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- Stopping Dr. Statism - October 25, 2008
- What do those people favor who oppose Proposition 101? Some support legislation sponsored by the Democratic leader in the state House of Representatives. It would...
- Willie Sutton Goes to Harvard - October 22, 2008
- This government reach for control of private resources comes even though last year colleges and universities spent, on average, 4.6 percent of their endowments....
- The Shrinking Episcopal Church - October 18, 2008
- It is not the secessionists such as Duncan who are, as critics charge, obsessed with homosexuality. The Episcopal Church's leadership is latitudinarian -- tolerant...
- A Gift on Hallowed Ground - October 15, 2008
- In 1997, Bob Kinsley, a contractor in York, Pa., decided that something should be done about the decrepit facilities for explaining the battle and displaying its...
- Indispensable Term Limits - October 11, 2008
- Advocates of term limits argue neither that political talent is irrelevant nor that it is ubiquitous. Rather, they argue that talent is not so scarce that the...
- McCain in a Bear Market - October 8, 2008
- This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But...
- The Rough Rider's Collectivism - October 4, 2008
- He was an individualist who considered the individualism of others an impediment to the social unity required for national greatness. Having read Darwin's "The...
- A Vote Against Rashness - September 30, 2008
- Beneath Americans' perfunctory disapproval of government deficits lurks an inconvenient truth: They enjoy deficits, by which they are charged less than a dollar for a...
- The Problem With Early Voting - Newsweek - September 27, 2008
- Our Federal Economy - September 23, 2008
- The essence of this crisis is lack of knowledge, including the inability to know who owes what to whom, and where risk resides. In such a moment, government's speed...
- McCain's Queen of Hearts Intervention - September 22, 2008
- To read the Journal's details about the depths of McCain's shallowness on the subject of Cox's chairmanship, see "McCain's Scapegoat" (Sept. 19, Page A22). Then consider...
- Automakers Don't Deserve Bailout - September 20, 2008
- But in 1995, Fannie Mae, attempting to ingratiate itself with conservatives, approached Cato with cash, thereby proving that it understands libertarianism no better...
- McCain's Closing Argument - September 17, 2008
- Palin is as bracing as an Arctic breeze and delightfully elicits the condescension of liberals whose enthusiasm for everyday middle-class Americans cannot survive an...
- In Chicago, Discipline That Builds Dreams - September 14, 2008
- To work in the Sears Tower, a student must pass through something perhaps not encountered in his or her family's Mexican village or in Pilsen -- a revolving door --...
- Where Is the Pencil Czar? - Newsweek - September 13, 2008
- Pension Time Bomb - September 10, 2008
- So a police captain receives $306,000 a year in pay and benefits, a police lieutenant receives $247,644, and the average for firefighters -- 21 of them earn more...
- Are You Better Off? That Depends - September 6, 2008
- Imitation is the sincerest form of politics and in 1996 President Bill Clinton, seeking re-election, urged voters to ask themselves whether they were better off...
- Impulse, Meet Experience - September 2, 2008
- A telling touch, that "least fallible." The Founders represented the sober side of the Enlightenment. They knew, as conservatives do, that all guides are fallible....
- Candidates and the Common Man - Newsweek - August 31, 2008
- Watch Out for Arnold's Post-Partisanship - August 30, 2008
- Becoming governor in 2003, when Gov. Gray Davis was recalled, Schwarzenegger promised frugality. But even adjusting for inflation and population growth, spending has...
- The Devils in His Details - August 27, 2008
- Russia, a third-world nation with first-world missiles, is rampant; Iran is developing a missile inventory capable of delivering nuclear weapons the development of...
- Obama's Economic Fairytale - August 23, 2008
- By 2012 he would "require" the economy's huge energy sector to -- here things become comic -- supply half as much energy from renewable sources as already is being...
- Closing the Achievement Gap Through Paternalism - August 20, 2008
- Telling young people what they must do is what Chavis does. With close- cropped hair and a short beard flecked with gray, he looks somewhat like Lenin, but is less...
- Populism McCain Can Offer - August 16, 2008
- McCain's populism, if such there must be, should be distilled into one proposal that would be popular and, unlike most populism, not economically injurious. The...
- Russia's Power Play - August 11, 2008
- Vladimir Putin, into whose soul President George W. Bush once peered and liked what he saw, has conspicuously conferred with Russia's military, thereby making his...
- America's Racial Progress - August 9, 2008
- "Negro's Heinous Crime" and "Dragged From Her Bed and Outraged by Negro" were the next day's headlines. As Jim Rasenberger reconstructs events in his fine book...
- Will Brown Return To Sacramento? - August 6, 2008
- Feinstein is wealthy, well-known and popular, so she can wait until 2010 to decide, thereby paralyzing other possible Democratic candidates. If she then does not run,...
- Homogenizers in Retreat - Newsweek - August 3, 2008
- Obama's Eloquence Fatigue - August 2, 2008
- Anyway, at that monument Obama exhorted Germans -- does the candidate of "change" appreciate how much beneficent change made this exhortation necessary? -- to be more...
- Conservatism: Not Too Big To Fail - Newsweek - July 19, 2008
- Beer: Is There Anything It Can't Do? - July 9, 2008
- "The search for unpolluted drinking water is as old as civilization itself. As soon as there were mass human settlements, waterborne diseases like dysentery became a...
- Escorting the Fallen - July 5, 2008
- More precisely, it is about how the military honors them. The nation, as Marine Sgt. Damon Cecil says, "has changed the channel." Still, Sheeler sees civilians...
- The First Declaration of Independence - July 2, 2008
- On May 19, 1775, the day before the Mecklenburg convention met to act on such grievances, a rider arrived with news from Massachusetts about the April bloodshed at...
- McCain's Day of Repudiation - New York Post - June 26, 2008
- Building A Wall Against Talent - Washington Post - June 25, 2008
- The Case for Libertarian Paternalism - Newsweek - June 22, 2008
- More Prisoners, Less Crime - Houston Chronicle - June 21, 2008
- McCain's Posturing on Guantanamo - Washington Post - June 16, 2008
- Baseball Error and Its Political Lessons - Houston Chronicle - June 14, 2008
- November's Magic Numbers - Washington Post - June 11, 2008