In 2004, a writer named Warren St. John published a book about the mad passion of University of Alabama football fans, and it helps explain the election results this month in France and Greece — and America's budget politics. In Tuscaloosa for the Alabama-LSU game, the writer runs into Alabama fan Don Cole. Don is awaiting a heart transplant....

Maybe it's just me, but I find it hard to believe liberals believe in liberalism anymore. With the obvious global meltdown of Keynesian economics, how could anyone remotely intelligent support the continued deficit spending that is driving the Western World into bankruptcy? And yet a large proportion of our population still backs Barack Obama for...

From the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi, the furor in Greece looks like what a British prime minister once called "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing." That prime minister was Neville Chamberlain, and the far-away country was Czechoslovakia. The quarrel was with Adolf Hitler over Germany...

President Obama, new French President Francois Hollande and other political leaders have called for less "austerity" as a way to help the troubled economies on both sides of the Atlantic. That's the polite way of saying they want more government spending and larger deficits. But U.S. voters have a fundamentally different view. Sixty-one ...

    If you were a child in the District of Columbia school system (51st in state rankings for academic achievement, first for school violence), you and your parents probably greeted the election of Barack Obama with great joy. If someone had suggested to you then that the president would attempt to torpedo the scholarship program tha...

The Wisconsin recall election of Republican Gov. Scott Walker is not going quite like the unions and the Democratic Party expected. Back in 2011, many pundits thought that the governor had overreached when he took on public employee unions, restricting — though not eliminating — collective bargaining rights. But he did so because he inh...

Has President Obama's disrespectful attitude toward the United States Supreme Court caused a trickledown effect among the Democratic leadership in Congress, or was Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy's recent invective against Chief Justice John Roberts self-generated? You will recall that in April, President Obama launched a salvo ag...

Headlines transmit information in its rawest form — and the best of headlines crystallize indelible truths. Such was the case this week when the New York Daily News blared this simple but iconic headline: "Cuomo: Minimum Wage Harder to Get Than Gay Marriage." The story quoted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), claiming that the effort ...