Exposing MSM Tricks on Unemployment and Presidential Polling

Byron York: What Really Happened to the Gingrich Ethics Case?

The Romney campaign has been hitting Newt Gingrich hard over the 1990s ethics case that resulted in the former speaker being reprimanded and paying a $300,000 penalty.

Jeff Jacoby: Is a Long Primary Fight Good for the GOP?

"46 STATES TO GO."

Mike Adams: Eloquence in Defense of Liberty

On January 27, 2012, the 6th Circuit issued a landmark opinion in Ward v. Wilbanks. It is the biggest federal court victory for campus First Amendment rights since my own victory before the 4th Circuit last April.

Michael Barone: Box-checking Obama in a Liberal Cocoon

It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice.

Star Parker: Memo to Romney: Whole Nation Is On Government Plantation

Here’s free advice for Mitt Romney. Before bringing up the poor again, read my book “Uncle Sam’s Plantation.”

Katie Kieffer: Six Ways Paul Beats Obama On Foreign Policy

I predict that President Obama runs for reelection on his foreign policy record. He told us as much when he bookended his State of the Union address with his foreign policy “wins.” Unlike his economic record (non-existent), Obama has brag-worthy talking points on foreign policy.

John Ransom: Governed by Ignoramuses Smarter than Journalists

The GOP has a point, say finance journalists, but their over-estimation of unemployment by seven-tenths of one percent is somehow more dishonest than the administration’s undercounting of unemployment by three full points. You have to go to journalism school to be that intellectually bankrupt? Yes, you do.

Ken Blackwell: Strike, Israel! Strike Now!

“Whoever says later may find later is too late,” says Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. His words drove Western policymakers into a tizzy.

Lurita Doan: American Values - F Words

Americans seem to have become accustomed to the casual use of the “F” word, with celebrities tracking, proudly, the number of times they “drop the “f” bomb” in public. The frequent use of the “f” word has coarsened our public discourse. But, many of our most emblematic American values, the very characteristics that shape our national character and contribute to American exceptionalism, have been given a bad rep by liberals because they, too, are “F” words.

Rachel Alexander: Susan G. Komen Charity Starts to Enter the 21st Century

Western civilization has gradually progressed away from barbaric practices. By the 20th century, most developed nations stopped torturing people and executing them in cruel ways. In the US, only humane ways of execution are permitted for executing the most notorious criminals.

Paul Greenberg: Economics 101: Change Happens

A presidential campaign is the health of economic illiteracy. Every four years, ignorance comes into its quadrennial own. There are voters to mobilize, resentments to stoke, dull gray truths to be replaced by shiny new shibboleths, and the gullible 99 percent to be fired up against the evil 1 percent.

Rich Galen: Republicans Can't Run a Caucus

The Nevada GOP couldn't get the votes counted. By halftime of the Superbowl CNN.com was reporting that a full day after the caucuses only 83 percent of the precincts had been recorded.

Daniel J. Mitchell: The Failings of Higher Education

The big problem is that higher education consumes a huge amount of resources and provides inadequate value.

Bob Beauprez: The Smallest Workforce Since Carter

Another key indicator that doesn’t get the attention of the jobs number or the unemployment rate shows that all is definitely not well.

Bruce Bialosky: Our Government Employees Skip Paying Taxes

For over thirty years, I have represented citizens in matters with the Internal Revenue Service. Most Americans have an irrational fear of the IRS. Whether they pay very little in taxes or great amounts, they shudder with dread whenever they open a letter from the agency.

Charles Payne: The Age of Mediocrity

We are in the age of mediocrity, which can be rationalized for the stock market and even be good enough to win elections, but it's not good enough to win the day.

Steve Chapman: The Flaws of Mitt and Newt

Newt Gingrich has an exquisitely sensitive moral antenna, and Mitt Romney's remark suggesting indifference to the poor sent it quivering. "I am fed up with politicians in either party dividing Americans against each other," he said. Yes, he did. Then he fell on the floor and laughed till he cried.

Diana West: Chalk Up Another One For Islam in the PR Battle

Even after all these years, journalist-socialite Sally Quinn still embodies a Washington way of thinking – a heart-of-Georgetown, A-list set of salon-tested assumptions “everyone” knows that provides attitudes for any occasion.

Dan Holler: Big Dollars for Transportation

Congress will take center stage for the next couple of weeks as the spotlight recedes from the presidential primary process. The opening act is a tragedy about a party drifting away from its small government roots.

Rebecca Hagelin: Social Media Makes Adoption Easier

Culture Challenge of the Week: Adoption, an Invisible Option

Steve Deace: Lessons from Florida

Like Newt Gingrich in South Carolina two weeks ago, Mitt Romney got the double-digit victory in Florida he needed with his back against the wall. And just like South Carolina did, Florida has also taught us some lessons going forward.

Mark Baisley: Entitlements for Teachers

In two years’ time, this conservative school board has reduced spending by over $40 million, replaced the superintendent, crafted a merit pay plan, and implemented a voucher program (challenged in court by the ACLU).

Michael Tanner: We're Broke

Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, evaluates the fiscal state of the Union.

Jeff Carter: Teaching Entrepreneurship

I have sat in on classes taught by professors at U of C and I find myself learning something in every one I ever sat in. I take some nugget, some kernel of knowledge out that I didn’t know before.

Chris Poindexter: Wild Ride For Gold This Week

The factors facing gold this week are going to be the headwind of a strengthening U.S. economy and dollar, balanced out by a new round of concern surrounding Greece.

George Friedman: Russia's Shifting Political Landscape, Part 4: Putin's Challenges

The real issue is not whether Putin can handle the struggles, but how long it takes him to sort through them and how much damage his image will sustain in the meantime.

Mike Shedlock: Eurogroup Warns: Comply or Default

On multiple occasions at the end of the week we were informed Greece "had" to reach agreement over the weekend or Greece would default.

Amy Oliver: Obama and China: Best Friends 4-Ever

Obama is oblivious to his own hypocrisy and frighteningly disconnected from the consequences of his policies. The Chinese probably love him for it.

Lincoln Brown: The Vote of the Living Dead

These voters, armed with a name on a 3 X 5 card taken from the obituaries or some other source arrive at the polls, give their assigned name and cast their ballots.

Edwin Meese III: The Reagan Resolve, by Those Who Knew Him

As the years pass, Ronald Reagan’s stature grows. All sorts of people now quote him to support their agendas.

Chris Edwards: Congressional Budgeters' Rosy Outlook

Chris Edwards is the director of tax policy studies at Cato and editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org.He is a top expert on federal and state tax and budget issues