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Twentieth-Century Ghost -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

Posted on June 04, 2010
To H. G. Wells, it was the ?silliest film,? a ?soupy whirlpool? and a ?pretentious stew.? Yet on a Saturday night in Manhattan this May, 84 years after Metropolis was shot, the line to see Fritz Lang?s legendary sci-fi drama stretched halfway down the block...

Confused on Fertilization -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on June 03, 2010
Fertilization in humans and other mammals produces a new member of the species in the embryonic stage of its natural development. That is to say, the entity produced by the union of spermatozoon and oocyte is a complete, though developmentally immature, organism...

Haley, Still Flying Like a Comet -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on June 03, 2010
Hilton Head Island, S.C. -- Three weeks ago, South Carolina state representative Nikki Haley was one of the Republican party?s brightest rising stars: the first Indian-American GOP state legislator in the country, a reformer who demonstrated a willingness to take on her own party over accountability, and a surprise front-running gubernatorial candidate...

Bucking the Party Brass -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on June 03, 2010
When Jane Norton, a former Colorado lieutenant governor, announced her Senate bid last year, the National Republican Senatorial Committee may have hoped for a cakewalk. Affable, noncontroversial, and pro-life, Norton was a known commodity and well-liked in Washington, especially by Sen...

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Parallels Between Present-Day Iran and Nazi Germany -- By: R. James Woolsey

Posted on June 03, 2010
In 1933, a totalitarian regime came to power in Germany with the consent of at least a substantial minority of the German people. Its Nazi ideology was rooted in fanatic racism and resentment over recent history. Hitler and those around him preached that it was the destiny of the German race to dominate Europe and exterminate the Jews...

Good Fences -- By: Leo W. Banks

Posted on June 03, 2010
Five years ago, an extraordinary scene played out regularly in the southwest-Arizona desert near Yuma. Groups of illegal aliens, sometimes 300 or more, would stage mad rushes across the largely unfenced Mexican line, challenging an undermanned Border Patrol to stop them...

The Real Face of Obamacare -- By: The Editors

Posted on June 03, 2010
Once a sleepy federal backwater, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now has primary responsibility for implementing the federal takeover of the U.S. health-care industry, and Pres. Barack Obama proposes to fill a key position there with Dr...

A Fine Recipe for War -- By: Mario Loyola

Posted on June 03, 2010
The government of Turkey seems increasingly bent on a collision course with vital U.S. interests, and the time has come to stop ignoring that fact. Our wayward NATO ally?s recent involvement in the incident of the Gaza flotilla is particularly hurtful to the United States, and demands a particularly sharp response...

Sins of Omission in Obama's National Security Strategy -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on June 03, 2010
Is it possible to defeat an enemy we don?t understand? That is only one of the questions that ought to occur to anyone reading President Obama?s new National Security Strategy (NSS).Administration officials and loyalists have been trying to put the best possible face on the congressionally mandated 52-page document...

History Returns to Europe -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on June 03, 2010
Vienna -- Walk the beautiful streets in Munich, Strasbourg, and Vienna, and you can see why Europeans thought in the last decades that they had reached the end of history. There is not a soldier to be seen. Sidewalk cafes are jammed midweek with two-hour lunch-goers...

Obama's 'Chicago Way' Plunders the Private Sector -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on June 03, 2010
An interesting thing about Barack Obama is that he chose, on two occasions, to live in Chicago -- even though he didn?t grow up there, had no family ties there, never went to school there. It was a curious choice. Chicago has a civic culture all its own, and one that is particularly insular...

Guns and Crime in Chicago -- By: John R. Lott Jr.

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Chicago gun debate finally shows signs of changing. With the Supreme Court?s decision on the city?s gun ban imminent, people might be beginning to understand that gun bans don?t stop criminals from getting guns. At a press conference two weeks ago, Mick Dumke, a reporter from the liberal Chicago Reader, asked Mayor Richard Daley what should have been an obvious question: ?Since guns are readily available in Chicago even with a ban in place, do you really think it?s been effective?? Daley?s response wasn?t very helpful...

The Republican Retreat on Health Care -- By: The Editors

Posted on June 02, 2010
Every week brings fresh bad news about Obamacare. Many companies are considering dropping their health coverage as a result of the incentives the law creates. Small businesses are reporting that the law?s tax credits are encouraging them not to make new hires...

Happy Now? -- By: Arthur C. Brooks

Posted on June 02, 2010
On May 13, 2009, at Arizona State University, Barack Obama delivered his first commencement address as President of the United States. At one of the most frightening economic moments in America?s history, it was a chance to be a mentor, a teacher, and the nation?s inspirer-in-chief...

Nuke It? -- By: Daniel Foster

Posted on June 02, 2010
It was September of 1966, and gas was gushing uncontrollably from the wells in the Bukhara province of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. But the Reds, at the height of their industrial might, had a novel solution. They drilled nearly four miles into the sand and rock of the Kyzyl Kum Desert, and lowered a 30-kiloton nuclear warhead -- more than half-again as large as ?Little Boy,? the crude uranium bomb dropped over Hiroshima -- to the depths beneath the wellhead...

