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Besieged Barack
2.6.09
The honeymoon ends abruptly. Little guys don’t like big ACORNs. Look out for the union label.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Breaking News
Unemployment and Stimulus
Brian Wesbury | 2.6.09
Friday’s bad unemployment report makes a stimulus package — and consequently more unemployment — more likely.
Feature
The True Origins of This Financial Crisis
Peter J. Wallison | from the February 2009 issue
As opposed to a desperate liberal legend.
Streetcar Line
Defiance for the Greater Good
Quin Hillyer | 2.6.09
Heroic Jews, from the Bielski partisans to Jonathan and Benjamin Netanyahu.
At Large
China’s Balance Sheet
George H. Wittman | 2.6.09
Timothy Geithner strikes a Chinese sore spot.
Another Perspective
Collateral Health Care Damage
Joseph Lawler | 2.6.09
Yet another overlooked cost of universal health care reform.
Special Report
Completely Useless
Doug Bandow | 2.6.09
Europe is showing even greater dependence on U.S. security guarantees. When do we say, enough’s enough?
Eminentoes
Pelosi’s Children
David N. Bass | 2.6.09
Grandchildren on her knee, Vera, Chuck, but no Dave.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Political Hay
No Justice, No Peace
Matthew Vadum | 2.5.09
The march of the dissident “ACORN 8” against the likes of Wade Rathke.
Special Report
Cuba’s Cyber Revolutionary
Jordan Allott & Daniel Allott | 2.5.09
Yoani Sánchez’s heroic blogging is helping to bring real change to Cuba.
Media Matters
Apologies Accepted (By the Media)
Reid Collins | 2.5.09
Taking a dive for Michael Phelps.
Eminentoes
Isn’t It Reich?
Ralph R. Reiland | 2.5.09
Obama backer says there can be no stimulus without affirmative action.
Reader Mail
Mobbed Up
2.5.09
Picking up on a Godfather comment. The Obama style. Among the banksters. Plus more.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Another Perspective
Kill the Big, Bad Banks
Lawrence A. Hunter | 2.4.09
Providing welfare for credit-crack dealers is hardly the way to rehab a credit-addicted economy.
The Public Policy
Behind the 8 Million Ball
Peter Ferrara | 2.4.09
With or without Tom Daschle, Congress has some dictatorial health-care reform plans in play, all designed to force everyone else to cover 8 million uninsured Americans who are already covered.
Among the Intellectualoids
Sacred Secularism
Lisa Fabrizio | 2.4.09
Searching for the opiate in Obamaland.
In Memoriam
Abraham Ravitz, RIP
Jay D. Homnick | 2.4.09
A most unusual politician passes away in Israel.
Reader Mail
That’ll Be the Day
2.4.09
…that rock’n’roll dies. Down goes Daschle! Tax and bike path liberals. Plus more.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Breaking News
You’re Out, Tom
Philip Klein | 2.3.09
Tom Daschle’s withdrawal has thrown a monkey wrench into the Obama administration’s health-care reform efforts.
At Large
The Day the Music Died
Daniel J. Flynn | 2.3.09
Remembering Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper fifty years later.
The Energy Spectator
Proliferating Nonsense
William Tucker | 2.3.09
The problem with American environmentalism’s obsession that abstaining from nuclear power will prevent nuclear proliferation.
The Obama Watch
The Limbaugh-Hannity Administration
Jeffrey Lord | 2.3.09
Like Walter Cronkite, conservative media stars fight an economic Vietnam.
Eminentoes
Born to Run
John Berlau | 2.3.09
Bruce Springsteen has abandoned Wal-Mart. Not so White House economist Jason Furman.
Another Perspective
The Hunt for Gray February
Christopher Orlet | 2.3.09
All men need is a few days alone in a heated duck blind.
The Public Policy
Blast from the Past
Eric Singer | 2.3.09
In their first act, President Obama and the Democratic Congress bring discrimination claims back from the dead.
Reader Mail
What’s Black, White, and Not Read at All?
2.3.09
A lot of ink spilled for the Democratic Party. Anglophile world, unite. Nazis were a problem, but not the only problem. Plus more.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Media Matters
Authors of Their Own Doom
William Murchison | 2.2.09
When did newspapering seal its fate?
Special Report
The Real Meaning of Religious Persecution
Doug Bandow | 2.2.09
It exists in the world, but not in America. Shame on those who don’t know better.
At Large
The Trial of Tony Blair
Hal G.P. Colebatch | 2.2.09
A teleplay with the mental atmosphere of Orwell’s “Two-Minute Hate.” And wouldn’t its makers love to get their mitts on George W. Bush.
Political Hay
Repealing the Bill of Rights
Melanie Harmon | 2.2.09
For taxpayers, that is. Nice going in a recession, Gov. Ritter.
Reader Mail
Just Say No
2.2.09
Republicans finally find their role. Newer, but better? Gran letdown. Plus more.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Feature
Providing Relief from the Crisis
from the February 2009 issue
How to spare the economy further crippling government intervention by suspending mark-to-market accounting
The War on Terror Spectator
After Mumbai
David Aikman | from the February 2009 issue
Waiting for the second shoe to drop.
Feature
Daschle Care
Philip Klein | from the February 2009 issue
Where Hillary Clinton failed, the team of President Barack Obama and HHS Secretary Tom Daschle is determined to succeed—and the political momentum is all on their side.
Political Hay
Minority Report
W. James Antle, III | from the February 2009 issue
Congressional Republicans adjust to the age of Obama.
Feature
Enforcing Rules Against Radicals
Quin Hillyer | from the February 2009 issue
Republicans vs. David Duke — a political memoir.
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