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The Picture
Lawrence Henry | 9.12.08
The miracle of close friendship, finally captured in a group photo.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Special Report
Meet the Obama Pro-Lifers
Matt Bowman | 9.12.08
They are spearheading the effort to tell pro-life voters that Obama will reduce abortion.
Campus Scenes
Lower Education Blues
J.T. Young | 9.12.08
Because they compete for students, America’s colleges do fine in global comparisons. Not so our elementary schools, which tolerate no competition.
Political Hay
Barack’s Failed Euronomics
Ralph R. Reiland | 9.12.08
The effects of his policies are already evident in Europe’s falling economic numbers.
At Large
Liechtenstein Lifts Its Skirts
George H. Wittman | 9.12.08
A tax haven for the very rich announces it’s “ready to adopt European standards.”
The Public Policy
Coming Home to This?
Matthew Bishop | 9.12.08
Improved living conditions for America’s fighting men and women will keep them in uniform.
Reader Mail
Credit Where It’s Due
9.12.08
Seven safe years. Loving the sinner. Booming economist Tyrrell. Klein’s warning holds up. Plus more.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Political Hay
Up from Murphy Brown
W. James Antle, III | 9.11.08
With social conservatives defending a working woman and a teen mother as liberals condemn both, Sarah Palin turns the culture wars on their head.
The Current Crisis
The Economy Is Sound
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 9.11.08
Republicans should not be afraid to say so, particularly since Democrats haven’t a clue as to how to improve it.
Among the Intellectualoids
Sarah’s God and Guns
George Neumayr | 9.11.08
The Obama elite probes Palin’s religion.
Special Report
India and Religious Persecution
Doug Bandow | 9.11.08
A rising power not yet ready for global leadership.
Another Perspective
If Only Sam Kinison Met Barack Obama
Mark Hyman | 9.11.08
Charity begins at home — and in this case stops at our nation’s shores.
Reader Mail
Palin on a Pedestal
9.11.08
Some will count to ten become succumbing. Kansas loves you. Perfection can wait. The goosegirl. Roush takes leave. Plus more.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Another Perspective
Don’t Obamaize Palin
Philip Klein | 9.10.08
Conservatives shouldn’t fall victim to the celebrity culture by prematurely idealizing the Alaskan governor.
Campaign Crawlers
Sweetheart of the Heartland
Robert Stacy McCain | 9.10.08
Sarah Palin loves small-town America, and vice-versa.
Special Report
The Supreme Court in the Balance
Peter Ferrara | 9.10.08
The stark differences in the two presidential candidates will nowhere be felt more than in who the winner gets to appoint to the nation’s courts.
Political Hay
America’s Imperfect Servant
Lisa Fabrizio | 9.10.08
Discovering what makes John McCain dramatically different.
The Public Policy
A Summer Job for Every Kid
Windsor Mann | 9.10.08
Thousands of D.C. teens have just been laid off. Thank goodness.
Buy the Book
Textbook Perfect
Mark Coppenger | 9.10.08
Students will love Herbert London’s succinct new book, America’s Secular Challenge.
Reader Mail
Silly Sally
9.10.08
Would you like to be Quinn for a day? European airs. Throw out the playbook. General Admiral McCain. Signing off. Plus more.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Eminentoes
Who Is Sally Quinn?
Jeffrey Lord | 9.9.08
As Dracula fears a cross, so a liberal media doyenne is terrified by Sarah Palin.
Special Report
Muslims Attack Jews in Paris (Again)
Roger Kaplan | 9.9.08
It’s the sort of thing that happens in France.
Buy the Book
Welcome to the (Media) Madhouse
Shawn Macomber | 9.9.08
James Bowman, chronicler of the post-honor society, takes aim at the mass media.
Campaign Crawlers
The New Playbook
Patrick O'Hannigan | 9.9.08
Democrats are running out of arguments to use against Sarah Palin.
Political Hay
Pumped and Primed
Joseph Lawler | 9.9.08
Republicans resume their drill on Capitol Hill.
TAS Live
Geneva in Orlando
Jonathan Aitken | 9.9.08
A network of over 200 classical and Christian schools is flourishing in communities across the United States.
Reader Mail
Signed, Nobody
9.9.08
Free speech, no responsibility. McCain’s chess pieces. Sister Sarah’s health care: an exchange. Freddie hearts Obama. Plus more.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Another Perspective
Cold, Calculating McCain
Jeremy Lott | 9.8.08
His handling of the vice presidential rollout demonstrated a finely tuned strategic sense.
Political Hay
The Miracle Worker
Robert Stacy McCain | 9.8.08
Sarah Palin lights the Republican fire.
Media Matters
False Free Speech
Peter Hannaford | 9.8.08
Should the First Amendment protect the cowardice of slanderers who hide behind anonymity on the Internet?
The Public Policy
That '70s Showoff
Robert M. Goldberg | 9.8.08
Barack Obama even likes the notion of price controls.
Movie Takes
“Tell No One”
James Bowman | 9.8.08
But unlike Hollywood directors, who for all intents have abandoned story-telling, Guillaume Canet goes to wonderful length to tell us everything.
Reader Mail
Post-Conventional Wisdom
9.8.08
John McCain’s greatest hit — or miss? Speaking of Sarah Palin. Ethiopian American. Roushed up. Plus much more.
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