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Daschle's Long March
Philip Klein | 12.12.08 @ 6:10AM
Obama's new health-care czar and the path to socialized medicine.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Mark to Market Watch
Time for Real Accounting Change
Newt Gingrich | 12.12.08 @ 12:09PM
Financial markets could be stabilized without costing the taxpayer a penny. Part four of "Providing Relief from the Crisis."
Eminentoes
Defense According to Robert Gates
George H. Wittman | 12.12.08 @ 6:09AM
The art of political survival in the Obama era.
Mark to Market Watch
Rules Have Consequences
Brian Wesbury | 12.12.08 @ 6:08AM
And those consequences can be very dire for our economy. The third part of "Providing Relief from the Crisis."
Among the Intellectualoids
Truth, Economics, and Politics
Paul Chesser | 12.12.08 @ 6:07AM
Climate change alarmists bump up against the three irrevocables.
Another Perspective
Czarist America
Eric Heidenreich | 12.12.08 @ 6:07AM
This part of the auto industry bailout is likely to drive supporters of limited government crazy.
At Large
Kazakhstan Turns Ugly
Doug Bandow | 12.12.08 @ 6:06AM
The U.S. and Europe need to decide whether to reward this religious persecutor.
Washington Prowler
Have Presidency, Will Travel
The Prowler | 12.12.08 @ 6:06AM
So what will it be for Obama's first foreign trip: Indonesia or Brussels?
Reader Mail
For the Thrill of It
12.12.08 @ 6:01AM
Gamers gang up on Croke. Obama is Illinois to the core. Not scared of the Boogedyman. Plus more.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Mark to Market Watch
Improve Accounting Standards, Improve the Economy
Edward L. Yingling | 12.11.08 @ 1:09PM
Part two of the "Providing Relief from the Crisis" series: Mark-to-market accounting did not create the financial crisis, but it made it much worse.
Breaking News
Princeton Pays $100 Million to Settle Robertson Lawsuit
Neal B. Freeman | 12.11.08 @ 6:09AM
The largest "donor intent" award in history.
Mark to Market Watch
Market Value Accounting Crippling Economy
William M. Isaac | 12.11.08 @ 6:08AM
The case for suspending mark-to-market accounting. Part one in "Providing Relief from the Crisis," a seven-part series on our economic emergency.
The Current Crisis
Memoirs Are Made of This
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.11.08 @ 6:08AM
President Bush will soon be writing his -- and in doing so he'll have to give us a full measure of Saddam Hussein.
Streetcar Line
Embracing the Oogedy-Boogedy
Quin Hillyer | 12.11.08 @ 6:08AM
A defense of full-fledged conservatism.
Special Report
Greens Against Growth
Chris Reed | 12.11.08 @ 6:07AM
The media hides an inconvenient truth: California's clean-energy law has damaged the state economy.
The Nation's Pulse
Thrill Killing
Bill Croke | 12.11.08 @ 6:07AM
That's what wildlife managers call it. But it's an ugly national problem.
Reader Mail
What Did He Know?
12.11.08 @ 6:01AM
And when did he know it? Working labor over. Tyranny, conservative-style. Plus more.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Breaking News
The Tainting of the President-Elect
Jeffrey Lord | 12.10.08 @ 1:05PM
What did the Obama team know: the JFK and Biden precedents.
The Obama Watch
Chicago Tugs on Obama's Sleeve
Philip Klein | 12.10.08 @ 6:11AM
The Rod Blagojevich scandal raises a number of important questions about our next president.
Eminentoes
Machiavelli's The Pathetico
George Neumayr | 12.10.08 @ 6:10AM
Whatever happened to the suavely corrupt Dem pol?
Political Hay
The End
RiShawn Biddle | 12.10.08 @ 6:09AM
The Senate bribery scandal may be the final chapter in Rod Blagojevich's steep decline.
Special Report
Big Three Weekend at Bernie's
Peter Ferrara | 12.10.08 @ 6:09AM
Washington is not bailing out the Big Three automakers. It is nationalizing them. So who do you think will be running them?
The Nation's Pulse
Paradise City Lost
Daniel J. Flynn | 12.10.08 @ 6:08AM
Guns N' Roses' long awaited new album flopped as original band members moved on, the lead singer grew old, and the fans grew up.
Another Perspective
State of the Unions
Lisa Fabrizio | 12.10.08 @ 6:06AM
In order to form more perfect Democrats.
Reader Mail
GM: Generally Mismanaged
12.10.08 @ 6:01AM
Wagoner on the hot seat. Is bigger better? Language counts. Plus more.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The Obama Watch
Reagan's Crocodile Eats a Riverboat
Jeffrey Lord | 12.9.08 @ 6:09AM
A business fights to live as Obama plagiarizes FDR for a Ted Stevens presidency.
Car Guy
Should Rick Resign?
Eric Peters | 12.9.08 @ 6:08AM
Is it Rick Wagoner's fault that GM is on the verge of extinction?
The Public Policy
Bailout Ownership
Lawrence A. Hunter | 12.9.08 @ 6:08AM
We paid for the bailout, and we are entitled to own the proceeds.
Special Report
Mandate Nation
Jeff Emanuel | 12.9.08 @ 6:08AM
The medical insurance industry's health care reform proposal is hardly market-friendly.
Political Hay
Steadying the Ranks
G. Tracy Mehan, III | 12.9.08 @ 6:07AM
GOP must focus on the Big Issues.
Another Perspective
To the Shores of, er, Somalia
Peter Hannaford | 12.9.08 @ 6:07AM
If the Marines can't help, maybe someone like Blackwater can.
Reader Mail
Never Gonna Get It
12.9.08 @ 6:01AM
Seventy years later, bad ideas are still bad. Abstaining from common sense. Chalk it up to marking it up. Plus more.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Washington Prowler
Lost in Transition
The Prowler | 12.8.08 @ 6:09AM
Obama reaches out and touches some lobbyists. Plus: Senator Jeb before 2010?
The Obama Watch
Abstinence Phobia
David N. Bass | 12.8.08 @ 6:09AM
Prepare for the new administration's budget axe to bludgeon the Bush administration's cultural policies first.
The Public Policy
Mark to Market Means Mayhem
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein | 12.8.08 @ 6:08AM
One again, a supposed "market failure" is actually the result of bad government policy.
Constitutional Opinions
The Real Threat to Democracy
Brett Joshpe | 12.8.08 @ 6:08AM
The perils of criminalizing policy differences with the president.
Political Hay
It Won't Work
Robert Stacy McCain | 12.8.08 @ 6:07AM
The GOP's message should be simple: the Democrats can't fix the economy.
The Nation's Pulse
A Federal Case
Christopher Orlet | 12.8.08 @ 6:07AM
Revenge, hysteria, and TV ratings are no excuse for bad law.
Reader Mail
This Bud's for You
12.8.08 @ 6:01AM
Celebrating prohibition's end and being 21. Harpy-in-chief. All up in a Huff. Plus more.
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