Money Man: Obama Raises $44 Million in May

Michelle Malkin: Obamacare's Patient-Dumping, Privacy-Meddling Scheme

The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler.

John Stossel: Making Life Fair

When my wife was a liberal, she complained that libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and losers -- and many losers did nothing wrong -- market competition is cruel. It must seem so.

Walter E. Williams: Should We Obey All Laws?

Let's think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law -- and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional -- requiring American families to attend church services at least three times a month. Should we obey such a law?

Brent Bozell: The Washington Post Bullies Romney

When it comes to opposition research, there is often only one difference between a candidate's vicious negative ad and an "investigative" news report: the undeserved patina of media "objectivity" and respectability.

Byron York: In New Biography, Obama Asks: Am I An American?

Ever since the 2008 campaign, many voters, and some journalists, too, have felt they know Barack Obama's life story. In fact, the story they know is the one Obama told them.

Jonah Goldberg: Romney's Media Handicap

Perhaps Mitt Romney played it right when he was meek and contrite in response to the Washington Post's front-page allegations that he bullied a kid half a century ago in high school.

John Ransom: The Emancipation Proclamation: The Man Who Freed the Gays

The tape doesn’t lie; and the tape says that Obama is in trouble, hence the L.A. handshake Obama’s giving the gay community and guilty rich on Wall Street.

Michael Medved: Banning Crosses, Erasing History

A simmering controversy surrounding the "Ground Zero Cross" exposes the intolerance and absolutism behind ongoing battles over religious symbols on public property. Contrary to popular belief, it's not Christian conservatives who normally start these bitter disputes.

Rachel Alexander: The Hottest Republican Congressional Primary Race in the Country

The fiscal watchdog organization Club for Growth is calling the Congressional primary race in Arizona’s newly redistricted CD6 the most watched Republican congressional primary race in the country.

Terry Jeffrey: A Gold Nugget as Big as the White House

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote a story about a family that discovered a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel sitting beneath a mountain in a remote corner of Montana.

Ben Shapiro: President Diva

According to President Obama, he's a historic figure. That's no figure of speech.

David Harsanyi: JPMorgan Proves We Don't Need More Regulation

When banks generate huge profits, they are exploiting the American people, engaging in unadulterated greed and, needless to say, in need of more regulation.

Austin Bay: Chicago Summit: Showcase for a 21st Century NATO?

The last two decades have demonstrated that NATO's post-Cold War death notices reprised a classic Mark Twain one-liner. When Twain learned that a New York newspaper had published his obituary, he wisecracked, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

Ryan James Girdusky: Voting, When Your Vote Doesn't Matter

As a conservative Republican in New York State, I have long understood my vote doesn’t matter. Yes, Reagan won the Empire State back in 1984, however it is quite clear that unless the entire lower tier of the state were to sink in the ocean, we Republicans do not matter statewide.

Paul Greenberg: Gay Marriage and All That

Let us now praise Barack Obama. The president has finally come out and said what everyone -- except maybe himself -- knew he believed all along: He's for allowing homosexual couples to marry. That's nice. Now he can tick off another item on the list of must-dos for an orthodox liberal/progressive/libertarian.

Donald Lambro: Would You Want Obama Investing Your Money?

President Obama is attacking Mitt Romney's job creation record when he headed a capital investment firm that turned failing companies and start-up businesses into success stories.

Phyllis Schlafly: Defeat Law of the Sea Treaty -- Again

The stunning repudiation of Sen. Richard Lugar's, R-Ind., bid for a seventh term has sent shock waves through Washington's internationalist lobby. A former Rhodes Scholar, Lugar has spent his career promoting a globalist agenda, since he succeeded the late Jesse Helms as the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Daniel J. Mitchell: Great Moments in Government Waste: Stimulus Spending on…um…Stimulus

No amount of satire can match the real-world stupidity of government.

Jacob Sullum: Romney's Gay Marriage Challenge

Last Thursday, the day after President Obama finally endorsed gay marriage, his campaign released a video that faults his presumptive Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, for not doing likewise.

Rebecca Hagelin: Culture Challenge of the Week: Reaching the Non-Religious

A recent Gallup poll highlights what many political insiders know intuitively: that the cultural divide between religious and non-religious Americans plays out at the ballot box.

Michael Brown: Why Do the Backwoods Bigots Get to Vote?

In my last article, I explained how embarrassed the liberal elites were in the aftermath of North Carolina’s decisive passage of the marriage amendment. In their view, it was a triumph for backwoods bigotry. But there was a deeper sentiment lurking beneath the headlines and the sound bites: It’s hardly fair that these bigots get to vote! Just think of how wonderful America would be if only the enlightened ones could make the decisions.

Susan Brown: Time to Declare a War on Stupid

America is not the social issue fixer-upper in disrepair Progressives make her out to be. Instead, America is the “world’s last great hope,” and will continue to be, just as soon as we are able to get our head above the water economically.

Peter Ferrara: Paul Ryan Schools Georgetown on How to Help the Poor

On April 26, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan delivered the 2012 Whittington Lecture at Georgetown University focused on his 2013 budget and its implications for poverty programs and the poor. That budget has now passed the House of Representatives.

Alan Sears: The Fallacy of a Worthless Life

For good or for ill, when we hear someone talking about a “worthy life,” our minds usually equate it with a successful life.

Bill Tatro: Credit Coincidence

Prior to 2000, we enjoyed one of the greatest economic booms our country had ever seen. In fact, from 1982 to 2000, jobs were plentiful, manufacturing was homegrown, and a certain contentment and satisfaction enveloped us all.

Rachel Marsden: Waiting For a European Santa Claus

While your co-workers hover around the water cooler debating whether it matters if Mitt Romney bullied some kid in his youth, a formerly First World nation called Greece is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Why, you might ask, should Middle America pry its overworked eyes away from Jennifer Lopez gyrating around in a bodysuit on "American Idol" long enough to bother caring?

George Friedman: France's Strategy

Although Sarkozy went as a committed ally of Germany, Hollande will not necessarily be predisposed to German solutions for Europe's problems.

Mike Shedlock: Screeching Halt in China

China bulls are in for a multi-year shock because rebalancing from an economy overly dependent on exports is going to be far more painful, and last much longer than most think.

Ralph Benko: President Obama's Frenzied Spending Caused A Feeble Recovery

Would you happily sign an IOU for $126,000 to allow Barack Obama to keep his Big Spender status going? In some ways, that’s the bottom line on how people are going to vote on November 6th. That’s what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates Obama’s proposed deficits, from 2011 through 2020, will add to a family of four’s share of America’s liabilities.

Ken Connor: Let's Get Ready to Rumble!

Oh, the irony of it all. For the past two years, the Republican establishment has been insisting that the only effective way to beat President Obama in 2012 is to set contentious social issues aside and focus like a laser on the economy. Who woulda thought that it would be the President himself who would catapult these issues to the fore just as campaign season enters full swing?

Lincoln Brown: The All-of-the-Above Pandering Strategy

Higher taxes, lower earnings, an expanding, intrusive government, low employment numbers and the derision of the world community will negatively impact everyone in the United States, no matter a persons’ race, origin or sexual orientation.

Chris Poindexter: Gold Finds Support

Last year gold showed pretty solid support at these levels and there’s no reason to think support won’t materialize here once again.

Thomas Sowell: A Censored Race War?

When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks -- beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work -- that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn't.