by George Landrith With the budget and fiscal crisis facing the United States and difficult economic times surely ahead for the foreseeable future, President Barack Obama has vociferously argued that…

“So it is sheer hogwash that ‘tax cuts for the rich’ caused the government to lose tax revenues. The government gained tax revenues, not lost them. . . . That…

“All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‘the rich’ to pay ‘their fair share’ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about…

“Secured by immense power” by Adam J. White Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, portraying the president’s battle to abolish slavery at the end of the Civil War, illustrates one of the fundamental paradoxes…

“So in the end I am left not with concerns but with gratitude: To Spielberg for making this movie, and to my fellow moviegoers, for only when movies succeed will…

The Need to Explain by Thomas Sowell The most successful Republican presidential candidate of the past half century — Ronald Reagan, who was elected and reelected with landslide victories —…

by George Landrith President Barack Obama repeatedly chided Mitt Romney’s budget plan during the presidential campaign on at least two grounds: (1) it lacked detail, and (2) the math didn’t…

by Peter Wehner Over my career, I’ve tended to resist press bashing. Part of the reason for that may be that there are plenty of journalists whose work I respect…

A Vision of the Spirit and Promise of Our Founding Fathers by Scott L. Vanatter The things of politics and public policy are of deep import. It takes time, experience,…

by Eric Trager Nobody should have been surprised when Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued a “constitutional declaration” on Thursday asserting total political power. This was, after all, the former Muslim…

“This whole controversy: Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?”  by Scott L. Vanatter…

“The ability of the American people to watch the [‘Fiscal Cliff’] sausage made and [to] read the contract before signing is a better guardian of our future than the hurried…

“Out of one man’s speech was born a new Western resolve. Not warlike, not bellicose, not expansionist — but firm and principled in resisting those who would devour territory and…

by Jennifer Rubin Each new revelation about the Benghazi debacle reinforces the idea we are either not hearing the truth or everyone in the administration was behaving irrationally. If you…

by Todd Beamon Food stamps will be the only way 42.2 million Americans will pay for their Thanksgiving Day dinner this year – more than ever. This Thanksgiving, 42.2 million…