If you can’t afford your mortgage payments, you can’t put an addition on your house. Yet that is exactly what the Obama administration proposes to do by spending $53 billion to kick off a new, high-speed rail-building project. Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden, a longtime train rider and rail proponent, publicized the plan during a […]

If Republicans had proposed temporarily cutting the Social Security payroll tax, Democrats would have thrown a fit. “What? Are you trying to dismantle our social safety net? Are you trying to kill the only program standing between millions of seniors and abject poverty?” And so it would have gone. But, since the chief Democrat himself […]

It is a good sign that Republicans here and in Washington are approaching their newfound majorities with humility. As several pollsters have pointed out, the nation didn’t elect Republicans so much as fire Democrats. Republican pollster Scott Rasmussen drove that point home Wednesday in Portland at the Heritage Foundation’s eighth annual Freedom and Opportunity Luncheon. […]

In the midst of January’s State of the Union speech, a young president departed from tradition by publicly scolding the members of the U.S. Supreme Court. “With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including […]

Regardless of where you stand in the endless, rancorous debate over global warming, we should all agree on one thing — we must be on a continuous national mission to reduce our reliance on petroleum. Seldom, however, do we stop to applaud ourselves for the progress that has been made. Evidence of that arrived in […]