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A Second Chance for Choice

Posted on February 17, 2011
John Boehner tries to revive the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Last month, Rep. John Boehner (R., Ohio) introduced H.R. 471, the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act. Besides the speaker's imprimatur, H...

Pigford?s Harvest

Posted on February 17, 2011
From the Feb. 21, 2010, issue of NR. One unhappy night in 1992, 40-year-old Timothy Pigford, a fourth-generation black farmer having a terrible time of it trying to grow soybeans in North Carolina, sat in the living room of the house he was barely holding on to and drew up the outline of a lawsuit against the federal government...

Our anti-Bolton at the U.N., &c.

Posted on February 17, 2011
In December, I wrote a longish piece about John Bolton, the Republican foreign-policy whiz. (Actually, he whizzes on other issues as well -- so to speak.) In that piece, I mentioned that Bolton called Jim Baker 'the best secretary of state since Dean Acheson...

Obama?s Plainly Unserious Budget

Posted on February 17, 2011
The president is trying to force massive tax increases. It's not unusual for a budget submission from a president to be declared 'dead on arrival,' especially by members of the opposition party in Congress...

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Talk Like an Egyptian

Posted on February 17, 2011
And sound like a neocon. In his remarks following the resignation of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak last week, President Obama echoed the pro-democracy protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square. When he said, 'something in our souls ...

The Hills are Alive with the Sounds of Rwanda

Posted on February 17, 2011
Impressions from a visit to Africa Kigali, Rwanda -- Rwanda is like a black Switzerland. Its nickname is 'The Land of a Thousand Hills.' This is a gross understatement. Beyond the runway at the airport here in the nation's capital, one struggles to stay on flat ground for long...

Pruning Farm Subsidies

Posted on February 17, 2011
Now?s the time to end them. In times of massive deficits, why are we borrowing millions to subsidize profitable agribusiness? Lots of presidents have asked that question. George H. W. Bush tried to cut farm subsidies...

Dead on Arrival

Posted on February 17, 2011
Obama?s budget offers inertia, not change. One way to judge the merits of the budget Barack Obama unveiled this week is by the comments of his political allies. 'It's not enough to focus primarily on the non-security discretionary part of the budget,' said Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad...

Egypt?s Chance

Posted on February 17, 2011
Cairo is experiencing a historic turn toward patriotism, inclusion, and secularism. If developments in Egypt have gone as well as one could hope for, future prospects remain unclear. The exciting part is over, now come the worries...

Obamacare vs. Drug Innovation

Posted on February 16, 2011
PhRMA?s quiescence on Obamacare badly hurt the industry ? and all those who depend on medical innovation. With the release of the president's budget, it is now beyond dispute — Beltway spin notwithstanding -- that the decision by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) to support the health-care bill was one of the worst self-inflicted wounds in the history of lobbying...

Bangladesh Today, Egypt Tomorrow

Posted on February 16, 2011
The long-term strategy for enforcing sharia law. James Clapper issued a clarification last week. Within hours of testifying to Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is a 'largely secular' organization, he clarified that he had meant to say the Muslim Brotherhood is not a secular organization...

The Ruse of Regulatory Reform

Posted on February 16, 2011
Obama assures business leaders that he feels their pain. They don?t believe him. President Obama's speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week did anything but signal a rapprochement with America's demoralized private sector...

A New America in a New World Order

Posted on February 16, 2011
Obama?s vision of sameness ? at home, equality of result; abroad, all nations equal ? carries an appalling price tag. The year is quite young, and yet it has already seen a multitude of disturbing events and trends -- unrest in Cairo and North Africa; nuclearization in Iran; a growing anti-American alliance among Turkey, Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria; the expansionary designs of a newly unabashed China with attendant repercussions on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; calls for the end of the dollar as the global currency; the muscle flexing from an 'I can't believe my good luck' Russia; and the tottering of the European Union...

Thune in 2012?

Posted on February 16, 2011
Will ? should ? the junior senator from South Dakota challenge his fellow hoops-loving Midwesterner for the Oval Office? As he settles into a high-backed chair in his private Senate office, John Thune tells me that if he jumps into the 2012 presidential race, he will be in it to win it -- no test-run for 2016, no show-horse spectacle...

