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Eight Ways Obamacare Grows the Government -- By: David Gratzer

Posted on March 20, 2010
Democrats are in their final sprint to pass the president?s health-reform plan, and allies such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman are rehashing every argument to promote the effort. In a recent column, Krugman attacks the ?myth? that the bill is a ?government takeover...

Welcome to Deemocracy -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on March 20, 2010
On Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots within the Golden State.California has run out of money, but it hasn?t yet run out of things to regulate...

An American Divide -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on March 19, 2010
John Edwards, when he wasn?t fixing his hair or cheating on his wife, liked to talk about ?two Americas.? In one America, things were pretty bad, somewhere between The Grapes of Wrath and Thunderdome. In the other America, where Edwards himself lived in a McMansion, things were going swimmingly...

Obama, the Immoderate -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on March 19, 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.One of Pres. Barack Obama?s great political gifts is his moderate demeanor -- cool, reasoned, self-contained...

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Chris Dodd's Big, Misguided Bill -- By: David Malpass

Posted on March 19, 2010
For more than a year Congress has been talking about reforming bank and other financial-market regulations. The regulatory system certainly needs reform -- it broke down badly over the last decade. But not many of current proposals are useful.In particular, the financial-regulation bill being sponsored by Sen...

This Is a Non-Arrogant Foreign Policy? -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on March 19, 2010
Funny, President Obama was supposed to be against an arrogant foreign policy. Remember his speech in Strasbourg last spring? There had been instances, he told the European students, ?where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive...

Reconciliation Could Blow Up in Dems' Faces -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on March 19, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and her henchpersons are whipping (that?s the technical term) Democrats to secure 216 votes to pass the Senate?s health-care bill. The Senate then would approve a companion ?reconciliation? measure to deodorize some of the more pungent legislative bribes and corrupt deals that helped grease the Senate legislation?s passage last Christmas Eve...

The Deem-o-crats' Towering Deception -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on March 19, 2010
If you cannot trust government?s numbers, you cannot trust government?s words. This is the lesson of the House Democrats? desperate promotion of a phony-baloney Congressional Budget Office analysis of their latest health-care-takeover package.Democratic leaders leaked a solid-seeming price tag -- $940 billion over ten years -- before the CBO released any official comment or report...

The Preventive-Care Myth -- By: Michael Fumento

Posted on March 19, 2010
The Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday that the health-care bill would reduce the deficit. ?I love numbers,? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) declared as she made a last-minute pitch to pull Democrats in line for the bill -- which, polls show, Americans don?t want...

Obamacare's Imaginary Savings -- By: The Editors

Posted on March 19, 2010
President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress touted the latest cost projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as evidence that the bill they are attempting to ram through Congress this weekend is fiscally responsible. Some Blue Dog Democrats may try to use the latest projections as an excuse to switch their votes from opposition to support of Obamacare...

Don't Give Up on Europe -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on March 18, 2010
As with so many other foreign-policy matters, there is room and reason for the United States to reassess its policy toward Europe. That policy was stable throughout the Cold War: support of anything that assisted the Western Europeans in being better Cold Warriors...

The Perseverance of Pelosi -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on March 18, 2010
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote that music is the purest embodiment of will, but he never met Nancy Pelosi. Having resorted to the legislative equivalent of brute force to sign her members up for a bill they don?t wish to vote for, she now must contend with the Congressional Budget Office as she tries to expand spending and delay taxes while maintaining the fiction that Obamacare will reduce the deficit...

This Corpse Has the Right to Remain Silent -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on March 18, 2010
There is dishonest, and there is asinine. Combine them and you have Attorney General Eric Holder?s congressional testimony on Tuesday. As the Examiner?s Byron York recounts, Holder -- assuring Congress that he was not ?dodging? questions about Miranda warnings for enemy combatants -- dodged madly...

Not a Jobs Bill -- By: David G. Tuerck & Grover Norquist

Posted on March 18, 2010
The White House, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid have found themselves increasingly desperate to rationalize their force-feeding our country health-care legislation. The most recent polls show Americans to be overwhelmingly opposed -- especially in swing districts, where at least 60 percent of voters want Congress to scrap the bill or move on to the No...

Real Medicaid Reform -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on March 18, 2010
If Obamacare passes, Democrats will celebrate it as a monumental victory for the uninsured. The office of Richard Foster, chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, estimates that the Senate bill -- the bill that House members may soon be voting on -- would reduce the number of people without health insurance by 34 million as of 2019...

Peace Later -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on March 18, 2010
Apparently, some things cannot be tolerated. For example, while Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Israel last week, Jerusalem?s Regional Planning Council announced its approval of plans to construct apartments for 1,600 Israeli families in Israel?s capital, Jerusalem...

