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Ho-Hum Horror

Posted on January 24, 2011
<i>Roe</i> at 38. The case of Kermit Gosnell reached the newspapers just a few days before the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. President Obama did not mention Gosnell in his official statement celebrating the anniversary...

Frances Fox Piven?s Violent Agenda

Posted on January 24, 2011
A leading light of the Democratic Socialists of America claims she is not a socialist and, after urging the unemployed to emulate the Greek rioters, claims she is not inciting violence. The campaign to use the tragic shootings in Tucson to silence conservatives continues...

The Way We Weren?t

Posted on January 24, 2011
Amid condemnations of our ?toxic? political climate, we should remember that the old days weren?t always good. Back in the first season of Mad Men, while pitching a new ad campaign to the suits from Eastman Kodak, creative whiz Don Draper describes nostalgia as 'a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone...

Organized Labor, Organized Crime

Posted on January 24, 2011
The link between unions and the mob is far from broken. With its arrest of more than 100 alleged mobsters in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island on Thursday, the FBI made it crystal clear that the Mafia, while a shadow of its former self, is still a significant force in much of the country...

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The Assault on Belarus, Part I

Posted on January 24, 2011
For the last 15 years or so, Belarus has lived in agony. It has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'; its ruler, Aleksandr Lukashenko, has been called 'the last dictator in Europe.' Since December 19, life in Belarus has become much, much worse...

Shriver, Lieberman, and JFK

Posted on January 24, 2011
Sargent Shriver?s death and Joseph Lieberman?s impending retirement sever the last direct links to JFK. Last Thursday was the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech, and while the anniversary did not go unmentioned, it got less attention than I had expected...

Bringing Home the Capital

Posted on January 24, 2011
Let business bring foreign profits back to the U.S.?free of charge. Reports indicate that President Obama will use his State of the Union address in part to advance a job-creating tax-reform agenda...

Abortion as a Tea Party Issue

Posted on January 24, 2011
Whatever one thinks about legal abortion, taxpayer-funded abortion is a bedrock issue. Has our financial mess brought us to the brink of getting beyond the culture wars? It's a question that we might see play out on Capitol Hill in the coming months as the new majority seeks to make the late pro-life congressman Henry Hyde proud, by defunding Planned Parenthood and prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion...

Islam and the State of the Union

Posted on January 24, 2011
Don?t expect the president to tell the truth about Islamic doctrine tonight. ‘The state of our union is . . . denial -- at least when it comes to Islam.' I'm not holding my breath waiting for President Obama, as denier-in-chief, to make that pronouncement when he addresses the nation this evening at one of Leviathan's more notorious wastes of time, the State of the Union address...

Back in Commission

Posted on January 22, 2011
The president gives in on military commissions, grieving his cheerleaders. President Obama is relenting on military-commission trials, and the New York Times is, shall we say, chagrined. The administration's retreat can be chalked up to the political climate proximately created by two developments...

Keep Guantanamo Open, Mr. President

Posted on January 22, 2011
Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open. The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and end his irresponsible allegations of injustices at the facility, which operates in a framework that respects the rule of law, keeps terrorists off American soil, and bolsters our national security...

Civility for Thee

Posted on January 21, 2011
In 2012 Obama will hope that his polarizing politics, coupled with calls for bipartisanship, will trump his unpopular record. An evil psychopath, Jared Lee Loughner -- a man with no discernible ideology or political affiliation, and declared by those who know him to be both unhinged and unacquainted with contemporary media -- shot a U...

The Truth about Abortion

Posted on January 21, 2011
Most abortions serve as nothing more than birth control. Bronx Democrat Michael Benjamin, a New York State assemblyman, feels bad that 41 percent of New York City pregnancies ended in abortion last year...

The Philadelphia Horror

Posted on January 21, 2011
How mass murder gets a pass. Let's give the 'climate of hate' rhetoric a rest for a moment. It's time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives unchecked. Dehumanizing rhetoric, rationalizing language, and a callous disregard for life have numbed America to its monstrous consequences...

Where Have We Heard This Before?

