EPA

Associated Press: "Romney sweeps NH to cement top status; Paul second"

James Taranto: Gingrich—"He's desperate, he's angry, and he's doing Romney a favor."

The Hill: "Obama pledges to stand by EPA"

Politico: "Payroll tax cut: GOP frosh dig in hard"

CNN: "Paul abandons interview concerning controversial newsletters"

John Hawkins: "The 50 Best Political Quotes For 2011"

The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes, “Here’s one good way to consider the vote in 2012: It’s about whether to re-elect President Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, which these days runs most the U.S. economy.”  The Journal observes that the Obama EPA has now decreed that “America’s fleet of passenger cars and light trucks will have to meet an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, a doubling of today’s average of about 27 mpg.”

Last Friday, I noted that the Obama administration FDA was set to carry out a ban on asthma inhalers over environmental concerns because the propellant in them contains greenhouse gases.

Washington Post: "Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer receives Medal of Honor"

Paul Rahe: "Paul Ryan: Restoring the Rule of Law"

National Journal: "EPA to Delay Climate-Change Rules"

An op-ed in one of President Obama’s hometown papers, the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights the 4,257 new regulations that his administration currently has in the works (219 of which will cost at least $100 million apiece, annually). The op-ed draws particular attention to one specific regulatory effort: the Environmental Protection Agency’s backdoor attempt to impose cap and trade.

If you're looking for a dramatic example of a government regulatory agency run amok, consider EPA’s arbitrary and shameful attack on one Texas natural gas company. 

In December 2009, one Steven Lipsky noticed a problem with his water well at his new home just west of Dallas, Texas.   He began to suspect that the source was a nearby natural gas well that Range Resources had built and “fracked” earlier that year to exploit a part of the massive Barnet Shale a mile underground.

New York Times: "Boehner, Short of Support in House, Delays Debt Plan Vote"

Businessweek: "Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think"

Time: "Six reasons Europe's debt crisis isn't over"

This is a tale of two cities. Well, two streets, Wall Street and Main Street, with a stop on Pennsylvania Avenue along the way. On Wall Street all is cheery, if you don’t count the investment banks that are faced with rising costs, lower incomes, and the need to pare staffs. Investors have watched shares soar: the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P index of 500 stocks and the Nasdaq are all well up on the year – by 9.3 percent, 6.8 percent and 7.8 percent, respectively, even after the sell-off that followed today’s jobs report.

This week, climate change activists suffered a major loss at the Supreme Court, which unanimously threw out their highly publicized lawsuit against power companies. Although—or perhaps because—the Court's opinion was clear and direct, the losing activists have sought desperately to spin a loss into a win. And the press's lackluster coverage of the decision only has helped obfuscate the Court's decision.

Hmm: "Group Launches Effort To Draft Ryan For WH Bid"

Yikes: "A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses - from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiac arrest - has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to avoid patient harm, and sometimes even delaying treatment."