Election: Social Security, long considered the "third rail" of U.S. politics, seems to have lost its power of shock. At Wednesday's GOP debate, candidates began to present serious ideas for reforming this system before it crashes. That represents a sea c

Election '12: Mainstream media have outrageously relegated Michele Bachmann to second-tier status in the GOP presidential race. But Wednesday's debate showed that in many ways, she rises above all the competition. Of the eight Republican presidential can

The Fed: In what might be called a "half-a-loaf speech," Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke shows he at least gets why our economy's in such lousy shape. But in the same talk, he misdiagnoses who's to blame and what to do about it. So why are we having such a bad

Corruption: In the same week a green energy firm that wasted hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars said it was bankrupt, the White House made a multimillion-dollar loan to another solar power project. Madness reigns. Last week, Solyndra, which builds

Jobs: In his speech Thursday, the president is expected to announce a stimulus 2.0 package said to cost $300 billion. But why should anyone expect this to work any better than the $4 trillion in stimulus already in the economy? When industrialist John D.

Medical Spending: Yet another study finds that ObamaCare is going to increase costs. And this one wasn't issued by an opponent of the Democrats' reforms. In fact, one of its authors is an ObamaCare apologist. In an effort to determine how ObamaCare would

The Law: Operation Gunwalker, the rogue ATF operation to arm Mexico's cartels, extends now to three White House officials. A bell goes off with the one named Dan Restrepo. Late last Friday, CBS News and the Los Angeles Times almost buried the news that R

Politics: In a new campaign ad, Ron Paul questions the bona fides of the Texas governor as a true GOP conservative, charging he once turned his back on the Reagan revolution. The truth is somewhat different. Back in 1988 Rick Perry, now a 2012 presidenti

Election '12: At more than 150 pages, Mitt Romney's long-winded "jobs plan" is an attempt to portray him as the candidate of substance. Unfortunately, it's more a pondering than a plan. Former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, who until the recent entry of Texa

Fiscal Policy: President Obama's much-anticipated jobs package reportedly costs hundreds of billions more in make-work temp jobs and food-stamp stimulus. He still doesn't get it. Those remedies didn't work last time — the unemployment rate is now highe