The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the May 2009 issue
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Saturday, June 6, 2009
Public Nuisances
Mencken and Me/Now That We’ve Won
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the June 2009 issue
Economics
Obama’s Rock Is Not Capitalism
Brian Wesbury | from the June 2009 issue
The Sermon on the Mount comes to our president.
Friday, June 5, 2009
The Obama Watch
The Purple Prose of Cairo
George Neumayr | 6.5.09
Another blah-blah-blah Obama speech riddled with deceptions.
Another Perspective
It’s Beginning Again
Jay D. Homnick | 6.5.09
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
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
North Korea is itching to refight — and win — the Korean War.
The Marital Spectator
Here Come the Churches
Mark Tooley | 6.5.09
Is acceptance of same-sex unions inevitable in Mainline Protestantism?
The Pursuit of Knowledge
Farewell to Judgment
Roger Scruton | from the June 2009 issue
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
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
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
She’s not a racist — she’s a supremacist.
Special Report
Exceptionally Neutral
Matthew Omolesky | 6.4.09
Ireland, Europe, and the second Lisbon referendum.
Constitutional Opinions
The Mr. Potato Head Constitution
Jonathan Witt | 6.4.09
With the Sotomayor nomination comes an old question: Is the U.S. Constitution a “living document”?
Feature
Tiananmen Twenty Years Later
David Aikman | from the June 2009 issue
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
The Golden State has lost its way.
Buy the Book
The Gospel According to Mark Levin
Jeffrey Lord | from the June 2009 issue
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
A legal philosophy of judicial lawlessness — just the way Obama likes it.
Political Hay
The Blood Libel of the New York Times
Ken Blackwell | 6.3.09
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
The state of Connecticut exacts its revenge on religious believers.
The Public Policy
Politics, Economics, and Green Jobs
J.T. Young | 6.3.09
Passing the political test is no guarantee of economic success — just the opposite, in fact.
Feature
The Salvaging of Notre Dame
Joseph Lawler | from the June 2009 issue
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
Facing up to the big 6-0.
Reader Mail
The Content of Her Character
6.3.09
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
A columnist’s call for Republicans to grow up gets a response.
Political Hay
Parliament of Porn Stars
Christopher Orlet | 6.2.09
Is this the best Louisiana can do?
Special Report
Reputation Reversal
Doug Bandow | 6.2.09
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 | from the June 2009 issue
Why WWII-level deficits won’t work today.
Another Perspective
People of the Plant
James M. Thunder | 6.2.09
A parable, translated from the original Latin.
The Nation’s Pulse
Sunset Thoughts at the Beach
Ralph R. Reiland | 6.2.09
The time in life when all good things must end.
Buy the Book
Washington and Rome
Rev. Michael P. Orsi | from the June 2009 issue
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
Meet Bruce Cohen — and Mrs. Cohen. Also: Silencing the Obama stimulus.
In Memoriam
He Was My Disc Jockey
Ben Stein | 6.1.09
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
History doesn’t support a popular conservative argument against free trade.
Feature
The Gates Budget
Dov S. Zakheim | from the June 2009 issue
It is less risky than the strategy upon which it is based.
Another Perspective
Big River
Bill Croke | 6.1.09
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
Next victim, off-label prescriptions? That appears to be the intention of Henry Waxman and his man at the FDA.
Reader Mail
All About Sonia
6.1.09
Readers debate SCOTUS pick. Andrew Cline gets called out. Jeffrey Lord, safe at home. Plus more.
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