Racial Politics: With homeownership plunging among minorities, Democrats and community organizers are pushing banks to revert to the easy-credit requirements that got us into the crisis. In the latest move, the NAACP announced Wednesday it was forming a

Entitlements: In trying to score political points against the GOP by warning that retirement checks were in jeopardy if the debt ceiling isn't raised, President Obama exposed the fraud at the heart of Social Security. The closer the self-imposed Aug. 2 d

Overregulation: The Environmental Protection Agency is at it again — this time eyeing smog standards so stringent it could actually force cities to choose between July 4th fireworks and hugely expensive new rules. When the EPA was enacting stricter smo

Media: They call it Britain's Watergate, the "hacking scandal" in which some journalists raided cellphone messages of politicians, celebrities and ordinary citizens. Like our own Watergate scandal, this requires some perspective. Pundits on both sides of

Recovery: With the job market in the dumps, and the president moving that to the top of his priority list, wouldn't getting out of the way of 740,000 jobs that could be created in the oil industry be a no-brainer? Well, no. Much has been made of America'

Border: A 2-year-old video shows a high Justice official saying "the president has directed us," including the attorney general, to speed up Project Gunrunner and the offshoot that got a border agent killed. This tape has no 18-minute gap, and while it d

Media Bias: How much does it take for the Obama administration to spin the press? Not much, if the latest round of stories about debt negotiations are any indication. The debt talks handed President Obama a timely opportunity to position himself as a cen

War On Terror: Washington finally has done what it should have done years ago: deny aid to Islamabad unless it can show its cooperation is more than just a facade to milk the U.S. for more cash. After Pakistan ordered U.S. military trainers out of the co

Climate Fraud: Al Gore is going to "connect the dots" between climate change and severe weather. Given that the former vice president has been coloring outside the lines for years, there's no reason to believe what he'll say. Gore launched Tuesday the la

Politics: The governor of Texas finds a receptive audience among potential donors and supporters mindful of the fact that, like the president, he too inherited an economy from George W. Bush. Only he made his blossom. Pundits and pols have been waiting f