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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.

topics: Economics, Stimulus Package

Feature

The True Origins of This Financial Crisis

Peter J. Wallison | February 2009

As opposed to a desperate liberal legend.

topics: Global Financial Crisis, Housing Bubble

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.

topics: Israel, Jewish History, Jonathan Netanyahu

At Large

China's Balance Sheet

George H. Wittman | 2.6.09 @ 6:08AM

Timothy Geithner strikes a Chinese sore spot.

topics: Economics, World Economic Forum, China

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?

topics: NATO, Nuclear Deterrence

Eminentoes

Pelosi's Children

David N. Bass | 2.6.09 @ 6:07AM

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

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Abortion

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.

topics: ACORN

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.

topics: Cuba, Fidel Castro, The Internet

Media Matters

Apologies Accepted (By the Media)

Reid Collins | 2.5.09 @ 6:07AM

Taking a dive for Michael Phelps.

topics: Michael Phelps, Drug Use

The Public Policy

Of Rats and Meds

Peter Pitts | 2.5.09 @ 6:07AM

Online pharmacies can be poisonous.

topics: Prescription Drugs, Internet Pharmacies, Drug Importation

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.

topics: Financial Crisis, Recession

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.

topics: Health Care, Congress

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.

topics: Music

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.

topics: Environmentalism, Nuclear Power

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.

topics: Economics, Unions

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.

topics: Hunting, Gender Differences

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.

topics: Frivolous Lawsuits, Gender Discrimination, Rule of Law

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

Media Matters

Authors of Their Own Doom

William Murchison | 2.2.09 @ 6:10AM

When did newspapering seal its fate?

topics: Mainstream Media, Newspapers in Decline

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.

topics: War on Terror, Tony Blair, New Labour

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.

topics: Taxes

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

Current Wisdom

February 2009

The Slaughterhouse

You Are Stupid

J. Peter 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.

Political Hay

Minority Report

W. James Antle, III | February 2009

Congressional Republicans adjust to the age of Obama.

High Spirits

Antiquities Diplomacy

Jonathan Aitken | February 2009

Feature

Enforcing Rules Against Radicals

Quin Hillyer | February 2009

Republicans vs. David Duke -- a political memoir.

Letter From Paris

Finally, A Brit Who Gets It

Joseph A. Harriss | February 2009

Politics

S.O.S. at the BBC

John H. Fund | February 2009

Correspondence

Correspondence

February 2009

The Continuing Crisis

The Continuing Crisis

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | February 2009

About This Month

Hail to the Chief

Wlady Pleszczynski | February 2009

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