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- Charting Our Way to Solvency - February 7, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president:...
- The United States of Fiscal Folly - February 4, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- On Day One of his vow to take "meaningful steps to rein in our debt," Barack Obama asked Congress to freeze portions of discretionary domestic spending....
- Faux Contrition: Obama Blames the Public - January 28, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party's brain. The seam separates that brain's John Quincy Adams lobe...
- A 'Reform' Wisely Struck Down - January 28, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Last week's Supreme Court decision that substantially deregulates political speech has provoked an edifying torrent of hyperbole. Critics' dismay reveals...
- Mandate to Moderate - January 24, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Churchill's wife said that his being turned out of office by British voters in July 1945 -- the war in the Pacific still raged, and he had just returned...
- The Public Has Spoken on ObamaCare - January 20, 2010
- "We are on the precipice of an achievement that's eluded congresses and presidents for generations." -- President Barack Obama, Dec. 15, on health care...
- No Rational Exuberance - Newsweek - January 18, 2010
- The underemployment rate is 17.3 percent.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasOne of conservatism's...
- Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On - January 17, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone...
- Rock on the Health Care Road - January 14, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Although Democrats think their health care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead -- a constitutional challenge to...
- Liberalism is What is Killing California - January 10, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) was a hero to the American left, partly because of his 1939 anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun." Trumbo's title modified the...
- College Football as Big Business - January 7, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- In 1957, Queen Elizabeth, attending a Maryland-North Carolina football game, asked Maryland's governor, "Where do you get all those enormous players?" He...
- A Clunker of a Year - Newsweek - January 5, 2010
- But not for a book from 1957.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasTsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, was on a...
- A Blight Grows in Brooklyn - January 3, 2010
- BROOKLYN -- On Aug. 27, 1776, British forces routed George Washington's novice army in the Battle of Brooklyn, which was fought in fields and woods where today the...
- Out of Catastrophe, Renewal - December 31, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Already 99.9 (and about 58 more 9s) percent of the universe -- it is expanding lickety-split -- is beyond Earth's atmosphere. Into what is it expanding?...
- Rome's Call: 'Come On Over' - December 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Late in life, the mother of the Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., began attending mass at a Southern California church, the congregation of which soon became...
- Obama Claims Two Unsightly Triumphs - December 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was...
- The Indispensable Dispenser - December 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit...
- When the Charm Rubs Off - December 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Rushing to lock the nation into expensive health care and climate change commitments, Democrats are in an understandable frenzy because public enthusiasm...
- Congress Out of Its League on the BCS - December 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Two Saturdays ago, the nation was one tick of a Texas clock away from a cultural crisis. Nebraska led Texas 12-10 in the Big 12 Conference championship...
- Congress Out of Its League on BCS - Sacramento Bee - December 13, 2009
- Playing Politics with the Fed - December 10, 2009
- They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat, Hershey and his chocolate bar ... -- George Gershwin WASHINGTON -- And at Rep. Ron Paul, the 2008 presidential candidate...
- The Country is Uneasy - Newsweek - December 8, 2009
- An adolescent asked Mozart how to compose symphonies. Mozart said that because the lad was so young, perhaps he should begin composing ballads. "But," the young man...
- The Climate-Change Travesty - December 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth's last chance, the carbon footprint of the global warming summit...
- This Will Not End Well - December 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A traveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." Barack Obama, who asked to be...
- Rocky Mountain Medical High - November 29, 2009
- DENVER -- Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store -- which is...
- Scroogenomics - November 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Another huge value-destroying hurricane is about to slam America, destroying billions of dollars of value. Another Katrina? No, another Christmas. This...
- Obama: The First 'Pacific President'? - Newsweek - November 25, 2009
- Inflation is not only a monetary matter.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasBarack Obama's...
- Oil's Expanding Frontiers - November 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist...
- Fighting a Coercion Clause - November 19, 2009
- PHOENIX -- In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon...
- A Picture Can Lie - November 15, 2009
- NEW YORK -- The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting...
- Debt is Destroying the Dollar - November 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- One of the many television commercials exhorting viewers to buy gold says solemnly that it is an asset whose value "has never dropped to zero," a boast...
- The Truth About Global Warming - Newsweek - November 11, 2009
- Damn the pesky models! Full speed ahead.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasIn last week's...
- Bad Climate for Global Worriers - November 8, 2009
- Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are,...
- Unicorns in Kabul - November 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Actress Cate Blanchett, who has played Queen Elizabeth I, is performing here, portraying someone less than regal -- flurried, anxious Blanche DuBois, in...
- Liberals Using Disclosure to Intimidate - November 1, 2009
- SEATTLE -- Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave....
- A Reality Check on Drug Use - October 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- During his immersion in his new job, Gil Kerlikowske attended a focus group of 7-year-old girls and was mystified by their talk about "farm parties." Then...
- GOP's New Lightning Rod - October 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000 he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages...
- Another Entitlement for Seniors - October 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Three years before Rep. Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who then chaired the Ways and Means Committee, had his fling with a stripper named Fanne Foxe,...
- Stimulating Incumbency - October 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As Harvard's president, Larry Summers, economist and former Treasury secretary, was a lion in a den of Daniels. The faculty Daniels, their tender feelings...
- Could a Wave Be Building? - October 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a...