Getting into a contest with President Obama over who is a better friend of business is not the winner some might think. The water will get very muddy very quickly if Romney campaigns on who is business' BFF, especially when you consider that one of the things Romney did at Bain Capital was take businesses apart.

Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina and may be threatening Mitt Romney's lead in New Hampshire. One is that he is an autodidact. A second is that he has incredible perseverance.

"The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better" by Tyler Cowen is an e-book which brings new insight into how our current economy has been shaped.

When asked how to boost America’s educational competiveness, a staple response is the emphatic assertion that we need to be more like nation X.  But, just for a moment, let’s entertain the radical proposition that a better course is to tap into uniquely American strengths like federalism, entrepreneurial dynamism, and size and heterogeneity.

Congress is set to pass three bilateral trade agreements that would generate substantial job and export growth in an economy that sorely needs both. And while boosting exports by an estimated $13 billion and jobs by 380,000 won't by themselves turn the economy around, their passage could set the stage for much larger gains in years to come.

The problem is that–as is plain to see – the Obama administration is not planning what Clinton describes as a strategic "pivot" from the Middle East to the Asia Pacific. It’s just retreating from the Middle East and reducing the U.S. military.

Consider the block of the Keystone pipeline expansion in the context of the Administration’s recent pattern of hostility to private sector investments.

School choice supporters have been disappointed by the results of standardized test scores. It is time to acknowledge that standardized test scores are a terrible way to decide whether one school is better than another.