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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.

Reader Mail

Besieged Barack

2.6.09

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

That didn’t take long.

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.

The Public Policy

Of Rats and Meds

Peter Pitts | 2.5.09

Online pharmacies can be poisonous.

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

Political Hay

Class Carfare

George Neumayr | 2.4.09

Barack the plumber flushes out Daschle.

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

Editorial Cartoon

Monday Cartoon and Quote of the Day

Yogi Love | 2.2.09

Media Matters

Authors of Their Own Doom

William Murchison | 2.2.09

When did newspapering seal its fate?

Enemy of the Week

Super Republicans

Enemy Central | 2.2.09

They’re bowling Democrats over.

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.

Movie Takes

Valkyrie

James Bowman | 2.2.09

It could have been worse.

Reader Mail

Just Say No

2.2.09

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

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

Assorted Jackasses | from the February 2009 issue

The Slaughterhouse

You Are Stupid

J.P. Freire | from the February 2009 issue

Presswatch

Blogged Down

James Taranto | from the February 2009 issue

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

Ben Stein’s Diary

The Age of Fraud

Ben Stein | from the February 2009 issue

Conservative Tastes

The Mind of the Past

James Bowman | from the February 2009 issue

The Pursuit of Knowledge

Surviving Obama

Roger Scruton | from the February 2009 issue

Public Nuisances

Back to the Wilderness

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the February 2009 issue

On the Prowl

The Big Fix

The Prowler | from the February 2009 issue

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.

High Spirits

Antiquities Diplomacy

Jonathan Aitken | from the February 2009 issue

Feature

Enforcing Rules Against Radicals

Quin Hillyer | from the February 2009 issue

Republicans vs. David Duke — a political memoir.

Letter From Paris

Finally, A Brit Who Gets It

Joseph A. Harriss | from the February 2009 issue

Politics

S.O.S. at the BBC

John H. Fund | from the February 2009 issue

Correspondence

Correspondence

from the February 2009 issue

The Continuing Crisis

The Continuing Crisis

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the February 2009 issue

About This Month

Hail to the Chief

Wlady Pleszczynski | from the February 2009 issue

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