Politico reports that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee are tracking and publicizing every verbal gaffe Vice President Joe Biden makes.  If you know anything about the loquacious and unpredictable Veep, this is probably the biggest contribution to widespread job creation Biden has made in his entire…

The Obama Administration may abhor free speech, but it certainly delights in government-imposed speech.  Remember those silly “stimulus” construction site roadsigns from 2009 and 2010?  At $10,000 apiece according to ABC News, the self-congratulatory signs belauded “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” &ndash…

An announcement by the Federal Aviation Administration to ease restrictions on using unmanned drone aircraft inside the United States ignited a spirited debate among conservatives over whether to accommodate another extension of government power.  On Tuesday, the FAA published on its website the latest in a string of changes to the rules governing…

A plethora of recent news items show that the Obama administration’s various legal teams continue to lose cases, embarrass themselves in court, exacerbate racial tensions and trample repeatedly on basic, traditional standards of justice. Each of the following examples probably merits extensive individual treatment which space does not immediately…

Over the past few weeks, Barack Obama’s often-elusive past has elicited renewed public interest after twice becoming fodder for major national news stories. First, a close inspection of Obama’s 1995 memoir, “Dreams From my Father,”  revealed that the president – whose associates have widely mocked former Massachusetts…

Quote of the week comes from Jim Geraghty of National Review:  “The only truly popular thing Obama has ever done is to authorize a unilateral military strike in an unsuspecting country without U.N. approval.”  In that one sentence, Geraghty captures perfectly the hypocrisy, abandoned promises and broader dysfunction of the…

A new right-leaning star was born last weekend at the True the Vote summit in Houston, while the dynamo who heads True the Vote simultaneously achieved multiple goals related to ballot integrity. For a single 24-hour conference to achieve so much is remarkable, and deserves more attention than one meager column, alas, can give it. But let&rsquo…

During a recent speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, President Obama – who may as well have been addressing a campaign rally – made sure that his assembled media minions understood their designated angle for the upcoming presidential campaign. “As all of you are doing your reporting,” he instructed…

Hot on the campaign trail, Vice President Joe Biden is once again trying to prove that he is a product and friend of the working class.  The facts say otherwise.  Upbringing Let’s start with Biden’s biography.  During his nearly four decades as a U.S. Senator from Delaware, Democrat Biden perpetuated his image as an unlikely…

So Republicans are more knowledgeable than Democrats, contrary to what many would like to believe.  According to whom?  None other than the Pew Research Center, a left-of-center organization.  Moreover, Pew’s latest survey only reaffirms previous surveys demonstrating the same result.  In fact, the results weren’t…

The political right is right about vote fraud. The left has left all decency in the rearview mirror. Former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, among others, under the aegis of the American Civil Rights Union, will launch a new campaign on March 22 called “ProtectYourVote.us” to “prevent…

The position of Attorney General of the United States of America ought to command the highest level of respect. One of only four cabinet positions that can trace its origins to the administration of George Washington, it is among the highest stations in American life: chief law enforcement officer of a constitutional republic that stands, like no other…

To employ a metaphor from his beloved pastime, George Will just swung and whiffed.  Badly.  Last week, in a curiously defeatist commentary bordering on bizarre, the bow-tied dean suggested conservative acceptance of an Obama victory in 2012.  After summarily asserting that neither Mitt Romney nor Rick Santorum, “seems likely…

An important new book helps explain why the recent death of James Q. Wilson is a hard blow to America’s experiment with enlightened democracy.      In Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America, author Daniel J. Flynn profiles six Americans who used their exceptional learning to…

The United States needs a leader with a freedom agenda, and with the ability to explain it and persuasively promote it. The agenda would put ordered liberty front and center in American public discourse and, more important, as the guiding theme for all government action. (Or, better yet, inaction, in most cases). The agenda would start by respecting…

