The editors reject the Gang of Six proposal for its lack of cuts and surfeit of platitudes.

Victor Davis Hanson pines for the generations past who built the Big Creek hydroelectric project.

John Berlau and Matthew Melchiorre detail Dodd-Frank’s devastation of the housing market.

Mark B. Schneider validates New START’s critics’ fears: Russia is building more nukes.

Clifford D. May counsels the U.S. to divest its faith in Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Brian Bolduc untangles Rick Perry’s agricultural roots — farm subsidies and all.

Josh Bloom rebukes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for withholding vaccines.

Nancy French recounts the perils of collecting signatures in a southern bar — for Mitt Romney.

Michael Barone observes another bubble inflating: the higher-education bubble.