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Cool as Ice

Posted on October 08, 2010
Joe Miller lays out his plan to change Washington. Washington -- Joe Miller is on the Hill, and he doesn't look too happy about it. As he enters National Review's office to meet with the staff, his face is glacial, his red-and-white-striped tie an inch askew...

Joe DioGuardi?s New York Uprising

Posted on October 08, 2010
Don?t count him out. Joseph DioGuardi gesticulates vivaciously — a habit perhaps inherited, if the stereotype is to be believed, from his Italian-born father. He speaks with an accent retained from childhood in the East Bronx, with rhotacisms laid over precise and racing speech about budget and austerity...

Badger State Dems under Siege

Posted on October 08, 2010
Wisconsin Democrats run from party label, health care While it's a bad year to be running as a Democrat in any state, that's especially true in Wisconsin. Despite winning the state with 56 percent of the vote in 2008, Barack Obama has seen his approval rating in the state plummet nearly 30 points since taking office...

The Colbert Democrats

Posted on October 08, 2010
Leftward veers, comedians' sneers ? the electorate is unamused. A president's first midterm election is inevitably a referendum on his two years in office. The bad news for Democrats is that President Obama's 're-elect' number is 38 percent -- precisely Bill Clinton's in October 1994, the eve of the wave election that gave Republicans control of the House for the first time in 40 years...

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The British Try to Climb Out of the Ditch

Posted on October 08, 2010
The U.S. would be wise not to follow Britain?s example. Three and a half weeks from now, Americans will decide whether to pull the emergency brake on a train that is headed to bankruptcy. Across the pond in Great Britain, which got aboard that train following World War II, the sparks are flying as the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government attempts a very tardy -- and accordingly, much more painful -- reversal...

The Green War on Children

Posted on October 08, 2010
Eco-radicals use violence to achieve their green designs. Halloween isn't for another three weeks, but environmental ghouls are on the haunt. A sadistic video released by global-warming fear-mongers reveals an inconvenient truth about eco-radicals: They despise the very children for whom they claim to be saving the planet...

Green Fervor, Red Blood

Posted on October 08, 2010
Some environmentalists have a warped sense of humor. By now you may have heard that the man behind such heartwarming chick flicks as Bridget Jones's Diary and Four Weddings and a Funeral has come out with an environmental snuff film...

Revenge of the Hillary Voters

Posted on October 08, 2010
Democrats are losing the working class. Two-thirds of West Virginians approve of the job performance of Gov. Joe Manchin. In ordinary circumstances, that would be enough to get him any promotion he wants...

Demonizing Karl Rove

Posted on October 08, 2010
The Left brings back a Bush-era hate figure. They can't run against Bush, but the Democrats seem desperate to try the next best thing. How else to explain their sudden resurrection of Karl Rove as a political hate figure? 'Karl Rove is at it again,' House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers recently told a gathering of left-wing activists...

Jobs Tepid, Dems Out, Stocks Up?

Posted on October 08, 2010
That?s the increasingly clear logic. Friday's unemployment report for September, the last before the election, brought more bad news for the Obama Democrats. Noteworthy is the fact that stocks rallied a bit on the lackluster and tepid jobs numbers, pushing through the 11,000 mark...

A Republican Sweep

Posted on October 07, 2010
And a new generation of leaders. As we are now a month from the midterm elections, I will boldly predict their outcome. Before readers prepare for information that may cause them to place bets and take risky gambles on the election results, I should mention that my last foray into this sort of thing was my endorsement of a candidate for mayor of Toronto a couple of weeks ago, which received a good deal of approval for about 48 hours, at which point my candidate withdrew from the race...

Congress and Education Reform

Posted on October 07, 2010
Republicans want to eject Uncle Sam from education; Democrats want to micromanage everything from Washington. What we need is Reform Realism. We've previously noted our doubts about congressional Republicans when it comes to education reform...

What the NRCC Can Seize

Posted on October 07, 2010
A chat with Brian Walsh, director of the GOP effort to retake the House. Few people in Washington are busier these days than Brian Walsh, the political director of the National Republican Congressional Committee...

The Democrats? Desperate Social Security Lies

Posted on October 07, 2010
The Democrats probably would have attacked their Republican adversaries on Social Security even if they weren't desperate, but the cornered-animal fear coursing through their veins is causing them to attack more fiercely and dishonestly than usual, resulting in some truly hilarious campaign ads...

