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Obama Underappreciation Syndrome

Posted on October 22, 2010
Democrats can call their opponents paranoid, but that won?t save them in November. In an increasingly desperate attempt to develop a narrative for the coming Democratic collapse, the Democrats have indulged themselves in what for half a century they've habitually attributed to the American Right: the paranoid style in American politics...

Pork War on the Pacific

Posted on October 22, 2010
In Washington State, Democrats stand behind their record of bringing home the bacon. Listening to the speeches at Thursday's massive 'Get Out the Vote' rally for Sen. Patty Murray (D) at the University of Washington, one was left wondering: Are the politicians here that out of touch with the political zeitgeist? Or are the voters here just that liberal? The answer may lie somewhere in between, but some of rhetoric on display at the event was mindboggling given the political climate in other parts of the country...

The U.S.?s Disorganized Retreat

Posted on October 21, 2010
Out of Iraq, Afghanistan ? and the rest of the world. Each week, the world visibly evolves toward a multipolar system, slowly devising new arrangements as traditional multinational structures atrophy...

Buckeye Red

Posted on October 21, 2010
Ohio?s congressional delegation will soon go GOP. When Barack Obama swept Ohio just a short two years ago, he brought with him a new crop of fresh-faced, allegedly reformist Democrats with an independent streak and a penchant for taking on the powers that be...

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Reviving New Mexico

Posted on October 21, 2010
Gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez hopes to balance the budget, fight corruption, and reform education. New Mexico may be dubbed the Land of Enchantment, but for current residents, the reality on the ground is far from magical...

Talk to the Taliban?

Posted on October 21, 2010
This U.S. policy is seriously misguided. With the war in Afghanistan now in its tenth year and both security and public support at their nadir, diplomats and generals in both Washington and Kabul focus increasingly on reconciliation with the Taliban as the key to stability and withdrawal...

Three Charts that Will Infuriate Taxpayers

Posted on October 21, 2010
Every small-government voter should see these charts ? and vote on Election Day. With just 13 days until the November 2 elections, pro-market, small-government candidates, activists, and concerned citizens should study and then disseminate three charts that perfectly encapsulate the status quo that, if all goes well, the midterm vote will capsize...

Tea Party Neophytes Outshine the Dems? Old Pros

Posted on October 21, 2010
Many of these neophytes have excellent political instincts. One of the constant refrains of the so-called mainstream media is that Tea Party candidates are blithering incompetents and weird wackos...

Barney Not-So-Frank

Posted on October 21, 2010
The Massachusetts congressman implausibly denies his role in the mortgage meltdown. You would be hard pressed to find a politician who is less frank than Congressman Barney Frank. Even in an occupation where truth and candor are often lacking, Congressman Frank is in a class by himself when it comes to rewriting history in creative ways...

Three Wars, Little News

Posted on October 21, 2010
We?ve ignored the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Mexico long enough. It is a busy time in America. The Major League Baseball playoffs are competing with the upcoming midterm elections for the public's attention...

Obstructed View

Posted on October 21, 2010
Comedians and academics unite to limit freedom of speech. An African-American woman who affects a Jewish-sounding surname as a running joke storms off the stage in response to what she regards as the slander of Muslims...

Democrats Are the French Party

Posted on October 21, 2010
Europeans are struggling to reverse their leftward lurch; Democrats are accelerating ours. Only in France could a labor action sound like a tasty appetizer. They call it 'escargot,' but they're not referring to snails in a buttery garlic sauce...

Bringing Down the Queen of Pork

Posted on October 20, 2010
Dino Rossi guns for Patty Murray in the race to become a Washington State senator. Despite the profound effect that its outcome could have on the balance of power in Congress next year, the Washington Senate race has so far been one of the least entertaining of the cycle...

There?s No Avoiding ?Repeal and Replace?

Posted on October 20, 2010
It?s essential for limited government. Scores of House and Senate candidates are campaigning on a platform of reestablishing limited government. There could hardly be a more encouraging development for our republic...

A Better Way than the VA?

Posted on October 20, 2010
Single-payer health care does not serve all veterans well. If you listen to Democratic campaign ads in Colorado, Nevada, or Delaware, among other places, you will discover yet another perfidious plot by evil Republicans -- they want to 'privatize the VA...

