Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

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When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

I think many people simply feel like they don't recognize their country anymore.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

My goal has always been to figure out how we can advance the conservative cause.