The scene came to mind Wednesday when I saw an instantly infamous clip of Eric Fehrnstrom, Mitt Romney’s communications director, comparing his candidate to a children’s toy.

Every federal official has an obligation to act in line with the Constitution as he or she understands it. And that doesn't necessarily mean obeying Supreme Court decisions.

The crisis in financing is having a chilling effect on biomedical innovation. As discussed in my last column, the main problem in our industry is that the sheer cost of drug development has become almost prohibitively expensive, effectively pricing almost everyone but the largest companies out of the market.

The most egregious factual omission by "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" is that quite often when Romney came to town some pretty good things happened.

The reality of Ben Bernanke's press conference did not live up to the hype. The discussion was dry and undramatic and could only have been torpor-inducing to anyone outside the economics profession. In the pursuit of a notion of openness, the Fed will have lost its mystique.

Herman Cain still has significant liabilities as a candidate and could make a disqualifying mistake any time. But he's beginning to look like a contender.

AEI stepped into new territory in 2011 when it co-hosted a Republican presidential debate, focused on foreign policy and national security, with CNN and the Heritage Foundation.

But the simple fact is "that's racist" is the sort of thing those darn kids today say to make fun of their aging Gen X and baby boomer parents.