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According to the latest report from the Small Business Administration, America’s regulatory state costs our economy $1.75 trillion annually. — For America’s smallest businesses, this cost amounts to roughly $11,000 per employee, per year. With these businesses normally providing 2/3 of all new jobs, and amounting to 90% of all …

The current debt ceiling fight that is being waged in Washington is rare, as it starkly presents clear differences between the political parties in ways that voters can understand on an issue of national importance.The result of this battle will likely have major implications of the 2012 elections, and, more …

Pretending the past three years’ dismal economy is someone else’s fault is not likely to fool voters. This month, during a speech in Osawatomie, Kan., and in an interview on “60 Minutes,” President Barack Obama laid out the broad contours of his re-election strategy. Republicans would be wise to examine …

Lindsay Lohan goes to court on Tuesday to turn herself in for a 90-day jail sentence. There has been a grand debate among addiction professionals as to what is in Lindsay’s best interest. Is jail a waste of time better spent on substance abuse treatment or does she need to …

He was born just a few blocks from where I grew up — Jimmy Cagney, the American film legend who played George M. Cohan, the man who owned Broadway. Cohan wrote the American anthems “Yankee Doodle Boy,” “Over There” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag.”As we celebrate the 234th anniversary …

Editor’s note: Ellen Ratner wrote this op-ed for Fox News Opinion while working for a week in December with Christian Solidarity International as a volunteer in Southern Sudan. As I sat next to a contractor from the U.S government in Juba, Southern Sudan, he extolled the virtues of being in …

Barack Obama’s brand is melting down and his ass kicking comment was far from ass kicking. In fact, it reminded us of a major flaw in his brand: lack of executive experience. The president is simply not behaving like an executive. Executives make hard decisions that are bound to make …

On Friday night, at a Ramadan break fast, President Obama gave a full-throated defense of Cordoba House, the Mosque and Islamic Cultural planned to be built near Ground Zero in New York. This follows the administration’s announcement earlier this year that Khalid Sheik Mohammed would be tried as a civilian …

Over the past few years, I have often complained about a hidebound culture that prevents many newspapers from responding to the challenges of new technology. There is, however, another hidebound American institution that is also finding it difficult to respond to new challenges: our big-city schools. Today, for example, the …

John Boehner does not imagine himself to be “Wile Coyote, Super-Genius” the way his genuinely smart old boss Newt Gingrich did. And he doesn’t boast about being a “Hammer” like Tom DeLay, who ran the Republican majority from 1998 to 2006, did . Nor does Boehner use habitual foul language, …