Rick Santorum is back! Is Herman Cain next? Do you think Rick Perry is kicking himself for dropping out of this race? Paging Sarah Palin!

Two years ago, while delivering his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama looked the Supreme Court justices in the face and told them they were wrong to have allowed special interests to spend without limits on campaigns.

Point of View:  Iran has been responsible or complicit in a continuum of terrorist violence either through the Quds Force of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard or through various proxies or surrogates, including Hezbollah.

Fallen super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is out of prison now but still doing penance.

As a former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture I can attest to the fact that farming is indeed a risky business.

Editorial:  Voter turnout in the United States is often nothing to brag about, what with many busy and distracted citizens deciding that election day can proceed quite nicely without their input.

The following editorial appeared in Friday's Washington Post:

President Barack Obama's plan to make college more affordable is noble in intent but misses the mark in design.

Ford:  The man in charge of trying to keep Raleigh growing in a way that makes sense, economically and environmentally - that would be the city's planning director, Mitchell Silver - has been even busier than usual.

In the end it will come down to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His senior officials will make their cases, but he alone will have to make one of the most critical decisions in Israel's history: whether to attack Iran's nuclear program.

At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, seeking theological underpinning for his drive to raise taxes on the rich, President Barack Obama invoked the highest possible authority.

Jenkins:  The historic principle of building a wall between "church and state" goes back in large part to a pretty credible fellow named Thomas Jefferson.

Will:  Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats' nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiority regarding national security.

Child sexual abuse is one of the few crimes in which the penalty outlives the sentence.

Martinez:  Imagine if the feds told the Roman Catholic Church that women must be ordained as priests because not doing so violates anti-discrimination laws.

POINT OF VIEW:  On this 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birthday it seems appropriate to tip our hats to this literary giant.

In the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as pro-life as called themselves pro-choice.

POINT OF VIEW:  President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that he wants to upgrade the nation's "critical infrastructure," including our "incomplete high-speed broadband network that prevents a small business owner in rural America from selling her products all over the world."

Point of View:  All of us who attended a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina arrived on the backs of our families, taxpayers and private donors who believed in the public good of higher education and that a vibrant public university is in the self-interest of the state.