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- Firefighter Case Shows Seamy Side of Racial Politics - July 2, 2009
- The Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial...
- No Excuse for Dems' Sticker Shock on Health Care - June 29, 2009
- Democrats' plans to pass major health care legislation have been stymied, at least for the moment, by the Congressional Budget Office's cost estimates. To the...
- The Adolescent Angst of Barack Obama - June 25, 2009
- There is a tendency for newly installed presidents, like adolescents suddenly liberated from adult supervision, to do the exact opposite of what their predecessors did....
- Dodge Facts, Skip Details, Govern Chicago-Style - June 22, 2009
- We pundits like to analyze our presidents and so, as Barack Obama deals with difficult problems ranging from health care legislation to upheaval in Iran, let me offer my...
- All Politics Is Turnout -- and Enthusiasm Is Key - June 18, 2009
- Many psephologists -- derived from the word for pebbles, which the ancient Greeks used as ballots -- study who wins and loses elections. Lately, I've been looking more...
- When Detainees Get Rights They Don't Deserve - June 16, 2009
- It shouldn't come as a complete surprise that, as Stephen Hayes reported in The Weekly Standard, detainees in Afghanistan are now being advised of their Miranda rights...
- Qualms and Questions About Obama's Health Plan - June 11, 2009
- Barack Obama has said he wants to pass a national health care bill this year, with a government insurance policy option. Democratic congressional leaders have called for...
- Obama Needs to Brush Up on Middle East History - June 8, 2009
- For a man of his impressive educational credentials, Barack Obama has sometimes shown a surprising ignorance of history. During the 2008 campaign, when challenged on his...
- Advancing Civil Rights by Overturning Old Laws - June 4, 2009
- Two cases likely to be decided this month by the Supreme Court -- one of them an appeal in a Connecticut case decided by a panel including Supreme Court nominee Judge...
- GOP Should Run Against the Power of the Center - June 1, 2009
- Move to the center. That's the advice Republicans are getting from quarters friendly and otherwise. It seems to make a certain amount of sense. If opinion is arrayed...
- Will Sotomayor's Style Blunt Her Liberal Views? - May 29, 2009
- Barack Obama has named his nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. What's the likely fallout, politically and...
- No Time for Tea-and-Crumpet Interrogations - May 27, 2009
- When former Vice President Dan Quayle scheduled a big speech, President Bill Clinton didn't hop in and schedule one for the hour before. When former Vice President Al...
- Why the U.S. Should Listen to India's Voters - May 21, 2009
- Last November, 131 million Americans voted, and the whole world took notice. Over the last month, about 700 million Indians voted, and most Americans, like most of the...
- Obama Changes Course on Antiterrorism - May 18, 2009
- Step by step, Barack Obama has been reversing himself on antiterrorist policy. Last month, he announced he would not appeal a federal court decision ordering the...
- Obama Offers Security at the Expense of Liberty - May 14, 2009
- Republicans and conservatives are trying to grapple with the Obama administration's $3,600,000,000,000 federal budget -- let's include the zeroes rather than use the...
- On Guns and Climate, the Elites Are Out of Touch - May 11, 2009
- Many years ago, political scientists came up with a theory that elites lead public opinion. And on some issues, they clearly do. But on some issues, they don't. Two...
- White House Puts UAW Ahead of Property Rights - May 7, 2009
- Last Friday, the day after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, I drove past the company's headquarters on I-75 in Auburn Hills, Mich. As I glanced at the pentagram logo, I...
- Beware of Mandatory Arbitration in Card Check - May 4, 2009
- In his statement explaining his decision to switch from the Republican to the Democratic Party, Sen. Arlen Specter assured his listeners that "my position on Employees...
- Specter's Party Switch Is All About Winning - April 30, 2009
- Only his most sycophantic admirers might compare Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter with Winston Churchill, but the two do have something in common. Both had long and...
- Moving Towards Europe -- but Do Americans Want to Go? - April 28, 2009
- Ninety-nine days in, with 1,362 days to go, and we can see with some clarity the trajectory on which Barack Obama wants to take the United States. To put it in...
- The Left's Angry Mob Recalls Madame Defarge - April 27, 2009
- It's tough trying to please people who crave vengeance almost as much as Madame Defarge, the unsparing French revolutionary in Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." That's what...
- Obama Lets Congress -- and Lobbyists -- Do the Work - April 23, 2009
- The balance between the executive and legislative branches in writing laws has changed over the centuries. In the 19th century, Sen. Stephen Douglas wrote the...
- Back to the Future: Obama's Foreign Policy - April 21, 2009
- As Barack Obama finishes up his second major foreign tour, a pattern in his approach to foreign policy seems to be emerging. On pressing matters of obvious importance,...
- On Climate & Health, Beware of Easy Formulas - April 16, 2009
- Beware of geeks bearing formulas. That's the lesson most of us have learned from the financial crisis. The "quants" who devised the risk models that induced so many...
- Unions Can't Move the World - April 11, 2009
- The lever they have been using is their political clout. Only 8 percent of private-sector workers are union members today, but nearly half of public sector...
- Obama Abroad: In Some Ways, Much Like Bush - April 4, 2009
- On Afghanistan, Obama has ordered 21,000 more American troops to the theater -- including 4,000 troops announced last month -- and is continuing unmanned...
- Not Yet Ready for a Welfare State - March 28, 2009
- One has been set up by the Senate Budget Committee. Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota, whose concern about budget deficits has persisted even though we no longer...
- GOP Isn't Doing Better--Dems Are Doing Worse - US News - March 23, 2009
- Card Check: Good for Unions, Bad for America - March 21, 2009
- It's not difficult to see why union leaders want this. Union membership has fallen from more than 30 percent of the private-sector workforce in the 1950s to...
- GOP Closes the 2010 Generic Ballot Gap - US News & WR - March 18, 2009
- Criticism Shows Obama Is Losing Focus - March 14, 2009
- None of the issues addressed in the Obama budget was in any way a cause of the financial crisis. We did not have a housing bubble collapse because we don't...
- Acts That Caused the Crisis - US News & World Report - March 11, 2009
- Crushing Those Animal Spirits - March 7, 2009
- Barack Obama's tax plans, announced in his budget message last week, threaten to depress the animal spirits that we depend on for economic recovery. I reach this...
- Liberals Turning Blind Eye to Human Rights - February 28, 2009
- Now it can be said in defense of Clinton's remarks that previous administrations of both parties, from the time of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, have...
- Count on the Constitution - February 21, 2009
- This was a revolutionary step. Censuses had been conducted since ancient times, as readers of the Gospels know. But the United States was the first nation to...
- The Real Lessons of the Great Depression - February 14, 2009
- So it would be unwise to copy the New Deal as a recipe for economic recovery. And the policies that produced the wartime boom are not replicable today. We...
- Calm and Cool on a No Good, Very Bad Day - February 7, 2009
- He had failed over the past three years to pay about $142,000 in taxes. Even more embarrassing, most of the unpaid taxes were for the value of a car and...
- The GOP Should Go Upscale - February 1, 2009
- A second uncomfortable realization is that McCain ran dismally among blacks (losing 95 percent to 4 percent, according to the Edison-Mitofsky exit poll) and voters...
- The Obama-Kennedy Question - January 24, 2009
- Some of that optimistic plurality may come from voters convinced the nation was declining so long as George W. Bush was president but confident that it will...
- Is a Change in Migration Patterns at Hand? - January 17, 2009
- Latinos appear to account for a disproportionate share of mortgage foreclosures. The Census Bureau estimates that net immigration in 2007-08 was 14 percent...