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Dueling Fatwas

Posted on October 06, 2010
Reciprocal death sentences raging between Yemen and the United States offer a glimpse of warfare in the Internet age. The topic opens with South Park, an iconoclastic adult cartoon program on Comedy Central, which in April mocked the prohibition on depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad...

Explaining the Enthusiasm Gap

Posted on October 06, 2010
The Democrats turn on Obama over Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gitmo. It's pretty clear that Democrats are less enthusiastic about voting this year than Republicans are. The latest evidence comes from Gallup, which reports that Republicans' 3 percent edge in congressional voting among registered voters increases to 13 points when you count only those who are likely to actually vote, and to 18 percent when you count only those very likely to vote...

The Fired Congress

Posted on October 05, 2010
In December, more than a dozen senators will come back to Washington and decide how much more tax money to take from Americans, without being accountable to any of them. Some companies have a policy that once someone is fired, they aren't allowed back on the premises out of fear they might do further damage to the company...

Dinesh D'Souza on the Anti-Colonial Business

Posted on October 05, 2010
Explaining President Obama, rereading <i>Dreams from My Father</i>. Dinesh D'Douza's new book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, has a reputation that precedes it -- in large part due to some advance buzz from Newt Gingrich and a piece in Forbes...

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A Letter from a Republican to Hispanics

Posted on October 05, 2010
Most Americans understand why Latin Americans want to come here. Latinos need to understand that even America has limits. I am writing to you as a concerned and sympathetic American who is a Republican...

Red-Herring Politics

Posted on October 05, 2010
This year, there are October surprises from coast to coast. In an election year, this is the time for an 'October surprise' -- some sensational, and usually irrelevant, revelation to distract the voters from serious issues...

Turkey and Japan at the Crossroads

Posted on October 05, 2010
Political analysts should look once again at the antipodes of Asia to see where democracy is heading in two of the world?s most important societies. In the 1960s, American political scientists became fascinated with political modernization in Turkey and Japan...

The Honesty Caucus

Posted on October 05, 2010
Tea-party candidates will help Congress face the problem of entitlement spending. A funny thing happened on the way to the 2010 election -- honesty about entitlements broke out, at least among the tea-party candidates who are reviled as wild-eyed and irresponsible...

Good Riddance to the Pelosi Era

Posted on October 05, 2010
Her legacy deserves criticism, not caricature Her opponent grabbed his 15 minutes of fame by depicting Nancy Pelosi as the Wicked Witch of the West in a campaign spot -- a sophomoric attempt at humor that accomplished nothing except to generate sympathy for its target...

?Stop All the Bad Stuff?

Posted on October 05, 2010
John Boehner?s formula would rocket business and the economy higher. At a small, informal breakfast in Midtown New York Tuesday morning, House Republican leader John Boehner said the lame-duck Congress, scheduled roughly for November 15 through December 22, will pass a bill that extends all the Bush tax cuts...

Obama?s Communist Mentor

Posted on October 05, 2010
Frank Marshall Davis parroted the Communist line and attacked Democratic icon Harry Truman. When you write a book, particularly one that requires several years of research, you tend to encounter a bunch of unexpected information...

You Can?t Keep the Plan You Have

Posted on October 04, 2010
Obamacare is coming to a doctor?s office near you. Last year, I ordered a CT scan of the chest on a 63-year-old patient whose chest X-ray had revealed a lung nodule. I had no problem getting the test approved by his private insurance company...

Kagan?s Court Debut

Posted on October 04, 2010
Will the new justice have much effect on what could be a sleeper term? For the second year in a row, the Supreme Court's term opens with a new female justice: After brief service as solicitor general, former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan was nominated and confirmed to replace longstanding liberal justice John Paul Stevens...

In Iraq, Obama Loses Interest in a Winnable War

Posted on October 04, 2010
If President Obama is 'out of Afghanistan psychologically,' as Bob Woodward reports in his new book, one can only imagine how thoroughly detached he is from Iraq. He should start paying some attention. The news last week that the Sadrists have thrown their weight behind Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, putting him on the verge of securing a governing coalition, is close to the worst possible outcome of the Iraqi election and the aftermath...

Twilight in the Evil Kingdom of the Hermit Midgets

Posted on October 04, 2010
The nightmare of North Korea is finally ending. With Kim Jong Il's promotion of two family members to senior military posts in time for the historic Workers'-party conference in Pyongyang last week, the Communist world's latest succession crisis officially got under way...

A State Income Tax for Washington?

