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The Job-Creation Canard

Posted on October 27, 2010
Government never has been and never will be able to ?create? jobs. Songs that are 'golden oldies' have much less pleasant counterparts in politics -- namely, ideas and policies that have failed disastrously in the past but still keep coming back to be advocated and imposed by government...

Taking the Public Out of NPR

Posted on October 27, 2010
Defunding NPR now would be like fixing a leaky faucet while your house is on fire. First, a confession: I listen to NPR. Sometimes, when I have to explain this fact to my right-wing brethren, I'll forgo trying to make the case that much of what NPR does is simply great radio and instead I'll note that it's more useful to listen to enemy broadcasts than more friendly fare...

The Devil and Daniel Webster

Posted on October 26, 2010
Meet the man poised to take down progressive giant Alan Grayson. When Daniel Webster signed up to run for Congress against liberal instigator Alan Grayson, he never imagined he would be called 'Taliban Dan...

The First Lady & the Cheeseburger

Posted on October 26, 2010
Michelle Obama has designated herself mom-in-chief. Nanny-in-chief would be more like it. After a recent Milwaukee campaign event for Sen. Russ Feingold, Michelle Obama tucked into a juicy cheeseburger and fries at a local favorite, Miss Katie's Diner...

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WikiLeaks? Selective Morality

Posted on October 26, 2010
Despite its claims of uncovering bad behavior by governments around the world, WikiLeaks chiefly targets the U.S. military. There has never been anything quite like WikiLeaks in American military history...

Liberalism?s Pessimistic Elites

Posted on October 26, 2010
Among the liberal establishment, there is gloom, selfishness, and demographic cynicism. The liberal establishment has already rendered its verdict on the 2010 election: Voters are angry because they aren't very smart...

The Party of AFSCME

Posted on October 26, 2010
Public-sector unions are spending a fortune on the midterm elections. Just when we'd been told the Chamber of Commerce had bought the election, along comes the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) to pour nearly $90 million into the campaign...

Referendum Day

Posted on October 26, 2010
Next Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, is no ordinary Election Day. It may be commonplace for commentators to announce that every election is 'the most important election in our lifetime' or something analogous...

Marrakech Journal, Part II

Posted on October 26, 2010
Welcome to the second installment of these notes from Marrakech, most alluring city in Morocco (you could argue). For Part I, go here. Keep going, without further preliminaries? Okay. They say that the Medina in Marrakech -- the old city, the labyrinth of workshops and stalls, the great square -- is something in the world you must see...

NPR Confronts Its Own Tea Party

Posted on October 26, 2010
For the first time in living memory, NPR is getting blowback. I appeared on the public-radio program On Point this week with National Public Radio ombudsman, Alicia Shepherd, and listened to her defend NPR's firing of Juan Williams...

Brass Oldies

Posted on October 26, 2010
The tarnished myth of ?tax cuts for the rich.? Classic songs from years past are sometimes referred to as 'golden oldies.' There are political fallacies that have been around for a long time as well...

The Stimulus: An $814 Billion Flop

Posted on October 25, 2010
The jobs ?created or saved? have cost taxpayers dearly. In an October 3 ABC News/Washington Post survey, 68 percent of Americans polled believe that 'the money the federal government has spent on the economic stimulus has been mostly wasted...

More Ethanol Means Dirtier Air

Posted on October 25, 2010
And Obama?s EPA just gave this corrosive and un-green fuel another bailout. The Environmental Protection Agency announced on October 13 that it had approved an increase in the amount of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline from 10 percent to as much as 15 percent...

Can Carly Close the Deal?

Posted on October 25, 2010
A wrecked economy and an arrogant incumbent put California into play for GOP. For California Republicans and right-leaning independents, casting a vote in a statewide or presidential election is generally a quixotic act, a meaningless protest in a state that has voted for the Democratic presidential and senatorial candidates every year since 1992...

Heinlein?s Conservatism

Posted on October 25, 2010
A new biography explores the political evolution of a first-rate science-fiction writer. Ask a science-fiction fan who the three greatest writers of the 20th century were and you'll start an argument that will last all day, but the consensus remains that they were Isaac Asimov, Sir Arthur C...

