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- Are You with Us or with Them? - November 6, 2009
- President Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor. He announced the closing of Guantanamo in his first week on the job (though...
- Health Care Overhaul IV: This Time, It's Personal - November 3, 2009
- I labeled it "Health Care Overhaul IV" for convenience. In fact, a new 2,000-page behemoth seems to emerge more than once a week from the maw of Congress, so it's...
- Fighting the Lies Harder Than Fighting the War - October 30, 2009
- The war over the war in Gaza is heating up. Next week, the United Nations General Assembly will consider the tendentious Goldstone Report, the highest profile exercise...
- Government by Holiday Inn Express - October 27, 2009
- You've seen those commercials in which an airline pilot, or surgeon, or nuclear engineer is giving expert advice only to acknowledge eventually to his nonplussed...
- Maria Shriver Misses the Point - October 23, 2009
- Maria Shriver's new report, "A Woman's Nation Changes Everything," has received a full dress media rollout. We are invited to examine the changes in women's lives over...
- Obama's Rhetoric vs. His Record on Human Rights - WSJ - October 20, 2009
- The world thinks better of the United States, we are told, because Barack Obama is in the White House. Maybe the world is wrong.It's fanciful, of course, to speak of...
- Obama's Moral Leadership Balloon Crashes -- No One Inside - October 20, 2009
- The world thinks better of the United States, we are told, because Barack Obama is in the White House. Maybe the world is wrong. It's fanciful, of course, to speak of...
- The Democrats' Coming Defeat - October 16, 2009
- "There is a tide in the affairs of men" -- Shakespeare Yes, but undertows, too. As Obama, Pelosi, and Reid rush to transform America into a European-style social...
- Can Obama Rise to Harding's Level? - October 13, 2009
- Picture this: It is midnight on Nov. 4, 2009. The previous day's elections in Virginia, New York's 23rd congressional district, and New Jersey have all been won by...
- When the First Amendment Counts Most, Court Has Been AWOL - October 9, 2009
- The air was thick with hypotheticals at the Supreme Court last week as the justices considered whether a law designed to outlaw videos depicting cruelty to animals was...
- And You Say Conservatism is Dying? - October 6, 2009
- Strangely, chatter about the "death of conservatism" is circulating this fall. I say "strangely" because we are in the midst of the greatest left/liberal moment in...
- Repeat After Me: Mothers Belong at Work - October 2, 2009
- There is nothing that makes some members of the chattering class more jumpy than the idea that women may be choosing to stay at home with their children. Still evidently...
- Who Needs Religion? - September 29, 2009
- Well, that's one way to look at it. Writing in Haaretz, Orna Coussin praised Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement that began Sunday night and ended Monday night) as...
- Obama's Self-Worship - September 25, 2009
- President Obama's speech to the United Nations has been called naive and even "post-American." It was something else, as well: the most extravagant excursion into...
- Irreplaceable Irving - September 22, 2009
- Irving Kristol, who passed away last week at the age of 89, was like everyone's favorite uncle -- if the uncle were a transformative intellectual of empyrean stature. He...
- U.N. Disgraces Itself Again; Obama Helps - September 18, 2009
- The United Nations Human Rights Council, a putrid perversion of every high ideal upon which it was founded, has issued a report calling the Israelis war criminals. The...
- Democrats Failed on Digital Divide, Too - September 15, 2009
- The Democrats have never seen a problem they didn't think could be fixed with a government program. And they sometimes discern crises crying out for government solutions...
- Obama's Trouble with Numbers - September 11, 2009
- Let's stipulate that it was wrong of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., to shout "You lie" during President Obama's health care speech. It was a violation of courtesy and...
- The AP's Decision To Exploit a Marine's Death - September 9, 2009
- Arguably violating its embed agreement, the near universal press practice since 9/11, and the expressed wishes of the family, the Associated Press went ahead and...
- What Obama Could Say To Get Our Respect - September 4, 2009
- As Democratic congressmen limp back to D.C. after bruising town hall meetings, and polls show Obama and the Democrats in Congress sinking fast in public opinion polls,...
