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Israel's Gaza Blockade: It Works -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on June 09, 2010
Outraged by Arizona?s immigration policies, the Los Angeles City Council wants to boycott the Grand Canyon State. When will the United Nations condemn Los Angeles for its callous pursuit of collective punishment? To be sure, the boycott is mainly symbolic, but at least in principle the measure is aimed at hurting all Arizonans regardless of whether they support the ?regime? in Phoenix...

Daring Nikki -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on June 09, 2010
Hilton Head Island, S.C. -- You can forgive South Carolinians for wanting to get this gubernatorial primary behind them. One year after their governor, Mark Sanford, became a national laughingstock for traveling to Argentina and then talking honestly and endlessly about his affair, a series of accusations and counter-accusations has led national observers to label the Palmetto state ?the stink hole of Republican politics...

Carly Fiorina, Woman for the Future -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on June 09, 2010
Revolution in California and political regime change come November has been a theme of mine for weeks. Tuesday night?s big victories for Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina moved that agenda nicely down the field.And let me add to it. Following the Tuesday primaries, the mainstream media began calling this the year of the woman, pointing not only to Fiorina and Whitman in California, but to Sharron Angle in Nevada, Nikki Haley in South Carolina, and Democrat Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas...

Can Mark Kirk Bounce Back? -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on June 08, 2010
Rep. Mark Kirk, a vanilla-moderate Republican from Chicago?s North Shore, represents one of the GOP?s best shots at picking up a blue-state Senate seat. Last week, however, his squeaky-clean image suffered a blow, when it was revealed that Kirk had taken sole credit for an award given to his former Navy intelligence unit...

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The Senate's Cap-and-Trade Subterfuge -- By: The Editors

Posted on June 08, 2010
In the wake of the BP spill, Democrats face what might appear to be an intractable political dilemma. They are under enormous pressure to pass some kind of energy bill, yet the energy bill they want to pass -- one that places onerous restrictions on the use of fossil fuels -- lacks the requisite support in the Senate...

Obama's Gulf Fix -- By: Robert Alt & Brian Walsh

Posted on June 08, 2010
As oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico, what the region needs most is the nation?s best experts to plug the well and clean up the mess. It doesn?t need Justice Department prosecutors threatening criminal charges. Yet that?s exactly what it?s getting...

Constitution of No -- By: Jim DeMint

Posted on June 08, 2010
When a reporter asked House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) during a press conference last year where the Constitution granted Congress the authority to enact an individual health-insurance mandate, she answered, ?Are you serious? Are you serious?? Speaker Pelosi then dismissed the question and moved on to the next reporter...

Trouble for the International Criminal Court -- By: Brett D. Schaefer

Posted on June 08, 2010
How is the International Criminal Court getting along? To answer that question, the Review Conference for the ICC was convened in Kampala, Uganda, on May 31 and is scheduled to last through June 11. It was launched with an ambitious agenda to engage in a stocktaking exercise, assess the Court?s record since 2002, and consider three amendments to the Rome Statute, which established the ICC...

A Spring Miscellany -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on June 08, 2010
All sorts of ?global warming? advocates have all sorts of ideas for cooling the planet. I would be happy if they would just cool the rhetoric. A newspaper headline said: ?U.S. Growing Impatient with Iran.? Boy, won?t that scare them to death? If they keep going, and make enough nuclear bombs to blast us to smithereens, we will go to the United Nations and get a resolution passed, condemning their actions -- or, if the U...

Spent -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on June 08, 2010
EDITOR?S NOTE:�This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material,�kfsreprint@hearstsc.com�or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.Who needs a debt commission when White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is on the case?He wants to allow federal agencies to redirect half of any unnecessary, unspent money in their budgets to other initiatives and half to deficit reduction...

Islamist Turkey Overreaches -- By: Daniel Pipes

Posted on June 08, 2010
As typical Islamist-leftist theater to delegitimize Israel, late May?s Turkish-sponsored ?Free Gaza? flotilla was tediously repetitious. As an illustration that Israelis don?t understand the kind of war they now must fight, the outcome was drearily predictable...

If Israel Is Not Evil, the World Is in Big Trouble -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on June 08, 2010
With the exception of the United States, nearly all the world?s nations have condemned Israel over the Gaza-flotilla incident, as have the United Nations and nearly all the world?s newspapers, radio and TV-news stations, leftist academics, and leftist organizations...

How We're Fighting the Gulf Oil Spill -- By: Daniel Foster

Posted on June 07, 2010
The BP spill is giving Man, and his works to assert mastery over nature, a bad name. But just as technology caused this mess, technology will eventually end it. Below, the five most impressive technological forces at work in the Gulf saga.THE RIGYes, the scorched hulk of the Deepwater Horizon that set this catastrophe in motion now lies in ruins at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, but before it became the site of tragedy for eleven families and a symbol of capitalist hubris for the enemies of domestic drilling, the $500 million Horizon was a record-breaking technological dynamo, and an innovation spurred by the political pressures that are pushing drilling ever farther off our shores...