The Bender Is Over

Posted on October 25, 2010
From the Nov. 1, 2010, issue of NR. Whatever happens on Election Day, the heroic phase of Obama's presidency is over. It is over not simply because he will spend the rest of his term playing defense rather than conquering new ground for liberalism...

Get Barney

Posted on October 25, 2010
Barney Frank keeps his cool, even when his boyfriend loses it. Is Barney Frank worried? 'Not to be condescending, but let me give you a little tip,' he tells National Review Online outside a convention hall on Massachusetts' south coast...

The Coming Landslide

Posted on October 25, 2010
Voters are fed up with Obama?s big, bossy government. Out on the campaign trail, Barack Obama has given us his analysis of why his party is headed for significant losses in the election nine days hence...

Marrakech Journal, Part I

Posted on October 25, 2010
Friends, do you mind if I scribble you a little journal? I've done this a few times this year. There was a journal from Portugal, as I recall -- chronicling a National Review cruise. And then something from the Oslo Freedom Forum. And then yet another journal from Oslo...

Can?t. Wait. For. It. To. Be. Over.

Posted on October 25, 2010
Elections: Can?t live with them, most definitely can?t live without them. Well, here we are again, America. If you're loving politics right about now, I suspect it's because you've come to view it as a sport, or as a necessity from which you have become somewhat detached emotionally...

?Blood Was Every Color?

Posted on October 23, 2010
Adapted from the Oct. 18, 2010, issue of NR. In an early episode of Sons of Anarchy, a television series on FX entering its third season this month, Jackson 'Jax' Teller reads a passage from his dead father's unpublished memoir...

NPR: A Test Case for Republicans

Posted on October 23, 2010
If they cannot defund NPR, you can bet they will not reverse Obamacare. The least significant aspect of NPR's canning of Juan Williams is#...#Juan Williams. The important thing is what the world should start looking like after November 2...

The Tea Party in Central Jersey

Posted on October 22, 2010
Can Republican Anna Little defeat a 22-year Democratic incumbent? Atlantic Highlands, N.J. -- Ah, gerrymandering. The time-honored tradition that explains why some congressional boundaries look as if they were drawn by a hyperactive toddler using a deformed crayon...

Let NPR Pay Its Own Way

Posted on October 22, 2010
Liberals tend to prefer Thomas Jefferson's vision of religious liberty to the one actually enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution, so here's one for them, from his bill for religious freedom in Virginia: 'To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...

Statesmanship and the GOP

Posted on October 22, 2010
From the Nov. 1, 2010, issue of NR. Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II, by Colin Dueck (Princeton, 376 pp., $26.95) Colin Dueck's thorough analysis of the foreign-policy views of Republican political leaders since World War II has two aspects...

Psychoanalytic Politics

Posted on October 22, 2010
For Charles Blow, pop psychology has replaced philosophy. In March of 2010 -- more than a year after Barack Obama supposedly established a new, permanent liberal order -- New York Times columnists scrambled to explain the extraordinary popular opposition to Obamacare...

The Closing of NPR?s Mind

Posted on October 22, 2010
If Juan Williams is outside the bounds of polite discourse, then those bounds have become too constrictive. We should have known about Juan Williams long ago. The signs of a simmering bigotry were always there...

Free the Taxpayers: Defund State-Sponsored Media

Posted on October 22, 2010
Citizens should not be forced to fund NPR?s progressive propaganda. In the wake of commentator Juan Williams's feckless firing by National Public Radio, supporters on the Internet sounded a cheeky rallying cry: 'Free Juan!' But Williams has now been liberated from the government-funded media's politically correct shackles...

Frankly Ruthless

Posted on October 22, 2010
Rep. Barney Frank has abused his regulatory power for years. Among long-time politicians who are being seriously challenged for the first time this election year, Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts best epitomizes the cynical ruthlessness that hides behind their lofty rhetoric...

Fools Rush In Where Europe Rushes Out

Posted on October 22, 2010
President Obama wants to follow Europe to the brink of financial disaster. As of this writing, France is paralyzed. By the time you read this, it might be in flames. In Britain, where politics is more polite but the problems are perhaps just as dire, the government is proposing budget cuts on a scale not seen for nearly a century...

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