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Many hands help make holiday cookies. That's true when you're gathered with family and friends and vats of colored icing. It's true when you're running a contest for cookie recipes, when it takes thousands of readers, dozens of cooking school students and five hungry judges to choose the best.

Nat Hentoff

John Jay, the co-writer of the Federalist Papers and the first chief justice of the United States (1789-95), wrote in a 1786 letter to Thomas Jefferson that he was worried that under our evolving founding document that became the Constitution...

Roger Pilon

If the tea party stood for anything when it upset conventional politics a year ago, it was to revive debate about restoring limited constitutional government. Newt Gingrich seems to be tapping into that effort...

Michael D. Tanner

As Congress nears approval on a series of 2011 appropriations bills (only three months late, a near-record for recent history), Rep. Sander Levin (D., Mich.) told Fox News...

Gene Healy

For an increasingly uphill re-election battle in which he'll have to "go negative," I'd figured President Obama would imitate Harry Truman in '48, railing against a "do-nothing Congress." But it turns out he'll be running as Teddy Roosevelt instead.

Andrew J. Coulson

With lawmakers and the governor looking to cut $2 billion from the state budget, everything is on the chopping block — including public schools. In Washington state, Governor Gregoire wants to raise the sales tax to minimize or avoid those education cuts...

Richard W. Rahn

It became increasingly clear last week how the debt crisis will end — and it is not going to be comfortable. The latest phony solution is for the large, "responsible" countries...

Johan Norberg

They knew exactly what they wanted when they came to Brussels.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel wanted to prevent the next crisis with the help of strict budgetary rules.

Alan Reynolds

To hear President Obama tell it, Republicans in Congress “actually said ‘no’ to cutting taxes for middle class families.” The deal he struck a year ago was to keep the Bush tax cuts through 2012 in exchange for a one-year reduction in employee payroll taxes ...

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly...

Doug Bandow

Despite the Obama administration's best efforts, U.S. troops are on their way home from Iraq. Only Iraqi opposition prevented American forces from garrisoning yet another nation forever.

Randal O'Toole

Despite massive losses in similar transportation systems in Portland and Denver, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, and President Obama this fall announced a commitment of millions in federal taxpayer dollars to a Detroit light rail line down Woodward Avenue.

Chris Edwards

Extending the extra unemployment insurance benefits would be bad for the federal budget and bad for the economy, and there is a better long-term solution for unemployment than the current UI system.

Nat Hentoff

I remember when the civil-rights movement was cresting in the late 1950s — not only in the South — sitting at jazz concerts and other public events, linking hands with blacks and whites in the same row...