The Anti-Jobs President - The Wall Street Journal (1/25/2012)
The central conflict of the Obama Presidency has been between the jobs and growth crisis he inherited and the President's hell-for-leather pursuit of his larger social-policy ambitions. The tragedy is that the second impulse keeps winning.

FACT CHECK: Obama Pushes Plans That Flopped Before - AP (1/25/2012)
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren't so tied by political realities. But there can be little more than wishful thinking behind most of it when you consider the past.

In March, Court Will Have Something Worth Arguing About - George Will (1/24/2012)
The Court can pack large portents in small details. When it considers the constitutionality of Obamacare, an hour of argument will be devoted to whether its enormous expansion of Medicaid is so coercive of states that it is incompatible with federalism.

Don't Confuse Dems With Facts - Ann Coulter (1/24/2012)
I don't know how Mitt Romney is supposed to explain free market capitalism to career politicians, much less describe the intricacies of a thousand business decisions in two minutes during a debate. It would be time wasted on the left anyway.

Court: Warrants Needed In GPS Tracking - The Washington Post (1/23/2012)
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that police must obtain a search warrant before using a GPS device to track criminal suspects. The justices left for another day larger questions about how technology has altered a person's expectation of privac

The Truly Dismal State of the Union - Joseph Curl (1/23/2012)
There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit.

Obama Brings Back the Constitution - William McGurn (1/22/2012)
Conservatives can be a grudging lot. That's especially true when it comes to President Obama. So let us now, in full public view, credit his greatest public service as president: He is sending Americans back to the Constitution.

The True Believer - Pat Buchanan (1/21/2012)
"You can say this for Ron Paul," conceded the Wall Street Journal. "In investing as in politics, (Paul) has the courage of his convictions." He does indeed. And those convictions could be the foundations for rebuilding the Republican Party.

Court Rejects Judge-Drawn Texas Election Maps - Reuters (1/20/2012)
In its first ruling on political boundary-drawing based on the 2010 U.S. Census, the high court unanimously set aside the interim maps created by federal district court judges in San Antonio. The new districts favored minority and Democratic voters.

The Truth About Bain and Jobs - Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. (1/20/2012)
Mitt Romney and his GOP rivals are engaged in a fruitless argument in South Carolina over whether private equity creates more jobs than it destroys. The debate is fruitless because voters and politicians don't believe jobs should ever be destroyed.

Obama's "Razist" Lobbyist Moves Up - Michelle Malkin (1/19/2012)
With public attention focused on the GOP primaries, the White House quietly promoted another self-dealing lobbyist to serve as President Obama's top domestic policy adviser. Promises? What broken promises?

Let's Not Blow 'Abu Ghraib 2' Out Of Proportion - Diana West (1/18/2012)
Granted, it's not civil palace etiquette or, more important, U.S. military doctrine to urinate on battle-killed enemy fighters -- in this case, three dead Taliban in Afghanistan. But could we just move on? War is hell, and the troops know it best.

Block the Imperial President - The Altoona Mirror (1/17/2012)
From time to time in our history, occupants of the White House have been accused of working toward an "imperial presidency." No president has surpassed Barack Obama in that.

Liberal Government: The Redistributionist Behemoth - George Will (1/16/2012)
Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today's redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself.

Class Warfare and the Buffett Rule - Arthur B. Laffer (1/15/2012)
The political season has barely begun, and yet we already know that class warfare will be President Obama's key issue in the 2012 general election. It's even reared its ugly head in the Republican primaries, Mitt Romney being the primary foil.

Who Wouldn't Enjoy Firing These People? - Ann Coulter (1/14/2012)
Romney's statement about being able to fire people was an arrow directed straight to the heart of Obamacare. (By the way, arrows to the heart are not covered by Obamacare.)

Democrats and Executive Overreach - Michael McConnell (1/13/2012)
One reason so many Americans entrusted Barack Obama with the presidency was his pledge to correct the prior administration's tendency to push unilateral executive power beyond constitutional and customary limits. What a lesson we have learned.

EEOC Ruling Off-Base - The Altoona Mirror (1/12/2012)
Most employers attempt to ensure those responding to "help wanted" advertisements have at least basic knowledge and some background in good work habits. A way of doing that is to limit applicants to those with high school diplomas. Not anymore.

The Shoes of the Great Communicator - Newt Gingrich (1/11/2012)
Officially, the recession ended two and a half years ago. President Obama tells us the economy has been moving in the right direction since June 2009. Few will take solace in that statistic.

Can I vote for a Mormon? - Ken Starr (1/10/2012)
According to the American political tradition, there are essential questions by which all office seekers are qualified, regardless of their faith journey or history. A willingness to protect and defend the Constitution is one. A religious test is not.

Obama's Super-Czar Is on the Loose - Michelle Malkin (1/9/2012)
This is not "bold." It's jackboot. It won't benefit "middle-class Americans." It'll line lobbyist pockets and soak taxpayer dollars. It's not about reining in Wall Street abuses. It's about consolidating bureaucratic authority.

Why Ron Paul Matters - Edward H. Crane, The Cato Institute (1/8/2012)
Support for dynamic market capitalism (as opposed to crony capitalism), social tolerance, and a healthy skepticism of foreign military adventurism is a combination of views held by a plurality of Americans. That's why Ron Paul matters.

Will Republicans Hand the Left a VAT Victory? - Daniel J. Mitchell (1/7/2012)
Many people in Washington want bigger government, and a VAT is a necessary condition for that to happen. Simply stated, there is no way to turn America into a European-style welfare state without this new source of revenue.

Whose Country Is It, Anyway? - Pat Buchanan (1/6/2012)
Not long ago, the Supreme Court (1892) and three U.S. presidents – Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter – all declared America to be a "Christian nation." Obama now declares that we are not. And it shows.

Political Predictions for 2012 - Karl Rove (1/5/2012)
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or both will leave the Democratic leadership. The GOP will retain the House and gain the Senate, though not easily. And the Prez will lose, having proven himself to be just another Washington insider.

Gullible Americans - Walter Williams (1/4/2012)
National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman has called for states to mandate a total ban on cellphone usage while driving. Unsafe, she says. What's next, talking to passengers? It's the camel's nose under the tent.

If America Is the Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights - Gene Healy, The Cato Institute (1/3/2012)
Given the opportunity to clarify existing law and confirm that American citizens are not subject to indefinite military detention at the order of the president — Congress punted. Can the president, at his whim, "Gitmo-ize" our citizens? Who knows.

Taxing Kim Kardashian - William McGurn (1/2/2012)
Liberals are driven by their conception of immorality: the idea that millionaires have more than they should—and that any wealth they have is not something they have earned but something the state has allowed them to keep.

Newt Gingrich: One-Man Constitutional Wrecking Crew - George Will (1/1/2012)
Gingrich's hunger for distinction has surely been slaked by his full-throated attack on such a judiciary. He is the first presidential candidate to propose a thorough assault on the rule of law.

On Taxes, 'Modeling,' and the Vision Thing - Joseph Rago and Paul A. Gigot (12/31/2011)
Does Mitt Romney have a governing vision, a dominating set of political principles? It's the big question many voters say they have about the GOP presidential candidate. Gov. Romney's position in the polls awaits an answer.