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An Education in Spending

Posted on October 01, 2010
The last thing our education system needs is more money. Of all the things the Newark, N.J., school system needs, the last of them is more money. Newark spends more per pupil than any other city in the country, and gets dismayingly little for it...

The Shoes Liberal Celebrities Won?t Wear

Posted on October 01, 2010
Will Colbert crack jokes about victims of illegal-alien violence? Primetime liberal comedians have it made. All they need to do is spend a few hours with a politically correct minority and -- voilà! -- they're transformed into instant congressional experts...

Non-Marriage, Not Markets

Posted on October 01, 2010
What is really to blame for rising inequality Income inequality, we learn from the Census Bureau, has reached its highest level since data were first collected on the subject in 1967. Poverty has increased dramatically, with one of seven Americans now falling below the poverty threshold...

Why Is He Sending Them?

Posted on October 01, 2010
President Obama lacks the will to fight in Afghanistan. From the beginning, the call to arms was highly uncertain. On Dec. 1, 2009, commander-in-chief Barack Obama orders 30,000 more Americans into battle in Afghanistan...

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A Hug Too Far

Posted on October 01, 2010
The Obama-Emanuel embrace is just the tip of the weakness iceberg. Am I the only one who saw weakness when President Obama and his departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel gave each other big, fat, full-bore hug following their speeches at the resignation event in the White House's East Room on Friday? Remember, this is on global television...

Is Barney Frank Vulnerable?

Posted on September 30, 2010
The re-energized Massachusetts GOP thinks so. It's another 'only in 2010' scenario: Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, home to liberal giant Barney Frank, may be within reach. His challenger is Sean Bielat, a 35-year-old former Marine and businessman...

The Fifty Years? War

Posted on September 30, 2010
In November, Americans will decide what true freedom is. With primary season over, the stage is now set for an epic fall election. The massive electoral repudiation that increasingly looks likely for Democrats is not, however, why this vote will be historic...

Party Like It?s 1980

Posted on September 30, 2010
Excerpted from David Kahane?s new book, <i>Rules for Radical Conservatives</i>. Look, I have to admit there's nothing wrong with either the conservative or the Republican base, though, frankly, you guys terrify us, you and your damn fascist tea parties...

U.S., Lead or Get out of the Way

Posted on September 30, 2010
The current drift in foreign policy could be disastrous. At the crossroads the Middle East is approaching -- in the Iranian nuclear program, the Afghan War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the internal political evolution in Pakistan, Iraq, and Turkey -- there is a confusing glimpse of what the world's most turbulent region looks like as American influence conducts an orderly retreat...

The Legacy of the Tet Offensive

Posted on September 30, 2010
Pushing against a dangerous, ahistorical myth of contemporary American history. James S. Robbins, who has been a contributor to National Review Online since the September 11 terrorist attack, is author of a new book, This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive...

Sweden?s Quiet Revolution

Posted on September 30, 2010
Without much fanfare, the Scandinavian country has been moving away from socialism. There is something about Sweden that provokes a mix of envy, horror, and bewilderment among American observers...

The Dems? Disastrous Model

Posted on September 30, 2010
Calling voters stupid is a losing strategy. The bookish, twice-unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn't be enough to get elected in America because 'I need a majority...

Molly Norris Goes Ghost

Posted on September 30, 2010
When it comes to Islam, constitutional protections are no longer to be taken seriously. Molly Norris is not as well known as Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf or Pastor Terry Jones. But you should know who she is -- even though she is no more...

Carly Fiorina: Robber Baron, Traitor ? and Outsourcer!

Posted on September 29, 2010
If we still had a well-educated workforce and reasonable taxation and regulation, outsourcing wouldn?t be the wedge issue it is. One of Sen. Barbara Boxer's sharpest charges against challenger Carly Fiorina is that, as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she allowed thousands of jobs to be outsourced overseas -- depriving U...

The Coming Republican Nor?easter

Posted on September 29, 2010
The GOP could make a comeback in the Northeast. Republicans suffered humbling defeats across the board in 2006 and 2008, but nowhere has the party brand taken a harsher beating in recent years than in the Northeast...

