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- To Democrats, It's Monopoly Money - March 23, 2010
- It is America's misfortune that at a moment in history that required sober, grown-up stewardship and a realistic appraisal of our fiscal trajectory, we elected (by large...
- This Is a Non-Arrogant Foreign Policy? - March 19, 2010
- Funny, President Obama was supposed to be against an arrogant foreign policy. Remember his speech in Strasbourg, France last spring? There had been times, he told the...
- Not Just One Terrible Idea, But Two! - March 16, 2010
- It's interesting that the Democrats are attempting to roll two of their highest priorities into one bill this month. The labyrinthine legislative legerdemain called...
- The Democrats Won't Talk About This Provision - March 12, 2010
- "You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the...
- Beware of Democrats Bearing Gifts - March 9, 2010
- The signs are all around us. Even as Barack Obama and the Democrats lower their heads and prepare to bulldoze a huge new entitlement through Congress, the results of...
- Mostly Hope - March 5, 2010
- After more than a year in office, the Obama foreign policy based on hope has run its course. Time after time, the administration has pursued a policy of pre-emptive...
- Voyeurism Dressed As a Public Service - March 2, 2010
- It's none of my business what Barack Obama's LDL cholesterol level is. And I don't have to know that he is using nicotine therapy to attempt to kick his smoking habit....
- Why Mitch Daniels is on the 2012 Short List - February 26, 2010
- On the morning of Nov. 5, 2008, the world rocked to news that the United States had elected Barack Obama to the presidency. That same morning, Mitch Daniels, governor of...
- Amnesty International: Not Much of a Reputation To Lose - February 23, 2010
- Amnesty International has been a handmaiden of the left for as long as I can remember. Founded in 1961 to support prisoners of conscience, it has managed since then to...
- Rethinking Political Virtue - February 19, 2010
- Asked by a radio host about the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FCC, Newt Gingrich said something that I imagine many conservatives have always believed...
- Unpacking Obama's Rationale on Terrorists - February 16, 2010
- Is there an organizing principle behind the Obama administration's decisions on dealing with accused terrorists? Announcing that Khalid Sheik Mohammad, mastermind of...
- The Chill on Scientific Inquiry - February 12, 2010
- True to their mission as the organs of the liberal establishment, Time magazine and The New York Times ran stories in the midst of the great snowmaggeddon warning us...
- Frontier Suburbanite - February 9, 2010
- Al Gore is responsible for this. He taunted Mother Nature. Consider this her memo: Don't Presume To Know What I Have in Store. Here in Fairfax County, we thought we were...
- Another Undead Conservative Idea - February 5, 2010
- Barack Obama assumed the presidency determined not just to promote certain policies but to tidy up our minds as well. Some things we'd been saving, like conservative...
- Has Obama Moved Center on Nuclear Power? - February 2, 2010
- The perennially optimistic strained to find evidence of a new centrism in President Obama's State of the Union address. Well, the Hyde Park liberal embraced nuclear...
- Carteresque - January 29, 2010
- In 1960, Fidel Castro addressed the U.N. General Assembly for four-and-a-half hours. President Obama didn't hit that target last night -- it only felt like it. The...
- You Named Your Dog for Coolidge? - January 26, 2010
- Since the world appears to be self-correcting -- Massachusetts voters have matters in hand, the Supreme Court has come to its senses on the First Amendment, each day...
- Message? What Message? - January 21, 2010
- You cannot lead solely by following election returns. But some members of the Democratic Party are now testing the proposition that you can ignore them. A year ago, they...
- Coakley Would Be Quayled -- If She Were a Republican - January 19, 2010
- Oh, how different the world would look if Martha Coakley were a Republican! As it is, she gets the sort of gentle rebukes the press reserves for Democrats. Her campaign...
- Proud of My Country - January 15, 2010
- Observations on the cataclysm in Haiti: As I write, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and half a dozen other U.S. Navy ships are steaming toward Haiti. They will join...
- Your Negro, My Macaca - January 12, 2010
- Welcome to America's longest running hit show -- the race farce, in which feigned shock and outrage lead to fawning apologies and bumbling explanations to all the wrong...
- It's Freezing: Must Be Global Warming - January 8, 2010
- Great swaths of Britain are buried under more than a foot of snow as the country shivers through the coldest winter since 1981. Airports have been shut down, trains have...
- Democratic Payoffs, Er, Stimulus - January 5, 2010
- When a non-American scholar I admired let slip a casual reference to "American corruption" a few years ago, my chauvinistic pride was wounded. This isn't Mexico, after...
- Whose Fault Is It? - January 2, 2010
- It may not be President Obama's fault that our multibillion-dollar Homeland Security apparatus is more Keystone Kops than "24," anymore than it was President Bush's...
- National Organization for Irresponsible Women - December 26, 2009
- Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo is in command of 22,000 American combat forces in northern Iraq. Unlike some high-ranking military men who demonstrate exemplary courage in the...
- Maximum Achievable Damage - December 22, 2009
- Does anyone remember the TV show "Supermarket Sweep"? Contestants would compete with one another by careening through a supermarket and grabbing as many products as they...
- Giving Thanks for Life - December 18, 2009
- Mia's story is good holiday fare. That must have been what the Washington Post editors were thinking when they put her smiling face on the front page. Whether they...
- Civil Rights Commission Blunders Again - December 15, 2009
- The U.S. Civil Rights Commission (yes, it's still around and yes, it's outlived its usefulness) is about to subtract from national wisdom about college admissions by...
- Democrats Whistling Past Graveyard - December 11, 2009
- The unexpected victory of Republican Jimmy Higdon in the Kentucky state Senate special election -- despite a 2-to-1 Democratic registration advantage -- is another fire...
- Torquemada in East Anglia - December 8, 2009
- Though professional hysterics may seek to "hide the decline," there has been a noticeable drop in the number of Americans who believe that global warming is a man-made...
- Does Obama Listen to Himself? - December 6, 2009
- Barack Obama is demonstrating bottomless reservoirs of gracelessness. A full 13 months after his election, in the course of justifying the deployment of 30,000 more...
- Why Won't We Face Iran's Evil? - December 1, 2009
- When tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets last spring and braved the most brutal repression the regime could inflict, Michael Ledeen was the least surprised...
- Nurse Ratched Democrats - November 24, 2009
- The president and his party in Congress are attempting to dig this country so deep into debt that we may not be able to climb out. This is a strong and resilient...
- Holder's True Motive - November 20, 2009
- Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous...
- How Low Can He Go? - November 17, 2009
- President Obama, who nearly prostrated himself before the king of Saudi Arabia last April, has once again bowed low to a monarch -- this time to the emperor of...
- Democrats May Regret 'Pass Anything' Strategy - November 13, 2009
- Former President Bill Clinton visited Capitol Hill recently to deliver a pep talk to Senate Democrats. "It's not important to be perfect here. It's important to act, to...
- Backlash Hogwash - November 10, 2009
- "U.S. Homeland Security officials are working with groups around the United States to head off any possible anti-Muslim backlash following the shootings at Fort Hood in...
- Are You with Us or with Them? - November 6, 2009
- President Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor. He announced the closing of Guantanamo in his first week on the job (though...
- Health Care Overhaul IV: This Time, It's Personal - November 3, 2009
- I labeled it "Health Care Overhaul IV" for convenience. In fact, a new 2,000-page behemoth seems to emerge more than once a week from the maw of Congress, so it's...
- Fighting the Lies Harder Than Fighting the War - October 30, 2009
- The war over the war in Gaza is heating up. Next week, the United Nations General Assembly will consider the tendentious Goldstone Report, the highest profile exercise...