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Getting Health Care Right

Posted on March 22, 2011
Putting patients first Though Obamacare is law, it is not settled policy. Most Americans continue to say that President Obama and the 111th Congress got health reform wrong -- very wrong. Faced with this growing criticism, supporters insist they can fix the law with more legislation and more regulation...

The Right?s Divide

Posted on March 21, 2011
Is the party leadership wimping out? Or should the Tea Partiers calm down a bit? House Republicans are increasingly at odds with one another over how to proceed on spending for the remainder of the fiscal year...

Ohio?s Speech Police

Posted on March 21, 2011
Should the government fact-check political ads? During most elections, candidates accuse their opponents of making false claims. In Ohio, they can go a step further: They can ask a government commission to decide who is telling the truth...

Mexican Criminals, American Guns

Posted on March 21, 2011
Did the ATF help create its own crisis? The next time gun-control advocates point to violence in Mexico and call for more restrictions on gun sales or a revived assault-weapons ban, they should consider that the problem may not be with the laws on the books, but with those who enforce them...

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With the Warriors

Posted on March 21, 2011
From the March 7th edition of NR ---Patrol Base Fires, Sangin District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan The view from this platoon outpost in southern Afghanistan is unobstructed, both visually and strategically...

Tom Leppert: Once a Mayor

Posted on March 21, 2011
The former mayor of Dallas wants the chance to bring a business-minded approach to the Senate. No one in the history of Texas has won election to the United States Senate immediately after serving as a mayor...

Marrying Sarah Palin and Two Sheens

Posted on March 21, 2011
Headlines run deep. ‘She reminds me of my wife.' That was my most frequently received e-mail the September night that Sarah Palin spoke to a riveted Republican National Convention in 2008, as the vice-presidential nominee spoke of hockey moms, pit bulls, lipstick, the dignity of human life, and the future of our nation...

Q1 Slowdown: Caveat Emptor

Posted on March 21, 2011
We can do a whole lot better. Caveat emptor: The first-quarter economy is slowing and inflation is rising. A month ago, economists were optimistic about the potential for 4 percent growth. Now they are marking down their estimates toward 2...

Qaddafi Must Go

Posted on March 21, 2011
Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 demand the dictator?s ouster. Yesterday, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, promised a 'limited' campaign in Libya on Meet the Press. 'No boots on the ground,' he assured the host, David Gregory...

Go to Congress First

Posted on March 19, 2011
Going into Libya is bad enough; doing it without congressional approval is worse. Conservative infighting over whether the United States should intervene militarily in Libya is sign of good health...

The Audacity of Golf

Posted on March 19, 2011
No-Change You Can Believe In! By the time you read this, President Obama will be taking a well-deserved break from the 54th hole of today's scheduled golf game and the grueling responsibility of picking out his Final Four priority high-speed-rail projects on ESPN by relaxing on a beach in ...

Genocide in Israel

Posted on March 18, 2011
We in the West have much to repent for in the blind eye we have turned to the slaughter of innocents. ‘The victims were sleeping as the killer came in. The paramedics described children's toys right next to pools of blood...

For the Love of God and Men

Posted on March 18, 2011
A French-language film tells the story of martyred Catholic monks in Algeria. Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men is a French-language film based on the true story of the martyrdom of Catholic monks in Algiers in the 1990s...

Naming the Crime

Posted on March 18, 2011
Two new books by American historians shed light on the Soviet past and those who still avoid its implications. Winter is bleak enough as it is. This year the gloom was deepened by the publication of How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism, by Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most feted historians, and, oh yes, a man who stuck with the Communist party until 1991 despite a global killing spree that took perhaps one hundred million lives...

Democrat Lynn Woolsey: Capitol Hill?s Lindsay Lohan

Posted on March 18, 2011
Her antiwar antics are juvenile and dangerous. A grown woman in public office who acts like Lindsay Lohan has no business comparing one of America's finest generals to Charlie Sheen. But antiwar Democratic representative Lynn Woolsey has never shown any restraint when it comes to trashing America's military leaders before the world...