That Strange Summer of 2008

Posted on October 20, 2010
How our first postracial, postnational, bipartisan president has revealed himself to be a condescending doctrinaire ideologue. Historians will look back at the 2008 campaign in the light of the 2010 midterm elections...

Obama?s U.N. ?Engagement? Swindle

Posted on October 20, 2010
It doesn?t speak well for our foreign policy when the administration has to fabricate supposed successes. As gross human-rights violations continue to plague much of our planet, the U.N.'s lead human-rights body, the Human Rights Council, remains fixated on Israel, leaving the Obama administration in need of a strategy for justifying its policy of 'engagement,' and particularly American membership in the HRC...

Republicans Cry ?Cowabunga!?

Posted on October 20, 2010
GOP congressman Charles Djou hangs on in Hawaii. Republicans are itching for a majority in the House of Representatives. And one seat they hope will be in it is Hawaii's 1st congressional district...

Extreme Girls: All the President?s Radical Women

Posted on October 20, 2010
The administration is giving ?nanny state? a whole new meaning. We are in the era of Democratic Extreme Girls -- Big Nanny handmaidens who demand control of your children, your health care, your energy use, your pocketbook, and your news...

Shovel-Ready White Elephants

Posted on October 20, 2010
When it comes to infrastructure, Uncle Sam?s arteries are hardened. It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building, four years to erect the Golden Gate Bridge. The Pentagon took a year and a half, the Alaska Highway just nine months...

Change, Don?t ?Celebrate,? Cultures

Posted on October 20, 2010
The multicultural dogma that we must accept every culture is inane. There was a reason that employers in the middle of the 19th century had signs that said, No Irish need apply -- and why employers in the middle of the 20th century no longer had such signs...

Tim Geithner, Dollar Protector?

Posted on October 20, 2010
Will the Treasury man resurrect King Dollar? The falling dollar is on most everybody's mind, especially in financial markets here at home and globally. A currency war? World protectionism? Race to the bottom? The dollar is the lynchpin of the world's financial system, and it's still the world's reserve currency...

Kathleen Parker Keeps Her Chin Up

Posted on October 19, 2010
Despite her new show?s low ratings, a slightly right-of-center host stays optimistic. New York -- In the inner sanctum of CNN, high above Lincoln Center, Kathleen Parker's office is tucked in the back, a few steps from the outer rim of newsroom cubicles...

The Blue and the Gray

Posted on October 19, 2010
It is hard not to feel for seniors in this economy. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is doing everything in his power to make life miserable for people who rely on income from their savings, as so many seniors do. By endeavoring night and day to convince justifiably risk-averse businesses to expand, the Fed has made safe savings vehicles essentially worthless...

Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian?

Posted on October 19, 2010
Not long ago, Bernard Lewis sounded almost like Geert Wilders. Who says Islam is a totalitarian doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday's superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has even had the temerity to compare Islam with Nazism...

Proud to Be a Republican

Posted on October 19, 2010
Today, the Republican party actually stands for something other than being an alternative to the Democratic party. After I became a Republican in the early 1990s -- in a recent column, I explained how emotionally difficult it is for a Democrat to vote Republican, let alone become one -- I concluded that I had left the dangerous party and joined the stupid party...

The President vs. the Public

Posted on October 19, 2010
Obama blames Washington and the American people for the Democrats? failures. In the midterm of its discontent, the Obama administration has become a long catalog of excuses. It seems everything would be going swimmingly if Washington weren't so irredeemably broken...

The Cult of Multiculturalism

Posted on October 19, 2010
This modern obsession has created problems so obvious that only the intelligentsia could fail to see them. Somebody eventually had to say it -- and German chancellor Angela Merkel deserves credit for being the one who had the courage to say it out loud...

On not missing Clinton, &c.

Posted on October 19, 2010
Bill Clinton is all over the place now, campaigning for Democratic candidates. He is their number-one draw, apparently. And he can go to places where President Obama is damaged goods, so to speak. For the past year and a half or so, some conservatives have been experiencing Clinton nostalgia...

Israel and Congressional Democrats

Posted on October 19, 2010
The numbers plainly compel Israel supporters to vote Democrats out. How should American voters concerned with Israel's welfare and security vote in the U.S. congressional elections on November 2? This much is clear after almost two years of Democratic control over the executive and legislative branches of government: Democrats consistently support Israel and its government far less than do Republicans...

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