Two-Month Payroll Tax Holiday Passed By Senate, Pushed By President, Cannot Be Implemented Properly, Experts Say  —  Officials from the policy-neutral National Payroll Reporting Consortium, Inc. have expressed concern to members of Congress that the two-month payroll tax holiday passed …

CNN Poll: Gingrich lead gone, dead even with Romney  —  Washington (CNN) - Newt Gingrich's lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination has evaporated, according to a new national survey.  —  A CNN/ORC International Poll released Monday indicates that 28% of Republicans and independents …

Kim Jong Il's economic legacy, in one chart  —  One easy way to evaluate the legacies of North Korean dictators Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il is to compare their country's economic performance with South Korea's over the past four decades.  The difference is stunning.

Draft Jeb!  —  He was the golden child, if there can be said to be a golden child in a brood that included one son who was an S&L swindler who later went on to a career of being surprised when Thai hookers showed up unannounced at his hotel room door, another who was the worst president …

Sarah Palin Tells Fox Business Network That 'It's Not Too Late' To Jump Into The GOP Race  —  In a pre-taped interview set to air tonight on Fox Business Network's “Follow The Money,” Eric Bolling mentioned to Sarah Palin that people constantly tell him they wish she was running for President.

POTUS Has Coffee with Progressive Media Stars  —  An all-star list of progressive and liberal media folks came to the White House today to chat with President Obama over coffee in the Roosevelt Room.  —  The group chatted with the president about economic messaging, his agenda for 2012 …

Hayek Vindicated Again  —  Way back on the Federal Page of today's Washington Post is an article that ought to be on the front page above the fold, and its deep placement on the boutique page of the bureaucracy shows how the Post, like most everyone else, doesn't understand what a big story it is.

Industry: Light bulb war a dim idea  —  Big Business usually loves it when the GOP goes to war over federal rules.  —  But not when it comes to light bulbs.  —  This year, House Republicans made it a top priority to roll back regulations they say are too costly for business.

Crusade vs. Jihad: Which Is Worse?  —  The First Crusade (1096-1099) spawned horrors the likes of which none of the crusaders had ever experienced.  And they were horrors of their own making.  Of the massacre in Jerusalem, a contemporary observed, “The knights could hardly bare it …

Joe Biden On Iraq, Iran, China and the Taliban  —  The United States won't spend a dime to bail out Europe.  The Taliban is not our enemy.  And nobody's easing up on Iran's nukes.  The vice president lets fly.  —  On Thursday, Dec. 15, Vice President Joe Biden sat down in his sunlit White …

Pro-Adultery Website Endorses Gingrich  —  A website that promotes adultery has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president, and even erected a giant billboard in Pennsylvania to announce it.  Next to a picture of Gingrich making a “shh” gesture, the billboard reads: “Faithful Republican, Unfaithful Husband.”

Regarding Christopher  —  Christopher Hitchens, my colleague for twenty years, was clever, hilarious, generous to his friends, combative, prodigiously energetic and fantastically productive.  He could write with equal ease about Philip Larkin, capital punishment, Henry Kissinger and having his balls waxed.

New Hampshire voters should draft Hillary  —  We argued in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that President Barack Obama should stand down and let Secretary of State Hillary Clinton run as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2012.  —  We are now calling on Democratic voters nationally …

Perry's Day Ends in Confrontation Over Fracking, Gays in the Military  —  At Decorah town hall, Perry faces some criticis of his policies.  —  DECORAH, Iowa—What had been a calm day for Rick Perry filled with church services and friendly audiences ended on a sour note as the governor found himself …

Times Co. Negotiating to Sell Regional Newspapers  —  Updated The New York Times Company, which last week announced that its chief executive would depart at the end of the year, is close to selling its regional newspapers to the Halifax Media Group, the company announced Monday.