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- Military Would Adapt Fine to Accepting Gays - February 7, 2010
- There are lots of reasons for excluding gays and lesbians from the military. But current supporters of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy insist that really, it all...
- Fiscal Stimulus is Buying Trouble - February 4, 2010
- This week, President Obama had the dubious pleasure of offering a budget with a deficit of more than a trillion dollars. He could have done something more politically...
- Fiscal Fraud -- or Frugality? - January 31, 2010
- For the past year, Republicans have been criticizing Barack Obama for out of control spending. So they must be pleased that they have forced him, in his State of the...
- It's the Economy, Stupid - January 28, 2010
- The story goes that a dog food company brought out a new mix, which sold poorly. The people in charge tried new ads. They tried different packaging. They targeted...
- Free Speech for Corporations - January 24, 2010
- During the 2008 campaign, a group called Citizens United put together a documentary, "Hillary: The Movie." Remember seeing it on cable TV? No, you don't, because the...
- Health Insurance by Command - January 21, 2010
- The nice thing about elections is that they give you a choice not only of people but of policies. In the 2008 primaries, for instance, Hillary Clinton offered a health...
- Luck and Virtue in America and Haiti - January 17, 2010
- We sit in the shade of trees we did not plant. -- Peter Raible Most Haitians may have never cut down a tree, but just as we enjoy trees someone else planted, they suffer...
- Is Obama a Republican? - January 14, 2010
- Anyone who was hoping the current administration would bring a modest downsizing of the nation's defense establishment and global military role has to be feeling like...
- Tobacco Truth Gets Smoked - January 10, 2010
- Upon thinking of someone using "smokeless tobacco," you may immediately think: a vile, disgusting habit with no redeeming social value. That, it turns out, is only...
- The Naked Truth About Airport Scanners - January 7, 2010
- To judge from the news accounts, Umar Abdulmutallab did everything to get himself caught except wear an Osama bin Laden T-shirt onto that Northwest Airlines flight...
- In 2009, Global Freedom Had Few Blooms - December 27, 2009
- This year marked the 20th anniversary of the blossoming of democracy around the world, stimulated in part by the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989. Far from...
- Don't Blame the Airlines - December 24, 2009
- Christmas is nigh, and Santa Claus is not the only person who will be flying to make his appointed rounds. This holiday season, according to the Air Transport...
- How to Make Enemies on Health Care - December 20, 2009
- Barack Obama hoped to unify the nation, and he is making impressive progress toward that goal. Last week, he created common ground between Howard Dean and conservatives....
- Terrorists in the Heartland? Chill. - December 17, 2009
- The idea of having an al-Qaida presence in Illinois, even locked up behind bars, is a horrifying prospect. That's what we have to confront now that the Obama...
- A Losing Bet in Afghanistan - December 14, 2009
- President Obama has outlined his new Afghanistan strategy, and the critics have had a lot to say. Things will be tougher than they were in Iraq, warned one opponent. The...
- Obama's Fantasy Jobs Plan - December 10, 2009
- This is that wonderful time of year when a roly-poly, white-bearded fellow descends from the North Pole to lavish us with presents. So when President Obama follows suit,...
- Boobs in Congress - December 6, 2009
- One of the ostensible reasons for reforming our health insurance system is the need to halt the growth of spending on medical treatment. So it may be a surprise to learn...
- Armed Pols: A Chicago Tradition - November 22, 2009
- Last week, the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott was found in the Chicago River with a single bullet wound in his head. The big story was that this...
- 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...