Fair and balanced in this case is simply a phrase meant to hide Mr. Obama’s desire to redistribute the accumulated wealth of the country.

The problem is, the vision the Good Obama talks about carrying forward has no relation to reality created by the Bad Obama.

TOM BURGUM Contributing Columnist burgum@lbknews.com Hunter S. Thompson in his classic, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” wrote, “History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ‘history’ it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to [...]

TOM BURGUM Contributing Columnist burgum@lbknews.com Mitt Romney went abroad last week and, if the mainstream press is to be believed, committed one blunder after another. I’ll reserve judgment on all of that, except to question why an outright endorsement of Romney by Cold War hero, trade-union organizer and human rights-activist Lech Walesa was not given [...]

By a delightfully strange quirk of both fate and politics, though, the Affordable Care Act actually appeared in its gestational form as “Romneycare” in Massachusetts…

If the White House is correct, Obamacare might be the only non-tax reform bill ever to begin with the hiring of more than 14,500 new IRS agents whose principal mission in life is determining whether your insurance policy needs to be taxed

While the future of ObamaCare is an important political question, the really important issue before the court is whether they will finally draw the line on the power of the Commerce Clause or say goodbye to James Madison’s system of limited and divided government powers.

The 2013 budget is now revealed to us. It is a masterpiece of deceptive budgeting and cynical politics. Liberals can relax; the spending goes on. Future generations look out; we are still using your credit card.

The Iowa Republican straw poll is over and headlines blare out that the Republican field has been winnowed, or clarified, or sanitized, or whatever some reporter thinks might be the meaning of an essentially useless, expensive, time-consuming exercise in media self-delusion

Like many people, I had high hopes for President Barack Obama but now confess to some disappointment. What I first thought to be the president’s thoughtful approach, I now tend to see as vacillation and an inability to make a decision. What I first took to be a vision for the future too often ended up as fine sounding but meaningless words that were tailored for a specific audience