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- 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 - Chicago Tribune - June 25, 2009
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- 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...
- Tobacco Control and Thought Control - June 21, 2009
- The great judge Learned Hand once said, "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right." If so, the tobacco regulation bill recently passed...
- Is Sotomayor Anti-Gun? - June 18, 2009
- Last summer, the Supreme Court, for the first time ever, said the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for self-defense. It was a historic decision...
- Indulging Our Health Care Fantasies - June 14, 2009
- It's been 15 years since President Clinton's health care reform plan went down to defeat, and the problems it was supposed to fix have only gotten worse. Costs have...
- Baffled by the Economy - June 11, 2009
- President Obama and his critics have a major disagreement. He says his accelerated economic stimulus efforts will create 600,000 jobs by the end of the summer. Senate...
- If Congress Ran a Car Company - June 7, 2009
- The Edsel was one of the biggest flops in the history of car making. Introduced with great fanfare by Ford in 1958, it had terrible sales and was junked after only three...
- China After Tiananmen - June 4, 2009
- Spring always brings new blossoms, but 20 years ago, spring brought to China an unprecedented flowering. In hundreds of cities, citizens took to the streets in peaceful...
- Sotomayor's Aversion to Impartiality - May 31, 2009
- The chief blot on Sonia Sotomayor's otherwise stellar professional record is a comment she made deprecating the capabilities of any judge lacking a Y chromosome and...
- Identity Politics, Left and Right - May 28, 2009
- Some people are unhappy to hear President Obama suggest that attributes like gender, ethnicity and "empathy" are critical in choosing a Supreme Court justice, and it's...
- Peace with China, and Other Surprises - May 24, 2009
- BEIJING -- When you play with fireworks, there is no big shock in seeing them explode. The surprise comes when you light one, toss it and nothing happens. Over the last...
- China's Rocket to Modernity - May 21, 2009
- SHANGHAI --You know those time-lapse videos of sunflowers sprouting, zipping straight up and bursting into bloom in the space of a few seconds? While flipping the TV...
- Terrorists in the 'Hood - May 14, 2009
- Here's the Obama administration's plan for emptying out Guantanamo, as I understand it: Take each prisoner out of his cell. Give him a personal apology, a big kiss and...
- Empty Symbolism on Hate Crimes - May 11, 2009
- Federal law enforcement officials are not plagued by idleness these days, thanks to the demands on their time from terrorists, drug traffickers, human traffickers, Ponzi...
- Empty Symbolism on Hate Crimes - Chicago Tribune - May 11, 2009
- Federal law enforcement officials are not plagued by idleness these days, thanks to the demands on their time from terrorists, drug traffickers, human traffickers, Ponzi...
- The Other Dangers in Pakistan - May 7, 2009
- If you want Americans to pay attention to Pakistan -- not an easy thing to do -- your best bet is to conjure up images of Armageddon. The Obama administration, being put...
- Overreacting to Swine Flu - May 3, 2009
- I know I'm supposed to keep calm in a crisis, but in my experience, any crisis that makes the news is cause for fear, alarm and panic. Not necessarily because of the...
- The FCC's F-Word: Freedom - April 30, 2009
- Anyone who has ever dealt with attorneys has come to the realization that the law does not always make perfect sense. Even so, it comes as at least a mild surprise to...
- Stacking the Deck on Gay Marriage - April 26, 2009
- The country used to be unanimous in rejecting gay marriage. But that consensus, like the polar ice sheets, is showing some cracks. Vermont recently became the fourth...
- Torturing the Truth - April 23, 2009
- When the Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote his epic, "The Gulag Archipelago," some Americans read it to measure the gulf between the brute savagery of...
- The Truths Behind the Tea Parties - April 19, 2009
- The banking collapse and the economic meltdown have prompted many Americans to turn to the federal government as indispensable savior, telling...
- Back to the Future on Cuba - April 16, 2009
- In 1960, a gallon of gas cost 31 cents, Princeton University undergraduates were all male, the Braves played in Milwaukee, and Fidel Castro's Cuba was under a U.S. trade...
- Torched by the Olympics? - April 5, 2009
- If you like vanity projects, you'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger or better one than the Olympics -- a two-week extravaganza featuring thousands of...
- Obama's Losing Bet on Detroit - April 2, 2009
- In its final weeks, the Bush administration lent the automaker $13.4 billion, along with $4 billion for Chrysler. On Monday, President Obama gave GM 60 days...
- Obama's Mythical Defense Cuts - March 29, 2009
- The Wall Street Journal's editorial writers fear that any day, we will be naked unto our enemies. President Obama, they warn, wants to lavish money on...
- Flag Mistakes of Our Fathers - March 26, 2009
- In fact, Oklahoma's symbol has something in common with most of the other 49 state flags: It could use a great deal of improvement. A lot more care goes into...
- AIG and Our Embarrassing Congress - March 22, 2009
- In doing so, members resolutely avoided a couple of inconvenient realities. The first is that the fault, if any, lies with the same people who are now angry. The second...
- Congress in a Lynching Mood - March 19, 2009
- Never mind that if we know anything from recent automotive history, it's that the Big Three's competitive advantage is in trucks and SUVs. If they had...
- Smile, You're on Cop-Car Camera - March 15, 2009
- Far from revealing a staggering drunk, reported the Chicago Sun-Times, the video "showed Bell appearing to be perfectly balanced," passing the sobriety tests...
- Stem Cells Are Not Just About Science - March 12, 2009
- "This order," said the president, "is an important step in advancing the cause of science in America" and "protecting free and open inquiry." Harold Varmus,...
- Gay Marriage vs. Democracy - March 8, 2009
- But Californians were not content to let the court substitute its judgment for theirs. In November, they approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment...
- Why I Miss Bill Clinton - March 5, 2009
- He focused on making government better, not making it bigger. He didn't greatly enlarge Washington's role in our lives. He proclaimed -- or conceded -- that the "era of...
- Obama Retreats on Iraq Withdrawal - March 1, 2009
- Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq from the outset, promised to bring our troops home in short order and criticized John McCain for his "stubborn refusal to end this...
- Misstating the Constitution - February 26, 2009
- The District is a unique enclave, set apart by the founders as the seat of national government. But for this purpose, the advocates assert, it is functionally no...
- Detroit as the Prodigal Son - February 22, 2009
- People employed by automakers other than General Motors and Chrysler would be justified in feeling the same way. Last fall, facing bankruptcy, those...
- A Cornfed Remedy for Illinois Graft - February 19, 2009
- As you may have noticed if you ever get the news on WGN, Obama was not quite able to transform our state during his time in the legislature. It's as ethically imperfect...
- Reality Intrudes on the Drug War - February 15, 2009
- "Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of production and on the disruption of drug flows as well as on the criminalization of consumption have not...
- Baseball's Persistent Drug Culture - February 12, 2009
- If only. True, Major League Baseball has gotten reasonably serious about curbing its drug problems. But the incentives for getting around the rules --...