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- Public-Sector Unions Bleed Taxpayers - DC Examiner - February 8, 2010
- Growing up in Michigan in the heyday of the United Auto Workers, I long assumed that labor unions were part of the natural order of things.That's no longer clear. Last...
- Public-Sector Unions Bleed Taxpayers to Help Dems - February 8, 2010
- Growing up in Michigan in the heyday of the United Auto Workers, I long assumed that labor unions were part of the natural order of things. That's no longer clear. Last...
- How Climate-Change Fanatics Corrupted Science - February 4, 2010
- Quick, name the most distrusted occupations. Trial lawyers? Pretty skuzzy, as witness the disgraced John Edwards, kept from the vice presidency in 2004 by the electoral...
- Possible Epic Party Disaster for Democrats - DC Examiner - January 30, 2010
- Dems Fall as Fast as Nixon Republicans in 1974 - January 28, 2010
- Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts' special Senate election was for Democratic leaders a moment that can be described in two words, of which I will only...
- Dems Fall as Fast as Nixon Republicans in '74 - Examiner - January 28, 2010
- Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts' special Senate election was for Democratic leaders a moment that can be described in two words, of which I will only...
- Voters Spurn the 'Boob Bait' of the Educated Class - January 25, 2010
- When the New York Times columnist David Brooks first sat down with Barack Obama, they talked a lot about Burke. That's Edmund Burke, the 18th century conservative...
- Little Guy Sends Message to Washington - January 21, 2010
- Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley by a substantial margin in the race for the remainder of the late Edward Kennedy's Senate term. In Massachusetts....
- Dems' Lock on Senate Is Mixed Blessing for Obama - January 18, 2010
- Year One of the Obama administration ends Wednesday. Another era may come to an end the day before, when Massachusetts voters -- or at least those of them motivated...
- The Substance Behind the Tea Parties - January 17, 2010
- In his New York Times column last week, David Brooks contrasted "the educated class," which supports Barack Obama and his liberal worldview, with the tea party movement,...
- Up to a Point, Mr. President - January 11, 2010
- In Evelyn Waugh's novel "Scoop," the best book on journalism ever written, Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast, is followed around by a flunkie who responds to...
- Can Cocksure Obama Change Course -- and Keep His Nerve? - January 7, 2010
- A year ago, I was privileged to be one of several guests at a dinner with President-elect Barack Obama. One thing that struck me and others, aside from his courtesy and...
- GOP Should Push Education and Pro-Family Tax Reform - January 4, 2010
- Karl Rove had some good advice for Republicans in his year-end Wall Street Journal column. "It won't be enough to surf voter dissatisfaction with Mr. Obama and...
- It's a Wonderful Life Working for the Government - December 31, 2009
- It looks like a happy new year for you -- if you're a public employee. That's the takeaway from a recent Rasmussen poll that shows that 46 percent of government...
- Texas Shows Its Swagger in New Population Estimates - December 28, 2009
- Every year roundabout Christmastime, the Census Bureau releases its population estimates for each state for the 12 months ending on July 1. The numbers look dry on a...
- When Legerdemain Is Used to Pass an Unpopular Bill - December 24, 2009
- It's time to blow the whistle on two erroneous statements that opponents and proponents of the health care legislation being jammed through Congress have been making....
- When Liberal Dreams Collide With Public Opinion - December 21, 2009
- In the Bella Center on the south side of Copenhagen and in the Senate chamber on the north side of the Capitol, we're seeing what happens when liberal dreams collide...
- Amid Rumbling Discontent, Dems Head for the Exits - December 17, 2009
- While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scrambles to assemble 60 Democratic votes for health care legislation that, according to the Realclearpolitics.com average of...
- Could Obama's Speeches Reflect a Foreign Policy Shift? - December 14, 2009
- "Evil does exist in the world." This bald assertion is probably not what the Norwegian grantors of the Nobel Peace Prize expected to hear from Barack Obama. It sounds...
