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Remembering the Pacific War -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on April 01, 2010
Sixty-five years ago, on April 1, 1945, the United States Marines, Army, and Navy invaded Okinawa. The ensuing three months of combat resulted in the complete defeat and near destruction of imperial Japanese forces on the island, just 340 miles from the mainland...

Really a Racial Recession? -- By: NRO Symposium

Posted on April 01, 2010
Are blacks in America suffering a Great Depression, suffering worse than other Americans because of undeniable employment discrimination? Kevin Hassett thinks so. He made his case here, and NRO asked some economics and civil-rights analysts to share their thoughts on the topic...

Hope and Your Change -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on April 01, 2010
I recently moved back to our nation?s capital after more than a decade?s hiatus, and what an impact it?s made on my life! It?s quite a different scene from the hipster SoHo cafes where I used to find myself back in Mike Bloombergsville. Okay, actually, many of you actually know me better than that...

Tea Parties Old and New -- By: Fred Schwarz

Posted on April 01, 2010
The one-sentence version of the Boston Tea Party is that in December 1773, angry colonists dumped a load of tea into Boston Harbor because they didn?t want to pay the tax on it. That?s true as far as it goes, but the full story is a bit more complicated -- and holds even more instructive parallels for the tea partiers of today...

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'Corporate Welfare!' They Cried -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on March 31, 2010
By now you probably know that Obamacare is costing, big time. AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar, Deere & Company, 3M -- any large corporation with significant health-care obligations to retired workers is taking a major hit to its quarterly earnings statement...

Break Up the Banks -- By: Arnold Kling

Posted on March 31, 2010
Big banks are bad for free markets. Far from being engines of free enterprise, they are conducive to what might be called ?crony capitalism,? ?corporatism,? or, in Jonah Goldberg?s provocative phrase, ?liberal fascism.? There is a free-market case for breaking up large financial institutions: that our big banks are the product, not of economics, but of politics...

Racial Recession -- By: Kevin A. Hassett

Posted on March 31, 2010
Economists seem to have settled on a name for the economic calamity we have just lived through. They call it the ?Great Recession.? As bad as the economy has been at the aggregate level, for minorities it has been much worse. It was a Great Recession for whites...

This Court Protects Kids -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on March 31, 2010
?Playing basketball is my ticket,? Jio Fontan tells the camera of a small film company called Teamworks Media. His testimony is a scene in a documentary called The Street Stops Here, airing on PBS tonight. Jio is a student at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City during the 2007-08 school year...

Next Battle: Immigration -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on March 31, 2010
After the health-care fight, we can expect the Obama administration to use the same template to pass ?comprehensive immigration reform.? That is a euphemism for permanently ceasing construction of the still-incomplete border fence; institutionalizing a large guest-worker program; treating illegal residents as de facto citizens in terms of receiving earned-income credits, health care, and general entitlements; and providing virtual amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens...

A True World Order -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on March 31, 2010
If the United States is to play its role of energizing Europe and helping that continent pull out of its power dive of sloth, debt, and political inertia, the U.S.�must first regain the headship of the West and demonstrate again an aptitude to lead an alliance...

Getting Serious About Pornography -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on March 31, 2010
Imagine a drug so powerful it can destroy a family simply by distorting a man?s perception of his wife. Picture an addiction so lethal it has the potential to render an entire generation incapable of forming lasting marriages and so widespread that it produces more annual revenue -- $97 billion worldwide in 2006 -- than all of the leading technology companies combined...

The Hostility Follies -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on March 31, 2010
Apparently there?s a self-proclaimed militia leader named Mike Vanderboegh who runs an obscure, low-traffic blog out of Pinson, Ala. (population 5,007). Mr. Vanderboegh recently called on his fellow ?sons of liberty? to break the windows of Democrats to protest health-care reform...

Henry Waxman: The Witch Hunter of Capitol Hill -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on March 31, 2010
Has there ever been a time when 18-term liberal Democratic congressman Henry Waxman?s nostrils weren?t flaring indignantly at corporate executives and entrepreneurs? The man wields his gavel over the free market like a Damoclean sword. He throws the weight of his congressional chairmanship around like a sumo wrestler walking across hot stones...

Frustrating, Stubborn Facts -- By: Tony Blankley

Posted on March 31, 2010
The late, splendid Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously asserted, ?Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.? The senator was wrong. (Of course, for those of us who still believe that objectivity is objective, a fact is still a fact, though the heavens may fall...

Reasons You Love NRO -- By: Jack Fowler

Posted on March 31, 2010
Reasons You Love NRO, in no particular order (which, when viewed collectively, will make you reach for your credit card because, friend�-- boy, oh, boy, do we need your help): Andy McCarthy. He put the Blind Sheikh in the can, he led the fight to get Eric Holder and the Guantanamo Hate Club to back off from holding terrorist trials in NYC, he?s a top-flight constitutional expert -- and he writes on NRO practically every day...

