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Everyone a Bigot? -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on August 12, 2010
Anti-Hispanic, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-black -- it is hard to keep track of all the recent allegations of bigotry. State representatives in Arizona overwhelmingly passed, to popular acclaim, an immigration law that the Obama administration has, for now, successfully blocked in federal court...

Our Real Gulf Disaster -- By: Lou Dolinar

Posted on August 12, 2010
Four months after the Deepwater Horizon spill -- which President Obama called the 'worst environmental disaster America has ever faced' -- the oil is disappearing, and fisheries are returning to normal. It turns out that this incident exposed some things that are seriously wrong in the world of oil -- and I don't mean exploding wells...

Saul Alinsky: A Complicated Rebel -- By: Ronald Radosh

Posted on August 11, 2010
Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky by Nicholas von Hoffman (Nation Books, 237 pp., $26.95) Nicholas von Hoffman's short, breezy, and informative sketch of Saul Alinsky -- and of the decade he spent with him working as a community organizer -- offers us a very different take on the legendary activist than the narrative we are accustomed to...

Memo to Republicans: It?s Big Government, Stupid! -- By: Michael Tanner

Posted on August 11, 2010
Riding a record of unprecedented government spending, rising debt, a government takeover of the health-care system, high unemployment, and proposals to tax everything they stumble across, Democrats have put themselves in position for an epic electoral defeat that will rival the Republican debacles of 2006 and 2008...

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America?s Nuclear Vietnam -- By: Henry Sokolski

Posted on August 11, 2010
In Washington, government officials rarely (if ever) admit to making policy mistakes, even when they've clearly botched things up. Take Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent decision to bless a formal civilian nuclear-cooperation agreement with Vietnam...

Obama?s Imperial Presidency -- By: Bill McCollum

Posted on August 11, 2010
In the words of our second president: We are a government of laws, not of men. This key principle, which places our Constitution above our leaders, set young America apart from the governments of monarchical Europe. Regrettably, President Obama is endangering this venerable tradition by deliberately and systematically seeking to expand executive power well beyond its proper boundaries...

Constitutional Amendments and Citizenship Rights -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on August 11, 2010
It's like clockwork. Whenever conservatives propose a constitutional amendment, progressives suddenly rediscover the delicate gears of the Constitution and the horrible dangers of 'tinkering' or 'tampering' with its precision craftsmanship. Consider the sudden brouhaha over the idea of revising the 14th Amendment to get rid of automatic birthright citizenship (which would make us more like that alleged progressive nirvana known as 'Europe,' by the way)...

The Left?s Special-Interest Human Shields -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on August 11, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deserves a swift rap on the knuckles for hiding underneath the desk of the American schoolteacher. In a cynical ploy to evade accountability for the Democrats' continued fiscal recklessness, Pelosi accused opponents of the $26 billion public-employee-union-bailout bill of 'demeaning' teachers -- and nurses, police officers, and firefighters...

Director Mueller, Say No to CAIR -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on August 10, 2010
At this point, the question about CAIR should be: Why does anyone care? Care about anything CAIR officials say, that is. The notorious Council on American-Islamic Relations is back up to its old tricks. CAIR officials figure our ten-minute attention span has lapsed, and that we've probably forgotten by now that, in the 2007–08 prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) -- a case in which several Islamists were convicted in a scheme that poured millions of dollars into the coffers of the terrorist organization Hamas -- CAIR was named as, and shown to be, an unindicted co-conspirator...

Born in the U.S.A. -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Posted on August 10, 2010
One in ten children born in this country has an illegal immigrant for a mother. Every one of those children of illegal immigrants is a U.S. citizen. Birth on American soil automatically qualifies a child for citizenship, whatever his parents' legal status...

The Class-Warfare Gambit -- By: Michael G. Franc

Posted on August 10, 2010
Imagine you are one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's top political strategists. The polls show your party needs a game-changer, something that will transform what looks like a losing political hand into a winner. 'I know,' you shout, 'let's push for a large tax increase on the ‘fortunate few' -- the 2 or 3 percent of the population with so much money they won't even miss a few thousand bucks...

July Diary -- By: John Derbyshire

Posted on August 10, 2010
Gun fun August 1 -- White rabbits!Today the Derb mansion is permeated by the smell of Hoppe's No. 9. We had a glorious day of shooting yesterday. Took my son and one of his friends to a big range nearby, of which one of my own friends is a member...

The Ground Zero Mosque: Not the Place -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on August 10, 2010
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is some sort of bigot. In a speech about the Ground Zero mosque and religious freedom, Bloomberg stipulated that 'it is fair to ask the organizers of the mosque to show some special sensitivity to the situation.'Why do they, of all the sects represented in New York, have to show 'special sensitivity'? Does the mayor demand 'special sensitivity' of St...

Black Murders Eight Whites; Media Blame Whites -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on August 10, 2010
The title of this column seems unbelievable, but it is in fact what happened in America this past week. And almost no one has noticed.After 50 years of being inundated with stories of white racism, and being taught in college that in this white-dominated society only a white can be a racist, the American public has been properly brainwashed into accepting the otherwise incredible: A black man murdered eight white people at his place of work because they were white, and the media story is about the murderer's alleged experiences of racism...

