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- Frontier Suburbanite - February 9, 2010
- Al Gore is responsible for this. He taunted Mother Nature. Consider this her memo: Don't Presume To Know What I Have in Store. Here in Fairfax County, we thought we were...
- Another Undead Conservative Idea - February 5, 2010
- Barack Obama assumed the presidency determined not just to promote certain policies but to tidy up our minds as well. Some things we'd been saving, like conservative...
- Has Obama Moved Center on Nuclear Power? - February 2, 2010
- The perennially optimistic strained to find evidence of a new centrism in President Obama's State of the Union address. Well, the Hyde Park liberal embraced nuclear...
- Carteresque - January 29, 2010
- In 1960, Fidel Castro addressed the U.N. General Assembly for four-and-a-half hours. President Obama didn't hit that target last night -- it only felt like it. The...
- You Named Your Dog for Coolidge? - January 26, 2010
- Since the world appears to be self-correcting -- Massachusetts voters have matters in hand, the Supreme Court has come to its senses on the First Amendment, each day...
- Message? What Message? - January 21, 2010
- You cannot lead solely by following election returns. But some members of the Democratic Party are now testing the proposition that you can ignore them. A year ago, they...
- Coakley Would Be Quayled -- If She Were a Republican - January 19, 2010
- Oh, how different the world would look if Martha Coakley were a Republican! As it is, she gets the sort of gentle rebukes the press reserves for Democrats. Her campaign...
- Proud of My Country - January 15, 2010
- Observations on the cataclysm in Haiti: As I write, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and half a dozen other U.S. Navy ships are steaming toward Haiti. They will join...
- Your Negro, My Macaca - January 12, 2010
- Welcome to America's longest running hit show -- the race farce, in which feigned shock and outrage lead to fawning apologies and bumbling explanations to all the wrong...
- It's Freezing: Must Be Global Warming - January 8, 2010
- Great swaths of Britain are buried under more than a foot of snow as the country shivers through the coldest winter since 1981. Airports have been shut down, trains have...
- Democratic Payoffs, Er, Stimulus - January 5, 2010
- When a non-American scholar I admired let slip a casual reference to "American corruption" a few years ago, my chauvinistic pride was wounded. This isn't Mexico, after...
- Whose Fault Is It? - January 2, 2010
- It may not be President Obama's fault that our multibillion-dollar Homeland Security apparatus is more Keystone Kops than "24," anymore than it was President Bush's...
- National Organization for Irresponsible Women - December 26, 2009
- Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo is in command of 22,000 American combat forces in northern Iraq. Unlike some high-ranking military men who demonstrate exemplary courage in the...
- Maximum Achievable Damage - December 22, 2009
- Does anyone remember the TV show "Supermarket Sweep"? Contestants would compete with one another by careening through a supermarket and grabbing as many products as they...
- Giving Thanks for Life - December 18, 2009
- Mia's story is good holiday fare. That must have been what the Washington Post editors were thinking when they put her smiling face on the front page. Whether they...
- Civil Rights Commission Blunders Again - December 15, 2009
- The U.S. Civil Rights Commission (yes, it's still around and yes, it's outlived its usefulness) is about to subtract from national wisdom about college admissions by...
- Democrats Whistling Past Graveyard - December 11, 2009
- The unexpected victory of Republican Jimmy Higdon in the Kentucky state Senate special election -- despite a 2-to-1 Democratic registration advantage -- is another fire...
- Torquemada in East Anglia - December 8, 2009
- Though professional hysterics may seek to "hide the decline," there has been a noticeable drop in the number of Americans who believe that global warming is a man-made...
- Does Obama Listen to Himself? - December 6, 2009
- Barack Obama is demonstrating bottomless reservoirs of gracelessness. A full 13 months after his election, in the course of justifying the deployment of 30,000 more...
- Why Won't We Face Iran's Evil? - December 1, 2009
- When tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets last spring and braved the most brutal repression the regime could inflict, Michael Ledeen was the least surprised...
- Nurse Ratched Democrats - November 24, 2009
- The president and his party in Congress are attempting to dig this country so deep into debt that we may not be able to climb out. This is a strong and resilient...
- Holder's True Motive - November 20, 2009
- Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous...
- How Low Can He Go? - November 17, 2009
- President Obama, who nearly prostrated himself before the king of Saudi Arabia last April, has once again bowed low to a monarch -- this time to the emperor of...
- Democrats May Regret 'Pass Anything' Strategy - November 13, 2009
- Former President Bill Clinton visited Capitol Hill recently to deliver a pep talk to Senate Democrats. "It's not important to be perfect here. It's important to act, to...
- Backlash Hogwash - November 10, 2009
- "U.S. Homeland Security officials are working with groups around the United States to head off any possible anti-Muslim backlash following the shootings at Fort Hood in...
- 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...