"Shock and awe" best describes the reaction of legislators and commentators upon hearing the Supreme Court's closing day of arguments on the constitutionality of Obama's health care legislation. Democrats as well as the beltway media had assumed the bill was safe, thinking that the legislation fit firmly under the Congressional...

Another Tuesday of Republican primary voting unfolds as Mitt Romney attempts to race further to the right to win Southern conservative votes away from candidates who (in any logical world) should have no chance of winning a presidential election.

Never in the history of America has one party produced...

Mitt Romney handily won the New Hampshire primary on the heels of his Iowa win -- a first for any primary season not involving the incumbent. Pretty impressive. But what is perhaps an even more approving statistic is that Romney won in every "category" of voter in New...

As the year ends, students at Harvard University release a 2011 "report card" on America. The result -- you can probably guess -- is just short of harrowing.

Published by the Harvard Political Review, the premier undergraduate political rag on campus, and the American Education Foundation, "

As 2011 draws to a close, the politics around the payroll tax extension is getting dirtier... or should I say oilier.

The latest demand by House Republicans (floated by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio) is to link the payroll tax vote to the passage of the...

If it wasn't apparent before last night's Republican debate, it certainly is today. As Rick Perry made headlines with his "brain freeze" and Herman Cain fends off sexual harassment charges, Mitt Romney coolly emerges as the only real contender in the Republican primary.

Only a few...

We are just one week away from when the Super Committee needs to deliver a deficit-reduction proposal to the Congressional Budget Office and the group is stuck on -- you guessed it -- the question of whether or not to remove tax loopholes for the richest Americans. Does this feel...

The stock market this week looked more like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride than the financial workings of the world's largest economy. On the news that the S & P downgraded America's credit rating, coupled with less-than-sunny economic indicators, the Dow Jones erased $3 trillion of value from...

Most Americans came home Monday night after a long day at work to find President Obama preempting their favorite TV shows. Having reached an impasse with the Congress over raising the debt ceiling, Obama took his case took his case to the American people. This is not the...

A casual observer of the debt ceiling debate may be baffled by the Republican Party's actions. Are they really going to send the American economy off a cliff by drawing an ideological line in the sand and demanding that Democrats be pushed to unreasonable extremes? Are they really that crazy?

My fellow Republicans, I am pleased to report to you today... far from the beltway media ...that the end is near. Don't get too excited: I'm not talking about the actual Apocalypse. (Only Harold Camping can predict that.) I'm talking about the economic Apocalypse that will be brought on when...

Sarah Palin is the Honey Badger of American politics -- pursuing her goals despite all obstacles, despite naysayers, even despite logic.

Don't know the Honey Badger? You're in for a treat. Over 8 million people have delighted in this bizarre Internet sensation, in which the flamboyant "Randall"...

It's official. As of Monday, May 16, the United States of America has reached its debt limit ($14.294 trillion). That means that the Treasury Department can no longer borrow money to pay the debts or meet the expenses of the U.S. government. You may say, wait, the sky...

Sunday, just before midnight, President Barack Obama told the American people that Osama Bin Laden was dead. Thanks to an American-led mission, Bid Laden had been cornered in a compound outside of Islamabad, and after some gunfire, was killed.

Over the next days, details will emerge of...

On April 27, Ben Bernanke gave his first ever press conference to the American people. His goal was two-fold. First, he wanted to reach out to us by "increasing transparency" for the historically secretive Central Bank. Second, he wanted to do no harm. That is, he did not want to...

The Republicans have talked for years, nay decades, about fiscal responsibility and small government, about getting America back to its roots and strict Constitutionalism, about reducing the debt and bolstering individual can-do. Government is the problem, not the solution, right?

Hogwash.

Everything the Republicans have done in recent memory...

Americans at the pump are worried. They should be. As civil war looms in Libya, oil prices are up 19% in just three weeks, topping $105 a barrel. And even through there has been some easing today, that spells bad news not only for the American consumer,...

President Obama has been hit hard from Progressives about the budget proposal he sent to Congress this week. That's because many of Obama's highlighted cuts have been to categories of programs that Progressives (and Obama) hold dear -- community block grants, student aid, and energy assistance to poor families.

The movement of tectonic plates happens so slowly that we humans barely notice the shifts. However, taken in aggregate and over time, the changes are massive and literally earth shaking.

Such is China's currency policy. Dramatic, you say? Indulge me. For there are indications -- if only incremental --...

You've heard it already -- the government spends too much; we run up huge deficits; and finance it on the backs of future generations. We owe China the mother-load. We're in deep and we don't seem to be able to stimulate our way out of it. Yada. Yada. Yada.

Despite...