’s enemies [...]

By SEN. TOM COBURN Posted 05/09/2012 06:26 PM ET When Admiral Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said our debt — not al-Qaida or China — is “our biggest national security threat,” it should have been a wake-up call for every policymaker in Washington. Yet, since Mullen made that statement in 2010 [...]

May 9, 2012 Values: The president’s coming out in favor of gay marriage shows he’s to the left of most black Americans — and willing to throw his most loyal backers under the gay pride float. Under pressure to assuage the gay lobby and young voters ahead of November, Obama on Wednesday told ABC News [...]

The global-warming fight is a thinly disguised anti-capitalist movement By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, May 9, 2012 By strangling the U.S. economy, President Obama may have single-handedly saved the planet. That’s the upshot of a paper recently published in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Policy by researchers from the University of [...]