Santorum worthy challenger for Romney
Is this any way to pick a president? Absolutely. It works. It winnows. And it has produced, after just one contest, an admirably worthy conservative alternative to Romney.
GOP’s payroll tax debacle a disgrace
What even minimally rational government enacts payroll tax relief for just two months?
Obama campaigns for class resentment
In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn’t alleviated the nation’s economic pain, he’d be a “one-term proposition.”
Romney, Gingrich to duke it out in Iowa
It’s Iowa minus one month, and barring yet another resurrection, or something of similar improbability, it’s Mitt Romney versus Newt Gingrich. In a match race, here’s the scorecard:
Dare Democrats to act on nation’s debt
Dare the Senate Democrats to vote down the grandest of all bargains. Dare Obama to veto his own debt commission. Dare the Democrats to actually do something about debt.
Pipeline decision a sellout
In 2008, the slogan was “Yes We Can.” For 2011-12, it’s “We Can’t Wait.” What happened in between? Candidate Obama, the vessel into which myriad dreams were poured, met the reality of governance.
Split decision means GOP can’t coast
The 2011 off-year elections are a warning to Republicans. The 2010 party is over. 2012 will be a struggle.
Caught in the Libyan ‘crossfire’
You’ve got your Mexican standoff, your Russian roulette, your Chinese water torture. And now, your Libyan crossfire. That’s when a pistol is applied to the head and a bullet crosses from one temple to the other.
Romney remains solid in Vegas debate
The Vegas fight mildly unsettled the Republican race. But its central dynamic remains. It awaits the coalescence of anti-Romney sentiment around one challenger. Until and unless that happens, it’s Romney’s race to lose.
Scapegoat strategy sadly works
What do you do if you can’t run on your record — on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to answer no?
Land without peace: Why Abbas went to the U.N.
Abbas unwaveringly insists on the so-called “right of return,” which would demographically destroy Israel by swamping it with millions of Arabs, thereby turning the world’s only Jewish state into the world’s 23rd Arab state. And he has repeatedly declared, as recently as last week in New York: “We shall not recognize a Jewish state.” Nor is this new. It is perfectly consistent with the long history of Palestinian rejectionism.
Return of the real Barack Obama
A most revealing window into our president’s political core: To impose a tax that actually impoverishes our communal bank account (the U.S. Treasury) is ridiculous. It is nothing but punitive. It benefits no one — not the rich, not the poor, not the government.
Social Security is a Ponzi scheme
The Great Social Security Debate, Proposition 1: Of course it's a Ponzi scheme.
‘Overreaction’ over 9/11 is nonsense
The new conventional wisdom on 9/11: We have created a decade of fear. We overreacted to 9/11 — al-Qaeda turned out to be a paper tiger; there never was a second attack — thereby bankrupting the country, destroying our morale and sending us into national decline.
Remembering King, in word and stone
Such an achievement, such a life, deserves a monument alongside the other miracles of our history — Lincoln, Jefferson and FDR — which is precisely where stands the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
Obama's excuses about economy not valid
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System works if used the right way
Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today's Washington, the most lazy, stupid and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. On the contrary. Our political system is working well (I make no such claims for our economy), indeed, precisely as designed -- profound changes in popular will translated into law that alters the nation's political direction.- Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist
Here's the solution to the debt crisis
The result of such a grand bargain would be debt reduction on a scale never before seen. World confidence in the American economy would rise dramatically. Best of all, we would be back on the road to national solvency.
The great divide stretches wide
We're in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract between citizen and state.- Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist
Go ahead GOP -- call his bluff
President Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won't sign anything less, he warns, asking, "If not now, when?"- Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist
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