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The Other New Chicago Crony Chief of Staff

Posted on January 07, 2011
It?s No Windy City Corporate Lawyer Left Behind Week in the nation?s capital. Fun fact: Bill Daley isn't the only new chief of staff in the White House with longtime ties to the Chicago Way. Yep, it's No Windy City Corporate Lawyer Left Behind Week in the nation's capital...

Don?t Rewrite Mark Twain

Posted on January 07, 2011
The whitewashers are missing the point. If only Mark Twain were alive to skewer the censorious protectors of modern sensitivities who have taken to banning Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the classroom and now to excising its offensive words...

Who Are the Real Hijackers of Islam?

Posted on January 07, 2011
Maybe the hijackers are the peaceful ones. For years, we've heard how the peaceful religion of Islam has been hijacked by extremists. What if it's the other way around? Worse, what if the peaceful hijackers are losing their bid to take over the religion? #ad#That certainly seems to be the case in Pakistan...

Israel?s Enemies Within

Posted on January 07, 2011
A worrying minority is undermining the Jewish state?s self-confidence. The late Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan coined a pithy test for whether a country is free or not. Take a look at the newspapers, he suggested: 'If all the news is good, you're not in a free country...

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Constitutionalism

Posted on January 07, 2011
In the Constitution, conservatives have found a potent symbol. For decades, Democrats and Republicans fought over who owns the American flag. Now, they're fighting over who owns the Constitution...

Tim Pawlenty Talks Books, Fortitude, and 2012

Posted on January 07, 2011
An interview with the former governor. Departing Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty kicks off his book tour by chatting with NRO's Jim Geraghty. National Review Online: So, this is a book tour, not a pre-presidential-campaign tour…that's your story and you're sticking to it? Tim Pawlenty: (laughs) Well, it is principally about promoting the book, so that's what we're doing and the schedule reflects that...

Don't Cut Defense

Posted on January 07, 2011
Security is the first priority of the federal government. ‘We shrink from our global responsibilities at our peril, as retrenchment brought about by short-sighted cuts could well lead to costlier and more tragic consequences later -- indeed as they always have in the past...

Targeting Tom DeLay

Posted on January 07, 2011
His only crime was helping to elect Republicans to office. The ascension of a new Republican majority in the House of Representatives this week contrasts sharply with an event that will unfold next Monday 1,300 miles away in a courtroom in Austin, Texas: the sentencing of former House majority leader Tom DeLay...

Parents Squeeze the Trigger

Posted on January 06, 2011
At a Compton elementary school, the community demands choice. The parents whose children attend McKinley Elementary School in Compton, Calif., dropped a bomb on their school district's central office on December 7...

Get Serious on the Impending Bankruptcy

Posted on January 06, 2011
It?s not just about tax cuts. The compromise extension of the Bush tax cuts illustrates how hidebound the leaders of both parties have been, and how sclerotic the whole tax discussion has become...

Don?t Shatter Senate Precedent

Posted on January 06, 2011
Established rules-change procedures stabilize the Senate. Keep them. For the first time in 35 years, a new Congress will open with an attempt by the Senate majority to muscle through changes in Senate rules...

The New Sophists

Posted on January 06, 2011
The technocracy?s ignorance is showing. In classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These mellifluous 'really wise guys' made money and gained influence by their rhetorical boasts of having 'proved' the most amazing 'thinkery' that belied common sense...

Wily Old Dems Take on Whippersnapper Republicans

Posted on January 06, 2011
Are Democrats really the party of new ideas? A curious fact was unearthed by Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal. The average age of Republican House members in the new Congress convening this week is 54...

Jihad 101

Posted on January 06, 2011
Dear Member of the New Congress: A few things you need to know about the War Against the West. Last month, Americans celebrated the holidays without a terrorist attack on American soil. That should be a source of relief but not complacency...

When It Comes to Reforming Senate Rules . . .

Posted on January 06, 2011
. . . timing is everything. There are two sets of objections to the filibuster reform that Senate Democrats, especially those who have never served in the minority, are currently promoting. The first deals with the process by which the Democrats are trying to change the process...

