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Star Parker: Land of the Envious and Home of the Victim We are a land, as our president explains it, where the success of one American comes at the expense of another. Where the poor are poor because the rich are rich. And where the role of government is not to ensure “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” but to tax away wealth from those it deems to have too much and determine how to invest our nation’s resources.

Michael Barone: Obama, Romney Change Tacks in Week of Political Risks It was a week of risk-taking in the 2012 presidential race.

John Ransom: Obama Should Tell Us How He Killed Bin Laden And you know, now that Osama bin Laden is dead by the hand of Barack Obama, my life just keeps getting better and better.

Katie Kieffer: Santa Baby, Bring Me Coal I want a coal plant for Christmas, and not because I’m a naughty girl. I want lots of coal so I can power up the high-tech toys Santa is bringing me, including an electronic robot maid that cooks and cleans, a 32-meter-wide TV and a modern, coal-fired steam locomotive that allows me to bypass the TSA Grope Squad when I travel cross-country.

Mike Adams: The Boortz Monologues Those who advocate the murder of innocent children trapped inside the womb are simply among our most cowardly citizens. Among that minority, none is more cowardly than radio talk show host Neal Boortz. He serves as an advocate for the “choice” to dismember those who cannot defend themselves. He also attacks the defenders of life and refuses them the opportunity to call into his show or debate in a format where he does not control the exchange of ideas.

Bruce Bialosky: Focus Folks, It's Obama (Part 2) As we sprint toward the first official vote of the Republican primary season – to decide who will (hopefully) replace President Obama on January 20, 2013 – it is essential that we focus on the real goal. Rather than go after each other, the candidates must continue to confront the policies of the most inept President in modern times.

Rich Galen: Des Moines Des Bate The thing about telling you that I watched the GOP debate that took place in Des Moines, Iowa Saturday night is I have to admit I had nothing else to do Saturday night.

Paul Greenberg: Return of the Newt It's not his character flaws that make it hard to take Newt Gingrich seriously as a presidential candidate.

Bob Beauprez: Fannie and Freddie – Building on to the House of Cards While the public and most politicians are repulsed by bailouts and disparate executive compensation, little outrage is directed at the two biggest offenders, Fannie and Freddie.

Mike Shedlock: Nigel Farage: Escape Euro Prison! Cameron needs to put UK membership in the EU up for public vote, smashing the ball straight down Sarkozy's throat.

Jeff Carter: Always Be Learning December 7 was Pearl Harbor Day. I learned that the US really blew it by not listening. I hadn’t realized US intelligence had cracked Japanese code and knew they were massing for an attack.

Mark Baisley: The 10th Amendment Solution The Tenth Amendment was the topic of the most useful candidate forums that I have ever seen, hosted by Mike Huckabee on December 3. One at a time, each Republican presidential hopeful took the stage alone to field questions from the attorneys general of Oklahoma, Florida and Virginia.

Matt Patterson: Labor Unions and Communism: A Love Story Legendary labor leader Andy Stern has seen the future. There’s no freedom there, but he’s OK with that. Mr. Stern, a former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), recently returned from a trip to China, where he had the opportunity to meet with “high-ranking” government officials, who outlined for the former labor leader the authoritarian regime’s long-term economic plan.

Mary Grabar: Deconstructing Newt Gingrich's Dissertation It was right around the same time that Marc Lamont Hill (“Professor, Author, Speaker, Public Intellectual,” according to his website) claimed to Bill O’Reilly that conservatives and Republicans are incapable of “performing intellectuality” that I noticed the dissection of Newt Gingrich’s 1971 dissertation, first in the riposte by another public intellectual, Maureen Dowd.

John Howell: Tim Tebow Prays, So What? Tim Tebow is either a very good, or a very lucky football player. If, and how, he wins doesn’t much matter to me.

Brian Birdnow: Mercurial Newt and the GOP Nomination: Has His Time Come? The latest news cycles have brought tidings of foreboding for Newt Gingrich, the erstwhile Speaker of the House and now the great non-Mitt Romney hope in the Republican Presidential sweepstakes.

Townhall.com Staff: Ethical Questions Surround Climate Advocacy Group Many of these groups have names that ring of high principle and social responsibility, regardless of the merit of their actual goals. And this month one more entered the scene: the National Climate Ethics Campaign.

Nate Kellum: Don’t Mess with Texas (at Christmas) Texas is its own place. Known for oil, cowboys, cattle, and distinguished swagger, it is the kind of place to which newcomers adapt rather than one which bends for newcomers.

Chris Poindexter: Gold Prices Likely Sideways In Week Ahead As we near the year-end it’s not unusual to see volume in gold trading decline, so sudden price swings on low volume are always a possibility as investors square up their books.

Crista Huff: NLRB Backs Off Boeing- Should Investors Back Off Too? If you haven't been following this government-union-management interaction, or Gibson Guitar, or Solyndra, or myriad other cases which show beyond a shadow of a doubt that our government is run by thugs and thieves, start with the referenced WSJ article.

Daniel J. Mitchell: Even Officials from the Clinton Administration Agree that the United States Should Have a Lower Corporate Tax Rate The thing that’s most striking about Ms. Kamarck’s article is that she acknowledges the link between corporate tax rates and workers’ wages, thus agreeing with me – at least implicitly – about “trickle-down economics” and the deleterious impact of double taxation.

Dan Holler: Congressional Gimmicks For many Americans, the inner workings of Congress remain a complete mystery. So, in a few hundred words I’ll try to break down some of the most egregious gimmicks, many of which will come into play as Congress rushes to finish their end-of-year business.

Monday, December 12 | 07:16 PM ET