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Friday, August 8, 2008

Washington Prowler

Reaching Out to Cheney

The Prowler | 8.8.08 @ 12:08AM

The McCain campaign is having second thoughts.

Another Perspective

No Nonsense Novak

Sean Higgins | 8.8.08 @ 12:08AM

He accumulated enemies like barnacles on a battleship.

topics: Books

Campaign Crawlers

After Allard

David Mark | 8.8.08 @ 12:08AM

Will Senate candidate Bob Schaffer be crushed by a Boulder liberal?

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Environment, Iraq, NATO, Immigration

Special Report

Stolen Oil

Shawn Macomber | 8.8.08 @ 12:08AM

Hugo Chavez and Joe Kennedy deserve each other. But impoverished Venezuelans deserve better.

topics: Foreign Policy, Business, Law, Socialism, Energy, Oil

Media Matters

No Otis Chandler

George Neumayr | 8.8.08 @ 12:08AM

The warfare between staffers at the Los Angeles Times and its publisher, Sam Zell.

topics: Hillary Clinton, Business, Socialism, Unions

The Nation's Pulse

My Glorious Career

Lawrence Henry | 8.8.08 @ 12:07AM

It's a mystery why things turn out the way the do.

topics: Health Care, Economics

Sports Arena

The King Returns....and Departs

Jonathon M. Seidl | 8.8.08 @ 12:06AM

Like Brett Favre, Green Bay fans face a similar situation.

topics: Trade

Reader Mail

Where's the Love?

8.8.08 @ 12:01AM

Bush wants to know. Stein-Hilton, round two, big time. RET vs. IOC. Roush respondents. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Education, Trade, Health Care, John McCain, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Islam, Abortion, Environment, Books, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO, North Korea, Communism, Energy, Alaska, Oil, Unions

Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Current Crisis

My Olympic Boycott

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 8.7.08 @ 12:08AM

It's a couple of decades old, and remains in effect.

topics: Education, Sports, Oil

Buy the Book

Change That's Unbelievable

Joseph Lawler | 8.7.08 @ 12:07AM

David Freddoso's book on Barack Obama may be the one we've been waiting for.

topics: Taxes, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream Media, Business, Abortion, Books, Supreme Court, Iraq, NATO, Energy, Oil

Political Hay

Bush Hatred: The Sequel

Mark Goldblatt | 8.7.08 @ 12:07AM

Once more around, all because he reacted to 9/11.

topics: Islam, Books, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq

The Nation's Pulse

Honey Queens and Government Crooks

Ralph R. Reiland | 8.7.08 @ 12:07AM

Capitalism fails once again to attract the best and the brightest.

topics: Law

Another Perspective

The Audacity of Wishful Thinking

Richard Kirk | 8.7.08 @ 12:07AM

An energy package we can believe in.

topics: Barack Obama, Global Warming, Iran, NATO, Energy, Oil

The Public Policy

Regulatory Competition Is the Solution

Lawrence A. Hunter | 8.7.08 @ 12:07AM

Unfortunately, the Bush administration thinks it's the problem.

topics: Business

Reader Mail

That's Hot

8.7.08 @ 12:01AM

Politics gets celebritized. Bayh the way. Playing the odds. Plus more.

topics: Health Care, John McCain, Television, Abortion, Hollywood, Law, NATO, Energy, Oil

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Special Report

Porn Star for Obama

Ben Stein | 8.6.08 @ 10:25AM

Paris Hilton shouldn't be telling anyone how to vote.

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Hollywood, NATO

Eminentoes

Bayh, Bayh, Miss American Pie?

Jeremy Lott | 8.6.08 @ 12:08AM

They don't come more boringly moderate than Indiana's junior senator.

topics: Trade, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Business, Abortion, Law, Supreme Court, Iraq, NATO

Campaign Crawlers

Is Obama's Victory a Statistical Certainty?

