Here’s some Gallup findings that are fun to think about: Young people, like people who know what they’re talking about, rate Lincoln as Top President. Middle-aged people, meanwhile, are hard-core rightwingers—they put Reagan at the top and have an unusual aversion to FDR. Old people, b...

H/T ARRA News Service: By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann : President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3% of the...

Ultimately, all recessions and depressions resolve themselves into crises of confidence. The instant, global, 24/7 communications of today make them ever more so. President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States ...

Bruce Bartlett has a very nice column on the real lessons of the New Deal: One reason why Republicans strenuously oppose the Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus plan is because it repeats the errors of Franklin D. Roosevelt. To them, the New Deal was mainly about vastly expanding government...

On the same day that House Republicans unanimously rejected President Obama's economic recovery plan, it's worth stepping back in time to recall FDR's words when confronted with the very same kind of partisan obstruction. Excerpted from his 1936 campaign speech in Madison Square Garden, Roosevelt sa...

Once again, the Washington Post hands over space to the go-to girl of the moment, Amity Shlaes, to explain why FDR and the New Deal sucked. Schlaes opens with a sad, sad story: One evening in the 1930s, a 13-year-old named William Troeller hanged himself from the transom of his bedroom in Greenpoint...

Let me preface this rant with yes, I know we need a bailout.  But… President Obama has promised to make government more open, a task which shouldn’t be too difficult in the computer age where information can be digitized, indexed, and searched with querying assistants like Google.  So ...

As good as Obama's speech was at the Lincoln Memorial Concert for him this afternoon, for once it was perhaps not the most inspiring part of the event. Here are some contenders - .Pete Seeger, 89, leading a performance of "This Land is Your Land," belted out by his grandson Tao (powerful voice, soun...

Wallowing up to the federal feeding trough, right next to the bankers, governors, mayors and corporate welfare queens here comes Hustler's Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild Chief Erection Officer Joe Francis. Although I suppose that, like with foregoing repeal of DOMA and “don't ask don't tell� , ...

I go to log onto my Yahoo account this morning to see if any of my patients have any horror stories to tell me about New Years (such a lovely holiday). And there it is, the pulp journalism article of the week, Dating 101: Seven Things No One Tells You About Marriage , by Ylonda Gault Caviness who wr...