 On Tuesday, Mitt Romney added his voice to the chorus of political writers, observers and commentators who describe Michigan as his "home state." Romney opened his op-ed in the Detroit News with the trying-way-too-hard lines, "I am a son of Detroit … I grew up drinking Vernors and watching ballgames at Michigan and Trumbull. Cars got in my bones early. And not just any cars, American cars."  | Religious liberty? A country as large, diverse and modern as ours depends on an elaborate system of laws to run efficiently and fairly. The number of laws grows as the nation gets bigger and the economy more complex. Consider, as a crude measure of growth, the size of the Code of Federal Regulations (the collection of rules made by federal agencies). For a century and a half there were so few agencies that we didn't even need it. In 1938, its first year, it ran 728 pages. In 2010 it was 35,298. |  | Editorial: Fraud on campus Many Midwesterners may be unfamiliar with Claremont McKenna College. It's a highly selective liberal arts school in Southern California with much to recommend it: rigorous and diverse courses, a beautiful campus in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains, a desirably low student-to-faculty ratio and wonderful job prospects for graduates. The starting median salary for graduates of Claremont McKenna, $54,400, is among the highest for the nation's liberal arts colleges. A convenient way to learn about the school is the U.S. News & World Report 2012 Best Colleges Rankings. Claremont was rated an impressive ninth best in the national liberal arts college category. |  | Page: Voting against yourself Why do Americans so often vote against their own economic interests? Because money isn't everything. Values matter, too, especially when your values tell you that cuts in government spending won't bring new pain to hard workers like you. |  | Editorial: Bridge to China He's got a winning personality, a wife who's a famous singer, a taste for Hollywood movies, a daughter at Harvard and fond memories of a 1985 stay with a family in Muscatine, Iowa. Xi Jinping, the vice president and heir apparent to the top government position in China, is not the prototypical Chinese leader. | |  | |
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