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Peace -- But Not Now

Posted on September 23, 2010
Why Palestinian-Israeli talks cannot make real progress any time soon. At an off-the-record gathering of foreign-policy mandarins and opinion-mongers recently, the former head of an allied nation said he was advising President Obama to push as hard as possible for a speedy settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict...

A Nation of Peasants?

Posted on September 23, 2010
The U.S. has returned to deriding ?trickle-down? economics. Traditional peasant societies believe in only a limited amount of good. The more your neighbor earns, the less someone else gets. Profits are seen as a sort of theft; they must be either hidden or redistributed...

Obama?s Policies Drag Down Democratic Governors

Posted on September 23, 2010
Democrats are not supposed to be trailing there in times like these. In Washington, I'm often asked how many seats Republicans will pick up in the House and whether they'll win a majority in the Senate...

Extremist Thrives in Primary Fight

Posted on September 22, 2010
The party is courting its fringes, a bad omen for future policy. You may have missed it amid all the hullabaloo surrounding Delaware, but there was another important primary last Tuesday. The incumbent was a moderate, a pragmatist, someone who could reach across the aisle to work with those who were not traditional allies...

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The Christine O?Donnell Debate

Posted on September 22, 2010
Will O?Donnell?s political �lan help the anti-statist cause more than her na�vet� will hurt it? Last Friday, GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who had defeated Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware primary three days earlier, was in Washington, where her cheerful excoriation of the pathologies of America's 'ruling-class elites' kindled the enthusiasm of the audience at the Values Voter Summit...

Obama?s Glass House

Posted on September 22, 2010
America?s discontent may stem in part from suspecting that the administration thinks we?re stupid, fearful, cowardly racists. Preachers and professors have it hard as presidents. They sermonize too much...

The Delphi Disaster

Posted on September 22, 2010
An economic horror story Obama will not tell. The White House believes it can win back depressed and economically stressed voters by turning President Obama into the storyteller-in-chief again...

Penny-Wise on Crime

Posted on September 22, 2010
Probation is only cheaper than imprisonment when you ignore the real costs. For more than 200 years, the political Left has been coming up with reasons why criminals should not be punished as much as they are, or at all...

GOP Civil War? Think Again

Posted on September 22, 2010
When everybody?s a fan of the tea parties, the rest is details. Civil war! That was the talk on the Sunday shows and in the blogosphere last week. The conservative 'establishment' had backed Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican senatorial primary over the 'tea party' favorite, Christine O'Donnell...

The dreaded S-word, &c.

Posted on September 22, 2010
Some people have called Obama a socialist, and that has other people all shaken up -- even 'all wee-weed up,' as the president himself might say. I have a couple cents to add to this discussion -- and whether these cents are sense, I don't know. For some years -- starting long, long before Obama -- I've played a little game...

We?ll Take the Pledge

Posted on September 22, 2010
All year long, conservatives have been pressuring Republicans to release a Contract with America for 2010 -- an updated version of the campaign platform that the party unveiled before its 1994 sweep of Congress. Thursday morning, Republican congressmen are responding to that pressure by making a 'Pledge to America...

Destroying King Dollar Is Not the Solution

Posted on September 22, 2010
Pro-growth fiscal action is. Fed head Ben Bernanke and the FOMC dropped a new policy bomb at their meeting this week. Now they say inflation is too low. That's the real problem. And the solution? Punch up the money supply and punch down the dollar -- or what I used to call King Dollar...

Foolhardy Tax Hikes

Posted on September 21, 2010
Overtaxing the top 2 percent can?t cover even nine days? worth of deficit. ‘Raising taxes on the top 2% of households, as Mr. Obama proposes, would bring in $34 billion next year: enough to cover nine days' worth of the deficit,' notes The Economist...

Abortion at Government Facilities?

Posted on September 21, 2010
Military families will pay the tab for abortion advocates? hubris. As combat operations in Iraq came to an end at the end of August, President Obama rightly lauded the patriotism and sacrifice of America's servicemen and -women and their families...

Twenty Candidates Who Need Help

Posted on September 21, 2010
For some GOP challengers, victory is just barely within reach. In late July, my discussions with Republican strategists and conservatives who were closely watching the 2010 House races yielded a list of 'The Underfunded 20': GOP challengers who had favorable conditions such as a conservative-leaning district, or strong issues to run on, but who needed enough cash to ensure their chances of victory weren't swept away by a deluge of negative ads...

