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No, the GM Bailout Hasn?t Succeeded

Posted on August 26, 2010
Look at the books. The economy has not been cooperating with the Democrats' 'recovery summer': Unemployment remains stubbornly high; new and existing home sales indicate that housing prices have still farther to fall from their pre-bubble highs; the Dow is struggling to stay above 10,000; and a host of other economic indicators point toward continued weak growth, if not an outright double-dip...

The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer

Posted on August 26, 2010
Wars launched in past Augusts show the importance of military readiness. Historian Barbara Tuchman characterized the events leading up to World War I as The Guns of August. While there is no statistical evidence that wars break out any more often in late summer than in other seasons, the world was torn apart at that time of year twice during the 20th century: in early August 1914, and then again on Sept...

Redistricting Could Prolong the Democrats? Pain

Posted on August 26, 2010
If Republicans do well in November, they could shift a significant number of House seats to the GOP. Every ten years, it's time for reapportionment and redistricting. The framers of the Constitution created the first regularly scheduled national census and required, for the first time that I am aware of, that representation in a legislature be apportioned according to population...

Salzburg Souvenirs, Part II

Posted on August 26, 2010
Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday I started a little Salzburg journal -- go here. Let me just wade into Part II (Part Zwei, if you're in a Salzburg mood). And let's move out of Salzburg -- to Kitzbühel, the famous ski village maybe an hour and a half southwest of Salzburg...

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Terrorism, Foreign Aid, and
?Free Cities?

Posted on August 26, 2010
The experts consider a novel proposal. Last week on National Review Online, Newt Gingrich and Ken Hagerty proposed a free-market strategy to 'subvert global terror by providing hope and opportunity in the Third World...

The Conservative Comeback Down Under

Posted on August 26, 2010
Australia?s Liberal party might win an unwinnable election. I have been slightly surprised by the lack of interest in the Australian federal election -- and not just because Australia is arguably America's closest ally, having fought alongside the U...

The Deficit Is a Symptom, Spending Is the Disease

Posted on August 25, 2010
We cannot tax or grow our way out of this hole. Sometime in the next week or so, the U.S. national debt will exceed $13.4 trillion. To put that in perspective: If you earned $1 every second, it would take you 425,000 years to earn enough money to pay off that debt...

Salzburg Souvenirs

Posted on August 25, 2010
Friends, I've just had a longish stretch in Salzburg, doing some work at the festival, and I thought I'd jot you some notes. I'm not going to throw any music criticism at you -- I'll do some of that in the next National Review, and even more in the next New Criterion -- or rather, the October New Criterion...

Sheriff McCain

Posted on August 25, 2010
Adapted from the Aug. 30, 2010, issue of NR. As his fellow incumbents drown in a tea-party wave, Sen. John McCain somehow remains afloat. On Tuesday, McCain squared off against J. D. Hayworth, a former congressman, in Arizona's GOP Senate primary; yet Hayworth, a border hawk and talk-radio star, arrived defanged...

Evaluating China's Military Strength

Posted on August 25, 2010
The Department of Defense?s new report provides too little analysis, and arrived too late. The Department of Defense recently released its long-overdue annual report on China's military power...

God and Woman at Harvard

Posted on August 25, 2010
The 2010 valedictorian heads to a convent. Don't tell Mary Anne Marks the Catholic Church is an oppressive, misogynistic disaster. She knows better. And she's got a Harvard degree, too. Miss Marks, a native of Queens, N...

Islamophobia? Not Really

Posted on August 25, 2010
And when will the media cover the Left?s Conservative-ophobia? Here's a thought: The 70 percent of Americans who oppose what amounts to an Islamic Niketown two blocks from Ground Zero are the real victims of a climate of hate, and the much-ballyhooed anti-Muslim backlash is mostly a myth...

The White House War on Jobs

Posted on August 25, 2010
The administration is tracking the number of jobs ?created or saved,? but what about jobs destroyed? The 'Summer of Recovery' is looking more and more like the Beltway Chainsaw Massacre for America's workers...

Stem Cells, Life, and the Law

Posted on August 25, 2010
A federal court steps into the debate. Monday's decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia halting all federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research is a surprising milestone in the decade-long debate over this morally fraught field -- and another opportunity to make the case that medical research must proceed hand-in-hand with respect for life and human dignity...

