Michael Gerson, for instance, is bluntly telling Romney that his stance on the auto-rescue is akin to embracing a “ conservatism that prefers ideology to reality .” Charles Lane, meanwhile, makes a strong case that Romney’s new line — that the bailout...

“The Obama administration seems to have calculated that, since contraceptives are popular and the Catholic Church is not, the outcry would be isolated,” Gerson wrote. Leaving aside whether the administration actually thought that, as well as the...

An extended, contentious nomination contest paradoxically hones and improves a presidential candidate -- except when it non-paradoxically does not. It is increasingly difficult to argue that the GOP is benefiting from the struggle between Mitt Romney...

Obama — having pledged to cut the deficit in half during his term — has produced four massively unbalanced budgets that put the United States on the road to Athens. He has done little or nothing — this is the craven part — about the unsustainable...

“The Obama administration seems to have calculated that, since contraceptives are popular and the Catholic Church is not, the outcry would be isolated,” Gerson wrote. Leaving aside whether the administration actually thought that, as well as the...

In his annual budget proposals to Congress President Barack Obama asked that annual military aid to Egypt be maintained at $1.3 billion and sought $250 million in economic aid. The administration "is expressing outrage while engaging in complex...

Gerson's articles say Obama declares war on religion and the poor with its Planned Parenthood leaf, but he omits the true constitutionality of these assertions. Kathleen Parker also misses the essence of the Constitution as intended by its framers...

WOODRUFF: And to the analysis of Shields and Gerson. That is syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson. David Brooks is off tonight. Gentlemen, it's very good to have you with us. MARK SHIELDS: Thank you, Judy. ...

The repression of civil society is far worse than anything seen under Hosni Mubarak, writes Daniel Calingaert. The same shift that occurred in opinions about interracial marriage -- from disapproval to approval -- is happening in attitudes about...

The central narrative of the Republican nomination contest is easy to summarize: Any candidate who is perceived as the main opponent to Mitt Romney immediately ties or leads Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum's surge tracks with recent precedent. His support is...

Santorum supported debt-ceiling increases. But this distasteful legislative responsibility has also been performed by most of Romney's congressional allies. Santorum is no libertarian but neither is Romney. On the size and role of government, Romney has...

Romney’s fragile front-runner status. At that point, an advantage in money would mean little. A purely financial argument for inevitability means that a candidate is not inevitable. Which highlights Romney’s deeper problem. His campaign is very good at...

Before Barack Obama can defeat his opponents, he must first be rescued from his friends. Some of them are now suggesting that his contraceptive mandate on religious institutions was a skilled political stratagem. "I've found by observing this president...

June ballot most likely is Filner’s plan. What better plan for a candidate who so openly advocates for union labor, even at the expense of the taxpayers who pay for that labor? He does, however, sound as if he is living in 18th-century France. Where is...

CO2 cuts by 2050; you talk about taking a wrecking ball to civilization. This radical proposal was approved in the House! We were that close to succumbing to the leftist environut agenda! That’s why it is so upsetting to us when conservatives tow the...

I often read Michael Gerson’s columns and find them thought-provoking. “An epic White House blunder” is an exception [Opinion, Feb. 14]. I can hardly believe that we as a nation are talking about providing access to contraceptives in our health care as...

Recent provocations by Egypt are both serious and mysterious. In December, its government conducted a series of armed raids on respected human rights and democracy organizations. Egyptian courts are pursuing transparently fraudulent prosecutions against...

Those numbers aren’t quite as decisive as the numbers about Prop 8, but they still suggest Obama blundered with the mandate; he doesn’t have nearly the support he needs to ram this down the throats of suddenly convicted Catholic bishops and those...

$27,000, marriage itself has become a luxury item. This is more than a struggle between old and new traditions—this is about money. Finally, just because it merited attention over the SDUT OP-Ed Department…. They ran a shameful—for its...