The Immigration Impasse -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Posted on June 02, 2010
The new Arizona law against illegal immigration has brought to the surface an intraconservative division that has not been in public view since the failure of President Bush?s push for immigration legislation in 2006-07. Most conservatives, like most of the public, have supported the law, but the initial comments of several prominent conservatives -- notably Karl Rove, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush -- were hostile...

In a Welfare State, How Much Is 'Enough'? -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on June 02, 2010
The flames from Greece?s debt-crisis protests have cast new light on the perils of our own overspending and overborrowing. You know the litany. California is imploding. Public-sector unions there, and across the country, are swallowing budgets. In California alone, pension costs have gone up 2,000 percent in a decade...

The Senate Candidate from Smackdown -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on June 02, 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.The presumptive Republican nominee for the U.S...

The Resurrection of Rod Blagojevich -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on June 02, 2010
We?ve had the Summer of Love and the Summer of the Shark. Are you ready for the Summer of Corruption? On Thursday, jury selection begins in the federal trial of disgraced former Democratic governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois. The timing couldn?t be worse for Blago?s old Chicago pals in the White House...

Disclosed Partisanship -- By: Bradley A. Smith

Posted on June 01, 2010
In February 1996, then-White House aide and current Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan co-authored a memorandum to deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes regarding whether President Clinton should support proposed amendments to the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance bill...

The 'No Brainer' Gender Quota -- By: Eric Pearson

Posted on June 01, 2010
In April, the Obama administration gave itself a victory lap, thinking it had just scored the winning goal by rolling back a 2005 Bush administration Title IX policy clarification. In his announcement, Vice President Biden called the rollback a ?no brainer? -- that is to say, it required little thought...

Genomics and Humanity's Future -- By: John Derbyshire

Posted on June 01, 2010
The science news this month was dominated by two genome stories. An organism?s genome is the sum total of all its genetic information -- its DNA. In sexually reproducing species, a child gets half its genome from one parent, half from the other. Asexual organisms like bacteria just copy DNA from one generation to the next...

Conservative Rock Songs, Deconstructed -- By: John J. Miller

Posted on June 01, 2010
If you seek proof that liberal-arts scholarship is mostly a stinking heap of rubbish, behold the Journal of Popular Culture. Here are three recent examples of articles that have appeared in its dispensable pages: ?Queer Dress and Biased Eyes: The Japanese Doll on the Western Toyshelf,? by Judy Shoaf (February 2010); ?SpongeBob SquarePants: Pop Culture Tsunami or More?? by Jonah Lee Rice (December 2009); and ??There?s Genderqueers on the Starboard Bow?: The Pregnant Male in Star Trek,? by Stephen Kerry (August 2009)...

Why the T in GLBT? -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on June 01, 2010
Most Americans are aware that gay activism rarely presents itself as a movement solely for the rights of gays. For example, the most common acronym for the gay-rights movement is ?GLBT,? meaning ?gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender.?Interestingly, few people ever ask about the ?T...

Flotillas and Falsehoods -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on June 01, 2010
The effort to destroy the Jewish state has many fronts. One front is in Iran, where the maniacal regime that has repeatedly promised to ?wipe Israel off the map? marches inexorably toward a nuclear bomb. Another is in Gaza, from which Hamas has lobbed 10,000 missiles into Israeli cities...

Ft. Worth Journal -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on June 01, 2010
Editor?s Note: Jay Nordlinger was in Ft. Worth over the weekend. Below are some characteristic ?scribbles.? � There are some significant events going on in this friendly town west of Dallas: the Colonial Golf Tournament (a PGA event, in case you didn?t know); and the premiere of an opera, Before Night Falls, by Jorge Mart�n...

The Real Public Service -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on June 01, 2010
Every year about this time, big-government liberals stand up in front of college-commencement crowds across the country and urge the graduates to do the noblest thing possible -- become big-government liberals.That isn?t how they phrase it, of course...

An Islam of Their Very Own -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on June 01, 2010
Well, at least he had it half right. For John Brennan, President Obama?s al-Quds lovin? counterterrorism guru, that?s a significant improvement.Last week, Brennan interrupted his search for the ?moderate elements? of Hezbollah and his finger-wagging at Americans for their ?ignorant feelings? about Muslim-man-caused disasters to offer some signature insights about Islam at the Center for Strategic and International Studies...

Oil Spill Tars Dems' Reputation for Competence -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on June 01, 2010
?Obama Struggling to Show He?s in Control,? reads the headline on the Washington Post?s story on Barack Obama?s Thursday press conference, where most of the questions were about the Gulf oil spill. ?Defensive, unauthoritative and equivocal,? wrote Congressional Quarterly?s Craig Crawford of Obama?s performance...

Americans Are Speaking Out -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on May 31, 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.?Throw all the bums out!?That?s the message one incumbent Republican congressman received from a friendly constituent via e-mail recently...

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