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The results in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election are in. The race was turned into a referendum on Governor Scott Walker’s audacious attempt to address the state’s fiscal mess by reigning in public employee unions. The conservative candidate, Justice David Prosser, has survived a perfect storm of ideological and special interest …

To speak of Oprah Winfrey is to speak in hyperbole. Journalists, comics, celebrities, and even political leaders talk of her cultural power and influence like a historian might talk of the Caesars or Alexander the Great. The United States of America is a super-sized nation, so it should come as …

You know you’re doing something right when two New York Times columnists, Gail Collins and Nicholas Kristof, attack your research on the same day. Kristof followed up on criticism leveled earlier in the week by others writing for The Times. I must have said something substantial enough to warrant this …

Since 1960, only two nominees of the major political parties have lost their home state in a general election. George McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972 to Richard Nixon and Al Gore lost Tennessee in 2000 to George W. Bush.Clearly, when the people who know the candidate best — the …

Last weekend, participants in the 17 European nations that use the common currency, the euro, reached agreement to more strictly control government deficits. As excessive borrowing caused the credit crisis in Italy and other Mediterranean states, the purpose was to calm investor fears about the ability of those governments to …

Tony Hayward is gone at last from BP. Weep no crocodile tears for him. Without doubt he will rise again to wreak havoc on other parts of the world in his lethal combination of arrogance, complacency and incompetence. The City of London financial establishment looks after its own. But 100 …

It was near midnight as American peace keepers were on patrol in a well-known hot zone in a remote area of the desert valley. The men and women that protect us know the dangers they face in the valley of the gun. Yet, they continue to serve; continue to put …

What a great week to be rich in America! On Monday, President Obama compromised with the Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts, leaving no millionaires or billionaires behind. By Thursday, a generous estate-tax exemption was heaped onto the deal, permitting wealthy couples to leave up to $10 million to …

Primaries in 11 states are over. In recent weeks several articles have attacked particular voices and groups unabashedly supporting the “pro-life feminism” of candidates such as California GOP Senate primary winner Carly Fiorina. Even Ms. magaazine’s blog gets in on the action with an entry titled, “Sarah Palin is Not …

To most Americans, the battle over the Ground Zero mosque is about honoring the victims of 9/11. To those in the news media, the numbers tell a different story. For weeks on end, news outlets have parroted the most left-wing talking points – crying “racism” or “Islamophobia” in an attempt …