Op/Ed

The White House recently pulled out all the stops (including setting aside some EPA  regulations) to keep Sunoco's Philadelphia oil refinery open. But would they have invested as much time and effort if the refinery had not been in a swing state?

If President Obama is reelected and gets his way, the country will enter the "Obama recession" of 2013, just like FDR in 1937.

One of this year's big debates is over cybersecurity legislation, and again government officials are determined to attack the problem by attacking privacy and replacing it with greater government control.

Both Democrats and Republicans are trying to use the mantra of "they're cutting Medicare" as a way to hammer the opposing party and drum up senior support. But here's the dirty little secret: Medicare spending could be cut, a lot, without doing any harm to seniors' health. 

The Pentagon is pushing ahead with a $420 million effort to build three refineries to make competitively priced biofuels.

Imposing weight limits on professional football would result in a safer, faster, more athletic and more entertaining game played by people who have not spent their lives getting unnaturally large.

Both Social Security and Medicare have trust funds, but the Social Security Trust Fund is telling a bigger lie than Medicare's.

ObamaCare's health insurance rebate was supposed to arrive in mailboxes about now, buying voter support for the legislation. So far, it has mostly bought confusion.

In a normal election year, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst would have coasted to a Republican senatorial nomination victory.  But this is not a normal election year, and Texans are sending Washington a warning.

President Obama is taking a new message to the African American and Hispanic populations: ObamaCare means these communities  “will finally know the security of affordable care.”  If only it were true.