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How Mexico Treats Illegal Aliens -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on April 28, 2010
Mexican president Felipe Calderón has accused Arizona of opening the door “to intolerance, hate, discrimination, and abuse in law enforcement...

The Return of 'Social Utility' -- By: Tony Blankley

Posted on April 28, 2010
In the last few weeks, I have found myself debating on radio and TV programs whether various financial instruments have any social utility -- any “real world” purpose other than “speculation or gambling...

Appraising Arizona -- By: NRO Symposium

Posted on April 28, 2010
Is the Arizona immigration bill a step in the right direction? Are there lessons from it that can inform the national debate about federal legislation? What must Republicans bear in mind walking back into this national debate? National Review Online asked a group of experts to weigh in...

In Europe, Remorse Has Turned to Masochism -- By: Daniel Pipes

Posted on April 27, 2010
?Nothing is more Western than hatred of the West.? So writes the French novelist and essayist Pascal Bruckner in his book La tyrannie de la pénitence (2006), capably translated into English by Steven Rendall and recently published by Princeton University Press as The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism...

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Hysterics against Arizona -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on April 27, 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.In the case of the new Arizona immigration law, the reductio ad Hitlerum occurred instantly...

Race and the Tea Parties -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on April 27, 2010
Opponents of the popular expression of conservative opposition to big government -- the tea-party movement -- regularly note that tea partiers are overwhelmingly white. This is intended to disqualify the tea parties from serious moral consideration...

The Foreign Policy of Self-Abasement -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on April 27, 2010
?Lighten up.? That?s what defenders of Obama?s national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, are saying. Appearing before the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, General Jones introduced his remarks with the following story: A Taliban militant gets lost and is wandering around the desert looking for water...

Misusing History -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on April 27, 2010
Many years ago, I was surprised to receive a letter from an old friend, saying that she had been told that I refused to see campus visitors from Africa.At the time, I was so bogged down with work that I had agreed to see only one visitor to the Stanford campus -- and it so happens that he was from Africa...

Self-Censoring South Park -- By: Nina Shea

Posted on April 27, 2010
Comedy Central’s censorship of a recent South Park episode after threats over a caricature of Mohammed is the latest evidence that the West is slowly surrendering, institution by institution, to diffuse but determined demands to suppress anything possibly deemed as blasphemy against Islam...

Voter Intimidation, New Black Panther Style -- By: Hans A. von Spakovsky

Posted on April 27, 2010
I’ve been to numerous hearings held by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights -- but never before to one where there were armed security guards. But then, it has been decades since the commission held a hearing about the threats and intimidation carried out by an organization that the Anti-Defamation League categorizes as a hate group -- in this case, the New Black Panther Party...

Buckley and Reagan, Fighting the Good Fight -- By: Lee Edwards

Posted on April 27, 2010
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the new book <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon...

Something about Arizona -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on April 27, 2010
Phoenix, Ariz. -- Toward the end of summer, President Obama came to this hot city, the capital of Arizona and the Southwest, to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention...

Human Rights Watch and the Nazis -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on April 26, 2010
One of the largely unforeseen results of the great democratic and capitalist victory in the Cold War is the success the discredited Left has enjoyed as it scattered to fallback trenches after the rout it suffered at the front lines. The Stiglitz-Krugman economic Left, heavy-laden with Nobel prizes as are their political champions Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and President Obama, have danced themselves into exhaustion on what they took to be the graves of Thatcherism and Reaganomics...

The Case against the Dodd Bill -- By: The Editors

Posted on April 26, 2010
The dirty little secret about the Obama administration?s ?Wall Street reform? bill is that it?s full of favors for Wall Street. Case in point: You might have heard about the new $50 billion fund that would be used to wind down large financial firms that became insolvent...

Goodbye Supply Side -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on April 26, 2010
There are two schools of thought about the Reagan tax cuts. The conventional conservative view: They spurred investment, entrepreneurship, and real economic growth, helping to resuscitate the post-Carter economy, and, by doing so, they paid for themselves...

Mamma Mia! Michael Graham Talks Tea Parties -- By: Interview

Posted on April 26, 2010
Michael Graham is a Boston-based talk-radio host and frequent contributor to National Review Online for going on a decade. Recently the master of ceremonies at the Tax Day tea party in Boston, Graham talked to NRO?s Kathryn Jean Lopez about his new book, That?s No Angry Mob, That?s My Mom -- which is certainly one way to say ?Hi, Mom? with political resonance...

Oslo Journal, Part I -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on April 26, 2010
Friends, I?m writing you from the Norwegian capital -- no, not Minneapolis-St. Paul, but Oslo, all the way over here in Europe. The occasion is the Oslo Freedom Forum: a singular human-rights conference organized by the Human Rights Foundation, in New York...

