ON JANUARY 1, 2013, JUST 56 DAYS after the November 6 presidential election, a series of temporary tax cuts will lapse, and rates will automatically and immediately “snap back” to where they once were, in some cases more than a…

Conventional wisdom holds that Governor Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith was a boat anchor that reduced his potential support among Republican primary voters in 2008, and could undermine his campaign in the 2012 general election. This concern declined as Romney won…

The sluggish economy favors a Republican presidential win come November, but some on the left argue that votes from a growing minority population will put President Obama over the top in the race for 270 electoral-college votes. Further, as the…

Barack Obama was a very effective candidate for president in 2007 and 2008. He was not very good at actually being president. So it was understandable when about one year ago Obama quit trying to be president and once again…

Last year was supposed to be the year of tax increases. The Democrat-controlled Congress had driven spending from $2.7 trillion in 2007—when Democrats wrested Congress from the Republicans’ 12-year grip—to $3.5 trillion in 2009 when Obama rode into town willing…

It is central to a free society that every man owns his own soul. Thus the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion. A free society must not live in fear of the state: hence the Second Amendment. We do not…

On August 2, President Obama lost a yearlong campaign to leverage public outrage at growing deficits and debt into a massive tax increase. Republicans in the House and Senate kept their no-tax-hike pledge and demanded and won a $2.5 trillion…

IN 1986, the taxpayer Protection Pledge was created. The pledge is a written and signed commitment from a candidate for office to his constituents, guaranteeing that the candidate will oppose and vote against any net tax increase. Twenty-five years later,…

There is a sense of unease about the cast and storyline of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Something is off. Things have started too early. Or maybe they haven’t started yet. “No one” is running. Too…

Political leaders and movement activists need bifocal vision. It is necessary to be able to look up along the path while also looking down at one’s feet as they take small steps toward the goal, so that one doesn’t trip…