Posted on October 04, 2010
Initiative 1098 is attracting big names and big money on both sides. Congressional Democrats decided to adjourn last week without a vote to extend the Bush tax cuts. Meanwhile, more than 3,000 miles away, another tax debate is heating up...

Don?t Blame China, Blame Congress

Posted on October 04, 2010
Most members of Congress appear to know two things about China's relationship with the United States: We buy a lot of their stuff, and they buy a lot of our debt. A few members even seem to understand the connection between the two: Put simply, China takes the money it makes selling us cheaply manufactured goods and lends it back to us at a low rate of interest...

Dim Idea

Posted on October 04, 2010
From the Oct. 18, 2010, issue of NR. Arriving late one night into Tokyo, I checked into my hotel room to discover the world's most complicated toilet. There were hoses and nozzles where hoses and nozzles probably shouldn't be, and along the side there was an alarming set of button and switches, which made the entire contraption look like a neat freak's electric chair...

A Few Tips for Superman?s Handlers

Posted on October 04, 2010
On education reform: Let?s get specific. The education documentary Waiting for 'Superman' opened in select theaters last week. The movie's damning indictment of public education, and its enthusiastic portrayal of charter schools, has commanded attention from the likes of Oprah and Geraldo and prompted school reformers to launch and expand efforts intended to exploit this window of opportunity...

When Harry Met Sharron

Posted on October 04, 2010
They?re serving tea in Vegas. ‘She's running the worst campaign in the country, and she could still win.' That's James Carville talking about Nevada Republican Sharron Angle, who until this spring was a virtual unknown, but who is giving the United States Senate majority leader the run of his political life...

Pelosi?s Vote to Adjourn Could Be Her Last Hurrah

Posted on October 04, 2010
Perhaps it?s true that ?all political careers end in failure.? It happened late Wednesday night, so it didn't get much coverage: Speaker Nancy Pelosi cast the deciding vote when the House voted, 210–209, to adjourn...

Ryan Looks Down the Road

Posted on October 04, 2010
The man who might become Budget Committee chairman remains committed to fiscal solvency. Earlier this year, Rep. Paul Ryan, a 40-year-old Republican congressman from Wisconsin, published 'A Roadmap for America's Future,' his blueprint for balancing the budget...

The Tea-Party Tradition

Posted on October 02, 2010
An excerpt from Daniel Hannan?s latest book, <i>The New Road to Serfdom</i>. Viewed from abroad, the existence of a vibrant conservative alliance is one of the most distinctive features of the American political scene...

The Trouble with Islamic Outreach

Posted on October 02, 2010
The FBI is hosting some bad actors. I wonder if the FBI will be inviting Hatem Abudayyeh to tour the government's most sensitive anti-terrorism facilities, snoop around the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center, and maybe even pop by the FBI training center in Quantico...

Being Gordon Gekko

Posted on October 01, 2010
For Ohio Democrats, hypocrisy never sleeps. In a statement, the AFL-CIO compared gubernatorial candidate John Kasich and several Ohio Republicans to Gordon Gekko, the fictitious Wall Street villain played by Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone's Wall Street and its recently released sequel...

Justice and the New Black Panthers

Posted on October 01, 2010
It?s past time to tear down the whole politically correct edifice of affirmative action and racial preferences. Christopher Coates has been the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' most-wanted man...

The Sorry Green Giant

Posted on October 01, 2010
The environmental movement needs a reality check. Clean Energy Works is closing up shop. Formed to push climate and energy legislation through Congress, the coalition of 80 environmental, labor, and other progressive groups is sending its members home empty-handed...

GOP Heaven, West Virginia?

Posted on October 01, 2010
Working-class Mountaineers rise up. When Senate dean Robert Byrd died this summer, almost all political observers placed the vacant seat squarely in the Democratic column. Even though West Virginia has trended Republican at the national level since 2000, it was thought the popularity of Gov...

Don?t Get Even, Get Mad

Posted on October 01, 2010
Even if you should retake Congress this fall, don?t get your hopes up. I suppose you wingnuts are starting to feel pretty good about yourselves and your chances in November. You've managed to claw your way back from the electoral abyss by basically doing nothing, saying no, and not being even remotely related to Barack Hussein Obama II...

Oh, That Weird Constitution!

Posted on October 01, 2010
The creepy logic of so many liberals today. Imagine for a moment the entire Supreme Court was wiped out in an asteroid strike, or maybe they ate some really bad clams. Whatever. With the Supreme Court temporarily out of the picture, could Congress and the White House ignore the Constitution, shutting down newspapers and locking up tea partiers or ACLU members? Apparently...

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