For Four Eyes Only

Posted on September 29, 2010
Excerpted from David Kahane?s new book, <i>Rules for Radical Conservatives</i>. So my agent called me the other day and said she's putting me up for the newest James Bond movie and would I come up with a 'take' so I can go in and pitch...

Democrats: The Constitution Is ?Weird?

Posted on September 29, 2010
But Christine O?Donnell wants to be sure our laws comport with it. When Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell told Delaware voters that the Constitution, rather than her personal views, would guide her votes in the Senate, one might have expected a variety of responses from the Left -- perhaps a huge sigh of relief that we've all been saved from a federal law banning masturbation...

Child-Only Left Behind

Posted on September 29, 2010
How Obamacare destroyed the child-only health-insurance market. ‘For the people who are reliant on it, it's the whole world.' So says Health Care for America Now (HCAN) communications director Avram Goldstein of the specialty child-only health-insurance market...

Robbing the Working Class

Posted on September 29, 2010
Big Labor, not the tea party, is workers? worst enemy. The Service Employees International Union plans to send 25,000 rank-and-file workers on 500 buses to Washington this weekend to protest the tea-party movement, Republicans, and Fox News...

Hoover + McGovern = Obama

Posted on September 29, 2010
Obama's presidency will discredit the Democratic party into the future. Comparisons of Barack Obama's presidency to Jimmy Carter's miss the point. Carter's presidency did little to change the basic party construct of the nation or to influence its ideology...

Colbert & Ironic Rot

Posted on September 29, 2010
It?s been metastasizing through the culture for decades. Stephen Colbert's 'testimony' before Congress last week was a clear sign that ironic rot (if you've got a better term, let me know) is sinking into the foundation of our political system...

Dems Retreat to Bicoastal Base

Posted on September 29, 2010
And the GOP takes the rest. Here's an exercise for some evening when you're curious about big nationwide trends in this year's elections. Get an outline map showing the 50 states, and take a look at the latest poll averages from Pollster...

?Tread Boldly?

Posted on September 29, 2010
If the GOP wins in November, the 112th Congress could be quite a ride. ‘My analogy is it's fourth and goal, and we're going for it, and they know it,' says Rep. Mike Pence (R., Ind.) of the midterm battle between Republicans and Democrats...

Fret Factor

Posted on September 28, 2010
What worries voters more, a Republican or Democratic Congress? What concerns voters as we approach the November elections? Some anxieties are obvious. A slow economy, anemic job creation, and record spending and debt are just a few of the bigger bricks in their wall of worry...

Investigate Racism in the Obama Justice Department

Posted on September 28, 2010
Racial animus is not the stuff of policy disagreement, it?s a constitutional travesty. Those who read this space know I am not a fan of the Republicans' vaunted 'Pledge to America.' I'm for simple pledges, the kind that get back to basics...

Kahane's Ruling Ways

Posted on September 28, 2010
Publishing the playbook. ‘If we could exhume the Founders and, before we put them all on trial for crimes against humanity, could ask them how many laws they would have considered enough, and then showed them the Federal Register alone, they'd all hop back into their graves and commence spinning...

The Anatomy of a Hostile Government Takeover

Posted on September 28, 2010
Obamacare at six months. During the long national debate over the future of American health care, President Obama frequently chastised his opponents for launching exaggerated attacks on his plan for 'reform...

Against the Voters

Posted on September 28, 2010
Whenever citizens reject the liberal agenda, they must be either monsters or fools. When John Kerry calls you out of touch, you must be so far out of touch that you need to call Mazlan Othman, the U...

Why Do Non-Leftists Vote Democrat?

Posted on September 28, 2010
Moderates pull the lever for liberal radicals because conservatives are effectively depicted as evil. All Americans, including conservatives, understand why any leftist would vote Democrat this year...

Votes from Beyond the Grave

Posted on September 28, 2010
Justice Department slumbers as illegitimate voters head to the polls. What is the quietest spot in Washington, D.C.? The Rose Garden? The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? Actually, it's the Justice Department's Voting Section...

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