Despite a growing backlash from his fellow Democrats, President Obama has doubled down on his attacks on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital. But the strategy could backfire in ways Obama did not anticipate. After all, if Romney’s record in private equity is fair game, then so is Obama’s record in public equity — and that record is not pretty.

Amb. Bolton’s interview last night on Fox News “On the Record” with Greta Van Susteren discussing the latest on Chinese dissident, Chen Guangchen

"The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we are on, where a fewer and fewer number of people do very well and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace."

The recent improvement in payrolls and the unemployment rate are welcome news, but the plight of the long-term unemployed in the United States is considerable. The policies that have been executed since mid-2008 to foster an economic recovery have failed to deliver measurable results, and those most hurt by the current downturn are often the long-term unemployed.

High-quality residency programs are swell, but before the eight states that have signed onto the NCATE and the Department of Education get too far ahead of themselves, take a breath to make sure this has a happy ending.

Though many observers believe that education policy is an ideal issue to promote bipartisanship, the midterm elections may have made this more difficult.

Education has a long tradition of bipartisanship in Washington, but a look at the upcoming midterm elections suggests that the odds that education bipartisanship will maintain its vaunted status in 2011 are looking bleak.

President Obama's U.N. record has been surprisingly anemic, but that is consistent with his minimal overall involvement in foreign and national-security policy even though America's first post-American president still longs for full-throated U.N. support.