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Why They Celebrate Murdering Children

Posted on March 16, 2011
Islam is as Islam does. Do you think the State Department noticed that no one in Arizona, Mexico, or even Mars took to the streets to celebrate the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords? No one seemed to think it was a 'natural' act -- the Islamic term du jour to rationalize the throat-slitting massacre of a sleeping Jewish family: 36-year-old Udi Fogel, his 35-year-old wife, Ruth, and, yes, their three children: 11-year-old Yoav, 4-year-old Elad, and Hadas, their 3-month-old baby...

Save Benghazi

Posted on March 16, 2011
Two weeks ago, we thought Qaddafi would soon be out of Libya or hanging from a lamp post. But he checked the momentum of the rebels and reversed it with astonishing speed. The optimal result in Libya would be the rebels' winning on their own, sending a message to others in the region -- especially the Iranians -- that it's possible for a determined populace to overturn a hideously repressive regime...

Obamacare Marches On

Posted on March 16, 2011
What are Republicans doing to stop it? Not much. For the second time this month, Congress has passed a short-term continuing resolution and avoid a government shutdown. And for the second time, this was accomplished at the cost of dropping a provision that would have prevented the use of government funds to implement Obamacare...

Should We Intervene in Libya?

Posted on March 16, 2011
Pressures for a no-fly zone are mounting, but we have no business going in unless we?ve thought through exactly what we mean to do. There are plenty of good arguments for imposing a no-fly zone in Libya...

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Indiana Standoff Lingers On

Posted on March 16, 2011
Indiana Democrats won?t back down ? or, apparently, explain their case to voters. As Indiana house Democrats begin their fourth week of voluntary exile in Illinois, house Republicans are struggling to figure out how to end the standoff without abandoning their ambitious legislative agenda...

Ryan: No More Empty Promises

Posted on March 16, 2011
The Wisconsin congressman?s ambitious plan to preserve the American Dream In a particularly painful-to-watch moment from The Office, Michael Scott (the hopelessly inept boss played by Steve Carell) must tell an entire class of graduating high-school seniors that he will not be able pay their college tuition -- having publicly pledged to do so years earlier in a quixotic fit of benevolence...

Drill, Baby, Drill (Again)

Posted on March 16, 2011
The answer to our economic problems lies beneath our feet. If a foreign power tried to dictate our energy policies to us, we would declare war. But no foreign power is to blame for our energy troubles...

The Infrastructure Bank That Isn?t

Posted on March 16, 2011
John Kerry?s recycled slush-fund recipe. Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) has once again earned his nickname: Thurston B. Howell III. He's elite, effete, and so hopelessly out of touch with reality that his latest solution to America's fiscal profligacy is#...

Talk About a Meltdown

Posted on March 16, 2011
The hysteria over Japan?s nuclear reactors is ridiculous. When a loved one dies (as my brother did last month), one of the standard pieces of advice is to avoid any big decisions. Don't reorganize your life in a moment of existential panic or remorse...

?A Leading Indicator??

Posted on March 16, 2011
Haley Barbour suggests a shift in foreign policy. Gov. Haley Barbour (R., Miss.) raised a ruckus Tuesday night when he voiced support for cutting military spending. At a fundraising dinner in Davenport, Iowa, the potential presidential candidate told a crowd of 100 Republicans that the GOP should put the Pentagon's budget on the chopping block...

President Trump?

Posted on March 15, 2011
Some say he?s a viable candidate. Here's the case supporter and longtime GOP strategist Roger Stone makes for why Donald Trump would be a viable presidential candidate: Trump's got the business moxie to create jobs, the policy positions to win over the Tea Party, and, in a field dominated by dullards, the charisma to match President Obama in a likeability showdown...

Arab Trade Unions: A New Force

Posted on March 15, 2011
Trade unions have played a surprising role in the Middle Eastern uprisings. Where will they turn next? The revolutions that have swept throughout the Middle East caught not only American policymakers and regional governments by surprise, but also opposition groups like the Muslim Brotherhood...

Obama: The Man Who Would Be King

Posted on March 15, 2011
It?s time to face reality and declare Barry the Emperor Hussein. A couple of you wingnuts have been floating an idea lately that, mirabile dictu, actually makes a lot of sense. No, I'm not talking about running Michele 'The Battle of Lexington and Concord, N...

Next Up, Walker's Budget Battle

Posted on March 15, 2011
The campaign for fiscal sanity in Wisconsin continues. For Scott Walker, it was another night and another hit. At 8:02 p.m. last Thursday, in a cramped Madison studio, he sat casually in front of the cold lens of a network camera...

