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E-Verify for Arizona -- By: Mario Loyola

Posted on May 03, 2010
The debate over Arizona?s new immigration law was bound to get overheated very fast. Few policy debates are more apt to consist of people yelling past each other than those that involve immigration. Those who argue that the police-powers law is carefully crafted and entirely reasonable are mostly correct...

The Senate and Goldman Sachs -- By: Daniel Krauthammer

Posted on May 03, 2010
The U.S. Senate has never been a bastion of financial genius. But last Tuesday?s Senate subcommittee hearings on Goldman Sachs revealed a disturbing degree of misconception in the senators? minds about how the nation?s finance and banking systems function...

Oslo Journal, Part III -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on May 03, 2010
Editor?s Note: Last week, Jay Nordlinger attended the Oslo Freedom Forum, the human-rights conference in the Norwegian capital. The conference is over, but the journal continues -- and for Parts I and II, go here and here. Breakfast is in the Grand Café, as lunch and dinner often are too...

Obama, Brown, and the 'Third Way' -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on May 03, 2010
Left parties are in trouble in the Anglosphere. Here in America, Democrats are doing worse in the polls today than at any time in the last 50 years. In Britain, the Labour party is on the brink of finishing third, behind both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, in the election next Thursday...

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American Exceptionalism: Learning It Firsthand -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on May 03, 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 Fourth of July came early this year. It arrived on the anniversary of the fall of Saigon...

Protesting Wall Street -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on May 03, 2010
New York -- It?s 2:20 p.m. at the corner of Broadway and Barclay Street. Under skyscraper shadows, city-hall bureaucrats munch tuna-fish sandwiches in City Hall Park. Talk of the upcoming weekend and the Yankees fills the air. With few clouds and a warm, late-April breeze, lower Manhattanites are lingering outside, savoring the first smack of summer...

What Arizona Must Live With -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on May 01, 2010
As I write, I have my papers on me -- and not just because I?m in Arizona. I?m an immigrant, and it is a condition of my admission to this great land that I carry documentary proof of my residency status with me at all times and be prepared to produce it to law-enforcement officials, whether on a business trip to Tucson or taking a 20-minute stroll in the woods back at my pad in New Hampshire...

Obamacon Doves vs. Hard-Money Heartland Hawks -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on April 30, 2010
President Obama has appointed three new doves to the Federal Reserve Board, thereby taking command of the nation’s central bank. But there’s a split developing inside the Federal Reserve System: The Reserve Bank presidents, appointed by their own district boards of directors, are increasingly likely to wage a battle royale against the central-bank headquarters in Washington and its free-money, ultra-easy policies...

Pope Benedict and the Scandal Mongers -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on April 30, 2010
The Roman Catholic Church has so long been regarded by some as a satanic fraud emporium, and by many others as a shrieking anachronism of quaint, costumed celibates engaged in obscurantist hocus pocus, that many commentators have aggregated the dreadful outrages of the sex-abuse scandals into an existential crisis...

Charlie Crist: A Party of One -- By: Neal B. Freeman

Posted on April 30, 2010
Jacksonville, Fla. -- In his mad, careerist dash through Florida politics, Charlie Crist has always listened to an urgent voice calling him to high purpose and vast design. While that voice has never been audible to those nearby, he has been quick to amplify it for the hearing-impaired...

Nun Sense: Women in the Catholic Church -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on April 30, 2010
In his New York Times column this month, Nicholas Kristof wrote about ?A Church Mary Can Love.? If you didn?t read the column, you might not be shocked to learn its contents: He?s not that into the Vatican, and he doesn?t think the Blessed Virgin would be either...

States' Rights (and Wrongs) -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on April 30, 2010
I?ve got a proposal for you. I?d call it a ?modest proposal? but, thanks to Jonathan Swift, when writers say that, it means they?re about to propose something absolutely bonkers to make a satirical point along the lines of ?Let?s eat Irish babies!? or ?Joe Biden should be president!?My proposal might still be crazy, but it?s not satire...

Oslo Journal, Part II -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on April 30, 2010
Welcome to the second installment of these jottings from the Oslo Freedom Forum, here in the historic, smart Norwegian capital. Part I appeared on Monday: here. Sorry for the long delay between installments. With that delay in mind, should I just wade in, without further prelude?One morning, there is a press conference, featuring a slew of Freedom Forum speakers -- about a dozen of them...

