Litigation: Buried in the president's American Jobs Act is a provision that will do nothing to encourage hiring and much to discourage it. Unless, that is, you're a law firm looking for new ways to sue companies. On a radio show recently, the president c

Economy: The data are in, and they aren't pretty: The economy continues to fall apart, with seemingly little immediate hope for a turnaround. If you were looking for a referendum on the failures of Obamanomics, this is it. New data from the Census Bureau

Bureaucracy: The Transportation Security Administration was set up to close the gaps that allowed 9/11 to happen. But it quickly went bad, a fact its founder now acknowledges. He and others should have known better. Republican Rep. John Mica of Florida w

Spending: One lone senator stands up against the budget "supercommittee" doing what no enemy has ever accomplished — rendering the arsenal of democracy impotent and defenseless. Why is defense being singled out? On the Thursday before the nation mourne

Science: Al Gore's Current TV will use 24 straight hours of airtime this week to try to convert global warming skeptics. Will he mention a recent report that shows the climate change scare is grossly overblown? And we also doubt that anyone else connecte

Foreign Policy: With Israel's two most important allies in the Muslim world now conspiring against her, we must act to help our strategic friend and avert a costly Mideast war. The White House has to do more than just make phone calls and statements of c

National Security: The Sept. 11 commission stated that our biggest failure was one of imagination. Imagine an Iranian nuclear device detonating high over the American heartland. They're working on it. On the same day the 9/11 Commission issued its report

Leadership: President Obama's jobs program is disappointing, to put it mildly. Given our economic troubles, this heavily politicized rehash of failed policies is a slap in the face to 27 million Americans without full-time jobs. In an angry speech clearl

Politics: With an ultraliberal New York congressional seat about to go Republican, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ran a TV ad politicizing the 9/11 attacks. Will its chairman accept responsibility? It took a long, long time for disgraced

9/11: A new report revealing the hijackers met in Florida with a well-connected Saudi family who fled to Riyadh just days before the attacks raises fresh concerns about the Saudis' role in the plot. The Saudi hijackers who entered the country from San Di