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Jonah Goldberg
Posted: 2/6/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Not long after President Obama proclaimed in his second inaugural that "an economic recovery has begun," we learned that the U.S. economy actually shrank in the last quarter. Many economists believe this is a temporary setback. This recovery may be the weakest in American history, but the economy isn't cratering either.
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Armstrong Williams
Posted: 2/5/2013 9:06:00 AM EST
Right now the Democratic talking points are that we should raise or repeal the debt ceiling to “pay our bills.” Liberals have some pretty illogical ideas—like shutting down the government to give Planned Parenthood a few hundred million dollars, or raising everyone’s taxes in order to tax the top 2%--but this one might be the hardest to grasp of all.
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John Hawkins
Posted: 2/5/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Last year, when a Republican candidate should have waltzed to victory, Mitt Romney got his teeth knocked in by a man who could fairly be called the single least competent American President in history. This beating had very real consequences.
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David Limbaugh
Posted: 2/5/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
The Senate's "advice and consent" role doesn't require it to rubber-stamp a presidential appointee for secretary of defense who senators believe would weaken America in this increasingly dangerous world.
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Debra J. Saunders
Posted: 2/5/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
President Barack Obama is not committed to fixing Washington's chronic budget woes or jump-starting an ailing an economy, but that doesn't mean this administration lacks focus. If there is one area in which this administration delivers, it is taunting Republicans.
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Paul Greenberg
Posted: 2/5/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Dear Critic: It was wholly a pleasure to hear from you about our president's Second Inaugural address, which you found uplifting, eloquent, enthralling ... while I felt safe in asserting that, well, it wasn't Lincoln's. Surely that fact is beyond dispute.
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Rachel Alexander
Posted: 2/4/2013 9:22:00 AM EST
The IRS issued regulations last week announcing that the cheapest insurance plan under Obamacare will cost a family of five $20,000 per year by 2016. That estimate is based on choosing the plan offering the least benefits, the bronze plan.
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Dan Holler
Posted: 2/4/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Last week, I took issue with rumored 2016 contender and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who seemingly dismissed the importance of balancing the federal budget as “an obsession with government bookkeeping.”
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Star Parker
Posted: 2/4/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Difficulty in getting change in our country is an ongoing source of frustration. Particularly when we have huge problems facing us as we do today.
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Laura Hollis
Posted: 2/4/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
American society’s schizophrenic attitudes about business could be the subject of a book. (Perhaps multiple volumes.) For example, in the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election, we heard constantly about the need to create jobs and bring down unemployment. And yet, media coverage and Hollywood depictions of business only reinforce the popular fiction that business owners are little more than greedy exploitative bloodsuckers (whose enterprises apparently exist for the sole purpose of being gouged for taxes to be spent by profligate lawmakers with no sense of their own fiscal responsibility).
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Randall DeSoto
Posted: 2/3/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Ronald Reagan’s birthday will be commemorated this week. He took office just a few weeks shy of his 70th birthday in 1981 making him the oldest man elected to serve as our Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief, that is until he stood for re-election in 1984.
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Debra J. Saunders
Posted: 2/3/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
"Why this fat cat likes Obama's tax plan" was the headline of a full-page ad La Jolla, Calif., investor Norman Lizt took out in The New York Times in August.
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Paul Driessen
Posted: 2/2/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts.
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Ken Blackwell
Posted: 2/1/2013 3:15:00 PM EST
Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense should be withdrawn now. He delivered what may be the worst performance at a confirmation hearing ever given. He was described as “confused,” “befuddled,” and “self contradicting.” One of Mr. Hagel’s own backers deplored the lack of “charisma” the nominee showed during the hearings.
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Fred Lucas
Posted: 2/1/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
President Barack Obama is naming names in his second term when it comes to his un-preferred media, something he generally farmed out to White House staff and political surrogates during the first term.
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Donald Lambro
Posted: 2/1/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
When millions of voters went to the polls in November
to narrowly re-elect Barack Obama, the economy was rapidly shrinking
toward recessionary levels.
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Rich Tucker
Posted: 2/1/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Some people say they do their best thinking while in the bathroom. But The Economist recently took that notion one step further, photo shopping Rodin’s The Thinker on top of a toilet and asking, “Will we ever invent anything this useful again?”
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Mona Charen
Posted: 2/1/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
In the days since the second Obama inauguration, I've been thinking about Kelly Clarkson and Beyonce. No, not the great lip-synching controversy, but the choice of popular entertainment for a solemn national rite.
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Jonah Goldberg
Posted: 2/1/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
The Republicans are doomed. Conservatism is over. President Obama is conducting a mop-up operation at this point. That's the basic consensus in places like New York City, Washington, D.C., and other citadels of blue America.
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David Limbaugh
Posted: 2/1/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
Many have rightly condemned MSNBC's serpentine editing of a video to make it appear that certain gun rights activists heckled the father of a 6-year-old victim of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre, but let's not pretend this was a one-off event.