The Whiniest President Ever

Posted on March 15, 2011
Obama laments how influential he is. It was fashionable at the end of the 1970s, after a dreary parade of presidential failures punctuated by Jimmy Carter, to say the presidency had grown too unwieldy...

The Other Tsunami

Posted on March 15, 2011
There is no parallel on earth to what ?Jew? means to millions of Muslims. It is very difficult to hate babies. It takes a special person. As morally wrong as it is to murder innocent adults, mankind seems to have a built-in revulsion against killing babies...

Blacks and Republicans

Posted on March 15, 2011
The GOP needs to make its case to win blacks? votes. San Francisco's irrepressible former mayor, Willie Brown, was walking along one of the city's streets when he happened to run into another former city official that he knew, James McCray...

Who Won In Wisconsin?

Posted on March 15, 2011
Labor thinks it gained momentum. But even Democratic governors have accepted fiscal reality. Who won the battle of Wisconsin? Republican governor Scott Walker got a legislative victory. On the other hand, Democrats, with a wary eye on 2012 and noting the worrying drop in support for President Obama in union-heavy states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, claim to be delighted that Governor Walker has picked this fight...

Another Stopgap

Posted on March 15, 2011
Congress gives itself another three-week breather, but it may be the last. The House passed another stopgap continuing resolution on Tuesday, once again averting a shutdown and giving Congress and the White House three more weeks to negotiate a long-term solution for the seven months remaining in the fiscal year...

Abusing the WikiLeaker?

Posted on March 15, 2011
Bradley Manning is accused of a serious crime. If convicted, he deserves punishment. But he does not deserve arbitrary and pointless abuse. Long before the P. J. Crowley flap, several liberal bloggers were arguing that Pfc...

Forgive Me, Voters, for I Am Newt

Posted on March 14, 2011
Redemption has a place in politics. ‘Wife #3 and I made a movie about the Pope, so my divorces and adulterous affairs don't count.' That's how one blogger among many greeted Newt Gingrich's recent announcement that he is seriously considering the possibility of running for president...

Japan's Financial Aftershock

Posted on March 14, 2011
Japan?s high debt burden threatens to create a second catastrophe. As costly as the Japanese earthquake was in both property and human lives, it could have been immeasurably worse. Because Japan is a wealthy nation, it can afford to earthquake-proof buildings, construct a resilient infrastructure, and maintain an emergency-response capability that has saved many lives already and will save many more in the immediate future...

Daniels and Obamacare, Round Two

Posted on March 14, 2011
When conservatives start defending expansion of government, we?re in serious danger. Indiana governor Mitch Daniels's policy director, Lawren Mills, Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, and Bob Goldberg of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest take exception to my NRO article 'Mitch Daniels's Obamacare Problem...

Why the ?Wage Gap??

Posted on March 14, 2011
Feminists say, ?You shouldn?t have to choose.? In fact, making choices is part of being human. This morning I chose to exercise rather than sleep later. I chose to eat cereal for breakfast rather than eggs...

Japan's Health Challenges

Posted on March 14, 2011
With electricity down, Japan faces serious medical risks. Japan is crippled after a massive earthquake and a massive tsunami, and it faces severe health threats both in the immediate future and in the longer term...

Health-Care Waivers and the Courts

Posted on March 14, 2011
Contract rights point to a remedy for an unconstitutional action. Are the constitutional defenses of health-care waivers persuasive? Do they even reflect an understanding of the realities of the health-care statute? And if the waivers are unconstitutional, could there be remedies in the courts? The health-care statute requires group health plans and health insurers to raise their annual limits on coverage...

There Aren?t Enough Millionaires

Posted on March 14, 2011
The rich can?t fund our deficits. This may sound like a liberal parody of conservative economic thinking, but let me put it out there: America's problem is that the rich don't have enough money...

The News with Cruz

Posted on March 14, 2011
The Texas Senate candidate explains his campaign?s rationale. In May 2008, National Review profiled a rising star in Texas politics, Ted Cruz. The article declared, 'At only 38, Cruz has accrued a list of legal honors and accomplishments that would be impressive for a man twice his age...

On Libya and Budget, Obama Votes ?Present?

Posted on March 14, 2011
Inaction is a course with consequences. In the Illinois legislature, state senator Barack Obama voted 'present' 129 times. Today, he seems to be voting present on two major issues -- Libya and the budget...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Lame

Posted on March 14, 2011
Fans should be able to elect the hall's members. The news that Neil Diamond has been elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came as a shock. Not that I thought him undeserving. His influence on American popular music ranks only a notch or two below Bob Dylan's -- and unlike Dylan, whom I revere, Diamond consistently sings on key...

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