Fiscal Policy: In discussing the debt talks Monday, President Obama repeatedly stressed the need for "compromise." Funny, since it's his refusal to budge on his big-government vision that caused the talks to break down. Republicans seemed warily confiden

Freedom: As South Sudan joyfully celebrated its independence from Sudan, President Obama hailed it as the fruit of partnership, togetherness, hope and unity. South Sudanese, however, hailed President Bush. Proudly wearing the black cowboy hat given to hi

Jobs: The unemployment rate ticked up again in June and has been above 8% for a record 29 straight months. Cutting tax rates is one way to put America back to work. Lifting the regulatory burden is another. The jobless rate hit 9.2% last month, rising fr

Economy: With unemployment now at 9.2% and job growth at a standstill, is there anyone not blinded by ideology or rank partisanship who can't see that Obama's spend-and-regulate economic plan has been an utter failure? When Obama was running for office,

Scandal: The ATF's gun-running disaster was funded in the stimulus bill. Think about all the criminal and drug cartel jobs saved or created. And our attorney general once bragged to a Mexican audience about implementing it. This could be, no pun intended

Energy: The ban on incandescent light bulbs sums up everything that's wrong with intrusive, nanny-state government. It's expensive, dangerous and, perhaps worst of all, won't work as promised. Congress should repeal it. President Bush, perhaps preoccupie

Debt Reduction: The president happily announces "a very constructive meeting" with Republicans to resume debt-ceiling negotiations. Taxpayers should demand the one and only solution: huge spending cuts, period. Back during the Cold War, the left here and

War On Terror: The president may break his withdrawal promise and keep 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq into 2012. Bush's "dumb war" is looking smarter as Obama's Iran policy fails. It sounded awfully clever in the fall of 2002 at an anti-war rally held at Chi

Scandal: The ATF's acting director spills the beans on a program involving multiple agencies that not only supplied guns to Mexican gangs and drug cartels but may also have used taxpayer dollars to buy them. The official story that Fast and Furious, also

Politics: What with a $14 trillion federal debt, it may not mean much that White House staffers who make six-figure salaries are also getting hefty raises. But it says a lot about what's wrong with the Obama administration. Late last Friday, ahead of a t