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- The Man of the Hour - June 19, 2009
- Someone few Americans had ever heard of one week ago now stands poised to alter history. His name is Mir Hossein Mousavi and his case utterly debunks the school of...
- Foreign Policy as Social Work - June 16, 2009
- In 1980, after Soviet tanks rumbled into Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter experienced an epiphany. The former Georgia governor, who in 1977 liberated the U.S. from...
- Are We Scaremongers? - June 12, 2009
- "This Time, We Won't Scare" boasts New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, strapping on his armor for the coming joust. The health care debate will be cheapened, he...
- The Health Care Bill is the Ball Game - June 9, 2009
- You might suppose that President Obama has his hands full running two wars, administering General Motors, "rescuing" the banking system, attempting to empower unions...
- Obama in Cairo: Diplomacy of Wishful Thinking - June 5, 2009
- In Cairo, President Obama told (was it for the 100th time?) the story of his African father and American mother. This story has worked well for him in the American...
- It's Not Fair To Casually Call People Racist - June 2, 2009
- The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has already achieved a boon for our political culture: It has helped leading liberals and Democrats to...
- Are We at Peace? - May 27, 2009
- Rome -- Here the sun is shining, the quiet Tiber suggests lazily that it has seen everything there is to see in this world; the streets are thronged with tourists...
- The Wrong Marriage Debate - May 15, 2009
- The other day I chatted with a pregnant gal at the hair salon. She was about 20, sweet, pretty, and demure. Because I am always doing sociological fieldwork, I asked my...
- Obama's Signal to Israel: Submit - May 12, 2009
- In early April, Vice President Biden was asked if the administration was concerned that Israel might strike at Iran's nuclear facilities. "I don't believe Prime Minister...
- Will Obama Apologize? - May 8, 2009
- President Obama's admirers (for a handy list simply consult the White House Correspondents Association website) go into raptures about his measured, intelligent, even...
- Jack French Kemp, RIP - May 5, 2009
- Jack Kemp was supposed to read this column. A dinner in his honor was scheduled for next week and I had timed the column to appear just prior. The last his friends had...
- Expletive Deleted ... For Now - May 1, 2009
- The Supreme Court of the United States is a redoubt of decorum in a casual Friday world. The justices still wear robes. The assembled attorneys, journalists, and...
- Uncle Buckley's Giant Shadow - April 28, 2009
- Fourteen months ago Bill Buckley collapsed and died at his desk in Stamford, Conn. The ground has still not finished shaking. How could it? Two sons -- one biological...
- Clinton Can't Defend Patron Saint of Planned Parenthood - April 24, 2009
- Appearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was confronted in a way she probably wasn't expecting. Rep. Chris Smith,...
- An Ugly Handshake with Hugo Chavez - April 21, 2009
- In one photo, President Obama is grinning as he clasps Hugo Chavez by the hand. In another, he grasps Chavez warmly by the shoulder. Those pictures disgusted several...
- CNN Versus the Tea Parties - April 17, 2009
- When thousands of people in all 50 states assemble to protest government policy, you might suppose that this is news. Not according to the coverage on the front pages of...
- Liberals and Child Brides - April 14, 2009
- When I condemned President Barack Obama's deep bow to Saudi King Abdullah, I heard from many readers about President George W. Bush's hand-holding with the same...
- Useful Idiots Caucus - April 10, 2009
- "This is the dawning of a new day,'' exclaimed Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill. "In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor." Funny...
- Apologizing for America - April 7, 2009
- Don't hold your breath waiting for any European to acknowledge that they have been guilty of arrogance. And before giving Obama too much credit for humility, consider...
- Wordy - April 3, 2009
- I'm delighted and a little surprised that my publicly educated boys are learning grammar at all. When I attended public school, grammar was completely out of...
- The Ship is Sinking: Quick, Add Water - April 1, 2009
- Some cynics insist that Democrats only decry spending they dislike (such as on the military) and Republicans only deprecate spending they dislike (such as on...
- Rebooting America's Global Image Not Going Well - March 27, 2009
- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's response was, well, a little less than enthusiastic. While the crowd chanted "Death to America," Khamenei demanded:...
- The Sex Workers' Art Show on Campus - March 24, 2009
- Here are a few ideas for discussion: Doesn't presenting such a show trivialize and possibly even encourage the degradation and exploitation of women inherent...
- Barney Frank as Madame Defarge - March 20, 2009
- Accepting all of the above as fact (and it is not entirely clear, as of this writing, whether the executives receiving bonuses are the same ones who got the...
- What Was I Going To Say? - March 17, 2009
- As someone who got her first gray hair at the age of 24, I've always been unusually conscious of time passing. This needn't be morbid. My junior high school...
- About Those 'False Choices' - March 13, 2009
- A few sentences later, President Obama himself acknowledged that "sound science" is not the only consideration. He declared that "we will ensure that our...
- The Risible Claim of "Responsibility" - March 10, 2009
- Bush and the Republicans committed their share of fiscal sins (more on that in a moment) but what is maddening about Obama and the Democrats is their gall. Not only do...
- Stand Up for Capitalism - March 6, 2009
- The Democrats scoff when you use the "s" word (socialism). It's a bogeyman, they argue. Not so. If by socialism you refer to the sort of government-heavy...
- Pluripotent Self-Delusion - March 3, 2009
- "It's very exciting work," Robert Lanza, a stem cell researcher at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts, told the Washington Post. "With the new work,...
- Obama's Strange Habit of Denying What He's Doing - February 27, 2009
- The president thinks he has the opening to do so because this contraction, a bust following a boom such as free markets have experienced since the dawn of...
- Back to the Future? - February 24, 2009
- "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong ......
- Mysterious Khmer - February 20, 2009
- What technique! The 18-paragraph story certainly made clear that the reporter, Seth Mydans, was none too pleased with the defendant. That much was clear....
- Is Hugo Chavez the Future? - February 17, 2009
- The Jewish community of Caracas has been the object of repeated harassment. Official media have anathematized Jews and Israel. A Jewish community center was...
- 'We Love to Talk,' Declares Biden - February 10, 2009
- Just as he did during the campaign, when then-candidate Biden declared that we had "kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon," among other whoppers, Biden is again...
- Responsibility -- If Only - February 6, 2009
- (Here is an under-reported story: the failure of boards of directors to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders by curbing unwarranted executive...
- And Baby Makes 14 - February 3, 2009
- It would be different if this were a natural occurrence. But it very rarely is. Data from the late 19th century, long before the era of fertility drugs,...
- Palestinian Myth Machine - January 30, 2009
- In fact, in August 2002, the United Nations and Human Rights Watch (neither very friendly to Israel) put the final fatality figures at 26 Palestinian...
- Where is Free Market Economics When We Need It Most? - January 27, 2009
- President Obama was a teenager when some of the smartest liberals in America (dubbed the neoconservatives) were beginning to have doubts about the power of...
- Executing Faithfully - January 23, 2009
- There were things for conservatives to like in Obama's address. Few have noticed, for example, that he clearly disavowed plans to reinstitute the Fairness...
- Letter to Obama Supporters - January 20, 2009
- Well, the Obama ascendancy may make the U.S. more popular in Europe -- though our unpopularity there has been overstated. The most influential nations in...