Misaligned Incentives -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on March 18, 2010
The Democratic leadership?s struggle to pass the Senate health-care bill in the House looks like a great case study for political scientists. They have many examples of the leaders of a majority party trying to push controversial legislation through a balky chamber...

'They don't embarrass easy,' &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on March 18, 2010
I am not a liberal Democrat, and you may not be, either. But if we were: Don?t you think we?d be embarrassed at the way Pelosi et al. are going about getting ?Obamacare? through? The parliamentary maneuvering, the skullduggery? Especially after Obama and the party at large promised openness, transparency, orderliness, and so on? The Democrats? legislation would mark a major change in the way we operate in this country...

Another Partisan Push for Another 'Comprehensive Reform'? -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on March 18, 2010
Candidate Barack Obama promised immigration activists, ?I think it?s time for a president who won?t walk away from something as important as comprehensive reform when it becomes politically unpopular.?Now pressure groups are demanding Obama come through on his pledge...

Nun Too Supportive -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on March 18, 2010
?Congress must not dismantle a social order that respects religious freedom and recognizes that government should never stand between the consciences and the religious practice of its citizens and Almighty God.?Any questions?That statement comes from the Catholic bishop of Orlando, Fla...

The Biden Incident -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on March 18, 2010
Why did Pres. Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: Vice President Joe Biden was visiting, Jerusalem is a touchy subject, and you don?t bring up touchy subjects that might embarrass an honored guest...

China and Currency Valuation -- By: Daniel Ikenson

Posted on March 17, 2010
Will the Treasury Department?s semi-annual report on foreign-exchange-rate practices, due to be released in April, label China a ?currency manipulator,? as is being increasingly speculated? If so, that conclusion would spark bilateral negotiations on an ?expedited basis? and open the door to ?remedial? legislation to compel China to revalue its currency...

Political Poison -- By: The Editors

Posted on March 17, 2010
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Pres. Barack Obama seem absolutely determined to get House Democrats to pass the Senate health-care bill. Arms aren?t all they?re twisting: They are also bending the rules of Congress. The latest gambit is to have the House ?deem? the Senate bill to have passed without actually voting on it...

The Worst Crisis in 35 Years? -- By: NRO Symposium

Posted on March 17, 2010
From Vice President Joseph Biden?s criticism of Israeli settlements to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?s list of demands, the Obama administration has been rough on America?s ally, Israel, in recent days. National Review Online asked experts in Middle East policy what this turn means for the region...

Sun and Socialism -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on March 17, 2010
Sun and socialism are seemingly a bad mix. Socialism -- or at least communitarian practices that in their ultimate manifestations would result in socialism -- doesn?t go well with 300 days of sun, long summers and short winters, sandy beaches and seaside caf�s, and shorts and swimsuits...

Code Words -- By: John Leo

Posted on March 17, 2010
When Glenn Beck urged Christians to leave churches that preach social justice, he allowed himself to be tripped up by conventional buzzwords of the campus Left. In plain English, ?social justice? is a goal of all churches and refers to helping the poor and seeking equality...

Reading the Tea Party Leaves -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on March 17, 2010
If you read the op-ed pages these days, you?d be forgiven for thinking that the GOP and the conservative movement have been taken over by know-nothing mobs, anti-intellectual demagogues, and pitchfork-wielding bigots. There?s no omnibus label for this argument, but it?s a giveaway that a person subscribes to it if he or she describes the tea-party movement as the ?tea baggers,? an awfully telling bit of sophomoric condescension from the camp that affects a pose of being more high-minded...

The Slaughter on the Southern Border -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on March 17, 2010
At a joint press conference with Mexican president Felipe Calder�n last year, President Obama vowed to make ending border violence a ?top priority.? How?s that hope and change working out? Drug-related crime is out of control, the State Department is warning spring-break vacationers to avoid the Mexican states of Durango, Coahuila, and Chihuahua, and the bloodshed has now reached the U...

Losing the War -- By: Robert Rector

Posted on March 16, 2010
Today marks the 46th anniversary of the War on Poverty. On March 16, 1964, Pres. Lyndon Johnson announced a new government mobilization that he claimed would yield ?total victory? against poverty in the United States. Johnson promised his ?war? would be an ?investment? that would ?return its cost manifold to the entire economy...

Back to Basics -- By: Chester E. Finn Jr.

Posted on March 16, 2010
For five good reasons, conservatives should take seriously the potential of the newly released (in draft form) ?common? education standards to strengthen U.S. education. First, they?re good, solid -- indeed very ambitious -- academic standards for primary and secondary schooling, at least in the two essential subjects of English and math...

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