House-Senate Deal Reached on Payroll Tax Measure

Ann Coulter: Communism By Insurance Mandate

One theory for why Barack Obama pushed the contraception mandate right now is that it helps Rick Santorum. Others theorize it's because Obama is an anti-religious bigot with a left-wing agenda. Reasonable minds can disagree on this.

Thomas Sowell: The Progressive Legacy: Part III

The same presumptions of superior wisdom and virtue behind the interventionism of Progressive Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in the domestic economy also led them to be interventionists in other countries.

Jackie Gingrich Cushman: Where Strength Comes From

This year for Presidents Day, instead of buying a new appliance, I'm urging all of us to mark the holiday by reading George Washington's Farewell Address and Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural. I know. Focusing on two great presidents on Presidents Day. It's radical, but at least you won't be stuck in traffic on the way to the mall.

Victor Davis Hanson: Please, A Little Honesty About Illegal Immigration

President Barack Obama recently assured El Salvador that the United States would not deport more 200,000 Salvadorans residing illegally in the United States. As the election nears, and the president looks to court Hispanic voters, he also created a new position of "public advocate" for illegal immigrants. His duties would appear to be to advocate that millions circumvent, rather than follow, current federal law.

Larry Elder: Whitney Houston Critics Called Her 'Too White' -- Black Republicans Can Relate

Whitney Houston struggled with something else that black Republicans and black non-Democrats can understand: ridicule and ostracism for "selling out," or "acting white," or not being "black enough."

Michael Barone: A Failure of Imagination Put Metro on Wrong Track

Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington's Metro rail transit system. While they will find many things to like, they will also see examples of how central planners -- and especially rail transit planners -- can get things disastrously and expensively wrong.

Jeff Jacoby: Quakers, Conscience, and Contraception

Much was made of the president's supposed compromise on requiring religious institutions to pay for their employees' contraceptives and sterilization drugs.

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Time to Tame the Federal Beast

When the federal government was created, those who risked their lives and their fortunes and their scared honors to secede from England were animated by recent events. The government did not come into existence in a vacuum. Rather, those who led the Revolutionary War joined those who fought and financed it to create a central government that would be constitutionally incapable of doing to Americans what King George III and Parliament did to the colonists.

John Ransom: If Al Gore Had a Change of Heart; It’s that Big

The mean greenies in Germany are so hot at enviro Vahrenholt's change of heart that they probably ought to charge themselves a carbon tax, or buy on offsetting credit, or just kick back and relax with a cold drink on a furry polar bear rug in front of a big log fire.

Ken Blackwell: Obama's Budget Bomb: He Proposes Spending Increases, While Disarming America

Early in his administration, President Obama, pledged to cut the federal deficit in half. But his recent budget proposal, to say Obama has not kept his promise is an understatement.

Cal Thomas: Rachel Maddow and My Lesson in Civility

When one writes about moral convictions, it's probably a good idea to consistently live up to them. That way people can still disagree with your convictions, but they have a difficult time accusing you of hypocrisy.

Reince Priebus: Obama's Budget Deficit of Trust

In 2009, Obama pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term. On Monday, he officially broke that promise, by unveiling a budget with the fourth consecutive deficit in excess of a trillion dollars. By the end of 2012, the national debt will exceed $16 trillion and by 2022, a whopping $25.9 trillion.

Debra J. Saunders: President Obama Punts on US Deficit

This week, the administration presented a $3.8 trillion budget. The 2012 fiscal year will close with a $1.3 trillion deficit; the deficit for 2013 is expected to be $900 billion.

Matt Towery: For Gingrich It Is Arizona and Georgia or...

Just three weeks earlier, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was sailing high. He won the South Carolina primary and seemed headed for Florida with the wind at his back. That was before Mitt Romney ripped him apart with the toughest and nastiest ads I have ever witnessed.

Rich Galen: Four Dollar Gasoline

The National Journal's Ron Brownstein reported last night that with Rick Santorum taking a two percentage point lead over Mitt Romney in the latest CNN poll, it marks the sixth lead change this cycle.

Donald Lambro: Obama's Proposed Budget: A Pie in the Sky Fantasy

Two things you need to know about President Obama's nearly $4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2013: It will likely add another $1 trillion to a $15.3 trillion debt, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will not act on any full budget plan this year.

Daniel J. Mitchell: Horror Stories of Stupidity and Incompetence Downgrade Your Opinion of Big Government

Why should we ever agree to more taxes when politicians and bureaucrats do such a rotten job with the money we’re already giving them?

Political Calculations: What's Driving U.S. Fuel Efficiency?

We though we'd compare our results with those of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Charles Payne: The Emperor's Ego and Naked Americans

If 10,000 Volts are sold this year it would cost taxpayers $100.0 million. If President Obama's goal of 1,000,000 Volts is reached by 2015, folks driving Ford F-150's will fork over $10.0 billion.