Cops, and Robbers

Posted on August 24, 2010
From the Aug. 30, 2010, issue of NR. In July, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 103 in Bay City, Mich., used funds from its dues-paying members to erect a pair of billboards -- one on Saginaw and Columbus, another on Euclid near Fisher -- designed to instill fear in the 35,000 Michiganders the union's officers were sworn to protect...

Ayn Rand and Whittaker Chambers

Posted on August 24, 2010
With a word on <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> in the contemporary scene. In writing 'The Greatly Ghastly Rand' for NR's current print issue, I wanted to evaluate Ayn Rand foremost as an artist, applying the simple standard, 'Does this inspire me? Do I like what this woman is showing me of her soul?' This is more or less the standard Rand would have applied to herself...

Inventing Moderate Islam

Posted on August 24, 2010
It can?t be done without confronting mainstream Islam and its sharia agenda. ‘Secularism can never enjoy a general acceptance in an Islamic society.' The writer was not one of those sulfurous Islamophobes decried by CAIR and the professional Left...

See, We Told You So

Posted on August 24, 2010
The Obama administration fesses up to another bank bailout under HAMP. Can I let you in on something hilarious going around the Internet these days? No, I'm not talking about the Double Rainbow video...

The Cipher in Chief

Posted on August 24, 2010
Unlike prior presidents, Obama remains an enigma to the public. There was a time when Barack Obama disavowed his middle name, Hussein. During the 2008 campaign, Obama's aides bristled even at references to him by his initials BHO, so sensitive were they to the offending 'H...

Medical Care Facts and Fables

Posted on August 24, 2010
Obamacare threatens the unparalleled success of US medicine. There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care that we have to go back to square one and the simplest common sense in order to get some rational idea of what government-run medical care means...

Demonization and the Ground Zero Mosque

Posted on August 24, 2010
For the Left, their opponents can never have decent motives. I recently wrote about leftists' hatred for conservatives as people, not merely for the conservative ideas they hold. Demonization of opponents is a fundamental characteristic of the Left...

The Greatly Ghastly Rand

Posted on August 23, 2010
From the Aug. 30, 2010, issue of NR. ‘From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged,' Whittaker Chambers wrote here 53 years ago, 'a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To a gas chamber -- go!'' What he did not write is that Ayn Rand throws in a gas chamber...

The Political Expendables

Posted on August 23, 2010
A baker?s dozen of potential upsets in this fall?s House matchups. By some counts, the GOP has a shot at 103 currently Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives this year. You have probably marveled at Florida GOP House candidate Allen West's speeches on YouTube...

The ?Courage? to Spend

Posted on August 23, 2010
The feds aren?t doing school districts any favors by encouraging them to spend money they don?t have. Earlier this month, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan heaped praise on Congress for including $10 billion for 'EduJobs' in a state-aid package that it had enacted...

Counterterrorism, Inside Out

Posted on August 23, 2010
Stewart Baker explains the difficulties facing DHS. ‘Without a shot being fired, without even a clear sense of who the attacker is, much of the United States could find itself living in post-Katrina New Orleans, but without hope of a rescue anytime soon...

California Women?s Prison Movie

Posted on August 23, 2010
Barbara takes out her boxing gloves on abortion. ‘Carly Fiorina would make abortion a crime.' With a single word, California Democratic senator Barbara Boxer may have shattered a glass ceiling in American politics: In using the scarlet A-word, 'abortion,' Boxer has done something rhetorically unusual -- at least for a politician who favors abortion on demand...

Democrats on the Defensive

Posted on August 23, 2010
The stimulus and the health-care bill are no longer a net plus for the Democrats. Like many Democrats over the past 40 years, Barack Obama has hoped that his association with unpopular liberal positions on cultural issues would be outweighed by his pushing economic policies intended to benefit the ordinary person...

This Week with Amanpour: International and Parochial

Posted on August 23, 2010
Her distance from American concerns disables her from being a fair moderator of American debates. On May 26, Christiane Amanpour addressed Harvard's 2010 graduates. She had the difficult task of capturing the significance of their educations and at the same time inspiring them...

The Race for the Florida Governorship

Posted on August 23, 2010
Republican primary candidate Rick Scott seeks to rejuvenate the American Dream. Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott doesn't need to hang James Carville's famous sign ('the economy, stupid') to know what's on people's minds this election season...

Ray Bradbury at 90

Posted on August 21, 2010
A literary legend commences his tenth decade. Roughly a decade before he created the Christmastime television movie The Homecoming and the long-running series it inspired, The Waltons, Earl Hamner was a successful novelist and writer of scripts for live television in New York...

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