President Obama’s latest ploy is a student lending policy that teaches a new generation of college-goers that government is there to provide free stuff.

The enormous costs and burdens of outmoded facilities arrangements represent an immense opportunity for the nation's school systems.

If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.

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Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

Growth is slowing, but the politicians at fault haven't heeded calls for serious reform.

Today with GDP growth slowing, the rupee softening and the stock market in a funk, it's time to reassess Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's record.