Political Fraud About Voter Fraud
The president’s selective statistics are red meat to supporters, but still bogus. by Robert D. Popper The Obama administration has been ramping up its rhetoric about the evil of voter…
The World’s Resources Aren’t Running Out
Ecologists worry that the world’s resources come in fixed amounts that will run out, but we have broken through such limits again and again. by Matt Ridley How many times…
Is Menendez Knuckling Under Foreign Policy Hardball?
The Foreign Relations Committee chairman has been strangely quiescent – is it because of his scandals? by Peter Roff We’re not seeing a lot of leadership from the U.S. Senate…
The Tale of Two Recoveries
by Michael Hausam How often have you heard a Democrat prattle on and on about how well Barack Obama has done with the economy, given the mess he inherited? Usually,…
Foreign Policy Failures Prove Critics Right
The President once promised to tackle “cynicism” about what could be achieved through diplomacy. But he’s nowhere near close to doing that. by Michael Crowley In a rough month of…
The Zealots Win Again
by Charles Krauthammer The debate over campaign contributions is never-ending for a simple reason: Both sides of the argument have merit. On the one hand, of course money is speech.…
What Obama Isn’t Telling You About the ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Strategy
by Fred Lucas The White House held a “Solar Summit” Thursday, continuing to promote subsidies for solar panels just days after a new nonpartisan government report showed restrictions of drilling…
More Obfuscation on Benghazi
Testimony by the former acting head of the CIA makes clear that Congress’s current approach isn’t sufficient. by Michael B. Mukasey Last week’s encounter between former acting CIA Director Michael…
Labor’s Lackeys Stack the Deck But Workers Keep Leaving Unions
Private sector union membership peaked at nearly 36 percent of the workforce in the mid-1950s. It’s been downhill ever since. An unprecedented trend is reshaping the contemporary American workplace: U.S.…
President Obama’s Bogus Voting Rights Claims
by Hans von Spakovsky and Peter McGinley Last Friday, in a speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference, President Obama proudly announced that the Justice Department had taken on more…
The Kansas Killings: Will Every Crime Be A Hate Crime Someday?
Hate-crime laws may have the paradoxical effect of privileging some victims of violence over others. by Michael McGough Frazier Glenn Cross (a.k.a. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.), the 73-year-old extremist accused…
The Emerging Law of the Gun
by Peter Huessy Russian President Vladimir Putin annexes the Crimea in gross violation of international law. What should America do, if anything? There are many different ideas. Some suggest doing…
Progressives are wrong about the essence of the Constitution
by George F. Will In a 2006 interview, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the Constitution is “basically about” one word — “democracy” — that appears in neither that document…
Those ‘rogue’ agents
Remember when Lois Lerner, in answering a planted question at an American Bar Association conference, admitted the IRS had targeted conservative groups but tried to pass it off as the…
The Left’s Fake Problems
by Jim Geraghty Ask voters what their top priority is, and the most frequent answer is “the economy,” although that’s a catch-all term for a wide variety of concerns and…