Jacksonville Debate: Two Winners, One Loser

Michelle Malkin: Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants

So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as "No Drama Obama" by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included.

Brent Bozell: The Double Standard on 'Hoes'

Remember when Don Imus saw his cushy CBS Radio and MSNBC career go up in smoke in 2007 when he tried very early one morning to make one of his fake misanthropic jokes about the Rutgers women's basketball team being "nappy-headed hoes"? Black activists demanded his firing. Advertisers fled. The corporate suits, appalled and fearful of the terrible publicity, canned him.

John Ransom: GM CEO Burst into Flames at Volt Meeting- Almost

It’s nice to know from the guy in charge of sales at GM that actual sales really don’t matter, in the same way that Democrats want us to believe that Obama’s actual job performance doesn’t really matter either.

Jonah Goldberg: Obama's Vision for a Spartan America

President Obama's State of the Union address was disgusting.

David Limbaugh: Obama's Misstatements on the Union

Only a president long shielded from criticism and accountability could make the kind of State of the Union speech President Obama did Tuesday night. It's hard to know where to begin, given his repetition of tired ideas from his previous SOTUs, his taking credit for successful policies he resisted and omitting failed ones he promoted, his numerous misrepresentations on issues big and small, and his glaring refusal to address the main issues that threaten the nation.

Charles Payne: Mussolini's Ghost Finally Dies in Italy ... But

Italy is finally taking the axe to antiquated policies that have stifled competition and innovation for decades.

Mona Charen: Romney Should be Proud

It's as predictable as vultures at a carcass. When a wealthy Republican is running for office, the press will make his wealth a handicap. Recall that when George H. W. Bush was running in 1988, he was derided as a "preppy."

Scott Rasmussen: GOP Voters Grade Gingrich Ethics on a Curve

Newt Gingrich has surged to the lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination with the strong support of evangelical Christian voters. To some, given Gingrich's personal life, this support is puzzling. Whatever else people say about Mitt Romney, his personal life seems above reproach and a good role model for others.

Oliver North: SOTU Surrender

It's an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Barack Obama delivered on the evening of Jan. 24 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol came in at just longer than one hour and six minutes.

Pat Buchanan: Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?

U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama's man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.

Rachel Alexander: The Hollywood Connection Between Democrats and SOPA

Congress is supposed to represent the interests of everyone. But what happens when powerful special interests contribute heavily to lawmakers’ election campaigns? Last week Americans on the political right and left lined up to oppose SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and its Senate counterpart PIPA, the Protect IP Act.

Suzanne Fields: Is America in Decline?

There's a debate just behind the Republican search for a winning candidate, just at the edges of President Obama's campaign for re-election, about whether America is finished. These debaters put it in the form of a polite academic question: Is America in decline?

Daniel J. Mitchell: Newt Gingrich Wants to Send Our Wallets and Purses into Outer Space

I’m not sure what my reaction is to Newt’s latest brain fart. For lack of anything clever, let’s just say I’m bemused by his proposed galactic boondoggle.

Linda Chavez: For Gingrich, Amnesty No Impediment to Nomination

One thing was missed in Newt Gingrich's victory in the South Carolina primary: Conservatives embraced a pro-amnesty candidate without batting an eyelash. This should come as a wake-up call to those who've been pushing a hard-line anti-illegal immigrant position in the Republican Party.

Caroline Glick: The Zionist Imperative

European and American perfidy in dealing with Iran's nuclear weapons program apparently has no end.

Rich Galen: Final Florida Debate

The 19th debate in this GOP primary season was held in Florida. This is the last one before Tuesday's primary. From this point on, the pace of primaries and caucuses increases, but the pace of debates slows almost to a halt.

Paul Greenberg: The State of the Union -- A Free Translation

For those fortunate souls who didn't have to sit through the president's State of the Union speech Tuesday night out of a sense of duty, or maybe just masochism, here is a brief summary and free translation -- very free.

Nathan Slaughter: Stay Away from This Well-Known Oil Trust

Royalty trusts boast some of the highest yields on the market -- typically 6% to 8%, but payouts north of 10% aren't uncommon. And aside from writing generous paychecks every quarter, many of these securities have also delivered triple-digit share price appreciation.

Bob Beauprez: The Cost of Obama's Green Appeasement

Radical environmentalists like McKibben – a second generation jailed protestor and disciple of John Kerry – seem either not to know or else don’t care what real poverty looks like.

