President Obama's address at the memorial in Tucson was really two speeches in one. The first speech was brilliant. The second was courageous.

In his speech in Tucson on Wednesday, Barack Obama put to rest the libel that political incivility is responsible for the shooting.

Biden's double standard allows him to enjoy a kind of political immunity that only encourages asinine impunity. Biden may not matter much, but his boss does. And that's why it's worth pointing out that Biden isn't simply freelancing out there.

Charlie Sheen succeeded at turning his own debasement into a national pseudo-event by calling the very definition of losing “winning.” And that’s what 2011 was all about: pretending to be winning while really losing.

Involuntary commitment is bound to raise some apprehensions and there are serious questions about how it should be implemented, but there are horrible costs to the policy our society has been following.

Obama's partiality to unions is apparently rooted in a conviction that we would be better off if every employee were represented by a union.The marketplace says otherwise.