- Pushing Government Power Too Far - December 10, 2009
- "Knowledge is becoming more specialized and more dispersed, while government power is becoming more concentrated," writes economist Arnold Kling in his new book,...
- Professor Obama as Dutiful Commander in Chief - December 8, 2009
- Every time I visit the White House, I am struck by its military environment. Military guards are on duty, the staff has lunch in the White House mess and there's a...
- Big Government Can't Put Young Americans to Work - December 3, 2009
- "What have you done for me lately?" It's a question that voters implicitly ask politicians, especially ones they have supported and who are seeking their votes again....
- Global Warming Consensus: Garbage In, Garbage Out - November 30, 2009
- As Air Force One heads to Copenhagen for the climate summit Dec. 9, it will presumably not make a U-turn while flying over the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University...
- Damn the Deficit: Full Speed Ahead on Health Care - November 26, 2009
- Double-digit. That hyphenated adjective has been used most often recently to describe October's 10.2 percent unemployment rate. But it can also be used to describe the...
- Immigration Looms as the Next Test for Congress - November 23, 2009
- Is Congress, behind on Barack Obama's deadlines on health care and cap-and-trade legislation, and flummoxed by the failure of the stimulus package to hold unemployment...
- Obama Bows, but the World Refuses to Bow Back - November 19, 2009
- On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the...
- Pushing Health Reform When Job Losses Are Rising - November 16, 2009
- Barack Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they would be better off politically if they passed the bill than...
- History Is Calling -- Will Obama Answer? - November 12, 2009
- Anniversaries are opportunities to reflect on the past and on what it might mean for the future. Monday saw the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, even if...
- Freewheeling Young Voters Scare Both Parties - November 9, 2009
- In November 2008, 658,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and 782,000 did so in Virginia. In November 2009, 212,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and...
- Biggest Loser: The Union Agenda - Wall Street Journal - November 5, 2009
- If you were watching television on Tuesday night as the election returns came in showing Republicans capturing the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, you probably...
- Virginia, New Jersey Races Showing Voters Changing Course - November 5, 2009
- As the final votes were being counted, it was possible to draw some lessons from Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in Virginia and the close, three-way governor's race...
- Hold the Champagne -- Happy Days Aren't Here Again - November 2, 2009
- The recession is over, we are told. The Commerce Department announced Thursday that the economy grew in the third quarter of 2009 by 3.5 percent. Great, huh? Maybe not....
- Four Races Will Test the Strength of Obama's Majority - October 29, 2009
- Five days from now the voters of New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors. Voters in the 23rd district of New York and the 10th district of California will elect new...
- Obama at Odds With His Own Vision for the World - October 26, 2009
- Barack Obama, who found time to go on a 24-hour jaunt to Copenhagen on Oct. 2 to seek the 2016 Olympics games for Chicago, apparently cannot find the time for a 24-hour...
- Obama Hits Opponents With Chicago Brass Knuckles - October 22, 2009
- "His father was a great friend of my father." The reference to William Ayers' father was how Mayor Richard M. Daley began his defense of Barack Obama for his association...
- Unlike Obama, Americans Reject European Model - October 19, 2009
- An interesting paradox. Last year, America elected a president who, in attitudes and policies, is closer to the elites of Western Europe than any of his predecessors....
- 'Reform' No One Wants to Pay For - October 17, 2009
- The legislative process can also be a learning process, and as Congress considers health care legislation -- the latest act being the Senate Finance Committee's vote in...
- 'Conceptual Language' Hides Health Care's Costs - October 12, 2009
- Some of the headlines in recent days are not worthy of belief. No, I'm not referring to the headlines that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, however odd that many...
- Weak Himself, Obama Draws Strength From Bush - October 8, 2009
- In trying to understand what is happening in the nation and world, we all employ narratives -- story lines that indicate where things are going and what is likely to...
- A War of Necessity Turns Out Not So Necessary - October 5, 2009
- "This is not a war of choice," Barack Obama told the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 17. "This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9-11 are plotting to...