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On Losing

Posted on February 04, 2011
From the Dec. 1, 1964, issue of NR By now a new cliché has been added to the time-worn list, but I know of no other way of comment on the election than to open with the by now familiar — "Well, it's over and we lost...

The Bush Administration
And the Hatch Act

Posted on February 04, 2011
A politicized report from the Office of Special Counsel bends the facts and the law to find Bush staffers guilty of inappropriate political activity. Perhaps the biggest revelation in the report released last week by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is that the White House Office of Political Affairs (OPA) under Pres...

Reagan Reclaimed

Posted on February 04, 2011
From the February 7, 2011, issue of NR. The news that President Obama decided to read a biography of Ronald Reagan during his Christmas holiday in Hawaii might be taken as a sign that Reagan's triumph over liberals is complete...

Reagan?s Leadership, America?s Recovery

Posted on February 04, 2011
From the Dec. 30, 1988, issue of NR There have not been many times when a British prime minister has been prime minister through two consecutive terms of office of the same president of the United States...

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Ronald Reagan: A Relaxing View

Posted on February 04, 2011
From the Nov. 28, 1967, issue of NR. In this here neck of the woods, there is some uneasiness in the air, and the reason why is Ronald Reagan. Here is how the nightmare goes. Romney does so-so in New Hampshire, not well enough to give him a solid lead, not poorly enough to dispose of him once and for all and leave time to build up another liberal...

Where's the Rest of Him?

Posted on February 04, 2011
From the February 22, 1980, issue of NR Two days after the Iowa caucuses, the press is waiting for Ronald Reagan in the Aloha Lounge at O'Hare airport, a room decorated with orange, yellow, and pink pineapples and volcanoes...

The Psychological Effect

Posted on February 04, 2011
From the June 28, 2004, issue of NR Ronald Reagan's legacy is not one of ideological purity. He raised taxes and signed liberal abortion legislation in California. Despite his 'evil empire' speech, he was not the preeminent Cold Warrior: Truman and Eisenhower had both fashioned the policy of containment and deterrence...

The Interior Department?s Culture of Contempt

Posted on February 04, 2011
The courts give Salazar and Co. another spanking. Oops, they did it again. President Obama's grabby-handed environmental bureaucrats have earned yet another spanking from the federal judiciary over their 'determined disregard' of the rule of law...

Liberal Bouquets for Dead Conservatives

Posted on February 04, 2011
The effort to build up conservatives of the past is little more than a feint to tear down the conservatives of the present. The only good conservative is a dead conservative. That, in a nutshell, describes the age-old tradition of liberals suddenly discovering that once-reviled conservatives were OK after all...

Return of the Back Alley

Posted on February 04, 2011
Its practice and mores are still with us. If the famous pro-choice litany is 'safe, legal, and rare,' the logical endpoint of a culture of abortion on demand is none of the above. Legal abortion was supposed to end 'back-alley abortions,' both their dangers and their entanglements with shady characters...

Does Jimmy Carter Deserve To Be Sued?

Posted on February 04, 2011
He doesn?t deserve censorship. But he does deserve the hassle. In a suit filed in federal court in New York, former president Jimmy Carter, along with his publisher, Simon and Schuster, is being sued by five readers of his 2006 book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid...

Toward a Soft Landing in Egypt

Posted on February 04, 2011
The key is the military. Who doesn't love a democratic revolution? Who is not moved by the renunciation of fear and the reclamation of dignity in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria? The worldwide euphoria that has greeted the Egyptian uprising is understandable...

Reagan Revealed

Posted on February 04, 2011
At his centennial, Ronald Reagan still reveals secrets. Dr. Martin Anderson works in an ivory tower -- literally. From high above Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Anderson contemplates Ronald Reagan's legacy as his centennial arrives on February 6...

Shutdowns and Spending

Posted on February 04, 2011
On the Hill, Democrats stoke fear while Republicans try to fix the budget. When Senate Democrats expound on the alleged GOP plot to shut down the government and crash the U.S. economy by refusing the raise the federal debt limit, it's almost as if they've moved beyond mere political posturing to the point where, having repeated themselves with ample frequency and vigor, they've actually started to believe what they're saying...

