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Will the Left Kill Health Care Reform?
Philip Klein | 6.26.09
Liberals insist that any health care bill must include a new government-run plan, but moderate Democrats say such a bill couldn’t get through the Senate.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Constitutional Opinions
A Religious Test
Ken Blackwell & Ken Klukowski | 6.26.09
On the sidewalks of Dearborn, Michigan, Christians need to be able to practice their faith too.
Breaking News
Sticks and Stones
Ivan Osorio | 6.26.09
The Stoning of Soraya M. opens today. It couldn’t be more timely.
Another Perspective
Jeremiah Wright Foreign Policy
Mark Hyman | 6.26.09
How quickly we forget about those who helped expose our future president to the world.
The Right Prescription
Free-Riding Lawyers on the Obamacare Bus
Gilbert Ross, M.D. | 6.26.09
The president is asking everyone to sacrifice — except the malpractice litigators.
At Large
Conventional Wisdom on North Korea
George H. Wittman | 6.26.09
It doesn’t begin to enlighten.
The Nation’s Pulse
Troubling State of Affairs
Jay D. Homnick | 6.26.09
The outer limits of wayward Republicanism.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Political Hay
Lights Out
W. James Antle, III | 6.25.09
The expected House vote on an energy tax increase will be a lose-lose proposition for the Democrats.
The Marital Spectator
Sanford and Sun
George Neumayr | 6.25.09
The South Carolina governor comes back tanned, rested, and adulterous.
The Current Crisis
Robust Weakness
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 6.25.09
Our unseasoned new president is a model of uncertainty.
Eminentoes
The Political Suicide of Mark Sanford
Andrew Cline | 6.25.09
He is guilty of far more than adultery.
Special Report
Obama Plays Hardball With Watchdogs
Robert Stacy McCain | 6.25.09
The independence of inspectors generals comes under fire.
The Public Policy
Standing Athwart Nationalization
John Berlau | 6.25.09
Conservatives should still be yelling stop. A response to National Review.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Constitutional Opinions
Third Branch Conservatism
Manuel Miranda | 6.24.09
It will be a mark of failed Republican leadership if a confirmation vote on Sonia Sotomayor occurs before the August recess.
The Obama Watch
Washington’s Plot to Explode Your Taxes
Peter Ferrara | 6.24.09
How else will the Obama plan meet its goal of total social and economic transformation?
TAS Live
The Last Chilean Myth
James R. Whelan | 6.24.09
From the May, 2007 issue: Far from a friend to the United States, Michelle Bachelet is the latest in a long line of far left leaders in the tradition of Castro and Chavez. Read up on the Chilean president our president celebrated at his press conference yesterday.
At Large
Sympathy for the Devil
Christopher Orlet | 6.24.09
A French court is mired in moral confusion.
Special Report
Modernize the Military Now
John R. Guardiano | 6.24.09
Secretary Gates is right about the future, but wrong about the defense budget cuts.
Another Perspective
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Nicole Russell | 6.24.09
A new report suggests overzealous prosecution of petty crimes doesn’t pay — for taxpayers.
The War on Terror Spectator
Obama Professes Toughness
Jay D. Homnick | 6.24.09
The mullahs are shaking in their slippers.
Reader Mail
Civil Rights, Civil Manners
6.24.09
The right and the liberal ladies. Circulating the drain. Comparatively effective health policy. Plus more.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Public Policy
Nationalization Review
John Berlau | 6.23.09
The magazine Bill Buckley founded supports expanding Obama’s power to seize firms.
The Right Prescription
America’s Policy Graveyard
J.T. Young | 6.23.09
Will healthcare reform again be America’s Afghanistan?
Eminentoes
Boxing With Barbara, Liz, and the Latina
Jeffrey Lord | 6.23.09
Government power plus insecurity plus arrogance: the health care consequences for all of us.
At Large
Why Do India and Pakistan So Furiously Rage?
Frank Schell | 6.23.09
The strange legacy of a shared history.
Another Perspective
Goldens Bearing Gifts
Ralph R. Reiland | 6.23.09
Dog days at the beach worth many a lick.
Lifestyles Left and Right
I’m With Cupid
Eve Tushnet | 6.23.09
Three’s company in the eros-dominated production Design for Living.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Special Report
Iran’s Revolutionary Moment?
Ilan Berman | 6.22.09
Any analysis must acknowledge that revolutions, properly understood, are notoriously hard to predict.
The Obama Watch
Passive Unaggressive
George H. Wittman | 6.22.09
Community organizing won’t take you far in the making of a foreign policy that befits a great power.
The Right Prescription
The Employer Mandate and the Alternative
James M. Thunder | 6.22.09
Government should be incentivizing freedom, not its disappearance.
Political Hay
His Royal Fairness
Brett Joshpe | 6.22.09
Fairness Doctrine or not, content regulation may still be coming under Obama.
Among the Intellectualoids
Shut Up, Cowboy
Bill Croke | 6.22.09
It’s not easy engaging the left in Missoula high country.
The Public Policy
Financial Affirmative Action Returns
Matthew Vadum | 6.22.09
Rehabilitating the economy-wrecking Community Reinvestment Act.
Another Perspective
Time for a Raise
F. Vincent Vernuccio | 6.22.09
Which party favors higher wages for union workers?
Reader Mail
Attacked From All Sides
6.22.09
Climate, health care and immigration. The One is a zero in Iran. Who the health cares? Plus more.
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