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Why the Right Fears Transforming America

Posted on September 07, 2010
And why the Left seeks it. The giveaway regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama's plans for America was his repeated use of the words 'fundamentally transform.' Some of us instinctively reacted negatively -- in fact, with horror -- at the thought of fundamentally transforming America...

The Sin of Indulging Your Guilty Conscience

Posted on September 07, 2010
Pascal Bruckner takes deadly aim at Europe?s self-hatred. Newly returned from a week in Paris and well sated with delicious cheeses, magnificent art, and glorious (inexpensive!) wines, one is disinclined to reflect upon the decline of Europe...

Inherited from Whom?

Posted on September 07, 2010
Setting the record straight on ?the policies that created this mess in the first place.? Pres. Barack Obama boldly proclaims, 'The buck stops here!' But whenever his policies are criticized, he acts as if the buck stopped with George W...

Burning the Koran

Posted on September 07, 2010
Islamic blasphemy versus free speech. Pastor Terry Jones's atrocious plan to burn Korans at his Florida church on September 11 is perceived by Muslims not only as offensive, but also as a deliberate act of blasphemy...

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Big Labor?s Stealth Card-Check Strategy

Posted on September 06, 2010
Having failed to pass the legislation they want, union bosses turn to the executive branch. After spending over a billion dollars to elect Barack Obama president and Democratic majorities to Congress in 2008, Big Labor thought it had bought enough support to ram through a 'card check' bill that effectively eliminates secret-ballot votes for unionization and lets federal bureaucrats dictate contracts to employees and employers...

The Higher Education Bubble

Posted on September 06, 2010
Simple economics may force a reexamination of the reigning dogma that every American needs a college education. Imagine that you have a product whose price tag for decades has risen faster than inflation...

Hypocrisy Is Big Labor?s Big Problem

Posted on September 06, 2010
Labor unions don?t play by the same rules they try to impose on everyone else. Amid Labor Day's parades and picnics, union bosses will bellow Monday about workers' rights and the alleged greed of management, especially inside Big Business...

We Are Not the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Posted on September 06, 2010
And make no mistake: That?s a rally cry. EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello at cpuello@unitedmedia...

The President?s Stem-Cell Dollars and the Judge?s Rebuke

Posted on September 04, 2010
Advancing science does not justify the destruction of human life. On August 23, Judge Royce Lamberth of the federal district court in Washington issued a preliminary injunction halting the implementation of new guidelines from the National Institutes of Health, which permitted the use of federal funds to support embryonic-stem-cell (ESC) research that entailed the ongoing destruction of human embryos...

August Diary

Posted on September 03, 2010
Derb on Ron Paul, the mosque, Marmite, and more. Ron Paul for the mosque I got some nyah-nyah e-mail from readers after Ron Paul came out for the Ground Zero mosque. 'How'd you like your hero now?' etc...

These Talks Are Doomed

Posted on September 03, 2010
Before peace can come, Palestine?s culture must be changed. Hamas sent a greeting card to the quintet of leaders meeting in Washington, D.C., this week to initiate negotiations about a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority...

The Revolt of the Bourgeois

Posted on September 03, 2010
Tea partiers are mad as heck, and they’re letting the world know ? politely. The much-analyzed speeches at the Glenn Beck Lincoln Memorial rally weren't as notable as what the estimated 300,000 attendees did: follow instructions, listen quietly to hours of speeches, and throw out their trash...

Our Distracted Commander-in-Chief

Posted on September 03, 2010
Some presidents may not like being wartime leaders. But they don?t get to decide; history does. Many have charged that President Obama's decision to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan ten months from now is hampering our war effort...

Jim DeMint Looks toward November, and Beyond

Posted on September 03, 2010
The American people are finally waking up -- and the Senate Republican old bulls had better take note. Joe Miller (Alaska), Sharron Angle (Nevada), Ken Buck (Colorado), Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania), Marco Rubio (Florida), Dino Rossi (Washington), Ron Johnson (Wisconsin), Mike Lee (Utah) -- these are just a few of the Reaganite insurgents with whom Sen...

Obama Could Use Some Clintonesque Salesmanship

Posted on September 03, 2010
Obama?s condescending tone makes his policies even more unpopular. There's been a lot of talk about Bush nostalgia lately. At Martha's Vineyard, the Obama-bilia wasn't moving like it was during the Obamas' previous visit there...

