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Friday, February 20, 2009

Streetcar Line

We're Not OK, Jack

Quin Hillyer | 2.20.09 @ 6:09AM

What conservatives need right now is another Jack Kemp for a younger generation.

topics: Conservatism

At Large

Snake Oil Diplomacy

George H. Wittman | 2.20.09 @ 6:07AM

Obama's foreign policy doesn't have talking points so much as talking as its only point.

topics: Foreign Policy

Special Report

Obama and FDR: Rallying the Churches

Mark Tooley | 2.20.09 @ 6:07AM

Liberal Christians have a long history of supporting New Deals during economic crisis.

topics: Protestantism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Last Call

One With the Underdogs

Shawn Macomber | February 2009

My mother was 17 when she met Alice, 40 years her senior.

The Public Policy

Britain's Anti-Christian Kulturkampf

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 2.20.09 @ 6:06AM

Five alarming incidents in the course of a single week.

topics: Religion, Political Correctness

Buy the Book

Humane Health Care

Robert M. Goldberg | 2.20.09 @ 6:05AM

Ten ways to resist the single-payer fixes that our new leader has in store for us.

topics: Health Care

Reader Mail

Overstepping Its Bounds

2.20.09 @ 6:01AM

The stimulus takes on a life of its own. 3 cheers for Sanford. The enemy of my enemy... Plus more.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Another Perspective

Benedict and the Abortion Holocaust-Deniers

George Neumayr | 2.19.09 @ 6:09AM

When will Nancy Pelosi recant?

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Pope Benedict XVI

Political Hay

Mark Sanford Bails Out

Jeff Emanuel | 2.19.09 @ 6:08AM

A Democratic ploy to punish South Carolina's governor may instead hand him a powerful weapon.

topics: Stimulus Package

Special Report

Not Your Father's Mother India

Frank Schell | 2.19.09 @ 6:08AM

The cynics thought it would never happen.

At Large

Take Me Back to Chicago

Chris Robling | 2.19.09 @ 6:07AM

Rod Blagojevich gave Roland Burris a Senate seat. Will their connection take it away?

topics: Corruption

The Current Crisis

Conservatives and Liberals, Come Together

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.19.09 @ 6:07AM

Free speech needs you to defend it.

topics: Geert Wilders, Salman Rushdie, Andres Serrano

The Nation's Pulse

The Day the Muzak Died

Christopher Orlet | 2.19.09 @ 6:06AM

Who says there's no accounting for taste?

topics: Gen. George Squier, Elevator Music

Books in Review

Good as Goldwater

Robert Huberty | February 2009

The unsung heroes of the Conservative Movement.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Special Report

New Republican Opportunity: Welfare Reform

Peter Ferrara | 2.18.09 @ 6:10AM

Democrats in Washington are using the excuse of the economic downturn to abolish welfare reform. Republicans can only win by exposing and countering this stimulus package outrage.

topics: Stimulus Package, Welfare Reform

Special Report

The Hidden Healthcare Horror

Lawrence A. Hunter | 2.18.09 @ 6:08AM

A $1 billion matter of life and death in the stimulus package.

topics: Health Care, Stimulus Package

Political Hay

Obama's Enemies List

Mark Hyman | 2.18.09 @ 6:07AM

Hardball is the only way he plays.

Special Report

Human Shields

Daniel Mandel | 2.18.09 @ 6:07AM

A paying proposition for terrorists.

Among the Intellectualoids

The Old Crock

Bill Croke | 2.18.09 @ 6:06AM

Bush Derangement Syndrome is still with us despite our entry into the Golden Age of Obama.

topics: George W. Bush, Illiteracy, Community Colleges

The Nation's Pulse

Apology of the Weak

Lisa Fabrizio | 2.18.09 @ 6:06AM

Everyone's sorry when they don't mean it.

topics: Insincerity, Political Psychology

Reader Mail

Better Not Discuss

2.18.09 @ 6:01AM

Some topics too painful for Quin. Dems sound like a broken record. Enforcing the fairness doctrine everywhere. Plus more.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Energy Spectator

The Next Subprime Mortgage Meltdown

William Tucker | 2.17.09 @ 6:08AM

Remember the great California Electrical Shortage of 2000? The Obama stimulus package wants to nationalize it.

topics: Nuclear Power, Alternate Energy

Political Hay

Barney Does Brussels: Why It Matters

Jeffrey Lord | 2.17.09 @ 6:08AM

An Australian fire, a Dutch MP, Barney Frank and Maxine Waters.

topics: Government Intrusion, Government Waste, Barney Frank

Campaign Crawlers

Al in a Box

Nicole Russell | 2.17.09 @ 6:07AM

Mr. Franken goes to Washington, to Florida, and pretty much everywhere else except Minnesota as a Senate seat hangs in the balance.

topics: Al Franken

Car Guy

The Future of the Car Industry

Eric Peters | 2.17.09 @ 6:07AM

The last six months have forced the issue -- the future is now, constricted.

topics: Automakers

Another Perspective

Conversing With Pope Benedict

Roger Kaplan | 2.17.09 @ 6:07AM

So much to talk about.

Among the Intellectualoids

Special Thanks to Spot

Jonathan Black | February 2009

The Acknowledgments page cannot make a bad book better, but it can ruin a good one.

Movie Takes

The Reader

James Bowman | 2.17.09 @ 6:02AM

Victim-chic claims another victim -- so naturally it's in line for an Oscar.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Washington Prowler

In All Fairness

The Prowler | 2.16.09 @ 6:09AM

Preparing to telemprompt the President. Also: Henry Waxman gets ready to roll on a Fairness Doctrine in all but name.

topics: Fairness Doctrine, Federal Communications Commission, Henry Waxman

Political Hay

The Democrats' Greatest Hits

W. James Antle, III | 2.16.09 @ 6:08AM

Golden oldies dominated the stimulus debate even though change has come.

topics: Stimulus Package

Streetcar Line

Not Gonna Write About It

Quin Hillyer | 2.16.09 @ 6:08AM

The audacity of nope.

Last Call

Lincoln at 200

Roger Kaplan | March 2009

He saved the Union, increased the sum total of freedom, advanced the very concept of democracy in the United States and the world.

Campus Scenes

A Miracle in Boston

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 2.16.09 @ 6:07AM

Embracing the cross at Boston College.

The Public Policy

The TARP Trojan Horse

Theodore H. Frank | 2.16.09 @ 6:06AM

When government doesn't keep its word we have the financial paralysis we are now seeing.

The Nation's Pulse

Survival

Reid Collins | 2.16.09 @ 6:06AM

There's more bad recession news tonight.

Reader Mail

Letters For Larry

2.16.09 @ 6:01AM

Goodbye to a beloved TAS contributor. Obama's Lincoln impersonation falls flat. Old ideas, new tricks. Plus more.

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The Threat to Medical Innovation

Philip Klein

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Get That Hacker a Pimp Coat

Paul Chesser

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Justice Dep't Recusal List!

Quin Hillyer

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The Ben Nelson Shuffle

W. James Antle, III

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AHIP Opposes Senate Health Bill

Philip Klein

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Moment of Truth

W. James Antle, III

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No Sales Days in the Afghan War

George H. Wittman

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Bureaucrats With Badges

Mark Hyman

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Obama in Wonderland

Ken Blackwell

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A Writer Speaks

William Tucker

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What Has Changed?

Robert P. Kirchhoefer

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High Stakes

Manon McKinnon

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