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EDITORIAL: Obama’s ‘income inequality’ deeper from bailing out his rich Wall Street donors
Snarky attacks on Wall Street, wealthy investors, bankers and other favorite liberal targets have become the soup of the day. President Obama's "income inequality" has replaced the "war on women" as his second-term mantra, but the inequality is from Mr. Obama's own kitchen. Published January 14, 2014
EDITORIAL: Mystery at the Supreme Court
Class-action lawsuits are the caviar and lobster for tort lawyers. Without class-action litigation, a lot of lawyers would have to find other work, law schools would close and judges could hang up their robes and leave the courthouse early for the golf course. Published January 14, 2014
VIDEO: Emily Miller debates libertarians against legalizing marijuana on Fox Business
Fox Business Channel's Lisa Kennedy Montgomery ("Kennedy"), Matt Welch and Kmele Foster interviewed Emily Miller about her column against legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Published January 14, 2014
EDITORIAL: Obama ignores Constitution by recognizing same-sex marriages in Utah
Barack Obama doesn't always win. Sometimes he has to settle for a tie, which Bear Bryant famously likened to "kissing your sister." A Gallup poll last year found that in his fourth year he had tied George W. Bush as the most polarizing president ever. Democrats gave Mr. Obama a job approval of 86 percent against just 10 percent for Republicans. That tied the mark set by President Bush who, at the end of his first term, held 91 percent Republican support and 15 percent among Democrats. Published January 13, 2014
EDITORIAL: Politics ain’t beanbag
Closing several lanes of traffic on the George Washington Bridge to "punish" the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., was boneheaded, the sort of idea a junior aide suggests to catch the eye of the boss. Gov. Chris Christie's critics, who hadn't been able to lay a glove on the Teflon governor, finally had something to batter him about the head and shoulders with. Published January 13, 2014
EDITORIAL: When ‘good’ news is bad news
The unemployment rate is down, and that's bad news. Last week's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate dropping to 6.7 percent in December, down from 7 percent in November, with only 74,000 new jobs created by the economy in the month. Published January 13, 2014
EDITORIAL: Fleeing the nanny
They've taken their tie-dyes and bell bottoms up to the attic, but a certain kind of liberal hasn't changed much since disco reigned over the jukebox. They dust off a failed policy from the past and present it as something fresh and new. Last week, the British government said it would cut the 70 miles per hour speed limit to 60, all to save the environment, beginning with a stretch of motorway near Nottingham. Published January 12, 2014
EDITORIAL: Outrage as Eric Holder taps Obama donor to investigate IRS targeting conservatives
The Department of Justice, as our Steve Dinan reports, has chosen a financial backer of the president to lead a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service abuse of Tea Party groups. Published January 12, 2014
EDITORIAL: Half an amnesty is still all bad
Jobs are scarce, and Congress is cooking up a scheme to make them scarcer. The Labor Department reported Friday that the economy created only 74,000 jobs in December, the lowest comparable number in three years, and half of those were part-time jobs. It's bad out there, and getting worse. President Obama's "recovery" is recovery with no jobs. Published January 12, 2014
EDITORIAL: Chris Christie fires staff for GW bridge traffic jam, shows Obama how to do it
Harassing commuters as payback is no way for grown-up officials to act. Yet the scandal that humiliated Gov. Chris Christie in New Jersey could teach President Obama a thing or two about how to take responsibility when improper and unethical official behavior, and perhaps even crimes, take place on his watch. Published January 9, 2014
EDITORIAL: Female marines can’t do three pullups, shows some military tasks are for men
The last thing a Marine thinks about is the minimum standard. "The few, the proud, the Marines" aren't satisfied with the ordinary. Leathernecks are first to fight "for right and freedom," as their hymn goes, knowing that lives depend on their courage and ability. No one gets participation trophies because "everyone's a winner." Published January 9, 2014
EDITORIAL: Insane Clown Posse fans called gang threat by FBI
With two platinum albums and five gold albums, the hard-core hip-hop duo known as Insane Clown Posse has a legion of loyal fans. But none, apparently, at the FBI headquarters in Washington, where anyone who listens to the posse's harsh music is regarded as a gangbanger who should be under constant watch. But there's no law against indulging bad taste, in music, art or food, and a good thing, too. We couldn't afford to build enough prisons to hold the guilty. Published January 9, 2014
EDITORIAL: Double-driveling in Pyongyang
North Korea's Kim Jong-un has few fans, but one of his biggest just arrived in Pyongyang. Dennis Rodman joined several other former NBA players for an exhibition game against a North Korean team for the amusement of Mr. Kim on Wednesday. This was the North Korean dictator's 31st birthday. Mr. Rodman even sang an off-key rendition of "Happy Birthday" to the Not So Dear Leader before the tipoff at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium. Published January 8, 2014
EDITORIAL: The war America lost
Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson declared "unconditional war on poverty in America." American taxpayers have since spent more than $15 trillion on this conflict, employing everything short of the A-bomb, as the CATO Institute's Michael Tanner notes. Money is thrown with abandon at low-income assistance programs, from Section 8 housing to Head Start to Medicare and the Earned Income Tax Credit. There's little to show for the expenditure beyond a $17.3 trillion — that's with a 't' — national debt. Published January 8, 2014
EDITORIAL: Overruling the courts
When the legislature enacts bad laws or a court decides a case the wrong way, some people get angry. They grumble and complain, venting on the Internet or in a telephone call or two. Others, like Tim Eyman in the state of Washington, do something about it. Published January 8, 2014
EDITORIAL: Lunacy in the loo
When nature calls, California answers unnaturally. The state's new "bathroom law" for children took effect last week, to eliminate the remaining modesty between the sexes. This is a California trend worthy of resisting, and the bathroom backlash has begun. Published January 7, 2014
EDITORIAL: Congress should not renew tax credits to special interests
It's an annual ritual. Congress lets a package of tax breaks expire at the end of the year in their mad dash to leave Washington for the holidays. Now back in town, they must decide whether to renew the credits and deductions retroactively. In many, perhaps most, of the 55 tax breaks this year, they shouldn't. Published January 7, 2014
EDITORIAL: Solar mischief in Minnesota
The nation is in the grip of a remarkable deep freeze, but Al Gore and the global-warming caballeros are thinking about the sun. Published January 7, 2014
EDITORIAL: Polar vortex threatens global warming delusions
Hot and cold, extreme and mild aren't proof of global warming. They're proof that nature is stronger than man and man's feeble attempts to make the weather behave the way he thinks it should. Published January 6, 2014
EDITORIAL: Obama’s unemployment insurance benefits have to end
President Obama returned Sunday from his 16-day Hawaiian vacation to a capital in the grip of a "polar vortex." On Saturday, before saying "aloha" to the Kailua vacation house he rented for $56,000, he wanted to show himself as a man of the people, many of whom became unemployed under his economy. Published January 6, 2014
