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As the nation prepares to hear the president’s budget address today, many Republicans think Barack Obama is trapped; but it may be that he has Republicans right where he wants them. So often in his first two years in office, President Obama has acted like a 19th century Whig: he …

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 …