- Good Thing We Don't Mix Religion and Politics Anymore - September 1, 2009
- Well, thank Heaven George W. Bush is no longer president! Gosh, all of that mixing of religion and politics darn near subverted our Constitution -- which, as all good...
- Remembering the Darker Side of Ted Kennedy - August 28, 2009
- The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, we are being told, should strengthen our resolve to act in a bipartisan fashion. Many of the tributes, from former presidents and...
- Obama Screws Up Latin American Policy - August 25, 2009
- The lights are going out in Venezuela. The Chavez-controlled legislature passed an education bill on Aug. 13 that will extinguish the last glimmers of free thought in...
- Can We Succeed in Afghanistan? - August 21, 2009
- He was certainly brave, but was he crazy? That's what I wondered when I picked up Rory Stewart's "The Places in Between," an account of the Scotsman's 2002 solo walk...
- About Canada -- Health Care and More - August 18, 2009
- A comedian once said that visiting Canada was like rummaging in your attic. "You go up there and say 'Wow, there's all this neat stuff up here! There are mountains and...
- No Individual Initiative Please! We're Americans - August 4, 2009
- A plucky teller foiled a robbery attempt at Key Bank in Seattle. But the story does not end happily. When a small man in a beanie cap, dark clothing, and sunglasses...
- Gilder Throws Down a Gauntlet - July 31, 2009
- Charles Murray, no slouch among public intellectuals, described him as the most underrated public intellectual in America today. Murray offered this assessment of George...
- Mr. Oblivious to Evidence - July 28, 2009
- The last moments of President Obama's press conference last week have gotten the most attention, and some of the president's supporters have wondered whether his...
- Gatesgate - July 24, 2009
- There were so many examples of presidential mendacity on view Wednesday night that I had planned to itemize a few in this column. But since even the New York Times is...
- I've Found Heaven ... in Northern Michigan - July 14, 2009
- That is, two of my children have. This piece of heaven is called Interlochen Center for the Arts, and having just visited, I fully comprehend the ecstasy they feel. In a...
- Help: They Are Talking About a New Stimulus! - July 10, 2009
- Obama economic adviser Laura Tyson has suggested that the U.S. should consider a new economic stimulus package because the $787 billion bill enacted in February was "a...
- Could the U.S. Ban the Burqa, Too? - July 7, 2009
- The French Republic is not blessed or burdened with a First Amendment. So when President Nicolas Sarkozy recently suggested that France ban the wearing of the burqa in...
- Did Someone Say Coup? - June 30, 2009
- The news that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post and spirited out of the country by the Honduran military has elicited official condemnations...
- Shame Is Deader Than Dead - June 26, 2009
- "The author is ending her marriage. Isn't it time you did the same?" So the Atlantic Monthly provocatively introduces its July/August feature "Let's Call the Whole Thing...
- The Obama Effect? - June 23, 2009
- It's become almost a parlor game to watch Obamaphiles spin the president's response to events in Iran. Uninfatuated observers have noticed that the president displayed a...
- The Man of the Hour - June 19, 2009
- Someone few Americans had ever heard of one week ago now stands poised to alter history. His name is Mir Hossein Mousavi and his case utterly debunks the school of...
- Foreign Policy as Social Work - June 16, 2009
- In 1980, after Soviet tanks rumbled into Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter experienced an epiphany. The former Georgia governor, who in 1977 liberated the U.S. from...
- Are We Scaremongers? - June 12, 2009
- "This Time, We Won't Scare" boasts New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, strapping on his armor for the coming joust. The health care debate will be cheapened, he...
- The Health Care Bill is the Ball Game - June 9, 2009
- You might suppose that President Obama has his hands full running two wars, administering General Motors, "rescuing" the banking system, attempting to empower unions...
- Obama in Cairo: Diplomacy of Wishful Thinking - June 5, 2009
- In Cairo, President Obama told (was it for the 100th time?) the story of his African father and American mother. This story has worked well for him in the American...