If Obama Had Given the State of the Union Address Libertarians Would Like to Hear…
Restate of the Union
Joni Ernst, Rand Paul, and Curt Clawson offer three markedly different rebuttals to the president's speech.
L.P. Hits Obama: Do Less in Education, Economy, Drug War, Military, Surveillance
'There is a growing discontent in this country.'
News, views, abuse, and links you can use to get you though Barack Obama's annual address.
President's fair shot/fair share message tonight lifts from his 2012 State of the Union address
President Carter was the last national chief executive to spare us the speech from the throne.
But don't worry, sending your private data to HealthCare.gov is perfectly safe.
Is this really the best you've got, warmongers?
While most of us will be tuning out tonight's SOTU, here's a reason to watch: It frames the president's thinking about the next year.
Let's go back to the Jeffersonian system.
Barack Obama's ratings for his annual State of the Union Addresses have gone down like the Titanic. What's behind the slide? Anger and disappointment mostly.
They are good for America just the way they are
Comparing the rhetoric of two presidents who inherited economic messes reminds us of the wide gap between their respective recoveries.
Analysis, snark, helpful links, and more-all in realtime as the president chatters
Skeptic magazine editor discusses his new book.
Ron Paul's blowback didn't cause the attack and Rand Paul's war on immigration won't cure it.
The president's new tax plan will wreak economic havoc.
What happens when you take one sentence from each SOTU since 1961? You realize how empty American speechmaking has become.
An exception for joint task forces allows evasion of state property protections.
When it comes to the truth, the real bias is thinking any one side has a monopoly on it.
You may want to skip the State of the Union address and prepare for something humbler, like the Super Bowl.
Can the government take your raisins?
The former CNN journalist has a new career as an ed reformer.
A biography offers fresh insights on one of history's bloodiest dictators.
The Texas senator might be just crazy enough to win the GOP presidential nomination.
Special interests, threats, and propaganda
Congressional Republicans are divided and could break out into a major civil war on immigration
The president didn't get much of his wish list last year and he'll get even less this time. That's a good thing.
A free and prosperous society should have fewer, not more people prepared to die for it at any given time
Marilyn Tavenner, one of the key officials behind Obamacare's botched federal exchange, is leaving her post.
Plus Mitt Romney, snow removal, the financial transaction tax, and more.
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