Peyton Manning Skills Needed to Avert Tax Fumble: Amity Shlaes President Barack Obama is offering up a budget that reflects the biggest debts and deficits in U.S. history.

Obama Ready to Short U.S. With Japan Inc. Talk: Amity Shlaes When President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address tomorrow, he’ll do it in English. But what he says would sound just fine in Japanese.

Doctors’ Negligence Makes Health Policy Tragedy: Amity Shlaes Now we know their names.

U.S. Economy Is Up in the Air With George Clooney: Amity Shlaes Airport security lines trigger the same mental process in most Americans. Irritation is the first stage. You arrive at the front of the line hostile to the whole enterprise -- the conveyer belt, the company that manufactured the recalcitrant zipper on your bag, the not-especially-polite airport workers.

Washington, Bernanke, Still Fighting Wrong War: Amity Shlaes Sometime soon the U.S. Senate is expected to confirm Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term. Soon the Senate will also vote on legislation to overhaul the financial industry.

Obama’s Next Trillion Spending Might Be Worth It: Amity Shlaes President Barack Obama is under fire for saying he wants to boost investment in infrastructure in the next decade. The critics say this is flawed stimulus because infrastructure projects take too long to get started and don’t boost the economy now.

Recession Repeat Lurks Without White House Truce: Amity Shlaes “Fat cats” is what President Barack Obama just called bankers. He also invited them to the White House this week.

Copenhagen Fools the Young Into Hoping for Jobs: Amity Shlaes Youth is what the climate change conference in Copenhagen is supposed to be all about.

Obama’s Losses Might Make Him a Truman: Amity Shlaes (Correct) You might think that President Barack Obama’s falling popularity will condemn him to a low rank among presidents with so little to show in terms of legislative accomplishment after a year in office.

Palin, Olympia Snowe Battle for State of America: Amity Shlaes It is beginning to look like Olympia Snowe will vote for the Democratic health-care legislation. The support of the Republican senator from Maine is crucial because it will enable the Democrats to depict an essentially left-wing bill as bipartisan and centrist.