Top Ten Obama Budget Failures

Posted on February 16, 2011
So many to choose from . . . Looking for a good joke? Did you hear the one about how President Obama is making painful spending cuts in order to reduce the budget deficit? There is so much to dislike in this budget that it's hard to narrow it down to the worst ideas...

Egypt, Without Illusions

Posted on February 16, 2011
Democratization will be a messy and turbulent process, but fears of a radical Islamist takeover are overblown. What is the best possible outcome in Egypt? Short term, the ideal scenario is a nonviolent, military-brokered transition led by a reformist government that will spearhead major constitutional changes, uphold the rule of law, nurture liberal institutions, promote democratic pluralism, safeguard basic freedoms, and maintain the 1979 peace treaty with Israel...

Michelle Obama: First Lady of Junk Science

Posted on February 16, 2011
Big Nanny?s new Central Command headquarters While her husband may have paid lip service to ending the abuse of science for 'politics or ideology,' first lady Michelle Obama gave herself a super-sized waiver...

Nir Rosen?s Politics

Posted on February 16, 2011
A brief introduction Nir Rosen is an acclaimed journalist whose extensive reporting from the war in Iraq has earned him many academic honors -- including fellowships with New York University's Center on Law and Security and the New American Foundation and an invitation to speak before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

Budget Bust

Posted on February 15, 2011
Pres. Barack Obama has proposed the largest federal budget in the history of the United States of America, at $3.73 trillion. It includes a string of monster deficits, including a projected 2012 deficit amounting to 10.9 percent of GDP -- a borrowing binge exceeded by the United States only during the height of World War II...

King?s Speech

Posted on February 15, 2011
Rep. Peter King battles Islamic radicalism ? and political correctness. Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, will hold hearings next month on radicalization within the American Muslim community...

Is Science Saturated with Sexism?

Posted on February 15, 2011
New evidence suggests the opposite. The voice of reason is easy to shout down but hard to vanquish altogether. This week it turned up in an unlikely place: an academic paper about gender bias in the sciences...

Mitch Daniels Is No Panderer

Posted on February 15, 2011
At CPAC, the Indiana guv didn?t deliver a typical presidential-campaign speech. Indiana governor Mitch Daniels did not get the memo about CPAC, the annual gathering of conservatives in Washington...

Meeting the press, &c.

Posted on February 15, 2011
Yesterday, I was doing what every red-blooded American male does: perusing National Review Online. One of the joys in life. Anyway, I found a video of an exchange between David Gregory and John Boehner. Gregory is the host of Meet the Press. Boehner is -- well, you know...

Hold the Champagne

Posted on February 15, 2011
There are good and sufficient reasons to keep our enthusiasm about Egypt corked for now. Conservatives have been chastised in some quarters over the past week for their lack of enthusiasm for the 'revolution' in Egypt...

Rally ?Round the Multi-Culti Flag, Boys

Posted on February 15, 2011
Let?s celebrate diversity by getting rid of it In Hollywood we have a saying: 'We've seen this movie before.' I realize you civilians have the same saying, but when we say it, it has an added ring of authority because we are Industry professionals and you are the fannies in the seats...

Rocky and Republicans

Posted on February 15, 2011
The GOP needs to pack a punch. Rocky Marciano is the only heavyweight champion to never lose a single fight in his whole career -- and, at the time, he seemed the least likely fighter to accomplish that...

In Vietnam, Hating Communism Anew

Posted on February 15, 2011
Seeing the Communist North induces outrage at the senseless deaths and historical lies. It was difficult to control my emotions -- specifically my anger -- during my visit to Vietnam last week...

Republicans Take On the Budget

Posted on February 15, 2011
The GOP is all-in on entitlement reform. Score another victory for the Tea Party. As of Monday early afternoon, House Republicans were officially undecided as to whether they'd take on entitlements when they write the budget this year...

Kyl?s Unfinished Business

Posted on February 14, 2011
He is retiring, but he is not retired yet. Sen. Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.), the Republican whip, is leaving the Senate. Last week, Senator Kyl formally announced that when his term expires on Jan. 3, 2013, he's out the door...

High-Speed Pork

Posted on February 14, 2011
Faster trains will produce almost no new mobility. President Obama's high-speed-rail proposal will, over the course of six years, pour $53 million of taxpayer money into a megaproject that produces little value for the vast majority of Americans...

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