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When it comes to the unusual Supreme Court rehearing Wednesday in the case involving campaign finance reform, free speech and “Hillary: The Movie,” the crux of the issue was laid bare during the original arguments in March.

The savings rate and taxes

In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, President Barack Obama pointed out what many economists have been saying for years: Since healthy economic growth depends on the ability of entrepreneurs and capitalists to borrow, and since (barring a dangerously inflationary policy that just prints new money out of thin air) banks and stock markets have money to loan and invest only if someone first saved that money, America needs a higher savings rate.

A red green

This weekend’s resignation of President Obama’s “green jobs” czar and the week of partisan frothing that prompted it beg an obvious question: Is anyone really surprised that Mr. Obama would choose to surround himself with Marxist cronies like Van Jones?

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More nannyism

The Institute of Medicine — a division of the tax-funded National Academies of Science — has issued a 92-page report titled “Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity.”

Labor Day

Labor Day has a different history in America than in Europe, points out Julia Vitullo-Martin, editor of “Breaking Away: The Future of Cities.”

SAY WHAT?

“We’d exempt ourselves from gravity if we could.”

President Obama in the classroom

President Obama’s plan to address schoolchildren Tuesday morning is a reminder that this country’s political divide is growing wider by the week — and that his rock-star persona is wearing thin.

Bully for you, dear readers

After last Sunday’s column detailing the bullying behavior of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, the outpouring of support for the Las Vegas Review-Journal has been nothing short of phenomenal.

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