Tapping the Well of Freedom -- By: Iain Murray

Posted on June 07, 2010
When the Deepwater Horizon first started gushing oil, many considered the incident an example of private enterprise having no regard for the environment. However, it is becoming clear that government was involved from the start, is in charge now (as President Obama himself tells us), and cannot do much about the problem...

Conservatives Contending in Virginia -- By: Jesse Naiman

Posted on June 07, 2010
On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in northern Virginia will select a congressional candidate who will be part of the GOP?s attempt to recapture the House of Representatives in November. Their choice is between Keith Fimian, a businessman who has run a home-inspection company for 24 years -- and who made an unsuccessful bid for this seat in 2008 -- and Pat Herrity, a Fairfax County supervisor...

The Tea Party and the Drug War -- By: Jeffrey A. Miron

Posted on June 07, 2010
Voter dissatisfaction with Republicans and Democrats is at historic levels, and the tea-party movement is hoping to play kingmaker in the November elections. The country?s current breed of discontent is ideal for the tea parties, because economic concerns are foremost, allowing the movement to sidestep the divisions between its libertarian and conservative wings...

The Blankest Slate -- By: Edward Whelan

Posted on June 07, 2010
In announcing his decision to nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, President Obama hailed Kagan?s supposed choice of the Citizens United campaign-finance case as ?her very first case to argue before the Court? as solicitor general: ?I think it says a great deal about her commitment to protect our fundamental rights, because in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens...

How Bad an Election Year for the Democrats? -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on June 07, 2010
Republicans are encountering some speed bumps on what they hope is the road to victory in the November elections. Their candidates for Republican open Senate seats in Ohio and Missouri are running no better than even in recent polls. The independent candidacy of Gov...

Being Catholic Means Not Feeling Sorry about Being Catholic -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on June 07, 2010
EDITOR?S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello at cpuello@unitedmedia.com.The likes of Time magazine, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe want to see the moral voice of the Catholic Church muted, if not completely silenced, on hot-button social issues of the day...

Israel, Turkey, and the End of Stability -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on June 05, 2010
Foreign policy ?realists,? back in the saddle since the Texan cowboy left town, are extremely fond of the concept of ?stability?: America needs a stable Middle East, so we should learn to live with Mubarak and the mullahs and the House of Saud, etc...

Standardizing Mediocrity -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on June 04, 2010
If the Obama administration has its way, change could be afoot for your local K-12 curriculum.Through its ?Race to the Top? program, the administration is using federal grant money to coax states into adopting the ?common core? standards developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers...

The Art of Seaborne Humiliation -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on June 04, 2010
A tiny flotilla of ?peace ships? sets out to run an Israeli blockade of the Gaza coast. The Israeli strategy in response is intended to ensure that neither weapons nor terrorists enter the Hamas-held territory, at a time when Hamas is in a virtual war with Israel...

History's Twists -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on June 04, 2010
It is time to revise history, or perhaps to revise the revisions. There is an uncatalogued hobgoblin that should be chased up and classified by the Smithsonian, that requires part of the U.S. conservative historical community to persist in defaming Franklin D...

Vatican Time Warp -- By: George Weigel

Posted on June 04, 2010
It?s not easy to understand the decision of Time?s editors to run the magazine?s current (June 7) cover story, with its cheesy title, ?Why Being Pope Means Never Having to Say You?re Sorry.? The lengthy essay inside breaks no news; it recycles several lame charges against Benedict XVI that have been flatly denied or effectively rebutted; and it indulges an adolescent literary style (e...

May Diary -- By: John Derbyshire

Posted on June 04, 2010
My last pull-over� �Since being pulled over by cops and asked for identification has been in the air this month, I thought I?d relate my most recent pull-over.Time: May 3rd, around 4 p.m. Place: headed south on N.Y. State Route 8, a pleasant two-lane country road up by the Catskills...

The Convenient Enemy -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on June 04, 2010
On May 29, two days before Israel?s botched raid of six ?humanitarian? ships bound for Gaza, Robert Naiman, the policy director of something called ?Just Foreign Policy,? had an item in the Huffington Post headlined ?Gaza Freedom Flotilla Shows Awesome Power of Nonviolent Resistance...

President Hope-and-Sleaze -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on June 04, 2010
EDITOR?S NOTE:�This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material,�kfsreprint@hearstsc.com�or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.Let?s be grateful that Barack Obama?s contempt for politics as usual is a matter of public record...

The Summer of Corruption: The Plot Thickens -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on June 04, 2010
In Chicago politics, there?s an old term for the publicly subsidized pay-offs and positions meted out to the corruptocrats? friends and special interests: boodle.In the age of Obama, Hope and Change is all about the boodle. So it was with the stimulus...

Israel, Disarmed -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on June 04, 2010
The world is outraged at Israel?s blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers. But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal...

Disgracing America -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on June 04, 2010
Pres. Barack Obama, who got his start in politics in the living room of domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and spent his first year in office apologizing for American history, has now decisively tipped U.S. foreign policy toward America?s enemies...

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