The Florida Debate: Losers and More Losers

(209)

Uncomfortable: Mitt and Newt Duke It Out

(34)

LIVE Open Thread and Debate Preview

(731)

Benson: Quick Debate Thoughts

Thomas Sowell: South Carolina Message Just days before the South Carolina primary, polls showed Mitt Romney leading Newt Gingrich. Then came the debates and the question about Gingrich's private life, which brought a devastating response from the former Speaker of the House -- and a standing ovation from the audience.

John Ransom: Obama is that Damn Hoover President Obama talks about wanting to engage in a big public works program, like “the Hoover Dam,” in order to capture the public’s imagination. The Hoover Dam was the failed shovel-ready project of the Great Depression’s generation.

Larry Kudlow: One on One with Ron Paul After Congressman Ron Paul's strong second-place finish in New Hampshire, he's winning plaudits everywhere. Can the GOP find a home for the principles with the free market Austrian economic message?

John Hawkins: 15 Questions The Mainstream Media Would Ask Barack Obama If He Were A Republican During the practically endless series of Republican debates, we have heard almost every question imaginable asked to Republican candidates – if by every question imaginable, you mean horribly slanted, often irrelevant questions designed to make them look bad and help Obama.

Mona Charen: Just Attack the Media and We're At Your Feet So the message South Carolina voters sent was -- "Anything goes so long as you attack the media."

Michael Reagan: They Pick and Choose Which Ox to Gore He had a mistress who was pregnant and his wife had terminal cancer; he was running for president and the press knew all about it. But there was no firestorm in the media about this juicy scandal until after the election of 2008 because John Edwards is a Democrat!

Cal Thomas: It's Complicated A longtime conservative friend sent me an email after reading something positive I had written about Newt Gingrich: "Whoever votes (for) or supports Newt for president is out of their mind."

Dennis Prager: Evangelicals and Romney: Should Theology Matter? As an American, a Republican, and a fiscal and social conservative -- and though I have endorsed no Republican candidate -- there is one thing that would disturb me greatly if Mitt Romney were not the Republican nominee: if Romney's Mormon faith were a factor in his defeat.

Pat Buchanan: Mitt vs. Newt: the Gloves Come Off Newt Gingrich's surge to success in South Carolina has surely brought joy to the Obama White House.

Daniel J. Mitchell: Deconstructing Jonathan Alter’s “Five Myths about Barack Obama” in the Washington Post What’s next, a poll of Obama campaign staff showing that people support the President’s reelection?

Debra J. Saunders: Calculating Newt Gingrich When Newt Gingrich called CNN anchor John King's decision "despicable" to begin last Thursday's GOP debate with a question about Gingrich's second wife, the Charleston audience responded with a standing ovation. Surely, I thought to myself, South Carolina Republicans are not going to vote for a candidate just because he is good at dressing down the media.

Paul Greenberg: Two Brothers We sit in classrooms listening to another boring lecture. Or we take the kids to school on the way to work. Or climb in the pick-up truck for another day at the construction site. We stay busy or, what's much harder, try to look busy. We go on about our business or tend to everybody else's, whatever's our pleasure in a free country.

Nathan Slaughter: The 10% Yielder You've Likely Never Heard of There are dozens, if not hundreds, of high-yield plays hiding in the market that most investors simply don't know about. You just have to know where to look.

Kyle Olson: Juan Williams Skewers Chicago Teachers Union in New Film “A Tale of Two Missions” – a film by Juan Williams and Kyle Olson (and directed by Chicago-based Andrew Marcus) – tells the story of competing cultures in American education through examples from Chicago.

Mike Shedlock: Obama Wants Another $100 Billion Bailout for Fannie, Freddie Write off the entire loan and there would be no chance of default. That does not mean it's a smart thing to do.

Political Calculations: A Tool for Average Investors to Detect Public Company Accounting Fraud If you're just an average investor, how can you pick up on whether or not a company is cooking its books?

Jeff Carter: What To Do About The Great American Divide My gut tells me that a lot of Rick Santorum supporters are supporting him because quite frankly they are upset at what has happened to the traditional American family and don’t know what to do about it.

Bob Beauprez: Strange Bedfellows: Big Labor spends $1 million to aid Gingrich The big labor union that represents government workers is spending $1 million on a television ad in Florida to attack Mitt Romney’s record as a businessman. It's an ad clearly designed to aid Newt Gingrich.

Phyllis Schlafly: Unconstitutional Recess Appointments Barack Obama's latest unconstitutional action is his attempt to make four so-called recess appointments to high-level, well-paying jobs in the federal bureaucracy when the Senate was not in recess.

Michael F. Cannon: ‘The White House Is Resorting to Unsubstantiated Happy Talk’ on ObamaCare Last week, the White House claimed 28 states are “on their way” toward creating ObamaCare’s health insurance Exchanges. Here are the facts.

Bill Murchison: In Search of a Bulldog One South Carolina Republican woman said she craved to see a "bulldog" at the top of the GOP ticket. That would describe Newton Leroy Gingrich all right.

Armstrong Williams: Romney and Bain Capital How much does the public truly understand about the inner working of Bain Capital beyond the sound bites? Let me share my thoughts on the subject of Romney and Bain Capital, and why I think it’s a Rorschach test.

Marita Noon: Typical Obama: Kill Keystone, Create Campaign Commercial about Energy It is in the Democrats' self-interest to brag about their energy record, while subtly using regulation to virtually end domestic energy development.

Tony Katz: I Love Ann Coulter Even When She Is Wrong Ann Coulter is wrong about Newt Gingrich. She is wrong about Mitt Romney. She is wrong about President Obama. Since the election race began, Ann Coulter has been wrong about near everything having to do with the GOP race in 2012. Yet, she's still smarter than near everyone out there. I love Ann Coulter, even when she's wrong.

Bill Tatro: Obama's Ex Girlfriend I’m sure that if Michele Bachmann had fared better, we would have learned that she kicked her dog and underfed her dozens of children, making her a contemporary Mommie Dearest.

Robert Knight: An Oil Spill We Can't Afford Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion XL pipeline from Canada, so he killed it.

George Friedman: Cooling Rhetoric on Iran A visit by a high-level U.S. defense official to Israel was already guaranteed to capture Iran's attention, especially coming on the heels of Iranian military maneuvers centered on the Strait of Hormuz.

Carrie Lukas: Misplaced Priorities: Environmentalists, Junk Mail and the Keystone Pipeline Score a victory for the environmental lobby—but not for the environment—and a big loss for the American economy. By now Americans everywhere have heard that the Obama administration rejected the Keystone pipeline project, which analysts project would, at a minimum, create thousands of jobs.

Crystal Wright: Newt Wins South Carolina & Romney Doesn't Make History A little over a week ago, Karl Rove advised Republicans to wrap their support around Mitt Romney because it was pretty much a done deal Romney would grab the GOP presidential nomination. “In an open race for the GOP nomination, no Republican has won both Iowa and New Hampshire, as Mitt Romney has,” wrote Rove. He went on to say South Carolina would be the last dance/chance for several candidates like Newt Gingrich.

Marvin Olasky: Wretched Abortion, But Here Are Two Delightful Contests One recent bestselling book, Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, devotes 832 pages to making the case statistically that a decreasing percentage of humans are dying in warfare or through crime than in previous millennia. Maybe, but look at all the defenseless tiny people against whom we wage war.