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Saturday, June 6, 2009

The Continuing Crisis

The Continuing Crisis

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | May 2009

On the Prowl

On the Prowl

The Prowler | June 2009

Note From the Publisher

Up from Obama

Alfred S. Regnery | June 2009

Presswatch

Nuance and Nazis

James Taranto | June 2009

Politics

Senator Survivor

John H. Fund | June 2009

Public Nuisances

Mencken and Me/Now That We've Won

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | June 2009

Conservative Tastes

Irony Without Irony

James Bowman | June 2009

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

Assorted Jackasses | June 2009

High Spirits

Rowan Williams Rebounds

Jonathan Aitken | June 2009

Economics

Obama's Rock Is Not Capitalism

Brian Wesbury | June 2009

The Sermon on the Mount comes to our president.

Correspondence

Correspondence

June 2009

Friday, June 5, 2009

Streetcar Line

Questions for Sotomayor

Quin Hillyer | 6.5.09 @ 6:10AM

When what's left is right.

The Obama Watch

The Purple Prose of Cairo

George Neumayr | 6.5.09 @ 6:09AM

Another blah-blah-blah Obama speech riddled with deceptions.

Another Perspective

It's Beginning Again

Jay D. Homnick | 6.5.09 @ 6:08AM

When Barack Obama promises the Muslims a new beginning, Israel has a pretty good idea who is going to bear the brunt. 

Political Hay

Three Times a Felon

Daniel J. Flynn | 6.5.09 @ 6:08AM

How one-party rule corrupts, one Massachusetts house speaker at a time.

At Large

Road Back to Pork Chop Hill

George H. Wittman | 6.5.09 @ 6:07AM

North Korea is itching to refight -- and win -- the Korean War.

The Marital Spectator

Here Come the Churches

Mark Tooley | 6.5.09 @ 6:07AM

Is acceptance of same-sex unions inevitable in Mainline Protestantism?

The Pursuit of Knowledge

Farewell to Judgment

Roger Scruton | June 2009

Why do young people today refuse to accept criticism from anyone older, who might know a thing or two more than they do?

Reader Mail

Soto-may-or May Not Be a Disaster

6.5.09 @ 6:01AM

Readers pile on Sonia some more. Whither SSM? Left Coast blues. Plus more.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Political Hay

Seesawing Same-Sex Marriage

W. James Antle, III | 6.4.09 @ 6:08AM

What outcome of the marriage debate is inevitable? Maine and New Hampshire may show the way.

The Current Crisis

Sotomayor's Flawed Reasoning

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 6.4.09 @ 6:08AM

She's not a racist -- she's a supremacist.

Special Report

Exceptionally Neutral

Matthew Omolesky | 6.4.09 @ 6:07AM

Ireland, Europe, and the second Lisbon referendum.

Constitutional Opinions

The Mr. Potato Head Constitution

Jonathan Witt | 6.4.09 @ 6:07AM

With the Sotomayor nomination comes an old question: Is the U.S. Constitution a "living document"?

Feature

Tiananmen Twenty Years Later

David Aikman | June 2009

In this year of awkward anniversaries, the Chinese Communist regime is finding it impossible to suppress the memory of the massacre of June 4, 1989.

The Public Policy

No More 'Eureka' for California

Peter Hannaford | 6.4.09 @ 6:06AM

The Golden State has lost its way.

Books in Review

The Gospel According to Mark Levin

Jeffrey Lord | June 2009

A review of Mark R. Levin's number one best-seller, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Special Report

Sonia the Player Umpire

Peter Ferrara | 6.3.09 @ 6:09AM

A legal philosophy of judicial lawlessness -- just the way Obama likes it.

The Obama Watch

Obama and the Two Muslim Worlds

Matthew RJ Brodsky | 6.3.09 @ 6:08AM

Whose side is he on?

Political Hay

The Blood Libel of the New York Times

Ken Blackwell | 6.3.09 @ 6:07AM

The Gray Lady's animus toward religious conservatives who try to defend themselves.

The Nation's Pulse

The Hits Just Keep Coming

Lisa Fabrizio | 6.3.09 @ 6:07AM

The state of Connecticut exacts its revenge on religious believers.

The Public Policy

Politics, Economics, and Green Jobs 


J.T. Young | 6.3.09 @ 6:06AM

Passing the political test is no guarantee of economic success -- just the opposite, in fact.

Feature

The Salvaging of Notre Dame

Joseph Lawler | June 2009

If it's not a credible Catholic university, what's the point?

What's Still Great

In Dog Years You'd Be Dead

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 6.3.09 @ 6:05AM

Facing up to the big 6-0.

Reader Mail

The Content of Her Character

6.3.09 @ 6:01AM

MLK set the standard for Sotomayor. Old time rock'n'roll. Readers grill Sonia. Plus more.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Constitutional Opinions

Answering Peggy Noonan: Why Sotomayor Should Withdraw

Jeffrey Lord | 6.2.09 @ 6:09AM

A columnist's call for Republicans to grow up gets a response.

Political Hay

Parliament of Porn Stars

Christopher Orlet | 6.2.09 @ 6:07AM

Is this the best Louisiana can do?

Special Report

Reputation Reversal

Doug Bandow | 6.2.09 @ 6:07AM

The most important victors in India's recent elections may have been Christians and other religious minorities.

The Recession Spectator

A Ladder to Nowhere

Andrew B. Wilson | June 2009

Why WWII-level deficits won't work today.

Another Perspective

People of the Plant

James M. Thunder | 6.2.09 @ 6:06AM

A parable, translated from the original Latin.

The Nation's Pulse

Sunset Thoughts at the Beach


Ralph R. Reiland | 6.2.09 @ 6:06AM

The time in life when all good things must end.

Books in Review

Washington and Rome

Rev. Michael P. Orsi | June 2009

Two recent books attempt to explain the relationship between the Vatican and the United States. Each has a different agenda.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Washington Prowler

Leahy's Brain

The Prowler | 6.1.09 @ 6:09AM

Meet Bruce Cohen -- and Mrs. Cohen. Also: Silencing the Obama stimulus.

In Memoriam

He Was My Disc Jockey

Ben Stein | 6.1.09 @ 6:08AM

Don Dillard, the man who introduced me to rock and roll and R&B, has died.

Political Hay

The Sovereignty Canard

Richard Nadler | 6.1.09 @ 6:08AM

History doesn't support a popular conservative argument against free trade.

Feature

The Gates Budget

Dov S. Zakheim | June 2009

It is less risky than the strategy upon which it is based.

Another Perspective

Big River

Bill Croke | 6.1.09 @ 6:07AM

Before the lush green and floods of spring give way to the brown and dry conditions of summer.

The Public Policy

FDA's Bad Medicine

Jerome Arnett, Jr., M.D. & Gregory Conko | 6.1.09 @ 6:07AM

Next victim, off-label prescriptions? That appears to be the intention of Henry Waxman and his man at the FDA.

Movie Takes

Star Trek

James Bowman | 6.1.09 @ 6:02AM

The plotlessness thickens.

Reader Mail

All About Sonia

6.1.09 @ 6:01AM

Readers debate SCOTUS pick. Andrew Cline gets called out. Jeffrey Lord, safe at home. Plus more.

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