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About That 'Ditch'

Posted on October 19, 2010
President Obama speaks as if he?s had nothing to do with our economic woes. Here's a technique they don't teach in campaign school: Patronize the voters. President Obama, speaking at a fundraiser in Boston, said, 'People out there are still hurting very badly, and they are still scared...

The Not-So-Great Recession

Posted on October 18, 2010
Our present situation does not resemble the Great Depression. The National Bureau of Economic Research has declared that the Great Recession ended in June 2009. At first glance, some may see the end of the recession as vindication of the White House's stimulus and its other aggressive fiscal-policy initiatives...

Paul Krugman: Professor Ahab

Posted on October 18, 2010
From the Nov. 1, 2010, issue of NR. The occupational hazards of opinion journalism include certain intellectual and moral bad habits: Logical fallacies offer tempting shortcuts through difficult arguments...

Baker?s Ascent

Posted on October 18, 2010
Republican Charlie Baker is gaining ground on the widely unpopular Deval Patrick. Earlier this year, conservatives were glum about the governor's race in Massachusetts. The Republican candidate, businessman Charlie Baker, was socially liberal; his running mate, state senate minority leader Richard Tisei, was ideologically suspect; and the Democratic incumbent, Deval Patrick, was well ahead...

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What the Wilders Trial Means

Posted on October 18, 2010
The trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been altogether an extraordinary event. He is accused of saying rude and even hateful things about Islam, the prophet Mohammed, and the Koran -- and people are not supposed to talk like that, in public at least...

Democrats? Glass Houses

Posted on October 18, 2010
The Democrats who accuse the Chamber of Commerce of being un-American were strangely silent about Barack Obama?s questionable donors in 2008. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged as the bogeyman of the Left this election cycle for allegedly spending foreign money on political campaigns...

The EPA?s Anti-Prosperity Agenda

Posted on October 18, 2010
Obama?s great job-killer takes on America?s great job-creator. On Labor Day, President Obama pledged to 'keep fighting every single day, every single hour, every single minute to turn this economy around and put people back to work...

Obamacare vs. Democrats

Posted on October 18, 2010
Obama, Pelosi, and Clinton predicted that Obamacare would become more popular once it was passed. It hasn?t. Seven months ago, Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent a busy week rounding up votes to get the House to pass the Senate version of the Democrats' health-care legislation...

2010 Races Follow Common Pattern

Posted on October 18, 2010
Democrats have no message as the election approaches. A pattern is emerging in the 2010 midterm elections that is repeating itself in scores of districts and a dozen states throughout the nation...

Joe Miller for Senate

Posted on October 18, 2010
This Alaska crooner could hit gold as a Washington reformer. You know Lee Greenwood. He's the country-music star who hit patriotic paydirt with his 1980s hit song 'God Bless the U.S.A.' Joe Miller, the Republican nominee for Senate in Alaska, actually looks like Greenwood, to the point that Miller could easily be mistaken for the singer if he ever strolled through Nashville...

Murkowski?s Quid pro Quo

Posted on October 18, 2010
Joe Miller would reform a federal contracting program. Lisa Murkowski thinks Alaska is just getting its fair share. ‘Joe Miller has a plan for Alaska,' begins a commercial supporting Sen...

Bard of the Right

Posted on October 16, 2010
From the Nov. 1, 2010, issue of NR. After Bill Buckley died, people who knew I'd once worked at National Review asked about him, and I always told them that nothing about the man was overrated...

The Wilders West

Posted on October 16, 2010
Once a place of free inquiry, Europe is slowly stifling itself. For a prosecutor, it was a simple matter of cause and effect. First, I showed that the 'Blind Sheikh,' Omar Abdel Rahman, called for acts of violence: He admonished Muslims that Allah commanded them to slay non-believers and precisely quoted Islamic scriptures to back up that admonition...

Your Pre-Election Post-Mortem

Posted on October 15, 2010
Announcing the winners in eleven campaign categories. When the election is over, prizes and trophies and hosannas will be issued left and right. But why wait? As a public service, I present an infallibly prescient scorecard of best and worst of 2010...

House Sleepers

Posted on October 15, 2010
Five little-noticed races that could turn out well for the GOP. In every wave year, the winning party ends up grabbing seats that just a short time before the election were on no one's radar screen...

