Economy: If you needed another metric by which to measure the failure of Obamanomics, new numbers released Friday show that two years after the recession ended the economy still hasn't fully recovered. According to the revised gross domestic product data

Politics: Having seen its agenda falter, the AFL-CIO announces that in 2012 unions will scale back working in tandem with the Democratic Party and instead set up its own structures to support candidates. In politics, hell hath no fury like a union scorne

Entrepreneurs: Most of the reactions to the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple have been predictably mournful, even elegiac. We choose to celebrate his great career — and what it says about America. When the history of the digital age is written

Technology: While Democrats agonize over the "digital divide" separating urban black youth from Web access, data show the gap closing. But hold the applause. It's led to high-tech thuggery. A member of the Congressional Black Caucus this week blamed blac

Power: Despite efforts in the media and Congress to shut it down through fear and falsehoods, a new estimate of America's most promising energy source portends even more gas, oil — and jobs. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced Tuesday that the

At just about every opportunity recently, President Obama has touted a short list of things Congress could do "right now" that would create jobs. And high on that list is patent reform. By fixing the patent system, he said this month, inventors could get

Security: Key Democrats like Nancy Pelosi supported the Bush administration's aggressive terrorist surveillance, former Vice President Dick Cheney's new book reveals. They switched only after it was no longer secret. The Drudge Report on Thursday posted

Economic Policy: The Democrats' aggressive push to extend the payroll tax cut for another year has nothing to do with boosting economic growth and everything to do with class warfare politics. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) made it known this w

Energy: A year ago, three oil rigs fled the Gulf of Mexico for better opportunities abroad. Now, it's 10. Make no mistake, the toll is rising on a business environment marked by the Obama administration's uncertainty. It's a sorry spectacle when rigs, th

Elitism: The candidacy of Rick Perry and the rise of the Tea Party have produced a strange side effect: Some Ivy League-educated elites are worried about losing privileges. At the American Medical Association's annual conference in Chicago two years ago,