Applauding Immaturity at Hunter College High School -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on August 10, 2010
A graduating senior at Hunter College High School in New York gave a speech that brought a standing ovation from his teachers and got his picture in the New York Times. I hope it doesn't go to his head, because what he said was so illogical that it was an indictment of the mush that is being taught at even our elite educational institutions...

Do We Have Anything to Teach the Young? -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on August 10, 2010
Do you associate dirt with great music? You might if you were the parent of kids attending the Interlochen summer music program in Michigan. For their third and second summers respectively, my teenage sons have plunged into six weeks of intensive music education, performance, and instruction...

The U.N. Human-Rights Sham -- By: Jacob Mchangama

Posted on August 09, 2010
When President Obama took over from George W. Bush, many European diplomats and human-rights activists were energized. They hoped the so-called Obama effect would lead to America's championing a new golden era for international human rights as it re-engaged with the United Nations and brought obstructionist countries --supposedly alienated by the Bush administration's arrogance -- back to the path of progress...

A Look at Georgia?s GOP Gubernatorial Primary -- By: Jesse Naiman

Posted on August 09, 2010
Georgia Republicans will return to the polls tomorrow to choose a nominee for governor. This runoff election will conclude the race between two conservative candidates: the Sarah Palin–endorsed former Georgia secretary of state Karen Handel, and Newt Gingrich–backed former congressman Nathan Deal...

State-Bailout Trap -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on August 09, 2010
When the House convenes today in a special session to vote on a $26 billion package of aid funds for state and local governments, it will have to decide whether to single out one state -- Texas -- for special treatment. This is not the kind of special treatment that we're used to seeing in Washington, where senators often secure extra benefits for their states in return for their votes...

Ground Zero Mosque: Who?s in Charge? -- By: Nina Shea

Posted on August 09, 2010
The proposal to build a mosque two blocks north of Ground Zero has provoked a heated debate in the nation about that quintessential American right, religious freedom, and its limits in this age of Islamist terrorism. That there are limits -- that is, beyond the areas in which the law is already clear, including prohibitions against acts of violence, certain types of discrimination, and polygamy -- has at last been recognized in recent Obama policies and pronouncements...

Witness the Counterrevolution -- By: Interview

Posted on August 09, 2010
‘St. Augustine instructed that our love is our weight, best exemplified by the overwhelming remorse he experienced at the death of his beloved mother, Monica. If so, the weight of Chambers's love was directed towards liberating men from the worship of ideological gods...

Republicans Ask ?What Do I Do Now?? -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on August 09, 2010
Republicans are starting to think about how to answer the Robert Redford question.You know the scene. In the 1972 movie The Candidate, the Redford character, having won the election, turns to his political consultant and asks, 'What do I do now?'Many Republicans fear they will look as clueless as Redford...

Congress Comes out of Hiding -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on August 09, 2010
EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello. When it comes to the signature legislation of the current Democrat-run Washington, Nancy Pelosi and her House of Representatives have been about hiding the truth...

An Engineer Talks Oil Spills -- By: Interview

Posted on August 07, 2010
'My analogy is that BP gave part of the Gulf of Mexico a case of the flu. It wasn't pleasant, and there was pain involved#...#but the patient will recover quickly now that the flu is over. This isn't cancer#...#and it never was.' Earlier this week came the remarkable news that the vast majority of oil leaked from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico had been dissipated or collected...

More Moderate Muslims -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on August 07, 2010
If Mayor Michael Bloomberg ever decides to stop buying his way around New York City's term-limit law, he'd be a perfect fit at the State Department. Hizzoner was not content with having embarrassed himself by predicting that the attempted bombing of Times Square -- the heart of a city that has been a jihadist target for 17 years -- would prove to be the work of a disgruntled right-winger upset over the health-care bill...

Obamacare Takes a Beating -- By: The Editors

Posted on August 06, 2010
It's been a bad week for Obamacare.On Tuesday, Show Me State voters fired a shot across the bow of the administration, with a stunning 71 percent of those casting ballots supporting a referendum opposing the centerpiece of Obamacare -- the so-called 'individual mandate...

Low Volt-age -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on August 06, 2010
Let us compare the Volkswagen and the 'Voltswagen.' The original Volkswagen was intended as the 'people's car' (that's what Volkswagen means). The idea of a cheap, safe, reliable car for the working man was popular before Adolf Hitler embraced it, but as a self-proclaimed man of the people, he made the idea his own...

The scarlet ?R,? &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on August 06, 2010
A letter popped up the other day. I will reproduce it in toto and verbatim: Mr. Nordlinger, Read your comment about racism being dead in this country. Sir you are delusional and out of touch with reality, at best. What was this strange fellow, or gal (wasn't clear), talking about? I will tell you, if you're interested...

Obamacare Repeal Gains Momentum . . . -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on August 06, 2010
Obamacare faced voters for the first time on Tuesday -- and was diagnosed as seriously ill.By 71 percent to 29 percent, Missouri voters approved a referendum to invalidate any Obamacare mandate to purchase health insurance and any penalty for not doing so...

The World According to Judge Walker -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on August 06, 2010
It's safe to assume that Judge Vaughn Walker voted against Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in California back in 2008. Throughout the trial on the measure in his courtroom, he proved himself as zealously in favor of gay marriage as the plaintiffs petitioning to have it declared unconstitutional -- if not more so...

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