May 23, 2013
President Barack Obama believes in the public sector. He thinks it should be made ever more expansive and entrusted with ever more complicated tasks. Its unions should be powerful. It should be hailed by all the great and good, and attract the nation's best and brightest.
May 17, 2013
Rarely has the White House briefing room so resembled the main ballroom at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference.
May 14, 2013
It sounds like the plot from a dystopian libertarian novel. The word "patriot" and the phrase "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights" triggered heightened scrutiny from the most intrusive agency in the federal government.
May 10, 2013
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws.
May 7, 2013
Someone had to take the fall for President Barack Obama thoughtlessly drawing a "red line" threatening serious consequences if Syria used chemical weapons. It turns out that it is the president himself.
May 3, 2013
President Barack Obama was proud to become the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood the other day. But not proud enough to utter the word "abortion."
Apr 30, 2013
Abraham Carpenter Jr., a farmer in Grady, Ark., has more insight into human nature than the average sociologist. "Anytime you are going to throw money up in the air," he told The New York Times, "you are going to have people acting crazy."
Apr 26, 2013
The air traffic controller furloughs are the White House tours of the sky. From time immemorial, a government that doesn't want to tighten its fiscal belt finds high-profile ways to inconvenience the public to try to turn it against spending cuts.