The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

Abolish the IRS

| Theo Caldwell

For decades, Americans have put up with the agency’s abuses. Why don’t we scrap it altogether?

Peter the Roman

| Theo Caldwell

A 12th-century Irish bishop predicted that the apocalypse would coincide with the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI’s successor.

Rules, Britannia

| Theo Caldwell

The England of Shakespeare, Newton and Churchill has become a country more concerned with compliance than accomplishment.

Good luck, America (you'll need it)

| Theo Caldwell

The election results suggest that America isn’t the liberty-loving country it used to be. Now we’ll all have to live with the consequences.

Obama, Biden and economic patriotism

| Theo Caldwell

For statists like Obama and Biden, patriotism means government redistribution.

The presidential race is over, cue the conspiracy theories

| Theo Caldwell

Expect liberals to dispute the legitimacy of Romney’s victory.

The Obama video: hope and cringe

| Theo Caldwell

What the newly released video of Obama speaking at Hampton University reveals.

Presidents don't run the economy

| Theo Caldwell

Politicians and voters must set aside the conceit that such a complex mechanism can be manipulated by a lone individual.

On taxes, Obama and Romney obfuscate

| Theo Caldwell

To win the election, Romney will have to explain his tax proposals — and Obama’s.

Police-state conventions

| Theo Caldwell

The massive security presence at the Republican National Convention is a reminder of Americans’ troubling safety-first mentality.

Romney and the ridiculous modern presidency

| Theo Caldwell

If Mitt Romney’s lack of star power reminds America that its president is a human being, he will have served his country well.

Time to deploy Jeb

| Theo Caldwell

Why Jeb Bush would be the perfect GOP nominee.

Citizen Bain

| Theo Caldwell

Newt Gingrich is the GOP’s strongest candidate, but his new anti-Romney film is disappointing.

The pointlessness of Mitt Romney

| Theo Caldwell

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for managed decline.

Newt Gingrich: One-term president

| Theo Caldwell

Like so many men of consequence, Gingrich’s greatest qualities sow the seeds of his undoing.

How does 'President Gingrich' sound?

| Theo Caldwell

Gingrich is the bold leader that Republicans are looking for.

Ignoring Ron Paul

| Theo Caldwell

Commentators who ignore, or simply criticize, the Texas congressman often face a barrage of hate mail.

Americans shouldn't have to settle for Romney or Perry

| Theo Caldwell

Both frontrunners are deeply flawed.

Hail to the hobgoblin

| Theo Caldwell

This president doesn’t have a plan, he has a thesaurus.

An unimportant president

| Theo Caldwell

Rick Perry says that if he becomes president, he’ll try to make himself as inconsequential as possible.