Arizona Democrats in Danger

Posted on October 15, 2010
For an angry electorate, Democrats? attempts to backtrack on earlier positions may be too little, too late. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D.) serves a district, the Arizona 7th, that is almost 55 percent Hispanic...

How to Turn a Recession into a Depression

Posted on October 15, 2010
Destroy business confidence, cozy up to socialists abroad, send deficits through the ceiling ? that should do it. It is hard for a president to turn a recession into a long-term downturn in the United States, given the inherent resiliency of private enterprise and America's open and free markets...

No Mercy

Posted on October 15, 2010
Will Chris Carney and Paul Kanjorski pay the ultimate November price for their health-care votes? Did Obamacare kill the Catholic hospital Joe Biden was born in? That's been a matter of battling press releases, news reports, and even a radio ad in Pennsylvania in recent days, as the vice president went back to Scranton -- home of Mercy Hospital, where he was delivered -- to campaign for Rep...

Tax, Spend, and Shovel

Posted on October 15, 2010
Surely there are less expensive ways to learn that ?shovel-ready projects? are a myth. Back in early 2009, President-elect Barack Obama was asked on Meet the Press how quickly he could create jobs...

The Texas Model

Posted on October 15, 2010
The Lone Star State speeds up its recovery with pro-business policies. Texas already looms large in its own imagination. Its elevated self-image didn't need this: More than half of the net new jobs in the U...

Public Enemy No. 1: GOP Donors

Posted on October 15, 2010
The Left wages war on conservatives? right to free speech. The White House attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn't about 'disclosure.' It's about disarmament. While Democrats pose as campaign-finance-reform champions, the ultimate goal of their offensive is to intimidate conservative donors, chill political free speech, and drain Republican coffers...

Obamacare: Condition Serious, Prognosis Grim

Posted on October 15, 2010
As Obamacare lies ill, Democrats run in horror Obamacare is in serious condition. Its symptoms worsen as its vital signs sink like U.S. job-growth figures. Voters and Democrats flee in fear that its malady is contagious...

Obama?s Conscience

Posted on October 15, 2010
The president is too ideological to move to the center. Two great questions ricochet around the capital in the countdown to the midterms. The first: Does Barack Obama plan to seek reelection? A remarkable number of top advisers have left the administration...

The Democratic ?D? Now Stands for Demagoguery

Posted on October 15, 2010
Democrats' charges of foreign influence smack of desperation. I've been in campaign meetings. Sometimes, the atmosphere is grim. Your side is down, and you're looking to turn things around...

Infrastructure Bill Gone Wild

Posted on October 14, 2010
The uses and abuses of infrastructure legislation. President Obama just called for a $500 billion infrastructure plan. 'Investing in infrastructure is something members of both political parties have always supported,' he said...

Jim DeMint: Senator Tea Party

Posted on October 14, 2010
Adapted from the Feb. 22, 2010, issue of NR. When Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina decided to endorse Pat Toomey's GOP primary challenge to Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania last year, plenty of Republicans seemed eager to denounce him for shrinking the party...

The Pelosi Machine

Posted on October 14, 2010
Rochelle Schweizer discusses <i>She?s the Boss</i>. ‘We are in the midst of a battle over the ideas that are going to govern our lives.' That's how Rochelle Schweizer explains the importance of her new book on the women of the hour in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

The 70 Percent Rule

Posted on October 14, 2010
This handy rule of thumb forecasts a big win for the GOP in November. With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, prognosticators are all over the map on how many seats the GOP will gain...

Islam and the West

Posted on October 14, 2010
There need not be a basic conflict ? but we should resist their aggressions. It is certainly time that the West considered systematically whether it has irreconcilable differences with Islam. The belligerence of many Islamic spokesmen and the unassimilable quality of many Muslim immigrants in the West, as well as the spectacular terrorist provocations of extreme Islamic groups, make this a very legitimate question...

The Firemen Next Time

Posted on October 14, 2010
If public-sector unions get their way on collective bargaining, deadly fire-fighter strikes will almost certainly follow. ‘So the question is, do you want to live in the kind of society in which this happens?' So wrote New York Times columnist Paul Krugman of the Tennessee fire whose flames have consumed the punditocracy over the past week...

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