Russ on the Ropes

Posted on October 07, 2010
In Wisconsin, Senator Feingold did not expect such a strong challenge from a political unknown. Things are looking up for Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.). A new poll from McClatchy-Marist shows him trailing his Republican challenger, Ron Johnson, by seven points -- a significant improvement over earlier polls that showed him behind by double digits...

Forcing Change on Social Security

Posted on October 07, 2010
Social Security tax hikes loom in the lame-duck session. The retreat by the Democratic leadership on the extension of the Bush tax cuts until after the election sets up a major tax-policy fight for the lame-duck session -- the session that occurs after the elections but before the new Congress has been sworn in...

Economic Issues at the Forefront

Posted on October 07, 2010
This election season, fiscal conservatives own the GOP grassroots. The coalition Ronald Reagan assembled of fiscal and economic conservatives, evangelicals, and national-security advocates has always been dominated by the social issues at the grassroots level...

Hellacious Acres

Posted on October 07, 2010
Time to freeze Uncle Sam's real-estate portfolio. Bozeman, Montana — The next Congress should enact a moratorium on land nationalization. The feds should stop fleecing exhausted taxpayers for fresh billions to purchase new acreage for Uncle Sam to mismanage...

Two Sides of the Jihadi Coin

Posted on October 07, 2010
Al-Qaeda and Iran are rivals, not enemies. As I write this, European police are searching for 'hit teams' plotting attacks against civilians in Britain, France, Germany, and Sweden. Why would al-Qaeda plan such strikes now? That's like asking why dogs bark...

The Obama Rope-a-Dope

Posted on October 07, 2010
A lame-duck presidency will give Obama a shot at reelection. After 2010, will he be Carter or Clinton? That is the ongoing parlor game now played among pundits over how President Obama will react to a probable shellacking of the Democrats in the midterm elections next month...

Stocks Gallup Higher

Posted on October 06, 2010
A blockbuster poll lights a fire under markets. Was it really the new Gallup poll that drove stocks up almost 200 points on Tuesday? That blockbuster survey, regarded by many as the blue-chip gold standard for election forecasting, pointed to an unprecedented Republican landslide tsunami in the generic congressional race...

Remembering Marriage

Posted on October 06, 2010
From the Oct. 18, 2010, issue of NR. Our recent editorial making the case for preserving the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman has drawn predictably indignant responses from Andrew Sullivan, Amy Davidson (a writer for The New Yorker), and Jonathan Rauch...

The Gift of Obama?s Foreign Policy

Posted on October 06, 2010
As the antithesis of Bush is learning, foreign dictators are likely to bite the hand that strokes them. The Obama reset foreign policy has, in an unintended way, brought clarity to America's traditional role in the world...

The GOP Must Fight Earmarks

Posted on October 06, 2010
If Republicans slip back into the bad old habits of the past, they may find this year?s electoral success to be fleeting. It has become almost a cliché for Republican candidates to admit that their party 'lost its way' on spending and the size of government during the Bush era...

September Diary

Posted on October 06, 2010
Blithe nihilism, the prosperity gospel, Geert Wilders, and more. A test of nihilism Last month I mentioned having gotten myself into a movie about nihilism. Well, there must be something in the air: This month we got an unsettling news story about nihilism...

Time for a Hiring Freeze

Posted on October 06, 2010
Republicans try to bring the federal government in line with the private sector. While millions of Americans struggle to find work, the federal civilian workforce has prospered. Federal employees' salaries and benefits have spiked over the past decade...

Embassy-Bombing Trial in Jeopardy

Posted on October 06, 2010
Civilian due-process standards are crippling the government?s case. Ahmed Ghailani has confessed to bombing the U.S. embassy in Tanzania twelve years ago. As he explained to the FBI in a series of 2007 interviews, he bought the TNT used in the explosion...

The Two Faces of Michelle Obama

Posted on October 06, 2010
Hope and change at $30,000 a plate. Two first ladies will hit the campaign trail for Democrats this month: Michelle Obama, champion of ordinary Americans, and Michelle Obama, money-grubber for the liberal elite...

America?s Assassination List

Posted on October 06, 2010
We need clear and public standards for killing citizens. Does Anwar al-Awlaki deserve to die? Would it be good for America and the world if, through some combination of fate, luck, justice, and the arsenal of democracy, his heart stopped beating tomorrow? Does Barack Obama have America's best interests at heart when he endeavors to make that happen? The answer to each of these questions is, as far as I can tell, yes...

A Versatility of Convictions

Posted on October 06, 2010
Voters must keep their eyes on the ball. Some of the longest-serving Democratic members of Congress, whose party has overwhelming majorities in both houses, are having far closer election races than they are used to...

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