Entitlement Apocalypse -- By: Andrew G. Biggs

Posted on March 30, 2010
Our long-term budget challenge can be summarized in one word: entitlements. Without Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, the budget would be roughly in balance over the coming decades. But with these programs, and without reform, a fiscal crisis is inevitable...

Divided by an Ocean -- By: John O'Sullivan

Posted on March 30, 2010
Once again -- the fifth time in recent years, by my count -- the so-called Anglo-American special relationship is being dismissed as a self-destructive illusion (self-destructive for Britain, that is) by the usual geostrategic experts. Mostly it is Brits who go in for this hand-wringing, generally those who want their country to submerge itself constitutionally in a European federal state and who see a close friendship with America as an irritating obstacle to that end...

Turning the Obama Tide -- By: Sean Hannity

Posted on March 30, 2010
During the 2008 presidential campaign, I argued -- until I was blue in the face -- that Barack Obama would be a dangerous president because he was a person of radically liberal views. I drew this conclusion not because I had stumbled across a classified document providing a roadmap to the secret hidden world of Mr...

Waxman's Vendetta -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on March 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.Henry Waxman is peeved. He expects corporate America to swallow health-care reform without a peep of protest -- and, apparently, without revealing new costs to shareholders or the Securities and Exchange Commission...

White Elephant in Baghdad -- By: Daniel Pipes

Posted on March 30, 2010
Iraq?s recently concluded, inconclusive elections will be followed in August by the pullout of American troops, making this a good time to ask what American taxpayers have achieved with the $45 billion spent on reconstructing Iraq since 2003 and what steps to take text...

'Change' Is Not New -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on March 30, 2010
When ancient fossils of creatures that live on the ocean floor have been found in rock formations at the summit of Mount Everest, that ought to give us a clue that big changes in the earth are nothing new, and that huge changes have been going on long before human beings appeared on the scene...

Dems Win Dirty but Still Lose the Argument -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on March 30, 2010
The revisionist history writers were busy last week. The health-care law was ?sweeping? and ?historic.? Mrs. Pelosi was the ?most powerful speaker in history,? and President Obama had cemented his place as ?one of the most consequential presidents.? The press, in short, echoed Vice President Biden?s view on the importance of the legislation...

Leftism, the Religion -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on March 30, 2010
Many Americans find it difficult to understand why Jews on the left, including many who would call themselves ?liberal? rather than ?left,?continued to enthusiastically support President Obama after the revelations about the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views of the Rev...

Tea-Time Reading -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on March 30, 2010
?Victory? is not exactly what I?m feeling right about now. After the month we?ve had, I?ll bet I?m not alone. Which is why Sean Hannity?s timing is just about perfect.Today, he releases a new book, Conservative Victory, which he describes elsewhere on NRO...

'Representing' al-Qaeda -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on March 29, 2010
Bravely entering the lion?s den -- delivering a speech in praise of left-wing, ?pro bono? lawyering to a group of left-wing, pro bono lawyers -- Attorney General Eric Holder recently declared that ?lawyers who provide counsel for the unpopular are, and should be, treated as what they are: patriots...

The Tragedy of the Peace Process -- By: Mario Loyola

Posted on March 29, 2010
When the right-wing Benyamin Netanyahu was elected prime minister of Israel the first time round in 1996, Clinton-administration officials barely disguised their bitter disappointment. For the next three years, relations between the U.S. and Israel would be dominated by tempests-in-teapots such as what an Israeli bulldozer might have been doing in a particular neighborhood of East Jerusalem...

From Paradise to Pariah -- By: David Pryce-Jones

Posted on March 29, 2010
Panorama Road runs along the summit of Mount Carmel, the Table Mountain (so to speak) of Haifa. Just below the crest, the golden dome of the Bahai temple catches the eye. Below that, down the steepest of gradients, is the harbor and then the great sweep of the coast stretching towards Acre...

War and Memory -- By: Mackubin Thomas Owens

Posted on March 29, 2010
War is indeed, as Thucydides said, a ?rough master.? Those who have experienced it are never the same as they were before. In the HBO series The Pacific, the father of future Marine Eugene Sledge, a genteel Southern physician who served in World War I, tells his son that ?the worst thing about treating those combat boys from the Great War was not that their flesh had been torn, but that their souls had been torn out...

Betrayed -- By: Arthur Herman

Posted on March 29, 2010
Barack Obama promised during the 2008 campaign that he would rebuild America?s image abroad and restore our ties to nations around the world. Now, more than a year later, we can take stock of the result. The administration insulted Great Britain, first by returning its gift of a bust of Winston Churchill and now by challenging British sovereignty in the Falklands...

Big [expletive deleted] deals, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on March 29, 2010
I know we?re supposed to think that happenings in Iraq are no big deal, because we would not want George W. Bush to be credited with anything. But have you read the news out of that country in the last few days? It should be eye-rubbing to anyone who has followed the Middle East for any length of time...

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