Rand Rips

Posted on February 03, 2011
Sen. Rand Paul takes a Bowie knife to the federal budget. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, in his maiden speech Wednesday, invoked the Clay family, who in the 19th century produced two Bluegrass State greats: Sen...

Forced Spending

Posted on February 03, 2011
The states want relief from Medicaid requirements. Even as governors brace for enormous budget shortfalls in the upcoming fiscal year, there's one program they cannot -- by law -- cut eligibility for: Medicaid...

The Gosnell Case and American Abortion Law

Posted on February 03, 2011
Will abortion-rights advocates continue to defend the current regime? On January 14, just eight days before the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, a Philadelphia grand jury issued a 261-page report on the horrifying career of Dr...

Let?s Vote on It

Posted on February 03, 2011
One of the many troubling aspects of the Obama administration is its eagerness to use the federal regulatory apparatus to achieve its political goals when it cannot advance them through the democratic process in Congress. The sterling example of this is the EPA's push to enact, on self-asserted authority, new limitations on the emission of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases...

The Darkening Skies over Obamacare

Posted on February 03, 2011
Every day, it looks like less and less of a done deal. President Obama and his congressional allies want to create the perception that Obamacare is a done deal, and that Republicans need to get over it...

Leviathan

Posted on February 03, 2011
The government payroll is longer than you might think. How many Americans work in government? That's a difficult question to answer. Officially, as of 2009, the federal government employed 2...

Obama?s Antique Vision of Technological Progress

Posted on February 03, 2011
His vision is of a dynamic economy. His result will be a static one. Barack Obama, like all American politicians, likes to portray himself as future-oriented and open to technological progress...

Egyptology

Posted on February 03, 2011
There are lessons to be learned. The upheaval in Egypt would be a dilemma for any American administration. But the policies President Obama has followed over the past two years have made his task more challenging in three ways...

The humility of the knowledgeable, &c.

Posted on February 03, 2011
I've noticed something the last few days -- something that gives us a human lesson, I think: Those who know the most about the Middle East are saying the least, when it comes to the turmoil in Egypt. Or they are speaking most cautiously. They're quickest to say, 'I really don't know...

Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere

Posted on February 03, 2011
America must get back to producing real, rather than imaginary, riches. The 2008 financial crash originated with a housing bubble. Not long ago, the cheap-money policies of the Federal Reserve, the infusion of trillions of dollars in new foreign investment, and the misguided policies of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae all conspired to extend to millions of Americans lots of easy credit for houses whose inflated prices they could hardly afford...

A Christian Business in the Left?s Crosshairs

Posted on February 02, 2011
It?s Chick-fil-A vs. the <i>New York Times</i>. Here's a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don't comport with yours...

Cuomo the Conservative

Posted on February 02, 2011
Believe it. Looking for a tax-cutting, budget-slashing, fiscally conservative governor? How about Andrew Cuomo? Yes, that Andrew Cuomo. With the possible exceptions of California and Illinois, no state is facing as big an economic mess as New York...

Obama?s 1979

Posted on February 02, 2011
Are the wages of magnanimity to our enemies and snubbing of our allies once again coming due? Obama's deer-in-the-headlights, finger-to-the-wind, 'I can't believe this is happening to me' initial reaction to the Mubarak implosion has eerie precedents...

Turmoil in Egypt

Posted on February 02, 2011
Why the military, not the Muslim Brotherhood, will come out on top Now that Egypt's much-anticipated moment of crisis has arrived and popular rebellions have shaken governments across the Middle East, Iran stands as never before at the center of the region...

Hope Amid the Chaos in Cairo

Posted on February 02, 2011
Color me hopeful. History is lurching in the Middle East -- perhaps forward, possibly backward. Consequently, some see the newly minted revolution in Tunisia and the unfolding one in Egypt (and possibly Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere) as hopeful news...

January Diary

Posted on February 02, 2011
The gulag, the Long Island Railroad, Chinese lit, and more Dark tourism I kid around about Turkmenistan on Radio Derb, but perhaps I shouldn't. It's a pretty awful place: not as bad as North Korea, but bad enough to attract the practitioners of 'dark tourism' --- travelling to the most awful places you can think of, in the footsteps of Tony Daniels and P...

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