Robert Stacy McCain | 8.6.08 @ 12:08AM

Polls are not predictions, and elections aren't baseball.

topics: John McCain, Sports, Law, Energy, Oil

Buy the Book

Healing Health Care

Shawn Macomber | 8.6.08 @ 12:08AM

Free-market health care reform hero Dan Perrin discusses his new book, America's Health Care Crisis Solved.

topics: Education, Health Care, Medicaid, Law, NATO, Medicare

Special Report

Understanding American Politics

Peter Ferrara | 8.6.08 @ 12:07AM

Nobody does so more perceptively and creatively than Grover Norquist.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Business, Social Security, Abortion, Environment, Law, Africa, Conservatism, Energy, Unions

Political Hay

Birds of a Feather

Lisa Fabrizio | 8.6.08 @ 12:07AM

When it comes to confronting the nation's energy crisis, Barack Obama suffers from Jimmy Carter Malaise.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Islam, Law, Energy, Oil

Another Perspective

Not Mollified by Ivins

Jay D. Homnick | 8.6.08 @ 12:07AM

The FBI always gets its fruitcake.

topics: Television, Books

Reader Mail

School's Out

8.6.08 @ 12:01AM

Outsourced, that is. Also: Deliverance from the meatheads. Solzhenitsyn's warning. Side-saddling with McCain. Sock hopping. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Education, Trade, John McCain, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Television, Business, Religion, Environment, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, NATO, Socialism, Immigration, Energy, Unions

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

In Memoriam

Peter Rodman, RIP

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 8.5.08 @ 12:08AM

He was a major figure in the defense of American freedom.

topics: Foreign Policy, Islam, Books, Law, Iraq, Communism

Streetcar Line

The West Should Heed Solzhenitsyn

Quin Hillyer | 8.5.08 @ 12:08AM

Thirty years before Phil Gramm complained that we have become a nation of whiners, Solzhenitsyn said much the same thing.

topics: Russia, Socialism, Communism, Oil

Political Hay

Sen. Chris Matthews (D-Pa.)

Jeffrey Lord | 8.5.08 @ 12:08AM

Will it come to pass?

topics: Trade, Television, Iraq, NATO, Energy, Oil

The Nation's Pulse

Trade School

RiShawn Biddle | 8.5.08 @ 12:07AM

Anti-traders should focus on the real reason many Americans are left behind by globalization -- substandard schooling.

topics: Transportation, Education, Trade, Barack Obama, Economics, Business, Hollywood, Movies, NATO, Unions

Among the Intellectualoids

False Messiah

Christopher Orlet | 8.5.08 @ 12:07AM

Obama supporters prophesy a golden age of peace and love.

topics: Health Care, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Hollywood, Law, Supreme Court, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, Oil

Another Perspective

The McCain Candidacy

Bruce Herschensohn | 8.5.08 @ 12:07AM

A prominent California conservative rallies to the man he says was born to be commander in chief.

topics: Foreign Policy, Health Care, John McCain, Social Security, Military, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, NATO, Immigration

Reader Mail

Card Shark

8.5.08 @ 12:01AM

Election poker. Right Wing conspirator. Deaf ears in Indiana. Plus more.

topics: Environment, Books, Hollywood, Law, Founding Fathers, Iraq, Iran, Africa, Immigration, Oil

Monday, August 4, 2008

Campaign Crawlers

A Majority Delayed

W. James Antle, III | 8.4.08 @ 12:09AM

Behind the scenes, Tom DeLay is still trying to return the Republicans to power.

topics: Trade, John McCain, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Business, Earmarks, Global Warming, Law, Iraq, Israel, NATO, Immigration, Energy

Washington Prowler

In and Out of Action

The Prowler | 8.4.08 @ 12:08AM

McCain disengages Cheney. Cantor cries veep. Conservatives trade shots over China.

topics: Trade, Barack Obama, Oil

Special Report

Leveraging Fannie and Freddie

Carl F. Horowitz | 8.4.08 @ 12:08AM

How the left concocted an "affordable housing" disaster -- and has just been rewarded for its dirty work.

topics: Education, Trade, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Business, Books, Law, Oil

Political Hay

Youth Against "Hope"

Robert Stacy McCain | 8.4.08 @ 12:08AM

Keeping Reagan's legacy alive in the Obama age.

topics: Taxes, Barack Obama, Communism

The Nation's Pulse

Northern Indiana's ANWR Blackout

Mark Hyman | 8.4.08 @ 12:08AM

Media bias shuts down energy debate in the RV Capital of the World.

topics: Television, Business, Environment, Law, Energy, Alaska, Oil

Eminentoes

Playing the Race Weapon

Brett Joshpe | 8.4.08 @ 12:07AM

Even before last week's events, the rapper Nas, an Obama supporter, showed how it's done.

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Environment, NATO, Africa

Reader Mail

Shatner Shattered

8.4.08 @ 12:01AM

Violating the Prime Directive. Out of Afghanistan. No Hall of Fame for Favre? Plus more.

topics: Education, John McCain, Barack Obama, Environment, Constitution, Law, Founding Fathers, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Pakistan, NATO, Immigration, Energy, Oil

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