Forget the supposed failure of Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum to “close the deal” by knocking the other out on Super Tuesday.  This isn’t robot boxing.  It was never going to happen.  The real news is that the GOP primary contest is finally on the verge of becoming a two-horse race after so many false [...]...

Is the sovereign debt situation in Europe really worthy of the  “crisis” label?  After all, we have been reading about the PIGS for years now (Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain) and there has been no collapse of currencies or European economic meltdown.  Should Americans and others outside the Eurozone lose sleep over the risks of [...]...

Could this be a game changer?  A president facing an election calamity has just executed a brilliant play.  With one simple move he has ingratiated himself to over a million middle-class voters who had written him off as an economic villain.  With one deft step, he has maneuvered around a disobliging Republican House leadership.  Ostensibly, he [...]...