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- Fighting a Coercion Clause - November 18, 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 14, 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 11, 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 10, 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 7, 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 4, 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 - October 31, 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 28, 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 24, 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 21, 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 17, 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 14, 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...
- Anger Management Hits a Hump - October 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Consider nature. Not the placid nature that Constable painted, but nature as Tennyson saw it, "red in tooth and claw." To glimpse a state of nature as...
- The Obamas' Narcissism on Display - October 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas' trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there. Their separate...
- Obama's Foreign Policy Suspends Disbelief - October 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Last Thursday, the president's "engagement" with Iran began. This Wednesday, the U.S. war in Afghanistan will enter its ninth year. And U.S. foreign policy...
- On Climate, Bad News Will Resume - September 30, 2009
- Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty to Task Of Reaching a Solution -- New York Times, Sept. 23 WASHINGTON -- In this headline on a New York Times story about...
- A 'Principled Conservative' - September 26, 2009
- MIAMI -- Florida, a geological afterthought, was the last portion of what are now the lower 48 states to emerge from the ocean, and it emerged halfheartedly: Its highest...
- A Willowy Weakness - September 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- While in Pittsburgh, a sense of seemliness should prevent President Barack Obama from again exhorting the G-20, as he did April 2 in London, to be strong...
- Been There, Didn't Do That - September 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For 11 days in late August and early September in 1995, U.S. and NATO air power defended Bosnian Muslims, who were being attacked by Bosnian Serbs, who...
- The White House's Lust to Politicize - September 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "This is just the beginning," said Yosi Sergant to participants in an Aug. 10 conference call that seems to have been organized by the National Endowment...
- Why No One Believes Obama - Newsweek - September 14, 2009
- Mitch McConnell, the taciturn Kentuckian who leads Senate Republicans, usually resembles Samuel Beckett's character Watt, who "had never smiled, but thought he knew how...
- Taking On The Book Banners - September 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Last March, during the Supreme Court argument concerning the Federal Election Commission's banning of a political movie, several justices were aghast....
- Candidate in a State of Dystopia - September 9, 2009
- SAN DIEGO -- Becoming governor next year will be a daunting challenge for California's Republican insurance commissioner, but Steve Poizner has surmounted other...
- One Way Or Another, Leaving Iraq - September 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq's cities, two months have passed, and so has the illusion that Iraq is smoothly transitioning to a normality free of...
- Afghanistan: Time to Stop Nation-Building - August 31, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "Yesterday," reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, "I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a (mine's) pressure...
- Washington is Seriously Unserious - Newsweek - August 30, 2009
- In August our ubiquitous president became the nation's elevator music, always out and about, heard but not really listened to, like audible wallpaper. And now, as...
- Rescuing California: A Long Shot to Watch - Washington Post - August 29, 2009
- A Long Shot in California - August 29, 2009
- SAN DIEGO -- The most ominous domestic event of the 1970s was the collapse of self-government in New York City, which before being put into receivership by the state was...
- A Positive Balance - August 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- At the Democrats' 1960 convention in Los Angeles that nominated John Kennedy, his 28-year-old brother Ted was standing with the Wyoming delegation when it...
- Will Obama's Statism Ever Retreat? - August 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As memories of the Cold War fade, like photographs bleached by sunlight, few remember the Brezhnev Doctrine. It was enunciated by Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw...
- Bulldozing the First Amendment - August 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It began with the proliferation of campus "speech codes" ostensibly designed to promote civility but frequently used to enforce political conformity. The...
- Raising the Stakes on Online Player - August 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Howard Lederer, aka "the Professor," is a professional poker player, not a gambler. If Congress will acknowledge this distinction, it will rectify one of...
- Cold Shoulder to Climate 'Urgency' - July 22, 2009
- Unfortunately, China's president had to dash home to suppress ethnic riots. Had he stayed in Italy at the recent Group of Eight summit, he could have continued the...
- 1959: A Year That Would Change Much - July 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago, on July 21, 1959, Grove Press won permission to publish D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Two days later, G.D. Searle, the...
- A Ploy To Clip Some Wings - July 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- How does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses power to repay unions for helping to put it in power. It has given...
- Higher Taxes, Anyone? - July 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of...
- The McNamara Mentality - July 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The death of Robert McNamara at 93 was less a faint reverberation of a receding era than a reminder that mentalities are the defining attributes of eras,...
- Can California Be Sold on eBay's Former Leader? - July 4, 2009
- SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO...
- On Race, The Slog Goes On - June 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly -- 5-4. The egregious behavior by...
- Americans Will Regret Health Care 'Fix' - June 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "In the beginning," says a character in a Peter De Vries novel, "the earth was without form and void. Why didn't they leave well enough alone?" When...