Posted on January 21, 2011
A strange feeling of d�j� vu. It detains almost 200 people at Guantanamo Bay, the facility that Amnesty International calls 'a global symbol for injustice and abuse.' It will resort to military tribunals for those detainees it chooses to try...

A Solution at Obama?s Fingertips

Posted on January 21, 2011
The president could solve a lot of problems by developing our oil and gas wealth. On Tuesday, the president will deliver his State of the Union message. The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama will continue his 'move to the center...

Postcards from Hell

Posted on January 21, 2011
In its online magazine, al-Qaeda shows its evil?and its desperation. He seems to have achieved a kind of religious exultation by decapitating Daniel Pearl. That's what emerges from a new report from Georgetown University and the Center for Public Integrity...

Why Everything Starts with Repeal

Posted on January 21, 2011
Democrats are defending Obamacare with flimflammery. Suppose someone -- say, the president of the United States -- proposed the following: We are drowning in debt. More than $14 trillion right now...

America?s Economy: The Ninth-Freest

Posted on January 21, 2011
The numbers are in: Our lost economic liberty is being noticed. We're No. 9! America has slipped one spot since last year -- from earth's eighth-freest economy in 2010, according to the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom...

GE?s Immelt on the Hot Seat

Posted on January 21, 2011
Can Obama?s new advisor shine a light on corporate tax cuts? Can GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt talk President Obama into a major corporate tax cut? Immelt has been appointed to the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which replaces the disbanded Paul Volcker Economic Recovery Advisory Board...

The Bloomberg Syndrome

Posted on January 20, 2011
When global sermonizing trumps local competence After the recent Tucson shootings, Pima County sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, a Democrat, almost immediately and without evidence claimed that conservative anti-government speech had set off alleged killer Jared Lee Loughner...

The Power of the Purse

Posted on January 20, 2011
It?s time to remake the House Appropriations Committee. The new GOP-controlled House has pledged to rein in federal spending over both the short and the long term. To have any shot at success, though, Republican leadership must first overhaul that bastion of government largesse: the House Appropriations Committee...

Going Nuclear

Posted on January 20, 2011
Can small reactors rescue the nuclear-power movement? With the arrival of the Tea Party in Washington, a huge rift may be opening up over the future of nuclear power. On the one hand, the Tea Party and new Republicans are foursquare in favor of energy development...

A Nobel for the Peace Corps?

Posted on January 20, 2011
A modest proposal The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which gives the Nobel Peace Prize, loves an anniversary. The U.S. Peace Corps has never won the award, and is a natural winner of it. The 50th anniversary of the Corps is this year...

JFK: 50 Years Later

Posted on January 20, 2011
Putting President Kennedy in context. Almost everyone who was of conscient age at the time remembers the buzz when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated president of the United States 50 years ago today...

A Democrat for Life

Posted on January 20, 2011
In the <i>New York Post</i>, a Bronx Democrat breaks the pro-choice mold. Had you flipped through the New York Post on the subway ride to work on Tuesday, you might have stumbled upon a startling op-ed...

The Hunger Code

Posted on January 20, 2011
?Food insecurity? is not starvation. It is getting hard to keep track. One minute the government tells us American children are suffering from record levels of obesity. The next, children are facing a hunger epidemic...

Back to the Future with Peter Thiel

Posted on January 20, 2011
The hedge-fund billionaire says we need more innovation ? and less herd-thinking ? to open a new frontier. Peter Thiel may be most famous for his role (portrayed by Wallace Langham in The Social Network) as the venture capitalist who gave 'The Facebook' the angel investment it needed to really launch...

A High-priced Train Wreck

Posted on January 20, 2011
High-speed rail is a fast way to waste taxpayer money. Where can the new Congress start cutting spending? Here's one obvious answer: high-speed rail. The Obama administration is sending billions of stimulus dollars around the country for rail projects that make no sense and that, if they are ever built, will be a drag on taxpayers indefinitely...

A More Civil and Honest Public Discourse?

Posted on January 20, 2011
Don?t hold your breath. President Obama last week refuted -- clearly and commendably -- those who have been attempting to exploit the bloodbath in Tucson to smear conservative polemicists and law-abiding gun owners...

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