Mitt Romney at a Lutheran Church

"Years after a business partner died unexpectedly, Romney helped the man’s surviving daughter go to medical school with loans for tuition — loans he forgave when she graduated."

"And in 1997, when a fellow church member’s teenage son fell seriously ill, Romney sprinted to the hospital in the dead of night, where he kept vigil with his terrified parents."

"Stories like these — tales of long hours spent with grieving families, financial assistance to those in need and timely help given to strangers whether asked for or not — abound in the adult life of the Republican presidential candidate. Many of them, though not all, are connected to his work as a Mormon bishop." (Double left click on image for full story).

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By Paul Driessen

"EPA’s E-15 ethanol plan is bad for our pocketbooks, environment and energy policy"

"Bowing to pressure from ADM, Cargill, Growth Energy and other Big Ethanol lobbyists, Lisa Jackson’s Environmental Protection Agency has decided to allow ethanol manufacturers to register as suppliers of E15 gasoline. E15 contains 15% ethanol, rather than currently mandated 10% blends." (Double left click on image for full story) 

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By Walter Russell Meade

It’s an entitled blue deer, meet onrushing truck kind of moment. The Guild is talking about a strike, and an array of Times staffers, including some famous bylines that are well known in news circles, worry aloud that the new plan could make them eat cat food and sleep in boxes on the street in old age. (Or late middle age, anyway; not one staffer talks about working past 65.)" (Double left click on image for full story)

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By Harry Stein

"Speaking truth to a
 smug and arrogant establishment is a vital first step,
 but next comes following through with innovative solutions that will actually help. Newt
 Gingrich may have been showered with ridicule from all the expected
 quarters when he talked of the need to foster a work ethic in the 
inner cities, but that message resonated with millions of Americans – including the likes of Bill Cosby – who have had 
it with the excuse of white racism and black 
victimhood that destroys neighborhoods just as it erodes character." (Double left click on image for full story).

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By Rich Lowry

"Democrats are nattering on about this phony war in a blatant bid to cement their advantage among women, particularly the college-educated women that are a key Democratic constituency. It is base politics in every sense, a lurid, bottom-of-the-barrel catchphrase meant to frighten and energize an indispensable part of the Democratic coalition." (Double left click on image for full story).

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By Victor Davis Hanson

"Obama's reelection hinges on uniting the disaffected and ignoring the state of the nation."

"Four years later, none of those [2008] promises will be themes of his 2012 reelection campaign. Gas has more than doubled in price. Billions of dollars have been wasted in insider and subsidized wind and solar projects that have produced little green energy." (Double left click on image for full story).

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"What happened is a terrible tragedy, and it is understandable that many would react emotionally. But many have also seen journalistic unfairness in all of this. Jack Pitney, a professor at Claremont McKenna College, recently told the Christian Science Monitor that the story 'undermines public confidence in mainstream news media, which is already pretty low.' He noted PEW already says 77 percent of Americans think the press is generally unfair." (Double left click on image for full story).

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"Misguided U.S. and Israeli policy brings war with Iran ever closer."

"Most of Washington’s policies toward Iran in recent years have decreased the prospect for a diplomatic resolution. In fact, if a computer were programmed with all the relevant information about how international politics works, it would probably conclude that the United States and Israel are not interested in a diplomatic resolution at all." (Double left click on image for full story).

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"Last week, the Supreme Court took up the constitutionality of one of Obamacare’s moving parts. In oral arguments on Tuesday, the central question was whether or not Obamacare’s individual mandate—the requirement that essentially every American purchase government-approved health insurance under penalty of law—exceeds Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce. As broadly as the Court has construed that power for the past 70 years, it has never before sanctioned, nor has Congress ever before claimed, a power to compel commerce—a power to compel people to buy a product of the federal government’s choosing as a condition of living in the United States." (Double left click on imnage for ful story).

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By Peggy Noonan

"Obama increasingly comes across as devious and dishonest"

"The shift started on Jan. 20, with the mandate that agencies of the Catholic Church would have to provide services the church finds morally repugnant. The public reaction? 'You're kidding me. That's not just bad judgment and a lack of civic tact, it's not even constitutional!' Faced with the blowback, the president offered a so-called accommodation that even its supporters recognized as devious. Not ill-advised, devious. Then his operatives flooded the airwaves with dishonest—not wrongheaded, dishonest—charges that those who defend the church's religious liberties are trying to take away your contraceptives." (Double left click on image for full story).