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- Americans Will Regret Health Care 'Fix' - June 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "In the beginning," says a character in a Peter De Vries novel, "the earth was without form and void. Why didn't they leave well enough alone?" When...
- Tilting at Green Windmills - June 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating...
- We Don't Need Radical Health Care Reform - June 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- To dissect today's health care debate, the crux of which concerns a "public option," use the mind's equivalent of a surgeon's scalpel, Occam's razor, a...
- Burned By a Tobacco Bill - June 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Politicians have extraordinary shoulder joints that enable them to pat themselves on the back, and last week the president, a master of that calisthenic,...
- More Judicial Activism Please - June 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "We," said Queen Victoria, employing the royal plural, "are not amused." "We," said the Treasury Department on Tuesday, relishing the royal prerogatives it...
- Growth's Rapidly Diminishing Prospects - June 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Noting that people "criticize me for harping on the obvious," Calvin Coolidge justified that practice by saying, "If all the folks in the United States...
- Have We Got a Deal For You at GM - June 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "I," said the president, who is inordinately fond of the first-person singular pronoun, "want to disabuse people of this notion that somehow we enjoy...
- Green With Guilt - June 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There once was an Indianapolis concert featuring 50 pianos. Splendid instruments, pianos. Still, 50 might have been excessive. As is today's chorus...
- 'Shock And Awe' Statism - May 31, 2009
- Epiphanies are a dime a dozen among congressional Democrats as they discover urgent new reasons to experience the almost erotic pleasure of commandeering other people's...
- Identity Justice - May 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Responding to early 19th-century rumors that they drank excessively, the Supreme Court justices decided to drink nothing on conference days -- unless it...
- End Run on Free Speech - May 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For several decades, most of the ingenuity that liberal academics have invested in First Amendment analysis has aimed to justify limiting the core activity...
- Secretary of Behavior Modification - Newsweek - May 22, 2009
- The Coming California Bailout - May 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- California, the sunny incubator of America's future, has relished its role as a leading indicator of political trends. Tuesday it became what it thinks it...
- Greed's Saving Graces - May 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Greed, we are agreed, is bad. It also is strange. It has long been included among the Seven Deadly Sins, which suggests that it is a universal and...
- Tincture of Lawlessness - May 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones. And anyone could govern as boldly as their whims decreed, were it not for the...
- Upside-Down Economy - May 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- From Oct. 18 to Dec. 3, 1961, 116,000 people visited New York's Museum of Modern Art before anyone noticed that Henri Matisse's painting "Le Bateau" had...
- Sunbeams from Cucumbers - May 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Gulliver's travels took him to the Academy of Lagado, where "professors contrive new rules and methods" for everything: "One man shall do the work of ten;...
- California as Liberalism's Laboratory - May 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- California's increasingly severe and largely self-inflicted economic crisis will deepen on May 19 if, as is probable and desirable, voters reject most of...
- Reconciliation's Slippery Path - April 30, 2009
- Reconciliation: The action of bringing to agreement, concord, or harmony. -- Oxford English Dictionary WASHINGTON -- But under Senate rules, "reconciliation" can be a...
- Unsilent Barack - Newsweek - April 27, 2009
- A 19th-century historian called the Middle Ages "a thousand years without a bath." That oversimplified somewhat, but was interestingly suggestive. So is the summation of...
- The Wreck of the Racial Spoils System - April 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Wednesday morning, a lawyer defending in the Supreme Court what the city of New Haven, Conn., did to Frank Ricci and 17 other white firemen (including one...
- Obama's Budget Follies - April 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Monday morning the government braced for austerity, as the government understands that. Having sent Congress a $3.5 trillion budget, the president signaled...
- The Incredible Shrinking Russia - April 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- America's "progressive" president has some peculiarly retro policies. Domestically, his reactionary liberalism is exemplified by his policy of No Auto...
- Forever in Blue Jeans - April 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was...
- Is There a 'Community of Nations'? - Newsweek - April 13, 2009
- President William Howard Taft understood how political cant can bewitch the speaker's mind. Listening to an aide natter on about "the machinery of government," Taft...
- Racing Past the Constitution - April 12, 2009
- What is to prevent legislators from taking revenues from Wal-Mart and giving them to local retailers? Or from chain drugstores to local pharmacies? Not the tattered...
- Hail the Ump - April 9, 2009
- A great fielding play can cost the fielder's team the game. With less than two out, if a player makes a catch and falls into the stands, every runner moves up a...
- Obama's Wallow in the Automobile Industry - April 5, 2009
- Actually, his administration prefers to do that rather than allow bankruptcy to infuriate the United Auto Workers union, which was pre-emptively grateful to Obama's...
- Perils of a Bright Idea - April 2, 2009
- "Tariffs can be lowered to grant special preference to climate-friendly goods, or they can be maintained at high levels to discourage trade in GHG (greenhouse...
- Bailout Boundary Dispute - March 29, 2009
- FreedomWorks, a Washington-based libertarian advocacy organization, argues that EESA violates "the nondelegation doctrine." Although the text does not spell it out,...
- The Toxic Assets We Elected - March 24, 2009
- Another embarrassing auditor of American misgovernment is China, whose premier has rightly noted the unsustainable trajectory of America's high-consumption, low-savings...
- Kidnapped by the Cartels - March 22, 2009
- In any case, law-abiding citizens here are rarely at risk. Most of the kidnappings are drug smugglers and human traffickers preying on one another. Some of the...
- Arizona in the Cross Hairs - March 19, 2009
- The prosecution of the proprietor is part of the U.S. attempt to stop the southward flow of weapons and bulk currency while Mexico combats the northward flow of...
- Education: Calling the Baby Ugly - Newsweek - March 16, 2009
- Voting Rights Gone Wrong - March 15, 2009
- Last week, two days after the 44th anniversary of the Selma march that helped pass the 1965 act, the Supreme Court took a timid step toward limiting the perverse...
- Paved With Magnificent Intentions - March 12, 2009
- Quicker than you can say "toxic assets," which TARP was supposedly designed to quarantine, TARP was subsidizing the manufacture of automobiles partially designed by...
- Where the Obesity Grows - March 8, 2009
- Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food," says that after World War II the government had a huge surplus of ammonium nitrate, an...
- Congress Should Debate SOFA with Iraq - March 5, 2009
- Last Aug. 1, Sen. Joe Biden introduced S. 3433 to prohibit funding for a "security commitment to, or security arrangement with" Iraq that has not been approved by...
- Yes, He Does Believe in Bigger Government - Newsweek - March 2, 2009
- On April 12, 1933, the 40th day of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt met with reporters and recounted to them "a story that was told to me the other day." The story of...
- Just the Facts on Global Warming Alarmism - February 27, 2009
- On Wednesday, the Times carried a "news analysis" -- a story in the paper's news section, but one that was not just reporting news -- accusing Al Gore and this...