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Brothers in Arms

Posted on March 02, 2011
Five Badgers are setting the national standard. In late February, Rep. Paul Ryan, the rangy Republican who chairs the House Budget Committee, addressed a group of businessmen in a ballroom overlooking frozen Lake Monona...

The Buckeye Union Brawl

Posted on March 02, 2011
Ohio Republicans try to curtail public unions? power in their state. In theatrics, the current Ohio union battle is a poor man's Wisconsin: fewer protesters, less media coverage, and more in-state Democratic senators (so far)...

Teachers? Unions 101: ?A? Is for ?Agitation?

Posted on March 02, 2011
Their forced-dues racket is just the beginning. If public-school teachers spent more time teaching in classrooms and less time community-organizing in political war rooms, maybe taxpayers wouldn't feel as ripped off as they do...

The Fighters vs. the Fixers

Posted on March 02, 2011
In 2012, the GOP?s presidential crop looks like the Democrats? in 2004. ‘Pawlenty's attacks get more pointed,' announced a headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. 'He's betting sharper rhetoric will spring him from GOP pack,' clarified the subhead...

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Organized Labor vs. Public Opinion

Posted on March 01, 2011
Union overreach is fracturing the Obama coalition. ‘Polls show that the vast majority of people think that [Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin] has overreached.#...#His popularity has gone down...

Tom Graves: Ahead of the Class

Posted on March 01, 2011
Congressman Graves arrived in D.C. during the 111th Congress, and he is putting his experience to good use. Rep. Tom Graves (R., Ga.) arrived on Capitol Hill several months in advance of the GOP tidal wave of November 2 -- and certainly without all the fanfare...

Leading the Charge against Nelson?s Folly

Posted on March 01, 2011
Nebraska attorney general Jon Bruning hopes to unseat Sen. Ben Nelson. Of all of the incumbent Democratic senators seeking reelection in 2012, perhaps none is more endangered than Ben Nelson of Nebraska, now known for the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback,' a special deal for his state that was submitted during the health-care debate and ultimately withdrawn...

Palin vs. Romney

Posted on March 01, 2011
From the Feb. 21, 2010, issue of NR. Two potential candidates for the Republican presidential nomination have been described as 'frontrunners': former governors Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin. According to pollster Scott Rasmussen, they're the candidates with the most supporters among likely Republican-primary voters: Romney has 24 percent, Palin 19 percent...

Political Pig-Pens, &c.

Posted on March 01, 2011
Here is a messy subject: the sheer, physical dirtiness of the Left. The detritus of the Left. I grew up with it, in Ann Arbor: the placards, the sleeping bags, the leaflets, the graffiti, the tent cities, the associated garbage. We see the same thing in lovely Madison now...

My Pessimism On Egypt

Posted on March 01, 2011
Eight good reasons not to share the widespread optimism. From the moment the Tahrir Square demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak began, optimism has dominated American reporting and commentary on what is being called the Egyptian revolution...

Wisconsin Is About Breaking Up the Union Racket

Posted on March 01, 2011
The Democrats are protecting their own campaign coffers. Not workers? rights. When the Wisconsin General Assembly voted to pass Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill, the Democratic legislators made themselves indistinguishable from the protestors surrounding the assembly floor...

My Optimism on the New Arab Revolt

Posted on March 01, 2011
It ia time to discard the soft bigotry of low expectations. Unprecedented convulsions across the Middle East, from Morocco to Iran, prompt three reflections: First, these rebellions fit into the context of a regional chessboard, what I call the Middle East cold war...

Is Democracy Viable?

Posted on March 01, 2011
We cannot take liberty for granted ? even here. Those who see hope in the Middle East uprisings seem to assume that they will lead in the direction of freedom or democracy. There is already talk about the 'liberation' of Egypt, even though the biggest change in that country is that a one-man dictatorship has been replaced by a military dictatorship that has suspended the constitution...

Should Boys Wrestle Girls?

Posted on March 01, 2011
Every young man should hesitate to use his full strength against a young lady. If you mention Iowa around Washington, D.C., the first thing that will pop into most people's minds is 'caucuses...

Obamacare and the CLASS Fraud

Posted on February 28, 2011
The alleged deficit-defeater turns out to be a budget-buster. Those who conducted the campaign to force Obamacare through Congress in 2009 and 2010 made a whole series of fraudulent arguments: 'You can keep the plan you have today if you like it...

