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Tucson Backfires

Posted on January 17, 2011
The Left?s shameful attempt to profit from the Giffords shooting has backfired. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the American Left's effort to transform the January 8 Tucson massacre from a tragic attack into an indictment of the American Right is how easily their charges crumbled...

Libeling the Right

Posted on January 17, 2011
The key to the Left?s success Last week, following the murder of six people and the attempted murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, the American people were given a vivid display of the single most important tactic of the Left: libeling opponents...

Tucson and Us

Posted on January 17, 2011
Our culture of senseless violence ‘It is with a heavy heart that I write to you about the senseless violence in Tucson today,' EMILY's List president Stephanie Schriock wrote as so many of us turned to Arizona and prayed for the survival of Rep...

Palin Libels Rauf

Posted on January 17, 2011
If you actually listen to the Ground Zero Mosque imam, you might mistake him for a Tea Partier. When it comes to national controversies, Sarah Palin has been wronged -- but she has also been wrong...

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One Little Thing about That Speech, Mr. President

Posted on January 15, 2011
Obama has made the prosecutors? work just a little harder. Before giving a much-anticipated speech in which he would lavish attention on the smallest details of a horrific crime that is now the subject of his administration's most closely watched federal prosecution, Pres...

Down for a Deal

Posted on January 15, 2011
Republicans signal they're willing to compromise on the federal debt ceiling. The 2010 midterms were a windfall for Republican candidates stressing the need to seriously tackle runaway federal spending and debt...

Blame Palin

Posted on January 15, 2011
The ten most inane comments connecting Sarah Palin to the Tucson shooting. In the week since the Arizona shootings, much of the media's commentary exemplified Palin Derangement Syndrome. It became a joke: On Twitter, one of the most popular 'hashtags' was #blamePalin, which was used to, well, blame Palin for TV-show cancellations, malfunctioning toilets, and bad restaurant service...

Bastardi?s Wager

Posted on January 14, 2011
A former National Weather Service meteorologist has a challenge for climate scientists. Joe Bastardi's great love is atmospheric science. He says he's been fascinated by it 'since I was a baby...

Once More unto the Breach of Civility

Posted on January 14, 2011
Who?s to blame for Tucson? Why, Sarah Palin and you, of course. One of the tropes you wingnuts try to pin on us all the time is this: You just can't help yourselves. By which you mean that, when a good Emanuelian crisis comes along and it simply cannot go to waste because it fits the narrative (two legs, good; four legs, Republican swine), we invariably expose ourselves as the sneering, sadistic little cultural sappers we are...

Loughner's Insanity

Posted on January 14, 2011
And our own. Some good has come of the tragedy in Tucson. President Obama has issued a de facto rebuke to those in his camp who attempted to use the murders to discredit and smear their political opponents...

Blame Righty: A Condensed History

Posted on January 14, 2011
The Left has a long record of blaming the Right for crimes of nonpartisan lunatics. I agree with President Obama. When it comes to politicizing random violence, he and his supporters have been 'far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than' they do...

The Madness Lobby

Posted on January 14, 2011
It helps make lunatic violence part of the American landscape. In his Tucson speech, President Barack Obama rightly said that 'terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding...

Haiti?s Tourniquet Isn?t Healing the Wound

Posted on January 14, 2011
It?s time to rethink the international-aid industry. Ninety-five percent of the debris from the Haitian earthquake of one year ago hasn't been moved. In other words, billions of dollars later, with none other than Bill Clinton serving as the foreman for a massive international cleanup and reconstruction effort, most of the country pretty much looks exactly the way it did when dust and screams still filled the air...

The War Against the Christians

Posted on January 14, 2011
The most important story not being told Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for 'insulting' Jesus...

Citizen Cain

Posted on January 14, 2011
A successful businessman talks about his brand-new presidential campaign. Herman Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza, a former Senate candidate in Georgia, and a columnist...

Hail to the Chair

Posted on January 14, 2011
Reince Priebus has his work cut out for him. Picture being the new chairman of the Republican National Committee: Your committee has $20 million in debt, with payments due soon, at a time when every GOP candidate is emphasizing the importance of balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility...

