Obama in South Korea is no Reagan in Reykjavik

President Obama’s words reinforce people’s fears that should he win re-election, he will say and do whatever the hell he wants since the voters won’t be able to toss him out of office. by Erick Erickson

Obamacare's contract problem

The individual mandate is incompatible with centuries of contract law. This is so because a compulsory contract is an oxymoron. by George Will

In Obama campaign video, it's not morning in America

We hear a lot about the burdens of office and the loneliness of presidential decision-making. The same point was made in 30- and 60-second ads run by Jimmy Carter's re-election campaign in 1980.

Those spots featured only Carter and the narrator speaking. The 17-minute video has time for testimony from Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and, briefly, Michelle Obama.

The resemblance to the Carter ads is ominous, seeing as Carter lost 51- 41 percent in November. Americans want to think well of their presidents, but sometimes they decide they've had enough.

by Michael Barone

Student loan bubble

My pet Mitt

My dog, a two-year-old golden retriever/poodle mix named Z.Z., had her cable news debut this week, on MSNBC's "The Last Word." Host Lawrence O'Donnell had us on set to discuss Z.Z.'s membership in Dogs Against Romney. ...

As I watched video of Z.Z. obediently performing, however, I realized: Z.Z. isn't a Dog Against Romney. Z.Z. is Mitt Romney.

The similarities are uncanny. 

by Dana Milbank

ObamaCare: The reckoning

Rarely has one law so exemplified the worst of the Leviathan state -- grotesque cost, questionable constitutionality and arbitrary bureaucratic coerciveness. Little wonder the president barely mentioned it in his latest State of the Union address. He wants to be re-elected. He'd rather talk about other things. 

But there's no escaping it now. Oral arguments begin Monday at 10 a.m. 

by Charles Krauthammer

The "inevitability" vote

It is truer in this election than in most that "it takes a candidate to beat a candidate." And that candidate has to offer both himself and his vision. Massive ad campaigns against rivals is not a vision.

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The vision matters, more than the polls and even more than incumbency in the White House.

by Thomas Sowell