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President Obama's latest political ploy -- granting new "rights" out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children -- is all too typical of his short-run approach to the country's long-run problems. 2012-06-19T00:01:00-04:002012-06-19T16:40:03ZThomas Sowell

A $2 billion loss can produce a moment of humility even in a fabled master of American banking and international finance.2012-06-18T16:05:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZPaul Greenberg

The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has caused many Americans to reflect on that group's stated ambition to impose worldwide the totalitarian,supremacist Islamic doctrine known as shariah. Particularly unsettling is evidence of the group's goal in America, namely of "destroying Western civilization from within," as documented in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas in 2008.2012-06-18T15:53:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZFrank Gaffney

A Wall Street Journal story by Robin Sidel looks at a troubling trend in the banking industry. No, not the JPMorgans of the industry losing $2 billion on bad bets, but on small community banks who don't have the word "billion" anywhere on their balance sheets. According to her piece: "A growing number of tiny community banks are deciding it's time to put out the 'for sale' sign … many executives of these small lenders are frustrated by costly, new regulations." 2012-06-18T11:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZRich Galen

Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” One clue to what he meant was his comment to now-congressional candidate Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher: “When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”2012-06-18T10:21:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZPaul Driessen

WEST NEWTON, Pa. — Bill "Smokey" Baird is tinkering with a customer's bike in his shop along the Great American Passage trail connecting Homestead with Washington, D.C. A family of seven walks in to rent bikes for the day. The owner of West Newton Bicycle Shop, and of an auto-body shop across the road, sends them on their way with a variety of bikes.2012-06-18T10:23:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZSalena Zito

One of my favorite things about summer is cultivating a summer reading list. Regular readers may have noticed that I frequently ask people what books they’re looking forward to reading. One of the books on my list is Jay Cost's new one.2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZLisa De Pasquale

Watching the protesters in Chicago, who are commonly referred to as the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd, I am inclined to believe that we need to reinstitute the military draft for both boys and girls. It would make them into men and women.2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZBruce Bialosky

Like a shape-shifter from a sci-fi film, Obama’s primary skill is to appear to be something he is not, as he repeatedly masks his full-tilt assault on entrepreneurs and small businesses.2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZLurita Doan

Why would any Republicans (most recently Sen. Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush) want to help the Democrats achieve those goals? 2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZDaniel J. Mitchell

We have to admit that we're pretty amused by the latest economic dispute to break out in the world of social media involving a Nobel-prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, and the President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves. 2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZPolitical Calculations

BY A VOTE of 183-50, town meeting members in Middleborough, Mass., last week approved a bylaw making public cursing a civil offense and authorizing police to enforce the ban by fining offenders $20.2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZJeff Jacoby

We know Americans love to shop, but how are they pulling it off? The simple answer is consumers have been dipping into savings, but even that trend has odd angles. In the meantime, the S&P Retail Index has skyrocket since the financial meltdown. 2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZCharles Payne

The Constitution is very clear about separation of powers; the Congress makes laws, the executive branch administers them. 2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZBob Beauprez

If there wasn’t a financial crisis in Europe, God- that is Obama- would have to invent one, just to turn the fire hoses on the rest of us. 2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZJohn Ransom

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously observed that “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” It’s an admonition not taken particularly seriously by today’s political left. They embrace, extol, advocate ideas and policies based on what they wish were true, regardless of how often and consistently their ideas have been proven wrong.2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZStar Parker

Self-made billionaire Sheldon Adelson says the secret to his success was "never knowing anything" about the businesses he entered. That sounds like an exaggeration, but he emphasized that point when speaking to students at UNLV recently, upon receiving the Hospitality Industry Leader of the Year by the UNLV's Harrah Hotel College. 2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZDoug French

If Presidential politics is a chess game, then it’s time to checkmate Obama. And the perfect place to do that is in Orlando at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference.2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZWayne Allyn Root

This is a time for serious reflection. We all need to think about what government owes us (or doesn't), what taxpayers owe public union workers (or don't), and what promises have been made by politicians at taxpayer expense that cannot possibly be met. 2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZMike Shedlock

As a hedge against economic uncertainty, central banks around the world added over 450 tons of gold last year, the most in five decades and are expected to add another 400 tons in 2012, according to the World Gold Council.2012-06-18T00:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZChris Poindexter