FROM: David Plouffe TO: President Obama TOPIC: Strategic messaging for 2012 reelection campaign Mr. President ~ In a few short months, our 2012 general election campaign will begin in earnest. Of course, the uncertainty in the Republican presidential field makes it very difficult to calibrate our strategy (at the moment, our best guess is that…

A year ago the conservative movement was fired up for a year-long celebration of Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday. Well, it didn’t really last a year, but this coming Monday, February 6, the Gipper would have been 101, and the longing for comparable conservative leadership will not disappear just because his centennial has passed. Indeed,…

As the first month of the Republican presidential race draws to a close, a fissure that has laid dormant within the party is coming to define the campaign: the divide between the conservative insurgency personified by the Tea Party and what’s conventionally referred to as “the Republican establishment.” The former has ricocheted…

Barack Obama had an open microphone and time to kill at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, a scenario only slightly less distressing than learning that a serial arsonist is on the loose. What resulted was grandiose even by the standards of this endlessly self-referential chief executive: 65 minutes of blather punctuated by 75 personal…

The utter fecklessness of top conservative office-holders is stunning. Faced with what most of them call a make-or-break, now-or-never election, most of them are so brave, so ready to meet the moment, so willing to step up to the plate… that they sit on the sidelines, quaking in their boots, afraid to make a stand because they don’t want…

Over the course of the past three years, the Tea Party movement has reshaped conservative politics in America. By the closing days of the Bush Administration, the GOP was lost in a philosophical morass, having ceded ground to “compassionate conservatism,” runaway spending and government bailouts. Then, in early 2009, in an impassioned speech…

Okay, pretend I’m running for president. Here’s my platform. Personal income taxes: Flat rate, 20 percent. Same applies to dividends and capital gains. $7,000 exemption per person in household (no more than two adults age 18 or above). Full tax deductions for charitable contributions. Deduction for home mortgage interest for primary residence…

If the Obama Administration already behaves as lawlessly as we are witnessing despite the tempering prospect of an electoral performance review this November, what degree of unbound malevolence might a second term bring?  As 2012 begins, three events this week brought that question into particular relief.  First, the United States fell…

A weak incumbent president — hated by the opposition and experiencing resistance from within his own party — heads into his reelection campaign struggling to keep his political prospects alive. The opposition party fields a colorful cast of potential challengers – a hot-headed candidate prone to grand rhetorical flourishes aimed at…

In the run-up to the Republican Iowa caucuses, President Barack Obama and his subordinates made several controversial moves to gin up liberal support while conservatives weren’t paying attention.  Here are four of the worst.  1. Overruling South Carolina’s Voter ID Law Just before Christmas, Eric Holder’s Justice…

2011 was Barack Obama’s year of living dangerously. Whether it was the debt ceiling showdown, the prospect of closing the federal government or the push for a macroeconomically meaningless payroll tax cut, the president’s standard operating procedure was to wait until the eleventh hour, then hope that the resultant chaos in Congress would…

For years now I’ve warned that Barack Obama gives evidence of disturbingly authoritarian tendencies. Wednesday’s ferociously unconstitutional “recess appointments” of three members of the National Labor Relations Board and a new director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were just the latest in a long line of…

2012 is going to be a year dominated by politics. It will begin with the Iowa caucuses only a few days away and end either with a Republican president-elect  preparing to enter the White House or President Obama gearing up for a second term (if the latter is the case, we can still hold out hope that the Mayan calendar doomsday scenario will come…

For Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General, to play the race card is about as surprising as for Charlie Sheen to go on a bender. Weak people have ugly habits.   Holder is rightly under fire, and subject to the call by dozens of congressman for his resignation, because of the blatant incompetence and dishonesty of his Justice Department in the gun…

The White House Office of the President December 14, 2011 Dear Mr. Claus ~ As we celebrate the joyous season of Christmas, I know that I speak for many Americans in wishing you well on your trip around the globe and thanking you for the joy that you spread on an annual basis. You know I’ve always been a fan of yours – anyone who spends…