By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, May 20, 2012 TEWKSBURY, Mass. — Russ Caswell, 68, is bewildered: “What country are we in?” He and his wife Pat are ensnared in a Kafkaesque nightmare unfolding in Orwellian language. This town’s police department is conniving with the federal government to circumvent Massachusetts law — which is less [...]

May 20, 2012 Rosslyn Smith Mark Steyn did a great job tying together this week’s revelations about twin fabulists Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama.  I find his conclusion particularly intriguing.  Like Gatsby presiding over his wild, lavish parties, Obama is aloof and remote: Let everyone else rave deliriously; he just has to be. He is [...]

May 20, 2012 By Eileen F. Toplansky On July 2, 2011, Rep. Trent Franks, a member of the House Committee on Armed Services, denounced the Obama administration’s policy of “limited contacts” with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.  Franks emphatically stated that “the [Obama] administration is fooling themselves as well as placing the United States and Israel in [...]

May 20, 2012 By Tom Rowan When Elwood retrieved his brother Jake from Joliet prison, the two went on a pilgrimage to their childhood Catholic orphanage.  Their pitiful orphanage was under siege from Chicago’s infamously oppressive tax regime and was being put out of business.  For inspiration, the brothers were directed to a Chicago Baptist [...]

Why this social democracy has a liberalizing labor market and strong growth. The answer isn’t that it’s outside the euro zone. May 18, 2012 – WSJ By ANNE JOLIS Oslo The so-called Swedish model has long held a special place in the leftist imagination. In 1969 the Christian Science Monitor reported that Sweden’s 41%-of-GDP tax [...]

What unions really want is legal standing to sue employers and prevent any changes—in wages, hours or other conditions of employment—unwanted by their members. May 18, 2012 – WSJ By CHRISTOPHER M. TONER Wisconsin’s recall election is on, pitting Gov. Scott Walker against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. If Mr. Walker is voted out of office [...]

The 1965 Voting Rights Act has been a huge success. So why are black activists keen to press the discrimination button on issues like voter ID? May 18, 2012 – WSJ By JASON L. RILEY McLean, Va. Trayvon Martin. Voter ID laws. Color-conscious college admissions policies heading for the Supreme Court again. It seems like [...]

May 18, 2012 – WSJ By ALLYSIA FINLEY Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is making California lawmakers out to be models of Franciscan frugality. Last year they made “tough cuts across state government to reduce General Fund spending as a share of the economy to its lowest level” in 40 years,” he says. Hold the holy [...]

True fiction turns out to be stranger than fake fiction. May 18, 2012 – WSJ By JAMES TARANTO How’s this for deus ex machina? Breitbart.com “has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as ‘born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.’ ” Of [...]

May 19, 2012 – John Ransom Obama may go down as the first president in the history of the U.S. to run a campaign based, like Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy, on nothing.   It’s gotten so bad that the New York Times is appealing to people to “believe in” Obama, like he’s a children’s character or [...]