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The Real Van Jones Scandal: Why Glenn Beck Is Right

Jeffrey Lord | 9.4.09 @ 6:10AM

Who knew him, who cleared him, what rules were ignored?

topics: Van Jones

Political Hay

The Last of the Macacas

George Neumayr | 9.4.09 @ 6:09AM

Another Republican apologizes to America's PC masters.

topics: Feminism, Republicans, Bob McDonnell

Special Report

Killing Girls Is Bad, Killing Boys Is Okay

Doug Bandow | 9.4.09 @ 6:09AM

That's what Hillary Clinton thinks.

topics: Hillary Clinton, Abortion, Infanticide

The Public Policy

Big Labor's Benefits

Ivan Osorio & F. Vincent Vernuccio | 9.4.09 @ 6:08AM

This Labor Day, union bosses have much to celebrate.

topics: Unions, Card Check, Big Labor, Richard Trumka

Eminentoes

The Fall of a Journalist

Mark Judge | 9.4.09 @ 6:07AM

What E.J. Dionne leaves out.

topics: Florida Recount, Liberalism, E.J. Dionne

At Large

Choir Boys Not Needed

George H. Wittman | 9.4.09 @ 6:07AM

Civilian security contractors provided essential services in Iraq, in a context that should not be forgotten.

topics: Blackwater, Iraq War

The Nation's Pulse

Clunk for Cashers

Jay D. Homnick | 9.4.09 @ 6:07AM

Obama government has had its chance to show its skills -- which prove to be nonexistent.

topics: Government Waste, Presidential Clunkers

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Beautiful Freaks

Christopher Orlet | 9.4.09 @ 6:05AM

Mark Everett's memoir of sex, drugs, and quantum mechanics.

Streetcar Line

He's Not Jimmy Carter

Quin Hillyer | 9.3.09 @ 6:09AM

Conservatives are taking too much solace in the precipitous drop in Barack Obama's approval ratings.

topics: Barack Obama, Stimulus Bill, Jimmy Carter, Saul Alinsky

The Current Crisis

The Palmetto Pathetico

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 9.3.09 @ 6:08AM

Why is the governor of South Carolina still a national news story?

topics: Conservatism, Mark Sanford

The Pursuit of Knowledge

Dealing With Iran

Roger Scruton | September 2009

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 @ 6:07AM

Despite a sympathetic administration, abortion advocates are making no headway. How can that be?

topics: Abortion, Pro-Life Doctors

Car Guy

Government Could Save Detroit

Eric Peters | 9.3.09 @ 6:07AM

It's just a matter of lifting a lot of regulatory deadweight.

topics: General Motors, Automakers

The Right Prescription

The Troubling Psychology of Health Care

Mark Goldblatt | 9.3.09 @ 6:06AM

What about mental health services under universal care?

Eminentoes

Teddy Kennedy: History Lessons

Lisa Fabrizio | 9.3.09 @ 6:06AM

A hollow legacy with nowhere to go.

topics: Liberalism, Media Bias, Ted Kennedy

Political Hay

Beam Me Up, Jimbo

Nicole Russell | 9.2.09 @ 6:09AM

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 @ 6:08AM

Playing politics with America's defenses and settling scores with its defenders.

topics: Dick Cheney, Eric Holder, CIA, Waterboarding

Special Report

The Refusal to Recognize Anti-Semitism

Daniel Mandel | 9.2.09 @ 6:07AM

A strange new debate is taking place -- even in Sweden.

topics: Anti-Semitism, Sweden

Freedom Watch

What's Your Metric?

Daniel Oliver | September 2009

How do you measure freedom?

Eminentoes

Three Little Piggies

Abu M. Friedman | September 2009

… go against the market in trucking with the government.

topics: Wal-Mart, Crony Capitalism

Another Perspective

Time to Buy Time

Frank Schell | 9.2.09 @ 6:04AM

Only one thing can reform and save the health care debate.

topics: Health Care, Death Panels

Special Report

The Democrats' Cap and Traitors

W. James Antle, III | 9.1.09 @ 6:09AM

It's not just Republicans who oppose the Obama administration's preferred climate change policy.

topics: Environmentalism, Democratic Party, Cap and Trade

Feature

A Long Shot: One-Term Obama

James Srodes | September 2009

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 @ 6:08AM

Forever at demagogic war against Malefactors of Great Wealth.

topics: New Deal, Ted Kennedy

Political Hay

Is Sarah Palin the Next Ted Kennedy?

Jeffrey Lord | 9.1.09 @ 6:08AM

The ability to drive the other side crazy.

The Obama Watch

Greenwashing 9/11

Matthew Vadum | 9.1.09 @ 6:07AM

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 | September 2009

Is Richard Posner too big to fail?

The Public Policy

Pick Your Poison

John Nothdurft | 9.1.09 @ 6:06AM

Government-run health care can only mean huge new taxes. Here are some of them.

In Memoriam

Kennedy Catholicism

Daniel J. Flynn | 8.31.09 @ 6:09AM

The Church of St. Ted and the Church of Rome are not identical.

Washington Prowler

Lax on Libya

The Prowler | 8.31.09 @ 6:09AM

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 @ 6:08AM

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 @ 6:08AM

In appointing crony George LeMieux to a Senate seat he wants for himself, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist does the Emperor Caligula one better.

topics: Charlie Crist, U.S. Senate Races 2010

Live From New York

"Fundamentalism" Invades Manhattan

Mark Tooley | 8.31.09 @ 6:07AM

Fabled Mainline progressive Riverside Church rejects change and moves to sideline.

topics: Protestantism, Riverside Church

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Small Is Beautiful

Matthew Omolesky | 8.31.09 @ 6:05AM

Even in the Balkans, as the Slovene experience demonstrates.