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Ann Coulter: David Axelrod's Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior

Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago. So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod.

Michelle Malkin: The Great Stonewall of Obama

The White House laments that America hasn't built enough massive government infrastructure projects. Nonsense. At the rate it's growing, the Great Stonewall of Obama may soon be the second largest manmade object visible from outer space.

John Stossel: The FDA Kills

It would be nice if politicians and regulators left us alone. But they don't. They always want to do more. Recently, there have been shortages of some medicines. Cancer patients can't get drugs they need. Why not?

Walter E. Williams: Ignorance Exploited

Many Wall Street occupiers are echoing the Communist Party USA's call to "Save the nation! Tax corporations! Tax the rich!" There are other Americans, on both the left and the right -- for example, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner -- who call for reductions in corporate taxes.

Byron York: Tim Pawlenty, the Man Who Coulda Been a Contender

This could have been Tim Pawlenty's moment. With many Republicans writing off Rick Perry, worried Herman Cain can't last, and perpetually dissatisfied with Mitt Romney, the former Minnesota governor might have gotten another look, had he stayed in the race. Given all the changes that have taken place in the GOP presidential contest, who knows? Pawlenty might have been a serious contender by now.

Brent Bozell: Thanking an Old Friend

With a swoosh, the Gulfstream 550 is effortlessly launched into the heavens for the hour-long slingshot from Dallas to Stillwater, the sleek jet headed for Oklahoma State University and the football field bearing the name of our host -- Boone Pickens Stadium. The game against Kansas State University is spectacular, a record 58,750 fans roaring their (now) No. 2-rated Cowboys to an explosive 52-45 victory.

Jonah Goldberg: Blame It on Brokaw

You know who I blame for the terrible tone in American politics? Tom Brokaw. No, not the man himself, but what he represents.

Jeff Jacoby: A nuclear Iran would be the gravest threat

RON PAUL, the Texas congressman and isolationist would-be president, is against using tough economic sanctions or military force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. How then, he was asked on "Fox News Sunday," would he persuade Teheran to abandon its quest for the bomb? "Well," Paul suggested, "maybe offering friendship to them." Hmm, there's an idea. How might it work in practice?

Mike Adams: The Right to be Governed

There are a number of differences between the college students of the 1960s and the college students of today.

Michael Reagan: GOP Field in Flux

My Dad would be beaming with pride over the behavior of Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain in Saturday's debate, where there were polite discussions over the issues that concern us all. Moreover, the candidates offered their genuine solutions to the nation's problems without the personal attacks that would have violated Dad's 11th Commandment. The winner in the Gingrich-Cain debate was this nation and its people.

Tony Blankley: GOP Primary Deadlock?

Here's a thought: The GOP presidential primaries may well prove to be inconclusive, with the nominee actually being chosen at the convention in Tampa, Fla., in the fourth week of August next year.

John Hanlon: Review: "Tower Heist" Steals Some Laughs But Shows Restraint

Over the weekend, I attended a screening of "Tower Heist," a new comedy that pits a group of working-class employees at a residential high-rise against a corrupt financial investor. The first scene shows the investor swimming in a rooftop pool with an image of a $100 bill at its base. That’s the story's first symbol of cold opulence in a story rife with them.

John Ransom: Obama Bombs Wrong Target on Open Mic Night

Even amongst world leaders Obama pulls the one-up card and the victim card. Impressive. And we thought Obama saved his pettiness for Congress and voters who cling to their guns and religion as a reaction to a government that arms Mexican drug cartels while telling citizens that they’re not responsible enough to own guns?

Michael Medved: If the 'Rich Get Richer,' Who Gets Hurt?

When the nation’s most prestigious newspaper runs a misleading headline proclaiming “IT’S OFFICIAL: THE RICH GET RICHER” why should ordinary Americans respond as if this amounted to bad news?

Brian McNicoll: The Student Loan Mire

I don’t agree we should forgive college loans, but I do believe it’s time to rethink the whole premise of government aid and college.

Ben Shapiro: What Is Obama Thinking?

That's the question that has to be on everyone's lips at this point. We've spent trillions of dollars of taxpayer money we don't have -- to no avail. We've created massive new entitlement programs without funding them. We've emboldened class warfare artists to take to the streets, littering America's public spaces with human debris -- all with presidential backing.

Terry Jeffrey: Country Music's Raye of Hope

About a decade before he began a Nashville recording career that has included five platinum albums, Collin Raye was singing at a nightclub in Beaverton, Ore., when he experienced something he would later recognize as an act of Providence.

Austin Bay: Iran: Armageddon One Day Closer

In 1981, Israeli fighter-bombers attacked and destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. That airstrike, widely condemned by the so-called civilized world, kept the truly barbaric Saddam Hussein from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Caroline Glick: Waiting out Obama

Over the past week, there has been an avalanche of news reports in the Israeli and Western media about the possibility of an imminent Israeli or American strike on Iran's nuclear installations. These reports were triggered by a report on Iran's nuclear program set to be published by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency later this week.