Maggie Gallagher: The High Cost of Being a Tiger Mom

American women are both incredibly dogmatic and anxious about our mothering.

Donald Lambro: Obama the Flimflam Man

There was very little that was really new in the president's agenda-setting State of the Union address to the nation Tuesday. Since when is it new when Barack Obama calls for higher taxes on our economy?

Jeff Carter: Rhetoric Misunderestimated

This is a fun quiz. Listed below are 10 direct quotes. You have to guess which American politician said it.

Political Calculations: New Jobless Claims: Still on Track, But Increasingly Volatile

If we look just at the micro-trend established since 26 November 2011, when the level of volatility in the data really took off, the data suggests that the rate of improvement in the number of new jobless claims filed each week is leveling off between 370,000 and 380,000.

Mike Shedlock: Why Gold? Why Now?

Now is the time where you need your metals – particularly gold and gold stocks. The above issues shows you clearly and forcefully that we have moved from a ‘Maximum Intervention’ period into a ‘Maximum printing’ phase.

Michael Brown: The Huffington Post, Three Rabbis, And Me

I never expected to be in the middle of a public dispute between three Orthodox Jewish rabbis, a dispute that involves the banning of a book about Jesus, and one that is being played out in the Huffington Post.

Mark W. Hendrickson: The State of the Union: An Inside Report

On Tuesday evening, I had the honor of attending the State of the Union address as the guest of Congressman Mike Kelly (PA-03). Here are my impressions in abbreviated form.

Diana West: Ayaan and "Lady Al Qaeda": Mirroring Moral Equivalence

No doubt Deborah Scroggins believes she just published a dual biography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former Dutch parliamentarian, and Aafia Siddiqui, jailed al-Qaida terrorist, and so she did. What may surprise the biographer, however, is that she also provided a third study: post-9/11 moral equivalence.

Bill Tatro: More Bailouts After "No More Bailouts"

I would like to remind the President that he was unequivocal in his State of the Union address when he said “NO MORE BAILOUTS.”

Mike Shields: OR-01: President Obama Dragging Down Democrats Across the Country

Democrat Susan Bonamici is such an embarrassment to her party, that national Democrats have been forced to dump at least $1.5 million into her efforts to win a special election in Oregon’s First District – a district Obama won with 62 percent of the vote in 2008. The district covers the northwest corner of the state, including southwest Portland.

David Sterman: Short Sellers Are Dead Wrong About this Stock

The stock market is making things awfully uncomfortable for short sellers. The S&P 500 rose 11% in the fourth quarter of 2011, and is up another 5% this month.

J.D. Thorpe: Newt Is No Grover Cleveland

Gingrich is the personification of everything that’s wrong with politics. At time when a large portion of the Republican Party is adopting the limited-government beliefs of the Tea Party, Gingrich is trying to position himself as the conservative candidate in the race.

Lincoln Brown: Finally, Redford "Squares Away" on the 99 Percent

What would we all do if we didn't have someone who made his fortune pretending to be someone else telling us how everything else is? It's all in a days work for Robert Redford.

Earl Tilford: Preparing the Military for Future Threats

With breaking news of a U.S. Navy SEAL team successfully rescuing two hostages from pirates in Somalia, military pundits are quick to note how the deployment of small, elite units will fit in with President Barack Obama’s vision for modernizing the U.S. military.

Floyd and Mary Beth Brown: TSA Violates Constitution While Detaining Senator Rand Paul

We have all been humiliated at the hands of the Transportation Security Administration, but this time the TSA may have to pay a price for stepping over the line.

Tad DeHaven: Baloney Budget Reform

I don’t recall ever agreeing with the left-liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), but their new paper on the drawbacks of the federal government switching to biennial budgeting is a good read.

Ann Coulter: Re-Elect Obama: Vote Newt!

To talk with Gingrich supporters is to enter a world where words have no meaning.

Thomas Sowell: Is Anybody Serious?

The Republican candidates' circular firing squad now seems to be using machine guns.

Mike Adams: A Black Man Can

There is a bumper sticker I have often seen displaying these four simple words: “A Black Man Can.” The words could be taken in either of two ways. One interpretation is liberal - calling for whites to stop discriminating and give black men a chance. Another interpretation is conservative - suggesting black men can achieve without the help of government programs.