The Labor Board's recent attack on Boeing poses a threat to state commerce, and 16 states have responded by filing a brief opposing the NLRB's effort. The states' opposition to such actions represents a welcome check on this ever-expanding scope of government power.

Whatever the outcome of Doha, a deep rethinking of the premises and operations of the global trading system is now inevitable.

Where Obama went wrong on education – and what Romney needs to say

In a recent column, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker declared Rep. Ron Paul votes against “virtually every piece of legislation that could be interpreted as government overreach or interference with the free market.” There one small problem with the analysis: It ignores the fact that Paul is one of the biggest pork-barrel earmarkers on Capitol Hill. 

"There are those who say the United States should not be the global policeman. But if not us, who?" What conservative would make such a hubristic statement in the Tea Party, deficit-slashing, small government environment of 2011? An in-the-bunker apologist for George Bush? An unreconstructed neocon warmonger? No. It's from Martin Feldstein.

Libya's interim government made a correct, startlingly independent judgment just before Thanksgiving, announcing that Libya, not the International Criminal Court (ICC), would try Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, Moammar Qaddafi's favorite son and once-likely successor.

The Midwestern Republican governors' efforts mark a resurgence of principled conservatism in education reform.

A coherent vision for federal education policy starts not by micromanaging schools, but by focusing on the four functions Washington alone can perform.