Other than the president, perfect fairness is an obsession mainly among children. In the winter of his presidency, Barack Obama is touring the country—Idaho, Kansas—talking about something he calls “middle-class economics.” His Saturday radio address, a helpfully condensed version of his 59-minute, 57-second State of the Union speech, offered ...

The Democrats’ policies have been pillaging their own political base. The Democrats who were caught standing on the beach last week when the GOP’s 40-foot wave washed over them are now explaining why it wasn’t their fault.

No. 1: It’s not us; it’s what’s his name, the unpopular president. (And that awful Valerie Jarrett. ) ...

The Obama Democrats and IMF want the U.S. to slow down and divide up the pie. Suddenly the subject of income inequality has turned into a global love train. Politicians and public-policy shops all over the world are hopping onboard.

Naturally the engineer is Barack Obama, who gives speeches on income inequality and won a presidential election by rolling over 1% of the population. Democrats in this year's midterm elections are running on income inequality, and this is rational. Their alternatives don't ...

His operating method has been social and political division. The 2008 campaign phrase "hope and change" will haunt future histories of the Obama presidency.

Many Americans voted Barack Obama into the White House for that reason alone. That reason is gone. The notion that this president would unify the nation by allowing people to summon their better spirits, as he promised, faded fast. ...

The noblesse-oblige Left invades American life. The Obama presidency is starting to feel like an out-of-body experience. What, exactly, is going on?

Earlier this summer, Mr. Obama began touring the country—Galesburg, Ill., Warrensburg, Mo., and other down-and-out burgs—outputting speeches about the plight of the middle class. On Thursday he gives the speech in Buffalo and then in Syracuse, N.Y., at Henninger High ...