Why are Americans confused about Obama's religion?  —  Fresh from a controversy over his views on evolution, Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is now involved in a controversy over his views, or lack of them, on President Obama's religion.  On Saturday, two Washington Post reporters asked Walker …

McConnell fails to deliver  —  After a terrible, bone-breaking accident and two eye surgeries, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the former Senate Majority Leader, is scheduled to be back on Capitol Hill this week.  —  Somehow the bruised Reid looks good compared to the new Republican Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.).

Rudy Giuliani: My Bluntness Overshadowed My Message  —  Whether you agreed with me or not, I hope this can be the basis of a real conversation about national leadership.  —  There has been no shortage of news coverage—and criticism—regarding comments I made about President Obama at a political gathering last week in New York.

Patriot Games  —  Glenn Reynolds may be pulling one of the better Poe's Law fast ones here, but it sure looks like the guy is saying (in his always baffling weekly USA Today column, how he keeps that I'll never know) that, rather than questioning President Obama's patriotism …

Walker's anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin  —  KING, Wis. — At the old union hall here on a recent afternoon, Terry Magnant sat at the head of a table surrounded by 18 empty chairs.  A members meeting had been scheduled to start a half-hour earlier, but the small house …

Knowledge Isn't Power  —  Regular readers know that I sometimes mock “very serious people” — politicians and pundits who solemnly repeat conventional wisdom that sounds tough-minded and realistic.  The trouble is that sounding serious and being serious are by no means the same thing …

Hillary Clinton's War on Women  —  Hillary Clinton portrays herself as a champion of women in the workforce, but women working for her in the U.S. Senate were paid 72 cents for each dollar paid to men, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of her Senate years' salary data.

Chris Christie Is Going Back to His Town-Hall Roots  —  A Wednesday town hall-style meeting will be his first such event since August.  —  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is returning to the format that helped make him famous.  —  The likely Republican presidential candidate is set …

Special report: Records show Gov. Jindal spent half of 2014 outside of Louisiana; view governor's expenses, activities  —  Frequent flier  —  The day one of Louisiana's levee boards filed an environmental damages lawsuit against 97 oil and gas companies, which would become the biggest issue during …

Documents show the expensive tastes of Jeb Bush's low-key wife  —  In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris.

The liberal media won't tell people that Joe Biden is a moron  —  If Biden was a Republican, would the media have laughed off his molestation of Stephanie Carter?  —  It was just another Tuesday for the vice president of the United States, and another week in which the mainstream media turned …

Oscars speeches filled with political activism, pet issues  —  Much of the chatter going into the Oscars was about the lack of diversity in the Academy's choices, specifically the dearth of nominations for “Selma.”  —  But while there were plenty of references to racial justice during the ceremony …

Why People Probably Won't Pay to Keep Their Web History Secret  —  AT&T is conducting an experiment in how much money Americans will pay for privacy.  If consumers in Kansas are willing to pay an extra $30 per month for super-fast fiber-optic Internet access, the telecom giant won't track their online browsing for targeted ads.

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush … Phyllis Schlafly has long argued that the American conservative movement's purpose is to influence, not echo, the Republican Party.  —  And still going strong at age 90 …