Tucson and the Failure of the Political Class

Posted on January 13, 2011
It?s not the rhetoric that?s to blame. The problem is a more serious one. A very mild-mannered and civilized friend remarked to me today that if he encountered anyone else on the Fifth and Park Avenue social circuit who blamed the Tucson shootings on the Tea Party, he would resort to violence...

The Psycho ? and Us

Posted on January 13, 2011
Attributing Loughner?s acts to ?extremist rhetoric? or a ?culture of violence? misses the point altogether. If the past is any warrant for the future, the story of Jared Loughner will soon be transmuted into television crime drama, in a 'ripped from the headlines' episode of one of those now numerous shows that deal largely with psychos and the detectives who try to catch them...

Failure in Tucson

Posted on January 13, 2011
A bloody look at rights, responsibilities, and brokenness. Should there be involuntary-commitment laws for the mentally ill? National Review Online asked some mental-health and other health-policy experts...

Charlie Crist, Attorney at Law

Posted on January 13, 2011
To many Floridians, Crist?s new job is an insult to his former office. In fact, it perfectly fits the arc of his career. You may want to pick up one of those magnetic doohickeys and stick Charlie Crist's new 800 number on the fridge door...

How to Write About Firearms

Posted on January 13, 2011
A guide for liberal columnists who don?t want to sound stupid about guns. Usually, it's easy for a concerned citizen to find a like-minded pundit with something interesting to say about the political controversy du jour...

Rounding Up the Guns

Posted on January 13, 2011
What not to do The go-to expert on foolish rushes to further restrict guns after a shooting is John R. Lott Jr. An economist and foxnews.com contributor, he is author of the authoritative More Guns, Less Crime, now in its third edition...

The Tab Comes Due in 2011

Posted on January 13, 2011
On health care, the budget, energy, defense, and politics, we will see a rendezvous with reality this year. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and both the elder and the younger George Bush all found the third and fourth years of their presidencies harder than the first and second...

Systematic Assassinations Not Part of Our Politics

Posted on January 13, 2011
These murders were a world apart from political assassinations. The steam seems to be going out of the move to 'deftly pin this' -- the shooting of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others -- 'on the tea partiers,' as one unidentified senior Democratic operative put it to Politico...

A Lesson from Loughner

Posted on January 13, 2011
If the Left heeds President Obama's admonition last night to put aside the childish political finger-pointing over the Tucson murders, perhaps we can have a constructive conversation about the lessons of the tragedy. Specifically, about how our society handles the mentally ill who do not appear obviously homicidal or suicidal but nevertheless require serious psychiatric care...

A Time for Congressional Calm

Posted on January 12, 2011
Blaming the Tucson massacre on Sarah Palin is absurd; blaming it on U.S. gun laws is merely misguided. We're not surprised that liberals are using this horrific bloodbath as proof that America needs tougher curbs on firearms and ammunition. We just wish they would keep their facts straight...

Health vs. Insurance

Posted on January 12, 2011
We should focus less on insurance and more on outcomes. ‘I am happy to say that she is holding her own.' So said Dr. Michael Lemole, section chief of neurosurgery at University Medical Center in Tucson, on Tuesday, characterizing the condition of Rep...

Obamacare?s Fiscal Time Bomb

Posted on January 12, 2011
Claims that Obamacare will reduce the deficit are breathtakingly na�ve. The new Republican House majority took power vowing to repeal Obamacare, despite the fact that their bill has no chance of gaining the president's signature...

What We Can Learn from Paul Wellstone (Really)

Posted on January 12, 2011
He was all the way to the left, but he believed in honest debate. Several years ago, at the height of the debate over Pres. George W. Bush's proposal for Social Security reform, I was invited to deliver a talk on the merits of personal accounts to a group of retired federal employees...

Climate of Hate

Posted on January 12, 2011
If you can?t find a Tea Party connection to Jared Loughner, the right-wing climate of hate will have to do. Once the shock of the Giffords assassination attempt had worn off, the next-most-amazing thing we beheld was the unembarrassed gloating with which the American Left, in its many forms, pointed a pompous and hysterical finger at 'the Tea Party' or 'the Right' or 'talk-show hosts' (although the accusers clearly don't have Terry Gross in mind)...

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