Rick Santorum’s exit from the GOP race could not come at a better time. With several important primary battles looming, frontrunner Mitt Romney was struggling to close the door on his rivals, and especially on Santorum. That meant heavy spending, especially in delegate-rich Pennsylvania, where the former senator was a serious competitor. With Santorum gone and Newt Gingrich disappearing faster than a Snow cone on a July afternoon, Romney...

 
Candidates in the thick of a presidential campaign can say the darndest things, but Rick Santorum made even some fellow Republicans uncomfortable when he criticized President Obama for wanting Americans to go to college.

Speaking at a Tea Party event in Michigan this weekend, the former...

Warren Buffett is using his sizable bankroll to call out Republicans on tax policy and the national debt. In the coming issue of Time magazine, the billionaire investor offers to match any voluntary contributions made by Republican members of Congress toward paying down the national debt – and to send triple the money sent in by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has a reported net worth of at least $10 million.

Buffett made...

It is unpleasant to close the year on a sour note. The wrangle over the short-term payroll tax-cut extension sums up this frustrating year: the policies being blocked by House Republicans are bad policies, but infuriated voters will blame them nonetheless for their intransigence.

The Senate and the President are pushing for a two-month “fix.” Do we seriously believe that at the end of the next two months Congress will be better positioned to...