Crist, Independent: The Revolt of the Principleless -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on April 30, 2010
Editor?s note: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact kfsreprint@hearstsc.com or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.Florida governor Charlie Crist is the saddest of political spectacles -- an opportunist running out of opportunities...

Obamacare Is Poised to Crash and Burn -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on April 30, 2010
Just five weeks after the president of the United States signed Obamacare into law, it already resembles an overweight airplane lumbering down the tarmac, poised to crash and burn soon after takeoff. Obamacare?s excess cargo of broken promises threatens such a catastrophe...

Barack Obama, America's Selective Salary Policeman -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on April 30, 2010
President Obama spoke the most revealing and clarifying ten words of his control-freak administration this week: ?I think at some point you have made enough money.? Peddling financial regulatory reform at a rally in Quincy, Ill., Obama then ad-libbed peculiar definitions of what he called the ?American way? and the profit motive: ?You can just keep on making it if you?re providing a good product or providing good service...

Who's More Irresponsible, Wall Street or State Governments? -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on April 30, 2010
The Democrats? narrative about the financial crisis of 2008 (and their justification for financial reform) goes like this: Investment bankers, typified by Goldman Sachs, manipulated markets, bamboozled investors, and in their greed managed to bring the entire economy to its knees...

Japan's Geriatric Future -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on April 29, 2010
In the 2009 Pew Global Attitudes Survey, conducted last spring, only 18 percent of Japanese said they expected economic conditions in their country to improve over the next year...

Pork-Barrel Defense Spending, Russian-Style -- By: Reuben F. Johnson

Posted on April 29, 2010
Kiev, Ukraine -- South Carolina congressman L. Mendel Rivers will probably go down in history as the man who perfected the art of pork-barrel defense spending. Rivers chaired the House Armed Services Committee during the Vietnam War era, and he succeeded in locating countless military bases near Charleston...

Illegal Aliens: Law and Sovereignty in Arizona -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on April 29, 2010
In an inevitable state of ignorance of some of its major provisions, Pres. Barack Obama recently signed a 2,700-page health-care bill. Since then, the president has championed a 1,400-page financial-reform proposal, insisting that it does not provide a blank check for future multibillion-dollar corporate bailouts -- but the bill would, <a href="http://article...

The Fallible Crist -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on April 29, 2010
Presuming the <a href="http://twitter.com/foxnewspolitics/status/13015315932">sources of Fox News are right</a>, Florida governor Charlie Crist will run for the Senate as an independent...

Securing Arizona, Securing America -- By: Interview

Posted on April 29, 2010
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Nobel Laureates and Texas Cowboys -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on April 29, 2010
In politics, having power and keeping it often mean fudging a little on ideology...

Obama: Politics over Policy -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on April 29, 2010
Setting legislative priorities has been one of the chief tasks of American presidents for the past century. Sometimes, they concentrate on changing public policy...

To Comedy Central, Islam Means Submission -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on April 29, 2010
What do Comedy Central and Yale University Press have in common? In the Islamist war against free speech, both have been on the front lines...

Obama's Nuclear Naivety -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Obama administration has celebrated its recent efforts to sign a nuclear-weapons accord with Russia and the hosting of a nuclear non-proliferation summit in Washington -- all silhouetted against grandiose promises to seek the end of all nuclear weapons on the planet...

Scott Rasmussen Talks Self-Governance -- By: Interview

Posted on April 28, 2010
Scott Rasmussen, the pollster, has published a new quick read, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=1449593542">In Search of Self-Governance</a>...

Time for Border Security? -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on April 28, 2010
For more than a decade, there has been tension in American politics about what to do about security at the Mexican border...

We Didn't Deregulate -- By: Veronique de Rugy

Posted on April 28, 2010
When Barack Obama was running for president, he made no secret of his plan to “restore commonsense regulation” by closing up regulatory “loopholes” he blamed Republicans for opening...

Arizona's Ugly but Necessary Immigration Law -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on April 28, 2010
On Monday, Matt Lauer of Today interviewed Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County, Ariz...

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