Topic - Carter

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  GORDON: Obama's deadly new PR firm

  The dramatic rescue of an American aid worker and her Danish colleague in Somalia by Navy commandos was a terrific encore to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan nine months ago. However, all the White House-driven publicity for both events has helped turn the once-secret SEAL Team 6 into a household term, with likely negative consequences.

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  CARMEN: Newt Gingrich betrayed Ronald Reagan

  Because the Gipper is not here to say, "There you go again!" to Mr. Gingrich, and because the choice of a new president is so critical to the nation today, it falls on us who served with Reagan and are still around to tell America the truth about Mr. Gingrich and his repeated attempts to thwart Reagan's cornerstone achievement: the defeat of global tyranny in the form of the Soviet Union and the final rejection of communism as a failed experiment.

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  LYONS: Facing reality about Iran

  Now that the last U.S. troops have withdrawn from Iraq, the question of how to deal with Iran's aggression and its drive to develop a nuclear weapon remains less than clear. At the White House meeting on Dec. 12 between President Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, only passing recognition was given to these two issues.

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  PIPES: Tehran holds Obama re-election wild card

  The formal end of the U.S. war in Iraq on Thursday enhanced neighboring Iran as a major, unpredictable factor in the U.S. presidential election of 2012. First, a look back: Iran's mullahs already had one opportunity to affect American politics, in 1980. Their seizure and occupation of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for 444 days haunted President Carter's re-election campaign and - thanks to such developments as yellow ribbons, a "Rose Garden" strategy, a failed rescue operation and ABC's "America Held Hostage" program - contributed to his defeat.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP, don't mistake 2012 for Carter's 1980

  For those of us old enough to remember, there are many similarities between late 2011 and late 1979.

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  LABRADOR & POMPEO: Era of energy subsidies is over

  Bill Clinton famously said, "The era of big government is over." Well, it didn't work out that way. But something truly remarkable is happening in our national conversation about energy subsidies: outrage, mounting opposition and, we hope, a swift end. This would be great news for taxpayers and consumers.

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  MCMAHON: Tapping into the spirit of Col. Drake

  Two issues confronting America are jobs and foreign wars. An effective energy policy is the best way to make significant progress on both fronts.

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  CURL: Obama's growing disdain for American worker

  They say that politics stops at the water's edge, but apparently, that doesn't apply to President Obama, as so many things apparently don't.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: In candidates, seek integration of faith, policy

  "Romney rivals duck Mormon issue" (Politics, Monday) provides a cogent theological summary of Mormonism as viewed by those who hold the Judeo-Christian Scriptures as authoritative. The real key in the public arena, however, is to understand whether a Mormon politician marries or divorces his theological beliefs from public policy.

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  'Underdog' Obama on attack against GOP

  A newly combative President Obama engaged the Republican field of presidential candidates Monday, attacking them for pursuing failed policies even as Mr. Obama conceded to a TV interviewer that Americans aren't better off than they were four years ago.

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  KEENE: Parry time for Perry

  If Rick Perry wants to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, he is going to have to convince Republican primary voters that he is as talented a politician as Ronald Reagan. In 1980, Republicans were angry about the state of the country. President Carter was seen as embarrassing and incompetent. The economy was in the tank and many analysts thought Mr. Carter would be a pushover when he ran for re-election.

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  SAUERBREY: Uncle Sam shakes down banks to pay for fiasco he triggered

  When the government is directly responsible for irresponsible behavior, should it then sue over the consequences?

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  MURDOCK: Reaganomics trounces Obamanomics

  President Zero. The brand-new nickname for Barack Obama symbolizes America's total net jobs created in August: Zippo. So, how many jobs emerged in August 1983, the analogous point in Ronald Wilson Reagan's presidency? The figure was 280,000. Proportional to today's population, that would equal 367,360 new hires.

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  KUHNER: Don't go on vacation - just GO

  America's economy is in free-fall. Growth is anemic. The stock market is collapsing. Real unemployment - combining the high jobless rate with rampant underemployment - is higher than 16 percent. Manufacturing is dead. Deficits, debt and government spending are at record levels. Our credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in history. The trade deficit has exploded to the highest in years.A possible Great Depression haunts the land. Primarily one man is to blame: President Obama.

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  Obama opens 'revolving door' for Defense nominee

  When President Obama nominated former Raytheon lobbyist William J. Lynn III as deputy defense secretary early in his administration, critics railed that the move clashed with Mr. Obama's campaign pledge to close the revolving door between government and the defense industry.

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