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David Harsanyi
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- 'Nyet' to Car Industry Bailout - December 9, 2008
- Who better to run a failing industry? And who better to oversee a top-down economic plan than the razor-sharp mind of Barney Frank and his crew,...
- Welcome to VirtualCrimes.gov - December 4, 2008
- Take the case of a Colorado man named J.P. Weichel. He decided to post a fuming diatribe about his former girlfriend on Craigslist's "rants & raves" section after a...
- Giving Up on God (Sort Of) - December 2, 2008
- Californians, Dobson rationalizes, proved that values voters still matter, because "many who pulled the lever for the 'change' (Obama) espoused also pulled...
- Maybe It Is a Time for Hope - November 25, 2008
- It truly is a time of hope. Obama's campaign was a feast of platitudinous feel-gooderism and leftist populism. Yet judging from his recent...
- Baseball, Apple Pie and Corporate Welfare - November 13, 2008
- We should be calling this a bailout of incompetence, corporate cronyism and unionism, actually -- and a step toward nationalization, as Congress wants a...
- Getting Out Of the Republican Coma - November 11, 2008
- The prominent conservative columnist David Brooks recently declared the coming Republican war would pit "Traditionalists," conservatives who believe Republicans have...
- Unity? No, Thank You - November 5, 2008
- Winning elections is one thing; governing is quite another. It is impossible to deny that Obama ran one of the sharpest, most diligent and exhilarating...
- If It Redistributes Like a Duck... - October 30, 2008
- A funny line. But of course, Obama's lofty intellect must comprehend the fundamental difference between sharing your GI Joe with a friend and having a bully...
- Heck, We Spend More on Pornography - October 28, 2008
- Groups of you may get together and splurge on any number of mysterious diversions, from science fiction conventions to NASCAR. A citizen can buy as much...
- The Lighter Side of the Election Battle - October 21, 2008
- The country, sadly, did not. "Then, realizing what we had done -- because he did come out looking like a nice guy -- we pursued (Nixon's opponent...
- We're with Stupid - October 16, 2008
- If you answered "the defendants," "that neocon chick" and "J. Gordon Brown," you're a member of an elite 18 percent of Americans who hit it on the nose....
- New Faces but Few Changes - October 14, 2008
- Remember Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi promising a new age of principled government in 2006? "The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty...
- Negative Truth Won't Change a Thing - October 7, 2008
- As the economic news -- fairly or not -- has provided Obama the momentum this past month, John McCain has decided to bring the senator from Illinois' shady associations...
- Kill Bill -- Vol. 3 - October 2, 2008
- No one anticipates Cicero-like deliberations in Washington, of course, but how about a vote on the actual merits of the $700 billion bailout proposed by the...
- Dear Comrades: Let's Do Nothing - September 30, 2008
- Are there really only two choices: depression or nationalization? Can we afford this bailout without spending cuts? Should we rescue financial institutions without the...
- Mahmoud's in a New York State of Mind - September 25, 2008
- It's bad enough this birdbrained troglodyte was walking the streets of America's greatest city again this week, a place teeming with women, Christians, Jews...
- ... But One Life to Give the IRS - September 18, 2008
- When, exactly, did taxation transform into a form of charity? Biden, it seems, has a difficult time differentiating between coercion and generosity. The...
- The Political Lying Game - September 15, 2008
- Ouch. We can attribute one of the following to this claim: 1) Burton has just landed on the planet Earth. 2) Burton is attempting to manipulate the media. 3)...
- There Are No Victims in This Race - September 11, 2008
- Palin's frontier mystique has captivated conservatives. Both the lipstick and the pit bull. It also has discombobulated many Democrats, now fumbling to find...
- Risk for Thee, But Not for Me - September 8, 2008
- Stockholders of Fannie and Freddie have profited for decades from an implicit taxpayer guarantee on their business while pretending that such a pledge didn't exist. ...
- Republicans Rediscover Idealism - September 4, 2008
- Washington insiders have been hammering away at a "re-branding" of the Republican Party. More often than not, they propose abandoning any stray fiscally conservative...
- The Libertarian Case for Palin - September 1, 2008
- Palin, for example, vetoed 300 pork projects in Alaska in her first year in office. She made a habit of knocking out big-government Republicans in her brief political...
- Sarah Palin, Libertarian - Denver Post - August 28, 2008
- The Right Choice for McCain - August 28, 2008
- He could tap former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, mom, Princeton and Harvard graduate, and a woman who was ranked by Forbes as one of the 400-richest Americans in 2007. ...
- In Denver, the End of Capitalism - August 27, 2008
- Naturally, every political convention features its share of demagoguery. But buried beneath the idealistic policy talk in Denver is an ugly detail: It's about coercion. ...
- The 'Safe' Convention - August 25, 2008
- Apparently, Hillary loyalist and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell missed the memo when he accused the media of having irrational exuberance for Obama during the primaries....
- An Election Just Like Any Other - August 18, 2008
- If only it were so simple.It's often said that loathing of an opposing candidate is not enough for victory. And aversion to George Bush is not, on its own, enough reason...
- Mommy Won't Help Dems on Abortion - August 14, 2008
- And why should it. The right of a woman to choose an abortion is one of the tenets of the Democratic Party. A political body must take an inflexible position on occasion...
- Injecting Race Into the Campaign - July 31, 2008
- The myth claims you want nothing to do with this ugliness. Which is true if the attacks happen to be directed at your favored candidate.In reality, nearly every campaign...
- What Obama Could Learn on Vacation - July 22, 2008
- In England mere months ago, the left-of-center Labor Party lost more than 400 seats in local elections, including finishing off the reign of London Mayor Ken "The Red"...
- What Dems Can't Say About Drilling - July 17, 2008
- Well, here we are. At $4 a gallon for gas, we already have a flailing economy. Isn't it glorious? And isn't it exactly what many environmentalists desired?The problem is...
- Cartoons We Can Believe In - July 15, 2008
- Some of America's best moments in journalism are "tasteless and offensive." And, in satire, we've see some of our sharpest political punditry. Just ask fans of Stephen...
- It's the Republican Leadership, Stupid - July 7, 2008
- Yes. But it's more. Republicans are experiencing an identity crisis. And nowadays, every faction of the coalition has embarked on a mission to rethink, re-jigger and...
- Fairness Doctrine Limits Free Speech - Denver Post - June 26, 2008
- McCain Battery Idea is Low-Watt Economics - Denver Post - June 23, 2008
- Wait. Whose Side Are We on Again? - Denver Post - June 19, 2008
- Conspiracy Theories Everywhere - Denver Post - June 12, 2008
- Maybe a Loss is What Republicans Need - Denver Post - May 15, 2008
- Obama's Personal Diplomacy Spells Trouble - Denver Post - April 10, 2008