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Pawlenty's Appeal -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on March 29, 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. ?Our values are under attack and under siege.? That was the feeling palpable at last week?s Susan B...

Friend of the Enemy -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on March 29, 2010
Barack Obama?s decision to postpone his trip to Indonesia and Australia -- to a democracy with the world?s largest Muslim population and to the only nation that has fought alongside us in all the wars of the last century -- is of a piece with his foreign policy generally: attack America?s friends and kowtow to our enemies...

Spreading the Big Lie -- By: George Weigel & Rev. Jay Scott Newman

Posted on March 29, 2010
If Irish singer Sinead O?Connor wishes to denounce her mother publicly as an abusive parent, that is her privilege. If Ms. O?Connor wishes to shred a photograph of Pope John Paul II on stage, as she did almost two decades ago, she is, one supposes, within the boundaries of ?performance art...

Free Association Isn't Free -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on March 29, 2010
I?ve lost track of how many of these things I?ve written. You know the jokes. You know the reasons why we do what we do. And you know why you read NRO. Sure, I could tell you a long story about how NR publisher Jack Fowler is a cruel and vicious man who beats us mercilessly when these beg-a-thons don?t raise enough money...

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More Foreclosures Will Solve Housing -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on March 29, 2010
With everybody focused on Obamacare, and its new entitlement spending and taxing, the administration has tried to sneak in another bailout for housing. Yet again, Team Obama is rewarding reckless behavior, punishing the 90 percent of responsible homeowners who are making good on their mortgages, and setting up a greater moral hazard that will surely lead to an expansion of bailout nation...

Spreading the Big Lie -- By: Rev. Jay Scott Newman

Spreading the Big Lie -- By: George Weigel

'Don't Tread on Me' -- By: Robert VerBruggen

Posted on March 27, 2010
As the House health-care debate entered the homestretch on Sunday, GOP lawmakers interacted with the protesters who had gathered outside the Capitol. ?There was a very, very large group of people, and many flags from our heritage were on display,? recalls Rep...

Obamacare Dystopia -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on March 27, 2010
May I be boring? Or, if you?re a regular reader, more boring than usual? Bear with me. There?s some eye-glazing numbers and whatnot.In 2003, Washington blessed a grateful citizenry with the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, it being generally agreed by all the experts that it was unfair to force seniors to choose between their monthly trip to Rite-Aid and Tony Danza in dinner theater...

A Fight for America's Future -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on March 26, 2010
Sometimes you yell ?stop,? and history doesn?t know enough to listen.That was our experience Sunday night, when House Democrats passed their health-care bill in an atmosphere befitting an Obama pep rally, complete with chants of ?Yes, we can!?A dispiriting spectacle, to be sure...

Health-Care Time Bombs -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on March 26, 2010
I recently asked Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, how grassroots conservative activists will be able to maintain their intensity now that the health-care bill has been signed into law. ?It?s going to be just like the stimulus,? he answered. ?People are going to start finding out what?s in this bill, and all of its nasty surprises are going to go off like a series of time bombs between now and November...

Chicago Does Socialism -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on March 26, 2010
We can have a rational debate on any one item on President Obama?s vast progressive agenda, arguing whether adjectives like ?statist? or ?socialist? fairly describe his legislative intent. But connect all the dots and lines of the past year, and an unambiguous image starts to materialize...

The People Speak -- By: Michael Fumento

Posted on March 26, 2010
Shortly after the House approved the massive, historic health-care legislation and sent it to President Obama for his signature, the president declared the vote ?proved that this government -- a government of the people and by the people -- still works for the people...

Poll Vaulting -- By: Daniel Foster

Posted on March 26, 2010
A year before President Obama proclaimed ?we are done? as he signed a $940 billion health-care bill into law, he put his name to an $887 billion stimulus bill. In both cases, everyone agreed that Congress needed to address the problem, but there the consensus stopped...

The Definition of 'Freakout' -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on March 26, 2010
During the 2004 Democratic convention I was on a train heading to Boston?s Fleet Center. While straining to contain my excitement over the prospect of hearing presidential nominee John Kerry?s soaring oratory (and seeing vice-presidential candidate John Edwards?s hair), I was distracted by a woman standing in front of me...

The Coming Europeanization of American Foreign Policy -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on March 26, 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.The Obama administration says it won?t tolerate an Iranian nuclear weapon...

The VAT Cometh -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on March 26, 2010
As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh. With the passage of Obamacare, which created a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind almost universal in Europe is inevitable. We are now $8 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects that another $12 trillion will be added over the next decade...

