The education documentary Waiting for "Superman" has prompted school reformers to launch and expand efforts to exploit a window of opportunity, but their efforts on this score are not yet up to snuff.

The District of Columbia's mayor-in-waiting, Vincent Gray, argued during the campaign that he could be a powerful agent of reform, due to his deep neighborhood ties and ability to more effectively bring the community along, and if he was right he could bring to fruition the remarkable work that outgoing mayor Adrian Fenty began.

Investors who are growing more concerned about inflation at last have a way to protect themselves against it, but--incredibly--they're ignoring it.

Peter Schweizer has gotten lots of press on the charges in his just published book, Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and the Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Crony Capitalism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison, that members of Congress made major moves in the stock market in response to information they received from top Treasury and Federal Reserve officials.

If the president is serious about keeping predators away from innocent citizens he will support more prison construction.

Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina and may be threatening Mitt Romney's lead in New Hampshire. One is that he is an autodidact. A second is that he has incredible perseverance.

Samir Khan was not "collateral damage." He was a sworn member of al-Qaeda who trained terrorists to kill his fellow Americans. And it is appalling that a representative of the US government he sought to destroy--whose citizens he wanted to "mow down" like grass--would offer "condolences" for his death.

The scandal surrounding Solyndra — the now-bankrupt, Obama-connected solar power company that received a federally guaranteed loan of $573 million — is well known. But Solyndra, Peter Schweizer says, is only the tip of the iceberg.