Rich Galen: Calling All Ghostbusters

One of my Tweets (@richgalen) as I watched the Herman Cain presser yesterday afternoon: "I am now officially as over watching pressers re: #thehermancain as I am watching GOP primary debates"

Paul Greenberg: The Emergence of Mitt Romney

Of the stage-full of Republican hopefuls running for president this year, Mitt Romney is beginning to emerge as the only serious one in sight. It's his sober rather than angry approach to the issues that appeals. Now he's showing another mark of responsible leadership: a willingness to take unpopular stands the rest of the candidates may know are right but don't dare risk.

Jeff Carter: China on the Brink

The Chinese government has managed to keep a lid on it for years, but the injection of some capitalism brings different emotions to the front that haven’t existed for a long time there.

Political Calculations: Connecting the Dots for Ethanol, In Pictures

Do you suppose the U.S. Congress will propose a "meat transaction tax" to deal with the problem of rising meat inequality instead of actually stopping doing the stupid things that created the problem in the first place?

Mike Shedlock: Eight Reasons to be Bullish on the US Dollar

My bullishness is relative, but the biggest contributors to long-term wealth tends to be your choice of currency. I have a target of 100 in DXY for next year, so a 25% rise in the US dollar during 2012.

Robert Morrison: What Makes the Grand Old Party Grand

Well, why not tax all those millionaires and billionaires to close the budget gap? J.P. O’Rourke said it with more humor: Why not “eat the rich”? We could certainly appeal to the Occupy Wall Street crowd and maybe get ourselves some favorable treatment on MSNBC. Who knows, by yelling “soak the rich” we might even send some shivers up and down Chris Matthews’ leg.

George Friedman: Europe, the International System and a Generational Shift

The fundamental patterns of European domination held for 500 years. That epoch of history ended in 1991, when the Soviet Union — the last of the great European empires — collapsed with global consequences.

Robert Knight: In Socialism We Trust

“In God We Trust” is the national motto, even though Barack Obama told a Jakarta, Indonesia audience last November that our national motto is E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one).

Jacob Sullum: Absolutely Profligate: Mitt Romney's Spending 'Cuts' Would Expand the Federal Budget

Presenting his fiscal plan in USA Today last week, Mitt Romney said he wants to "eliminate every government program that is not absolutely essential." That sounds good until you realize that Romney's goal of cutting $500 billion from projected federal outlays in 2016 would, at best, leave the budget about 8 percent higher than it is now and only 11 percent lower than it would be without any attempt to restrain spending.

Carrie Schwab Pomerantz: Can You Use Your SEP-IRA to Pay for College?

Generally speaking, if you take a withdrawal before age 59-and-a-half, you're subject to a 10 percent penalty. In the case of a SEP or traditional IRA, you also would pay ordinary income taxes on the withdrawal.

Ralph Benko: The Super Committee's Great Goat Rodeo

Big Government has become the grotesque man-devouring giant Gargantua, skewered by Rabelais half a millennium ago.

Donald Lambro: How Bill Clinton Created Jobs

Bill Clinton's new book doesn't mince words about the dismal state of the Obama economy. The former president flatly declares, "We're in a mess now."

David Sterman: This Stock Could Be the Dow's Biggest Gainer in 2012

Trading at just six times projected 2012 profits, it's clear investors aren't holding her to a very high set of expectations.

Marybeth Hicks: Searching For a Moral to Story of Immorality

Halloween came and went, but Marion Salmon Hedges wasn’t able to hand out the hundreds of dollars worth of candy she purchased for the underprivileged children who annually visit her Manhattan neighborhood.

Bill Tatro: Hiding Real Estate in Wall Street's Matress

Before we get into the “how did that work out for you” analysis, it’s time to first look at another misguided Wall Street strategy.

Rebecca Hagelin: This Ain't Your Mamma's Girl Scouts

Culture Challenge of the Week: Girl Scouting Turns Raunchy

Janet M. LaRue: The God Whisperer

“I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. Throughout the day I’m constantly asking myself questions about what I’m doing, why I am doing it.” --Barack Obama

Susan Brown: Liberals Want the Pentagon's 'Pot of Gold'

On this Veteran's Day, 2011, our thoughts should turn once again toward our military, who find themselves busier than they have been in recent memory. Despite the tempo of current operations, our president appears determined to govern a peacetime force by way of withdrawal and drawback.

Steve Deace: Truth and Consequences

Over the course of six decades, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has been considered a paragon of virtue. His exploits both on and off the field have given him iconic status.

Alan Sears: The Czar System Undermines Federalism

Nowhere in the Constitution will one find even the slightest hint of the office of “Czar,” much less the power of a czar to rule over the American people. Yet the Obama administration is rife with such officeholders, put in place as a way to enlarge the role of the president in the midst of system that was not meant to be enlarged upon in such a way.

Thomas Sowell: Numbers Games

One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don't have juveniles as captains.