What Sort of Palestinian State?

Posted on September 03, 2010
President Obama is the latest in a long line of political personalities to think that establishing a Palestinian state would allow the Middle East to live happily ever after, and he has been pressing for it urgently. Superficially, such a state seems a properly human outcome that would at last allow the Palestinians to take control of their lives, as people ought to...

Big Labor?s Legacy of Violence

Posted on September 03, 2010
When it comes to terrorizing workers, the head of the AFL-CIO knows whereof he speaks To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka in Milwaukee, and they will pose as champions of the working class...

After November

Posted on September 02, 2010
To the victor go the spoils; this year?s spoils are enormous. Presume, for a moment, that Republicans have a really good election cycle this year: Control of the House shifts away from the Democrats, and a Republican (John Boehner?) prepares to become speaker...

Why Islamic Moderates Are So Scarce

Posted on September 02, 2010
It goes back to a ninth-century theological dispute. As past statements of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf continue to surface, many Americans have concluded that the would-be builder of a mosque at Ground Zero is lying when he calls himself a 'moderate' representative of his faith...

Clowns to the Left of Me,
Jokers to the Right

Posted on September 02, 2010
Stuck in L.A. traffic with Barack Hussein Obama II and the SEIU. No doubt you've all been wondering where I've been these past few months and what I'm up to, because this one thing I know is true: You wingnuts find the liberal, leftist, ecologically correct lives we progressives live out here in La-La Land to be infinitely fascinating, almost as fascinating as we find them ourselves...

Caddell on the Midterm Elections

Posted on September 02, 2010
The polling figures paint an astounding picture -- and not just for Democrats, but for the political class as a whole. In Jimmy Carter's White House, Patrick Caddell was, in the words of Teddy White, the 'house Cassandra' -- an all-too-candid pollster whose prophecies spooked the president's other advisors...

Facebook the Nation

Posted on September 02, 2010
Justin Amash shows Republicans how to use Facebook. A politician's post on Facebook is often a lazy attempt at propaganda. Take an entry by Pat Miles, a Democrat running in Michigan's 3rd congressional district...

The Worst of Time

Posted on September 02, 2010
A once-great magazine pursues intellectual disarmament. Henry Luce would have been mortified. The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy...

The New Old World Order

Posted on September 02, 2010
A global shift to past politics also signals a return to past solutions like free markets and strong borders. The post–Cold War New World Order is rapidly breaking apart. Nations are returning to the ancient passions, rivalries, and differences of past centuries...

Big Government, Big Business, and Big Labor

Posted on September 02, 2010
Their era shaped the Democratic platorm, but that era is now over. Some of the most important things in history are things that didn't happen -- even though just about everyone thought they would...

Unpresidential Plummet

Posted on September 02, 2010
David Limbaugh chronicles the reasons for the freefall. David Limbaugh has a solid track record of writing comprehensive, damning indictments. He's gone after Janet Reno's Justice Department. He's exposed domestic crimes against religious freedom...

Obamacare and the Excise Tax

Posted on September 01, 2010
The Justice Department wrongly claims that a tax on the non-purchase of insurance qualifies as an excise. The legal battle over Obamacare is in full swing. Judge Henry E. Hudson recently denied the Obama Justice Department's motion to dismiss, and a host of highly significant constitutional questions will now confront him...

The Optimism Gap

Posted on September 01, 2010
Why are blacks more upbeat than whites about the U.S. economy? Discussions of race in modern America often focus on gaps between blacks and whites -- the income gap, the education gap, the marriage gap, the incarceration gap...

Securing Our Interests, and Iraq?s

Posted on September 01, 2010
‘Tell me how this ends,' Gen. David Petraeus famously asked during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It's still a question no one can answer, although the odds of a satisfactory outcome have vastly increased since 2006, when Iraq was spiraling downward into a hellish civil war...

Welcome to the Party

Posted on September 01, 2010
If the tea-party candidates are so extreme, why are they so popular? At first glance, it seemed a silly headline even by the standards of MSNBC: 'Can the GOP Survive a Tea Party Takeover?' Of course, the story was yet another in the narrative that has been eagerly embraced by both the mainstream media and desperate Democrats: 'Extreme' candidates who are associated with the tea-party movement are dooming Republicans to defeat this fall...

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