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Toxic Nancy
John H. Fund | from the September 2009 issue
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
The Obama Watch
The War on Watchdogs
Robert Stacy McCain | from the September 2009 issue
Inspectors general fight for independence, while Obama brings the “Chicago Way” to Washington.
The Public Policy
Taking Health Savings Into Account
Peter Ferrara | from the September 2009 issue
HSAs are already solving our health policy problems.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Breaking News
The Real Van Jones Scandal: Why Glenn Beck Is Right
Jeffrey Lord | 9.4.09
Who knew him, who cleared him, what rules were ignored?
Political Hay
The Last of the Macacas
George Neumayr | 9.4.09
Another Republican apologizes to America’s PC masters.
Special Report
Killing Girls Is Bad, Killing Boys Is Okay
Doug Bandow | 9.4.09
That’s what Hillary Clinton thinks.
The Public Policy
Big Labor’s Benefits
Ivan Osorio & F. Vincent Vernuccio | 9.4.09
This Labor Day, union bosses have much to celebrate.
At Large
Choir Boys Not Needed
George H. Wittman | 9.4.09
Civilian security contractors provided essential services in Iraq, in a context that should not be forgotten.
The Nation’s Pulse
Clunk for Cashers
Jay D. Homnick | 9.4.09
Obama government has had its chance to show its skills — which prove to be nonexistent.
Buy the Book
Beautiful Freaks
Christopher Orlet | 9.4.09
Mark Everett’s memoir of sex, drugs, and quantum mechanics.
Reader Mail
The Misery Index
9.4.09
No second Carter Presidency. The media’s soulmate: The Sanford affair, abortion, and anti-Semitism.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Streetcar Line
He’s Not Jimmy Carter
Quin Hillyer | 9.3.09
Conservatives are taking too much solace in the precipitous drop in Barack Obama’s approval ratings.
The Current Crisis
The Palmetto Pathetico
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 9.3.09
Why is the governor of South Carolina still a national news story?
The Pursuit of Knowledge
Dealing With Iran
Roger Scruton | from the September 2009 issue
There’s a reason why paranoids have enemies: they create them.
The Nation’s Pulse
Win Politically, Lose Culturally
David N. Bass | 9.3.09
Despite a sympathetic administration, abortion advocates are making no headway. How can that be?
Car Guy
Government Could Save Detroit
Eric Peters | 9.3.09
It’s just a matter of lifting a lot of regulatory deadweight.
The Right Prescription
The Troubling Psychology of Health Care
Mark Goldblatt | 9.3.09
What about mental health services under universal care?
Eminentoes
Teddy Kennedy: History Lessons
Lisa Fabrizio | 9.3.09
A hollow legacy with nowhere to go.
Reader Mail
The Would-Be Messiah
9.3.09
Traficante’s cash crop. Cap and taxing. Metricmatics and freedom. Plus more.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Political Hay
Beam Me Up, Jimbo
Nicole Russell | 9.2.09
Jim Traficant — ex-congressman and ex-con — is free as a bird.
The Obama Watch
Obama and the CIA: Making the Terrorists’ Day
Peter Ferrara | 9.2.09
Playing politics with America’s defenses and settling scores with its defenders.
Special Report
The Refusal to Recognize Anti-Semitism
Daniel Mandel | 9.2.09
A strange new debate is taking place — even in Sweden.
Freedom Watch
What’s Your Metric?
Daniel Oliver | from the September 2009 issue
How do you measure freedom?
Eminentoes
Three Little Piggies
Abu M. Friedman | from the September 2009 issue
… go against the market in trucking with the government.
Another Perspective
Time to Buy Time
Frank Schell | 9.2.09
Only one thing can reform and save the health care debate.
Reader Mail
Paying Dues
9.2.09
All the Kennedys’ men. The day of service. Unpolite heroics. Plus more.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Special Report
The Democrats’ Cap and Traitors
W. James Antle, III | 9.1.09
It’s not just Republicans who oppose the Obama administration’s preferred climate change policy.
Feature
A Long Shot: One-Term Obama
James Srodes | from the September 2009 issue
Americans love to create president-heroes — only to turn on them once they acquire too much power.
A Further Perspective
Ted Kennedy: Man of the 1930s
William Tucker | 9.1.09
Forever at demagogic war against Malefactors of Great Wealth.
Political Hay
Is Sarah Palin the Next Ted Kennedy?
Jeffrey Lord | 9.1.09
The ability to drive the other side crazy.
The Obama Watch
Greenwashing 9/11
Matthew Vadum | 9.1.09
Green for All’s free-for-all, so to speak, all in the name of national service.
The Slaughterhouse
A Failure of Reason
Jeremy Lott | from the September 2009 issue
Is Richard Posner too big to fail?
The Public Policy
Pick Your Poison
John Nothdurft | 9.1.09
Government-run health care can only mean huge new taxes. Here are some of them.
Reader Mail
Desecrating Catholicism
9.1.09
The Gospel of Teddy. Charlie Crist and Pepe. Libya lite. A liberal day of service on 9/11. Plus more.
Monday, August 31, 2009
In Memoriam
Kennedy Catholicism
Daniel J. Flynn | 8.31.09
The Church of St. Ted and the Church of Rome are not identical.
Washington Prowler
Lax on Libya
The Prowler | 8.31.09
Obama officials allow UK to go scot-free as well. Plus: Obama’s Internet security precautions.
Special Report
Obama’s Desecrators of 9/11
Matthew Vadum | 8.31.09
How can the hard left complain about Obama if he has people like this working for him?
Political Hay
The Senator From Charlie
Larry Thornberry | 8.31.09
In appointing crony George LeMieux to a Senate seat he wants for himself, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist does the Emperor Caligula one better.
Live From New York
“Fundamentalism” Invades Manhattan
Mark Tooley | 8.31.09
Fabled Mainline progressive Riverside Church rejects change and moves to sideline.
Buy the Book
Small Is Beautiful
Matthew Omolesky | 8.31.09
Even in the Balkans, as the Slovene experience demonstrates.
Reader Mail
The Conscience of a Kennedy
8.31.09
Ted Kennedy’s soul. Privatizing the mail. Socialized New Zealandcare and more.
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