Going the GOP?s Way

Posted on September 21, 2010
Republicans mustn?t sit on their laurels. But if they stay focused, they look to make big gains this fall. Republicans. Conservatives. Tea-partiers. Mama grizzlies. Beckians. Rovians. College students who voted for Obama after some hipsters offered them free tickets to an Arcade Fire concert...

Ted Strickland?s Rusty Vision

Posted on September 21, 2010
Democrats are at War with Ohio Industry In Tuesday's first-round Ohio gubernatorial debate, Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland emphasized his jobs agenda and held up the Ohio Department of Development as an outstanding example of government working to create employment and opportunity...

Senator Buckley Speaks

Posted on September 21, 2010
A conservative legend celebrates the founding of Young Americans for Freedom. With quiet grace, James L. Buckley, age 87, steps across the dais. His hair -- chalk white and swept neatly above his brow -- glistens under the ballroom lights...

Democrats Chose Wrong Moment for Big Government

Posted on September 21, 2010
?Our time, our moment? was brief for spending-mad liberals. As a social conservative who has written extensively about abortion, stem-cell research, family structure, failing schools, the degradation of popular culture, and abstinence education, I submit, without fear of misinterpretation, that the next two elections are not going to be about those issues...

The Politics of Resentment

Posted on September 21, 2010
The recent D.C. election shows how racial politics destroy communities. Few things have captured in microcosm what has gone so painfully wrong, where racial issues are concerned, like the recent mayoral election in Washington, D...

Justice Dept. Shrugs About Potential GI Voter Disfranchisement

Posted on September 21, 2010
Thanks to some states? illegal lagging, soldiers abroad may lose their vote. Imagine if five states announced that they lacked the money and manpower to ship ballots to precincts in predominantly black rural counties before the fall federal election...

Enough

Posted on September 21, 2010
The tea party seeks to stop the seemingly inevitable growth of the welfare state. William Voegeli wrote a book about the ever-growing welfare state in the United States and throughout the Western world titled 'Never Enough...

The Rushdie Rules Reach Florida

Posted on September 21, 2010
The outcry over Pastor Jones?s Koran-burning stunt was part of an ugly tradition. Pastor Terry Jones's plan to burn copies of the Koran at his church in Gainesville, Fla., let it be emphasized, is a distasteful act that fits an ugly tradition...

Wringing Bell

Posted on September 21, 2010
From the Sep. 20, 2010, issue of NR. Bell, Calif. — When you come off the 710 and onto the Florence Avenue ramp, there is on this particularly smoggy August day a dirt-encrusted drifter, standing in a litter-strewn, overgrown strip of soft shoulder and holding a scrap of cardboard, on which is written an illegible message for the presumed benefit of passing motorists...

Contra Buckley

Posted on September 21, 2010
The Buckley Rule has a time and place; this isn?t it. As a class, politicians are not think-outside-the-box types, which is not a good thing when the frontiers of your box are fixed by Interstate 495...

A Monumental Contest

Posted on September 20, 2010
With the primary season complete, the terms of battle are set -- for the general election and for the next era in American politics. Barack Obama's election in 2008 was said to constitute the next great wave of progressivism after FDR and LBJ. But a massive electoral backlash is brewing against his policies, all his stimuli have manifestly failed, and his party is increasingly in intellectual and political disarray (witness its agony on extending the Bush tax cuts)...

Harry Reid?s ?Pet?

Posted on September 20, 2010
If Delawareans want a down-the-line, tick-the-box, reliable vote for President Obama and the Democratic leadership, Chris Coons is their man. Christine O'Donnell is the Republican nominee for the Senate in Delaware, and whatever you think of her qualifications, it is time to take a look at her opponent and decide what is at stake in this race...

Charlie Crist Is No Joe Lieberman

Posted on September 20, 2010
A Florida independent seeks to fit the mold cast by the Senate?s last successful party defector. When Florida governor Charlie Crist announced in April that he would be leaving the GOP to run as an independent, comparisons to Joe Lieberman's successful no-party bid were inevitable...

Soros?s Anti-Human-Rights Agenda

Posted on September 20, 2010
Republicans and conservatives must stop leaving the important field of human rights to anti-American relativists. George Soros's enormous gift of $100 million to the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch is a serious shot across the bow for Republicans and conservatives...

Obama?s U.N. Record

Posted on September 20, 2010
From NR's October 4 issue. Barack Obama will make his second address as president to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, and engage in the customary ceremonies, social events, and consultations with other heads of government...

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