Political Hay
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Shawn Macomber | 8.10.07
Last night's Democratic debate's concerns sure weren't on display last June at Howard University.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Special Report
Health Care From the Hash Mark
David Hogberg | 8.10.07
Rudy Giuliani's health-care plan settles for a field goal when what's needed is a touchdown.
The Public Policy
Infrastructure Gridlock
Randal O'Toole | 8.10.07
Inadequate funding isn't the problem facing our aging bridges — it's that politics, much of it anti-auto, delays repair for years on end.
Another Perspective
In Praise of Yuppiedom
Lawrence Henry | 8.10.07
Young urban professionals are what made our country more livable.
The Nation’s Pulse
Canned Koran
Christopher Orlet | 8.10.07
Americans weary of a certain double standard.
Buy the Book
More Freedom, Less Freakonomics
Richard Kirk | 8.10.07
John Lott rebuts a lot of half-baked theories.
Reader Mail
Newsweek’s Brain Freeze
8.10.07
A right-wing glacier sets global warming discourse on correct path. Plus: Resisting Rudy. Observing Ladies Night. SCHIP on the shoulder. Plus more.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
The Current Crisis
The Final Face-Off
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 8.9.07
Sure looks like it's going to be Hillary vs. Rudy, while the boomers have any boom left.
Special Report
The War on Charity
Jeremy Lott | 8.9.07
Faith, hope, and determinism — and by the way, the saying now is, selfishness begins at home.
Among the Intellectualoids
Newsweek: Alarmed by Deniers
Paul Chesser | 8.9.07
A useless newsweekly settles for groupthink and intolerance.
Political Hay
Goodbye, Mr. SCHIPS
Peter Hannaford | 8.9.07
Unless President Bush vetoes it and is upheld, make way for Creeping HillaryCare.
The Nation’s Pulse
Ladies’ Knights Out
Jay D. Homnick | 8.9.07
Another weird humorless assault on the spontaneous rhythms of life.
Reader Mail
Exclusion and Incorporation
8.9.07
Ron Paul pork doesn't calculate. Selective constitutional enforcement. Schumer heat. Why call it Nanny state? Plus more.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Special Report
New Recklessness at the New Republic
John Tabin | 8.8.07
So did young Pvt. Beauchamp lie to the Army, or to his editors? Someone is not being told the truth.
Streetcar Line
Gerald Ford, Orator!
Quin Hillyer | 8.8.07
Lessons from a great speech, delivered 33 years ago tomorrow.
Political Hay
McCain’s Conservative Moment
Jeffrey Lord | 8.8.07
Conservatives and the political crack cocaine of earmarks.
Another Perspective
Conservative Judges, Liberal Crisis
Doug Bandow | 8.8.07
Democrats court disaster when judges aren't liberal.
The Nation’s Pulse
Pet Peeve
Lisa Fabrizio | 8.8.07
The more PETA loves it pets, the more it disdains their owners.
Reader Mail
MADD as Hell
8.8.07
Orwell reconsidered. The New Prohibitionists. Greenland greenbacks. Ms. Jane Austen. Plus much more.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Special Report
Alcohol Nanny Breathalyzers
Eric Peters | 8.7.07
Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants to make them mandatory in every new car.
Political Hay
Ice Cold Bunk
Patrick J. Michaels | 8.7.07
Greenland gassers are turning Congress into a hot house.
Another Perspective
The Ultimate WMD
Mark Goldblatt | 8.7.07
What explains the ineptitude of terrorists inside the U.S. and UK since 9/11?
Buy the Book
Orwell’s Bad Republicans
Hal G.P. Colebatch | 8.7.07
They terrorized Spain, to an extent still not fully understood or faced.
Movie Takes
Becoming Jane
James Bowman | 8.7.07
A load of sentimental rubbish — and that's just for starters.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Political Hay
Organizing the Leisure Class
Shawn Macomber | 8.6.07
Teamsters learn to kiss the ring at YearlyKos 2007.
The Nation’s Pulse
What’s On Your Stupid B.S. List?
Paul Chesser | 8.6.07
Before last Wednesday, commuter survival somehow never made it as a political priority, unlike many a bridge to nowhere.
Eminentoes
Qaddafi Repackaged
George H. Wittman | 8.6.07
A secular terrorist's never-ending search for acceptance.
Another Perspective
Disconnected From Fiscal Reality
Jagadeesh Gokhale | 8.6.07
Why are financial markets not taking looming entitlement shortfalls into account?
Special Report
Praying for the Chaplains
Mark Tooley | 8.6.07
The United Church of Christ's left-wing leadership is staunchly anti-Iraq War. Yet the UCC's chaplains are among the war's unsung heroes.
Campaign Crawlers
Behind the Scenes at Yearly Kos
Andrew Cline | 8.6.07
The Democratic crew pays tribute to Big Brother.
Reader Mail
Rattled and Snaked
8.6.07
Lessons in big talk. Kuwait trauma. Escape to Kurdistan. Medals and pins. Plus more.
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