How the Left Fakes the Hate: A Primer -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on March 26, 2010
After years of covering racial hoaxes on college campuses and victim sob stories in the public arena, I?ve encountered countless opportunists who live by that demented mindset. At best, the fakers are desperately seeking 15 minutes of infamy. At worst, their aim is the criminalization of political dissent...

Inevitable Decline? -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on March 26, 2010
Throughout the past year of debate on health-care reform, the conservative fear and the liberal hope have been the same: that passage of a huge new entitlement program would prove irreversible. ?No one now dares touch Social Security or Medicare,? the Democrats crow, ?and it will be the same with Obamacare...

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Redux -- By: Tony Blankley

Posted on March 26, 2010
We are now beginning to enter the Kansas-Nebraska Act stage of our republic?s socialist crisis. At our constitutional founding, the evil of slavery was crudely evaded. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited the abomination north of 36�30' north latitude (about the middle of Missouri), was enacted...

The Mark of McCain -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on March 26, 2010
?If we captured bin Laden tomorrow, would he be entitled to Miranda warnings at the moment of capture?? Sen. Lindsey Graham got a lot of mileage out of that question, which stumped Attorney General Eric Holder during a Senate hearing last November. The South Carolina Republican also won plaudits from national-security conservatives for his reaction to Holder?s indecision...

Bad Day for Bart -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on March 25, 2010
He hasn?t won less than 66 percent of the vote since 2000. Larry Sabato?s Crystal Ball hasn?t yet written anything about Stupak?s reelection bid in Michigan?s 1st congressional district, and Cook Political Report still ranks the race ?Solid Democrat.? Yes, Stupak?s district ranks as the 208th most Republican House seat out of 435, and was seen as a Republican-leaning one that Obama narrowly carried in 2008...

Moving the Summit -- By: Robert VerBruggen

Posted on March 25, 2010
?States#...#[that] cap the number of charter schools will be at a competitive disadvantage,? Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on July 24, 2009. He was kicking off the Race to the Top program -- a plan to use $4.35 billion in federal funds to bribe states into enacting education reform...

So, You Still Want to Close Gitmo? -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on March 25, 2010
Mohamedou Slahi is responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans. He was a core member of the 9/11 conspiracy -- the recruiter of Mohamed Atta and the other ringleaders. If he?d had his druthers, even more Americans would have been killed: He is almost certainly the al-Qaeda middle manager who activated the Canadian cell that attempted to bomb Los Angeles International Airport...

Getting Financial Reform Right -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on March 25, 2010
Earlier this week, the Senate Banking Committee endorsed regulatory-reform legislation that would (among other things) launch a Financial Stability Oversight Council to monitor and tackle systemic risk, establish a new consumer-protection agency in the Federal Reserve, boost shareholder rights through proxy access, and implement a watered-down version of the ?Volcker rule? on proprietary trading...

Ravitch's Consistent Confusion -- By: Frederick M. Hess

Posted on March 25, 2010
In her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, eminent historian Diane Ravitch charges that accountability and school choice have been ineffective, destructive distractions from real school improvement. Given her longtime support for these ideas, her ?turncoat? moment has raised quite a stir...

Punishing Investment -- By: Phil Kerpen

Posted on March 25, 2010
On Tuesday, the president signed the Democrats? health-care-reform bill, but the House?s ?reconciliation? bill of fixes has yet to become law. The Senate will begin debating it, and might even sign it, today. Among the bad provisions that the reconciliation bill would add to the law -- special deals, an increase in the employer tax per uncovered worker from $750 to $2,000, a federal takeover of the student-loan industry -- is an assault on the burgeoning investor class: a new 3...

Our Man in Jeddah -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on March 25, 2010
Last month, President Obama announced the appointment of Rashad Hussain as ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. By video, Obama told attendees at something called the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, that Hussain was not just ?an accomplished lawyer and trusted member of my White House staff,? but also a ?hafi? -- a Muslim who has memorized the entire Koran...

Bond Rates and Obamacare -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on March 25, 2010
Not many people noticed amid the Democrats? struggle to jam their health-care bill through the House, but in recent weeks U.S. Treasury bonds have lost their status as the world?s safest investment.The numbers are pretty clear. In February, Bloomberg News reports, Berkshire Hathaway sold two-year bonds with an interest rate lower than that on two-year Treasuries...

Is It 'Go Easy' or 'Go for Broke,' Mr. President? -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on March 25, 2010
After the bloodletting over the health-care bill, President Obama is now at a crossroads.Not one opposition member voted for his health-care reform. That, along with tawdry buyoffs for fence-sitting members of the Senate and a reconciliation process that avoids another Senate vote, has made a mockery of Obama?s campaign rhetoric of ?healing...

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