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- Palin and the Conservative Descent - November 19, 2009
- The 19th century American writer Henry Adams said the descent of American presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant was enough to discredit the theory of...
- Gay Marriage Lost, But It's Not Losing - November 15, 2009
- Opponents of same-sex marriage waxed triumphant recently when voters in Maine rejected a measure allowing gays to wed. Maggie Gallagher, head of the National...
- Muslims and Mass Murder - November 12, 2009
- Mass murders are usually a mystery. When Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly committed one last week at Fort Hood, though, there was no time wasted in solving the mystery by...
- Our Dangerous Cold War Nostalgia - November 8, 2009
- Communism was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century, and one of the greatest in human history. Twenty years ago, suddenly and improbably, it fell into its death...
- America Only Seems Polarized - November 5, 2009
- Barack Obama held out hope of overcoming partisan divides, lowering the temperature and bringing Americans together. How's that working out? Not well, it appears. One...
- A Big, Fat Political Mistake - November 1, 2009
- I have seen the future of American politics, and it is big. Big and fat. You can get a glimpse of it in the New Jersey governor's race, which pits the slim,...
- Democrats' Unhealthy Reform Plans - October 29, 2009
- If Medicare were a bank, federal regulators would be closing its doors, selling its operations and sacking its managers. Thanks to soaring costs, the program is fast...
- Health Care Delusions, Left and Right - October 26, 2009
- If you've been following the health care debate over the last couple of years, you may have heard the grim tale of Nataline Sarkisyan. Just 17 years old, afflicted with...
- From Obama, Sanity on Marijuana - October 22, 2009
- In 1973, Robert Randall was going blind from glaucoma when he discovered that smoking marijuana seemed to help his condition. That didn't matter to police when they...
- Treating the Elderly Like Spoiled Brats - October 18, 2009
- When inflation hits, every dollar in your bank account is worth less each day. Deflation is just the opposite: You put your feet up and watch your money grow in value....
- Mortgage Madness, Again - October 15, 2009
- Watching Washington policymakers in action, I sometimes think they make mistakes because of unrealistic goals, flawed thinking, blind obedience to party or dubious...
- Fattening the Nanny State - October 11, 2009
- Obese people and public-health scolds have one thing in common: a compulsion to keep behaving in a way that does not produce helpful results. The obese tend to keep...
- Obama and the 'Socialist' Canards - October 8, 2009
- Since he's under attack for allegedly being a covert socialist, you would think President Obama would get some love from the overt socialists. But they sound about as...
- Chicago Wins By Losing - October 4, 2009
- Abraham Lincoln was once asked how he liked being president. Bedeviled by secession and war, he recalled a story about a man who, when tarred, feathered and ridden out...
- The Tragedies of Afghanistan - October 1, 2009
- If Shakespeare had ever written a play about Afghanistan, it would have been a tragedy, not a comedy. For the United States, Afghanistan has been one tragedy after...
- Sweet Lies About Kids and Smoking - September 27, 2009
- At least since 1994, when seven tobacco executives testified before Congress that they didn't think cigarettes were addictive, the public has not put great trust in...
- Race and Opppsition to Obama - September 20, 2009
- A new president, pursuing policies well within the political mainstream, evokes weirdly angry and intense denunciations from opponents -- a reaction hard to explain in...
- The Revenge of Ross Perot - September 17, 2009
- For years, I've been wishing for another Ross Perot -- a leader who would awaken the American people to the dangers of living beyond our national means through huge...
- The Republican Health Care Failure - September 13, 2009
- Republicans fault President Obama for plans that would greatly expand federal outlays on health care, enlarge the federal role in the provision of medicine, doom private...
- Lessons of Obama's School Speech - September 10, 2009
- On Tuesday, as children in many places went back to school, the world's most prominent black leader undertook to expand a worshipful cult of personality as part of a...
- When Compassion is Cruel - September 6, 2009
- People don't always get what they deserve in this world, so it is gratifying to see when someone does. It happened Wednesday when a California parole board insisted that...
- Prolonging Futility in Afghanistan - September 3, 2009
- On Oct. 7, 2001, the United States launched one of the most stunningly successful military operations in its history. Just four weeks after terrorists directed from...
- What Voters Meant... - August 30, 2009
- Barack Obama came into office championing change, and he apparently assumed that if Americans voted for him, it was because they wanted the future to be different from...
- Rationalizing Torture - August 27, 2009
- Americans are practical people, which is why they tend to pay heed when Dick Cheney says the harsh methods used by the CIA on suspected terrorists were not merely...
- Health Care and Infant Mortality: The Real Story - August 23, 2009
- The American medical system has the latest technology, the greatest variety of new drugs and unparalleled resources. But anyone who thinks we're getting something great...
- An Odd Silence on Gay Marriage - August 20, 2009
- Opponents of same-sex marriage reject it on religious and moral grounds but also on practical ones. If we let homosexuals marry, they believe, a parade of horribles will...
- What's Scary About Health Care Reform? - August 16, 2009
- A hammer is a marvelous tool, but only for the right job. If you took an expensive watch to a repairman and he pulled out a hammer, you would be extremely nervous, if...
- Democracy Without Elections - August 13, 2009
- The British Parliament consists of the House of Commons, which is elected by the people, and the House of Lords, which is not. How different that is from our Congress....
- The Real Clunkers in this Deal - August 9, 2009
- Cash for Clunkers has been a thrilling moment for advocates of expanded government, who say it proves what we can accomplish when our leaders put their minds to it. They...
- Vetoing Vicious Vodka - August 6, 2009
- Wisconsin calls itself America's Dairyland, and anyone who travels there soon learns the unofficial state motto: "You want cheese on that?" In the old days, it tried to...
- States in a Fiscal Hole They Dug - July 30, 2009
- Everywhere you look, states are being crunched by fiscal emergencies that range from painful to excruciating. California, which has been paying bills with IOUs, is now...
- From President to Pundit - July 26, 2009
- Barack Obama got to be president because he had qualities Americans were yearning for after the bitter tumult of the Bush years. He was calm, sober, fair-minded, and...
- The Dangerous Minimum Wage Mirage - July 23, 2009
- The federal government is trying to strengthen the U.S. auto industry. So here's a great idea for what it can do: Tell the Big Three to raise their prices across the...
- The Virtues of Supreme Silence - July 19, 2009
- Millions of Americans tuned in last week to Sonia Sotomayor's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. What did they learn? "Nothing," Harvard Law...
- The 'Public Option' Health Care Scam - July 16, 2009
- Some statements are inherently unbelievable. Such as: "I am an official of the government of Nigeria, and I would like to deposit $60 million in your bank account." Or:...
- Trivial Pursuit in Washington - July 12, 2009
- The Clinton administration was famous for obsessing about tiny, innocuous issues, like promoting school uniforms and opposing TV violence. But the era of trivial...
- The Secret of Palin's Staying Power - July 9, 2009
- In October 2005, when President Bush announced his nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor, conservatives who had been loyal to the...
- A Bare Minimum of Student Privacy - July 2, 2009
- Public schools are filled with eager, fresh-faced youngsters, and prisons contain many rough-looking adults with uninviting personalities. But put aside that difference...
- Why Adultery is Political Suicide - June 28, 2009
- By now, it's clear that Mark Sanford has about as much of a future in politics as he does in sumo wrestling. His confession of adultery was all it took to demolish any...
- Iran Makes War on Iranians - June 25, 2009
- A tyrannical government is by nature in a constant state of war with its own people. There are periods of truce, but none of real peace. We in the democratic world...