The inflation seniors experience is far more similar to that felt by other Americans than it is different.

The following is excerpted and adapted from Mr. Brooks' upcoming book "The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise," to be released on May, 8 2012.Liberals often accuse conservatives of being obsessed by morality. But the truth is, many conservatives are reluctant to talk...

If Republicans allow the 2012 election to become a referendum on the GOP plan for Medicare, Obama will cruise to reelection. But if Republicans make the election a referendum on the economic failures of Obama's first term--and offer a hopeful alternative vision for our economy--he may not get a second.

Americans must decide whether we'll take my father's way out, through hard work, thrift, and keeping our hands out of each others' pockets, or the unions' way out of demanding more pay for fewer services because your customers have no choice in the matter.

If Ryan ran, he would probably drive the other candidates further away from his own plan while forcing them to come up with serious alternatives of their own. If he got the nomination, many think he would clean Obama's clock in the debates.

The beauty and diversity of America are celebrated as three children, their parents, and their dog travel across the country in high spirits.

Anyone who seeks to provide serious national political leadership today--those elected in 2010 or who seek national office in 2012--owe Americans a plan to escape having to choose between investing in a social welfare state or a system in which our welfare state slowly collapses under its weight. We need tectonic changes, not minor fiddling.

The controversy over TSA and its new policy is overdone and the outrage seems misplaced.