The Gulf War Syndrome 'Mystery' -- By: Michael Fumento

Posted on April 26, 2010
Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) is back in the news, thanks to a new study released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and so is the persistent effort to label it a ?mystery.? See, for example, the story by a HealthDay reporter headlined ?Gulf War Syndrome Is Real, but Causes Unclear: Report...

Hold the VAT -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on April 26, 2010
The Obama Democrats? stealth strategy for increasing the size and scope of the federal government is well under way despite huge voter backlash. Federal spending has been increased from a 30-year average of 21 percent of gross domestic product to 25 percent, and a bipartisan commission tasked with reducing the deficit may recommend tax increases...

Janine Turner Is On Fire for the Constitution -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on April 26, 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.Washington began a debate about whether the federal government should take action to change the American palate, so that consumers? taste buds can adjust to the mandatory use of less salt...

Not Too 'Hip' and 'Edgy' for Censorship -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on April 24, 2010
I suppose the thinking runs something like this. All things considered, the polls on Obamacare aren?t totally disastrous, and the president?s approval numbers seem to have bottomed out in the low forties, and when you look at what that means in terms of the electoral map this November, you?ve only got to scare a relatively small percentage of squishy, suburban moderate centrists back into the Democratic fold, and how difficult can that be?Hence, Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesman?s dignity (please, no giggling) in the cause of comparing tea partiers to Timothy McVeigh...

Viva Christie -- By: Daniel Foster

Posted on April 23, 2010
You haven?t made it in New Jersey until organized labor wants you dead. By that measure, Chris Christie is already one of the most influential governors in the Garden State?s -- shall we say, colorful history. Just a few months into his term, Christie has taken the fight to the blood-engorged leech of a public sector so quickly and so hard that one teacher-union apparatchik sent an e-mail to thousands praying for his untimely demise...

21st Century Socialism -- By: Otto J. Reich

Posted on April 23, 2010
The Obama administration started out on the wrong foot in world affairs. It used techniques better suited for domestic political campaigns -- popularity contests -- in its foreign policy. In our own hemisphere, the result was confusion for our allies and our enemies alike...

Goldman Sachs and the Left -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on April 23, 2010
President Obama was in the Big Apple on Thursday, for another lecture on big, bad Wall Street. The dutiful, third-row appearance by Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs?s CEO, said it all: More than any other firm, Goldman is confident in its ability to cozy up to the Democrats that regulate it, and to favorably shape the current congressional negotiations on financial reform...

Mister RightNetwork -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on April 23, 2010
A few days ago, the public saw the first glimpses of RightNetwork, described by its founders as an ?independently-owned media company, launching on television, web and mobile in 2010? that aims to ?entertain, engage, and enlighten Americans who are looking for content that reflects and reinforces their perspective and worldview...

Don't Lose Out: Mary Eberstadt on Her New Book -- By: Interview

Posted on April 23, 2010
Richard Dawkins wants Pope Benedict XVI arrested when the pontiff visits England in the fall. Canadian National Post columnist Robert Fulford rightfully slammed the Dawkins proposal as ?a publicity stunt to denigrate the Pope and his Church.? In doing so, Fulford channeled Mary Eberstadt and her new book, The Loser Letters, a full-length satirical slap-down of the whole lot of contemporary, out-of-control atheists...

The Wall Street Democrats -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on April 23, 2010
When President Barack Obama?s vast new regulatory state is completed, Wall Street firms ought to have a competition over the naming rights. Will it be the CitiDeal? Or the Goldman Society? Or the UBS/J.P. Morgan Joint Initiative for the Establishment of a Social Democracy? The Democratic majority was bought and paid for by Wall Street and corporate money...

Capitalism vs. Capitalists -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on April 23, 2010
Five years ago this week, my former boss William F. Buckley started a column thusly:?Every ten years I quote the same adage from the late Austrian analyst Willi Schlamm, and I hope that ten years from now someone will remember to quote it in my memory...

Alito: A Model Supreme Court Justice -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on April 23, 2010
EDITOR?S NOTE: Please be warned that this column contains disturbing material.While disclaiming an ?abortion litmus test,? President Obama has signaled his intention to appoint a new Supreme Court justice who shares his concern for ?women?s rights.? In other words, of course there?s a litmus test -- and it would be foolish to suppose that abortion is the only one...

John S. McCain, Will You Please Go Now? -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on April 23, 2010
I need a Dramamine to cover Sen. John McCain?s reelection bid. With his desperate lurch to the right, he?s inducing more motion sickness than a Disneyland teacup. McCain?s campaign represents the same self-serving political cynicism that American voters have grown tired of stomaching from the current White House...

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