Fiscal Policy: Warren Buffett may have hoped his call for a tax increase on the rich would make him look selfless. Instead, it just made him look like an uninformed hypocrite. In a New York Times op-ed on Monday, Buffett complained that he and his super-

Debt Crisis: The Congressional Black Caucus is trying to hijack the agenda of the super-committee appointed to tackle the deficit. The move confirms our fear that the panel will become an overly politicized joke. A senior black caucus member, Democrat Re

Populism: You know the Tea Party threatens the establishment when futile charges of terrorism give way to desperate predictions of imminent demise. Far from dying, this movement may attain the presidency in 2012. If you can't beat 'em, pretend they're go

Politics: These days, what would a firm that outsourced 400,000 U.S. jobs be called? The answer: labor union. Monday's Canada-Colombia free-trade pact is its masterpiece. Leo Gerard, the proudly Canadian president of the United Steelworkers Union, is one

Regulation: A Texas bank is preparing to shut down. No, it's not a failed institution being closed by federal agents. It serves its market. It makes a profit. So what's the trouble? It's sick of the heavy hand of government. Main Street Bank of Kingwood,

Leadership: Disrespecting grieving families, the president sneaks a photographer into the ceremony honoring the SEALs who died in Afghanistan. The presidential scrapbook and campaign are more important. We thought perhaps the White House had received a s

Judgment Day: ObamaCare isn't dead yet, but it is sitting before a death panel of its own. A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a key provision that forces Americans to buy health care insurance is unconstitutional. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals

Compared with Barack Obama, the man with whom he could be locked in a battle for the presidency a year from now, Rick Perry is a study in contrasts. Texas' governor, who was set to enter the race for the Republican nomination on Saturday, is 11 years old

Election '12: Bypassing Iowa may have consequences for his candidacy, but Rick Perry's entry into the race will change everything. Will the public and his party be willing to put another Texas governor in the White House? In what the chattering class per

Budget: The new "supercommittee" mandated by the debt ceiling agreement is a train bound for nowhere. Democrats made sure of that by appointing a bunch of class warriors who put politics first. When you're looking for a Democratic member of Congress who