The Death of an Illusion

Posted on March 18, 2011
It?s tempting to think the Middle East?s problems are all Israel?s fault. In the great Middle East whodunit, the verdict is in: The Jews are innocent. They aren't responsible for the violence, extremism, backwardness, discontent, or predatory government of their Arab neighbors...

Death Threats by the Dozen in Wisconsin

Posted on March 18, 2011
The rhetoric of the pro-union Left gets disturbingly violent. Editor's Note: The language of quoted material, including profanity, has been preserved. ‘We will hunt you down. We will slit your throats...

The President Takes a Bogey

Posted on March 18, 2011
Is Obama a president playing golf, or a golfer playing president? I've figured out Obama. He's not a Muslim, he's a golfer! That's a reference to Russell Kirk's semi-famous retort to the conspiratorial nuts who insisted that Dwight Eisenhower was a secret Commie...

It?s Still an Empty Lockbox

Posted on March 18, 2011
Accounting tricks versus financial reality Last week, President Obama's budget chief, Jack Lew, took to his White House blog to repeat his claim that the Social Security trust fund is solvent through 2037...

Obama?s Selective Anger

Posted on March 18, 2011
The president is mum about the Palestinian culture that celebrates savagery. President Obama is known for his cool. Some of his associates call him 'No Drama Obama.' And certainly in the realm of foreign policy, his response to events has been phlegmatic...

Death Threats by the Dozens in Wisconsin

No-Fly Zone: How Hard Is It?

Posted on March 17, 2011
We can, and should, help the Libyan rebels. There is just one question to answer: Does the United States desire the rebels or Qaddafi to win in Libya? If we want Qaddafi to win or are ambivalent, then the correct policy is to do nothing...

March Madness:
Ten Things to Watch

Posted on March 17, 2011
A preview of the best matchups and dramas. EDITOR'S NOTE: It's that time of year again. The NCAA men's basketball tournament -- easily one of the greatest sporting events of the year -- is upon us...

On Libya, the U.S. Is a Pitiful Giant

Posted on March 17, 2011
Look to the Japanese for some lessons in character. As the world watches in sadness and admiration the tragedy of natural disaster in Japan and the courageous and civilized response of the Japanese, and beholds also the demeaning spectacle of utter pusillanimity that has been generated by events in Libya, my thoughts return to the discussions I had about American exceptionalism with Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru in these cyber-pages a year ago...

Why I Love Guinness

Posted on March 17, 2011
The Feast of St. Patrick commemorates the death of a Briton who was carried to Eire in shackles only to become the isle's patron saint. If that doesn't merit a celebration, we don't know what does. So each March 17, we raise a glass to St. Patrick and his far-flung flock -- and what better glass to raise than a pint of Arthur Guinness's eponymous, alchemical Dublin stout...

The Problem with Primaries

Posted on March 17, 2011
Our unsatisfactory nomination process The weakest part of our political system is the presidential-nomination process. And it's not coincidental that it's the part of the federal system that finds least guidance in the Constitution...

Italy at 150

Posted on March 17, 2011
The victory of the <I>Risorgimento</I> seemed a defeat for the papacy. In fact, it led to a rebirth of papal power and, ultimately, the defeat of Communism. Rome -- Italy celebrates the sesquicentennial of its birth as a unified nation today...

President Hamlet

Posted on March 17, 2011
Thinking out every possible side of a question can mean never acting on any of them. More than 400 years ago, William Shakespeare wrote a riveting tragedy about a young, charismatic Danish prince who vowed to do the right thing in avenging his murdered father...

Listening to Libyans

Posted on March 17, 2011
?and to the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. It?s not encouraging. A friend, I'll call him Mohamed, has been keeping closely in touch with people inside Libya, and he's been kind enough to send me updates...

For Lamborn, Sweet Victory on NPR Funding

Posted on March 17, 2011
New restrictions on federal funds for public broadcasting clear the House. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado has attempted to ax National Public Radio out of the federal budget for years. The third-term Republican first proposed such a measure in 2007 as a conservative freshman in the Pelosi chamber...

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