Maliki Seeks a ?Third Way?

Posted on January 05, 2011
The Iraqi prime minister battles unwelcome political interference by some of his country?s neighbors. On December 21, more than nine months after Iraq's elections, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki finally announced his new cabinet...

Obamacare: The End of the Beginning

Posted on January 05, 2011
For the foreseeable future, health care must be the dominant focus of conservative domestic policy. Sixty-eight years ago, after a long-sought victory in Egypt that marked a turning point in World War II, Winston Churchill said, 'This is not the end...

Another National-Security Flip-Flop

Posted on January 05, 2011
The Obama Left has changed its mind about executive power. No sooner did Victor Davis Hanson compile a prodigious list of national-security flip-flops by the Obama Left (posted on the Corner under the title 'If We Say It Is, It Is ...

December Diary

Posted on January 05, 2011
Battle royal over Bush?s PEPFAR program; George VI and other stutterers; the fashion in jeans and crinolines; and more. Derb-Wehner punch-up My month started off on a combative note, Peter Wehner and I trading insults over George W...

Obamacare: An Unacquired Taste

Posted on January 05, 2011
Americans understand the health-care law, and they hate it. ‘History repeats itself -- first as tragedy, then as farce,' noted Karl Marx. With the new Republican majority in the House planning to vote next Wednesday on repeal of Obamare, Democrats appear well into farce...

Chicago on the Potomac

Posted on January 05, 2011
From Daley to Emanuel, from Emanuel to Daley . . . No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells, and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza. Ready for the latest topping on this moldy old pie? It's a possible chief-of-staff slot for Wall Street banker/lawyer/wheeler-dealer William Daley, brother of outgoing Chicago mayor/machine-politics mastermind Richard M...

Dysfunctional Duo?s Undoing

Posted on January 05, 2011
Bloomberg, Schwarzenegger, and the perils of ?pragmatism? ‘Unfortunately, partisan politics has immobilized Washington,' New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told Time magazine in 2007...

Mascot Politics

Posted on January 05, 2011
?Marginalized groups? are tokens, not beneficiaries, of elite self-regard. Dr. Victor Davis Hanson's quietly chilling article, 'Two Californias,' ought to be read by every American who is concerned about where this country is headed...

Ready to Start Cutting

Posted on January 05, 2011
The House?s freshman class gears up for two years of budget battles. Eighty-seven Republican freshmen stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday, bringing with them an unbridled enthusiasm for conservative reform...

Washington Goes Supply-Side

Posted on January 05, 2011
Both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are moving toward growth. ‘Stop the bad stuff' is what John Boehner told a bunch of us at breakfast a few weeks before the election. That's how he defined the GOP mission...

Operation Rewind

Posted on January 05, 2011
While we like a good party now and again, the fact that House Republicans held no official gala to celebrate their accession to the majority in the new Congress reflects both becoming modesty and the accurate understanding that it is time to get to work...

Cornhucksters

Posted on January 04, 2011
Midwestern Republicans are stuck on ethanol. What kind of Republican supports high tariffs on imports, dubious green tax credits, and consumption mandates to prop up unprofitable environmental darlings? The ethanol-loving midwestern kind, especially the ones running for president...

Congress Must Lead, Not the Courts

Posted on January 04, 2011
Republicans cannot punt hard decisions to the judges. The new Congress begins its session this week with historically rare fortifications: swelling ranks of Republican freshmen and a clear mandate to roll back Obama's administrative statism...

I Hate You, Bristol Palin

Posted on January 04, 2011
It?s the happiest of New Years: We have another Palin to drive us crazy. Okay, I've just about had it with you people. Yes, I'm talking to you, the Palin family of Moosewhack Village, Bumblefork County, Alaska, USA, Earth, Universe...

After the Binge

Posted on January 04, 2011
In Washington, the question is no longer how much more, but how much less. Pres. Barack Obama's first two years in office were for the ages: Rarely has so much been spent so wantonly with so little discernible public benefit...

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