From an Undisclosed Motel 6 in Illinois

Posted on February 28, 2011
The people, united, will never be defeated ? especially with a little Skyline chili and sturgeon for breakfast. You're probably wondering why I'm writing this from an undisclosed location (full disclosure: I'm in South Beloit, Ill...

Upending Our Caste System

Posted on February 28, 2011
It is unions? political power, not their economic power alone, that must be curtailed. As Wisconsin flips its wig, there has been a great deal of dishonest, ill-informed, and indeed knavish commentary on the relationship between public-sector unions and the fiscal conditions of the states...

Paying Off the Egyptian Military

Posted on February 28, 2011
The key to democracy in a troubled nation Hosni Mubarak has fallen, but Egypt's revolution is far from complete. Its military -- the caretaker needed to oversee an orderly transition of power -- may itself prove the greatest obstacle to meaningful change...

?Fugitive Dust? at Large

Posted on February 28, 2011
The EPA could crack down on ?particulate matter? on farms. Modesty has not exactly been the hallmark of the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency. In 2009, it declared that carbon dioxide -- the air we exhale -- is a 'pollutant,' and thus falls under the Clean Air Act...

America?s Technological Plateau

Posted on February 28, 2011
Tyler Cowen thinks we can?t expect restored economic growth anytime soon. Tyler Cowen has established himself as the indispensable economics commentator. The general director of the Mercatus Center and holder of the Holbert C...

Why Support the Tea Party?

Posted on February 28, 2011
Modest-income Americans vote for the national interest, not their self-interest. It's a question that puzzles most liberals and bothers some conservatives. Why are so many modest-income white voters rejecting the Obama Democrats' policies of economic redistribution and embracing the small-government policies of the Tea Party movement? It's not supposed to work out that way, say the political scientists and New Deal historians...

Erdo?an and the 'Al-Gaddafi Prize'

Posted on February 28, 2011
Everything you need to know about the Turkish prime minister, in one act. The slogan of the 'Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights' is, 'As the sun shines for everyone, freedom is a right for everyone...

Red-Carpet Review

Posted on February 28, 2011
Rating the 2011 Oscar dresses. Hollywood's A-listers brought vivacious color, embroidery, and sequins to the 2011 Oscar red carpet -- perfectly in step with last September's spring fashion shows...

What We Can Do in Libya

Posted on February 28, 2011
Muammar Qaddafi hasn't made much sense over the last week. About the only rational thing he's said is that he'll fight and die in Libya. He doesn't have many other options, and with his regime splintering and the opposition continuing to advance on Tripoli -- the city of Zawiya, 30 miles west of the capital, fell yesterday -- he could be proven prescient in a matter of days...

The New Sexual Revolution

Posted on February 28, 2011
Go ahead ? turn back the clock. Why are House Republicans waging 'war on contraception'? I've lately seen the question asked, not for the first -- or the last -- time. Truth be told, Republicans are not waging such a war -- but the phrase gets close to a battle that is worth fighting...

WFB, Three Years Passed

Posted on February 27, 2011
Remembering he who stood athwart history William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review and one of the foremost intellectuals of the 20th century, died on Feb. 27, 2008. To mark the third anniversary of his passing from this world, National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez talked with Linda Bridges, a longtime colleague of WFB's who has compiled, along with Roger Kimball, a collection of his work, Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F...

The OIC and the Caliphate

Posted on February 26, 2011
The Islamic agenda is not coexistence, but dominion. The Organization of the Islamic Conference is the closest thing in the modern world to a caliphate. It is composed of 57 members (56 sovereign states and the Palestinian Authority), joining voices and political heft to pursue the unitary interests of the ummah, the world's 1...

On Teachers and Others

Posted on February 25, 2011
In judging teachers? claims, we might compare their lives with the lives of, say, farmers or welders or interstate truckers. So far the angry teachers of Wisconsin have not yet won over the public...

Steve Penley, Patriot

Posted on February 25, 2011
Penley is an artist with a mission: to help his fellow Americans appreciate their country. Hanging in Andrew Breitbart's living room is an eight-foot-tall portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The president's visage -- an expressionistic swirl of broad brushstrokes and bright colors -- earns the admiration of everyone who sees it, Breitbart notes on the back cover of Ronald Reagan and the American Ideal, a book of paintings by the portrait's artist, Steve Penley...

Obama in the Closet

Posted on February 25, 2011
Why won?t the president admit that he supports gay marriage? Pres. Barack Obama wants us to believe he's the most ineffectual opponent of gay marriage imaginable. If we take him at his word, he's a supporter of the traditional definition of marriage who just happens to undermine his own position at every turn...

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