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Friday, February 6, 2009

Breaking News

Unemployment and Stimulus

Brian Wesbury | 2.6.09 @ 5:37PM

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 | February 2009

As opposed to a desperate liberal legend.

Streetcar Line

Defiance for the Greater Good

Quin Hillyer | 2.6.09 @ 6:10AM

Heroic Jews, from the Bielski partisans to Jonathan and Benjamin Netanyahu.

At Large

China's Balance Sheet

George H. Wittman | 2.6.09 @ 6:08AM

Timothy Geithner strikes a Chinese sore spot.

Another Perspective

Collateral Health Care Damage

Joseph Lawler | 2.6.09 @ 6:07AM

Yet another overlooked cost of universal health care reform.

Special Report

Completely Useless

Doug Bandow | 2.6.09 @ 6:07AM

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 @ 6:07AM

Grandchildren on her knee, Vera, Chuck, but no Dave.

Reader Mail

Besieged Barack

2.6.09 @ 6:01AM

The honeymoon ends abruptly. Little guys don't like big ACORNs. Look out for the union label.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Current Crisis

Obama Agonistes

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.5.09 @ 6:09AM

That didn't take long.

Political Hay

No Justice, No Peace

Matthew Vadum | 2.5.09 @ 6:08AM

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 @ 6:08AM

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 @ 6:07AM

Taking a dive for Michael Phelps.

The Public Policy

Of Rats and Meds

Peter Pitts | 2.5.09 @ 6:07AM

Online pharmacies can be poisonous.

Eminentoes

Isn't It Reich?

Ralph R. Reiland | 2.5.09 @ 6:06AM

Obama backer says there can be no stimulus without affirmative action.

Reader Mail

Mobbed Up

2.5.09 @ 6:01AM

Picking up on a Godfather comment. The Obama style. Among the banksters. Plus more.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Political Hay

Class Carfare

George Neumayr | 2.4.09 @ 6:08AM

Barack the plumber flushes out Daschle.

Another Perspective

Kill the Big, Bad Banks

Lawrence A. Hunter | 2.4.09 @ 6:08AM

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 @ 6:07AM

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 @ 6:06AM

Searching for the opiate in Obamaland.

In Memoriam

Abraham Ravitz, RIP

Jay D. Homnick | 2.4.09 @ 6:06AM

A most unusual politician passes away in Israel.

Reader Mail

That'll Be the Day

2.4.09 @ 6:01AM

...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 @ 4:24PM

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 @ 6:09AM

Remembering Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper fifty years later.

The Energy Spectator

Proliferating Nonsense

William Tucker | 2.3.09 @ 6:08AM

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 @ 6:08AM

Like Walter Cronkite, conservative media stars fight an economic Vietnam.

Eminentoes

Born to Run

John Berlau | 2.3.09 @ 6:08AM

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 @ 6:07AM

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 @ 6:06AM

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 @ 6:01AM

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

Editorial Cartoon

Monday Cartoon and Quote of the Day

Yogi Love | 2.2.09 @ 10:42AM

Media Matters

Authors of Their Own Doom

William Murchison | 2.2.09 @ 6:10AM

When did newspapering seal its fate?

Enemy of the Week

Super Republicans

Enemy Central | 2.2.09 @ 6:09AM

They're bowling Democrats over.

Special Report

The Real Meaning of Religious Persecution

Doug Bandow | 2.2.09 @ 6:08AM

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 @ 6:07AM

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 @ 6:06AM

For taxpayers, that is. Nice going in a recession, Gov. Ritter.

Movie Takes

Valkyrie

James Bowman | 2.2.09 @ 6:02AM

It could have been worse.

Reader Mail

Just Say No

2.2.09 @ 6:01AM

Republicans finally find their role. Newer, but better? Gran letdown. Plus more.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Current Wisdom

February 2009

The Slaughterhouse

You Are Stupid

J.P. Freire | February 2009

Presswatch

Blogged Down

James Taranto | February 2009

Feature

Providing Relief from the Crisis

February 2009

How to spare the economy further crippling government intervention by suspending mark-to-market accounting

Ben Stein's Diary

The Age of Fraud

Ben Stein | February 2009

Conservative Tastes

The Mind of the Past

James Bowman | February 2009

The Pursuit of Knowledge

Surviving Obama

Roger Scruton | February 2009

Public Nuisances

Back to the Wilderness

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | February 2009

On the Prowl

The Big Fix

The Prowler | February 2009

The Terror Spectator

After Mumbai

David Aikman | February 2009

Waiting for the second shoe to drop.

Feature

Daschle Care

Philip Klein | February 2009

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.