Emmett Tyrrell: It's Time for Newt to Go!

There is a grisly pallor that has beset former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Then, too, there is a lumpiness -- to his face, to his features, to his ... well, to his lump.

Bob Beauprez: A Case Study in Energy Regs Gone Mad

When Barack Obama promised that his non-energy energy policies would “bankrupt†anyone foolish enough to try to operate a coal-fired power plant, he talked as if he would only inflict pain on some inanimate structure of concrete and steel.

Steve Chapman: Food and Conscience

Factory farming and its abuses were once the province of an eccentric minority that invited ridicule and scorn. Agribusiness corporations could afford to ignore them.

Frank Gaffney: Shariah's Police?

Over the weekend, a drama with potentially horrific consequences for freedom-loving Americans played out half-a-world away.

Nathan Slaughter: Forget Obama: This High-Yield Pipeline Stock Could STILL be a Major Winner

With more time to examine the project and find an agreeable solution, a second permit could prove successful -- particularly after the 2012 elections.

Mike Shedlock: Farage: Globalist Troika Driving Greece Towards Violent Revolution; Godfrey Bloom calls Eurobonds "Pathway to Hell" like Subprime Mortgages

Violence and destruction in Greece that you saw on Sunday is being caused directly because people have had their democratic rights taken from them.

Carrie Schwab Pomerantz: Can You Collect Both a Public Pension and Social Security?

While no one likes to think about their Social Security benefits being reduced, in a case like yours, where you've worked in both the private and public sectors, that's a very likely scenario.

Mike Shields: Sal Pace Trusts Government While Congressman Tipton Trusts You

Colorado’s 3rd District, currently represented by Republican Congressman Scott Tipton, runs along the Western Slope of Colorado and includes Durango, Grand Junction and Pueblo. Under the newly drawn lines, both Bush and McCain won the district in their respective races.

Crystal Wright: Obama's Budget Bomb, Worthy of the Garbage Can

Here we go again with President Obama demanding one class of citizens pay more in taxes than everyone else to help pay for his Ponzi scheme called a 2013 budget.

Laura Hollis: Obama's Anti-Constitutional Pattern

The firestorm of controversy over the January 20th HHS mandate requiring Catholic and other religious organizations to pay for contraception, sterilization and abortifacient drugs for their employees shows no sign of abating.

Floyd and Mary Beth Brown: Burning Down The GOP House

The GOP presidential contest is officially out of control. We blame Mitt Romney.

Michael Prell: The Perfect Candidate

Are you happy with the remaining Republican candidates? Or the current occupant of the White House? Or Congress? If your answer is “no,†don’t worry. You are not alone. In fact, you are in the majority.

Marybeth Hicks: 'Frack Nation' Digs Up the Not-So-Scary Truth

When it comes to 21st-century environmental and energy debates, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Especially when what little knowledge you may have is incorrect. And most especially when could be a lie.

Jeff Carter: The Price of A Gallon of Gas

Demand for gas is plummeting. Crude oil ($CL_F) prices have been all over the map. With the recent tension in Iran, they are poised to go higher.

Chris Poindexter: Gold Holds In Narrow Range

Demand is staying high, as it typically does in times of uncertainty, but that demand is balanced out by growing optimism in the rest of the global economy, particularly the U.S. Investors want to shift to risk on investments, but just can’t bring themselves to do it.

Bob Goldman: Winning the Blame Game

It's your fault! I don't know what happened, or why it happened, or when it happened, or, even, if it happened, but I do know that the person who did it, whatever it was, was y-o-u.

Bill Tatro: Back to the 1930s

It’s the 1930s all over again, and we know exactly how the last sovereign attack campaign ended.

George Friedman: Jihadist Opportunities in Syria

As the rebels and their supporters respond in kind, the jihadists can thus instigate a cycle of violence leading to an intensely polarized environment.

Thomas Sowell: The Progressive Legacy: Part II

"Often wrong but never in doubt" is a phrase that summarizes much of what was done by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the two giants of the Progressive era, a century ago.

Michelle Malkin: A Tea Party Senate Takeover

The tea party isn't dead. It's just looking down ballot. While fiscal conservatives remain split over the GOP presidential candidates, grassroots activists are coalescing around a stellar slate of limited-government candidates looking to reinforce and reenergize the right in Washington.

Walter E. Williams: Rising Black Social Pathology

The Philadelphia Inquirer's big story Feb. 4 was about how a budget crunch at the Philadelphia School District had caused the district to lay off 91 school police officers. Over the years, there's been no discussion of what has happened to our youth that makes a school police force necessary in the first place.

Mike Adams: The One Thousand Pound Bible

It was good seeing you the other day at lunch. I meant to share a story with you but the room was too crowded and the story is too long. So I write to you today sharing something that will surely lift your spirits just the way you lifted mine when I first heard you speak in May of 2007.