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3.20.09
Hillyer speaks out on Obama’s anti-life agenda. AIG-itating for socialism. Turning green in Germany. Plus more.
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Friday, March 20, 2009
The Right Prescription
The Myth of the 46 Million
Philip Klein | 3.20.09
The truth behind everybody’s favorite health care statistic.
Special Report
Erin Go Brawl
Paul Beston | 3.20.09
In which I become ensnared in the St. Patrick’s madness on a train ride home.
Political Hay
Red Ink and Blue Dogs
W. James Antle, III | 3.20.09
If Democratic deficit hawks don’t stand up to their president now, when will they?
At Large
The Country the World Forgot
George H. Wittman | 3.20.09
Thirty years later, the Taiwan Relations Act is making much more sense than it originally did.
Another Perspective
The Day Our House Caught Fire
Joseph Shattan | 3.20.09
Luckily, Fire Marshal Obamavich came to the rescue!
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Doctrinal Candidates
Robert VerBruggen | from the March 2009 issue
A response to the intelligent criticisms conservatives have made of political bias in academia.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Streetcar Line
Monstrously Anti-Life
Quin Hillyer | 3.19.09
The most radically anti-life administration in American history is on the march.
The Obama Watch
Obama’s Penal Code
George Neumayr | 3.19.09
The AIG sideshow and his view of taxation.
The Current Crisis
Cap-and-Trade Socialism
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 3.19.09
A monstrosity in the offing.
What’s Still Great
Straight A’s for AA
Ben Stein | 3.19.09
The genuinely friendly skies of American Airlines.
At Large
Mexico’s Half-Reported Drug War
Peter Hannaford | 3.19.09
And President Calderón hasn’t even had to appoint a drug czar.
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Radical Sick
Mark Falcoff | from the March 2009 issue
Young Che is the latest addition to the vast flood of devotional literature on the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara.
Movie Takes
Must Read After My Death
James Bowman | 3.19.09
The latest example of conformity in the exposure of 1950s conformity.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Obama Watch
Rookie Mistake
Ilan Berman | 3.18.09
If geopolitics were poker, the Obama administration would have just gone bust.
Special Report
The Medium Is the Magisterium
Joseph P. Duggan | 3.18.09
What the Holy See can learn from McLuhan.
Special Report
You’ve Got to Have Heartland
Peter Ferrara | 3.18.09
Man-made global warming proved wrong — a report from the Heartland Institute’s New York conference.
Political Hay
Some Are More Equal Than Others
Patrick O'Hannigan | 3.18.09
Thank heaven for the White House Council on Women and Girls.
The Nation’s Pulse
Clerical Errors
Lisa Fabrizio | 3.18.09
The chuckleheads in Hartford just don’t know when to quit.
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Boomers Behaving Badly
Christopher Orlet | 3.18.09
Modern man in search of a Wi-Fi connection.
Movie Takes
We’ll Clean in the Sunshine
James Bowman | 3.18.09
Sunshine Cleaning is charming if unpersuasive — but Emily Blunt is excellent.
Reader Mail
Gettin’ Your Irish Up
3.18.09
Your real Irish, that is. Look before swimming. Enter the confessional. The carbon divide. Plus more.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Another Perspective
St. Patrick for Adults
James M. Thunder | 3.17.09
And not for adults who will spend today behaving like 10-year-olds.
Political Hay
Mr. Frum’s Cult
Jeffrey Lord | 3.17.09
Confessions of a former Inside-the-Beltway Kool-Aid drinker.
Eminentoes
Evangelical Left Rallies to Sebelius
Mark Tooley | 3.17.09
These evangelicals could teach Doug Kmiec’s pro-Obama Catholics a thing or two.
Lifestyles Left and Right
The Scumbag Millionare Economy
James Poulos | 3.17.09
Discovering the cultural contradicitions of crap-italism.
The Slaughterhouse
Huffing and Puffing
Wlady Pleszczynski | from the March 2009 issue
The Huffington Post shows off its wares.
Reader Mail
Give Me Liberty
3.17.09
…Or give me a new president. Looking for jobs in the right places. George W. is no excuse, Obama. Plus more.
Monday, March 16, 2009
In Memoriam
Jim Bellows, RIP
Ben Stein | 3.16.09
A letter to a great — and neglected — friend and editor.
Washington Prowler
Obama Security Breech
The Prowler | 3.16.09
The evolving story of Vivek Kundra. Also: UPDATE: Retraction on Jindal.
Special Report
Close the Door, Please
Paul Beston | 3.16.09
Getting fired usually requires calm, not grief counseling.
Constitutional Opinions
Gerrymandering on Trial
Edward Blum | 3.16.09
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is no longer about white versus black, but about red versus blue.
Feature
That '70s Horror Show
Stephen Moore | from the March 2009 issue
Here it comes again — and Jimmy Carter should sue for residuals.
Another Perspective
An Australian Lesson
Hal G.P. Colebatch | 3.16.09
Australia got out of the Depression in the 1930s by doing the opposite of what Obama is doing now.
The Nation’s Pulse
God Exists, and He’s Mormon
Jeremy Lott | 3.16.09
The hot new movie, Watchmen, confirms it.
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Overcoming Aid
Joseph Lawler | 3.16.09
Liberal sentimentality isn’t putting food on Africans’ tables.
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