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Friday, September 25, 2009

Campaign Crawlers

The Kennedys’ Senator

W. James Antle, III | 9.25.09

On health care and a host of other issues, Paul Kirk is all in the family.

The Obama Watch

Polonius POTUS

Andrew B. Wilson | 9.25.09

The president who speaks (and speaks and speaks).

The War on Terror Spectator

Camp David Syndrome

Ken Blackwell | 9.25.09

Explaing Obama’s addiction to the Middle East peace process.

Another Perspective

Afghanistan RX: Courage Pills

Peter Hannaford | 9.25.09

Skittishness will get our president nowhere.

The Public Policy

Republicans Struggle to Get Off the Mat

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 9.25.09

Will conservatives warm up to the GOP?

Political Hay

Fruitless Labor

Bradley Vasoli | 9.25.09

Placating the unions only hurts the GOP.

A Further Perspective

So Much for the Good War

Brian O'Connell | 9.25.09

While President Obama is expected to call for more troops in Afghanistan, his party is increasingly headed toward the exits.

Reader Mail

Sinking Feelings Rise

9.25.09

The wisdom of Newt and Steve Forbes. The Dems’ BS degrees. Beck and the mainstream media. Here’s the plan. Plus more.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Obama Watch

Obama’s Health Care Bait and Switch

David Catron | 9.24.09

Obamacare ain’t what it used to be.

Special Report

Copenhagen Smokeless Chu

George Neumayr | 9.24.09

At the upcoming summit, nations will promise to stop behaving like adolescents while pursuing “independent climate goals.”

The Current Crisis

Listening to Newt

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 9.24.09

is the conservative hour upon us?

Streetcar Line

A Ballot for Rickey Jackson

Quin Hillyer | 9.24.09

Why isn’t this Saint marching into the Hall? And what about Andre Dawson?

The Nation’s Pulse

Taking On the Trash

Bill Croke | 9.24.09

Beautiful country laid to waste has become the norm.

Campus Scenes

The BS Degree

Alec Mouhibian | 9.24.09

You can smell one from a mile away.

A Further Perspective

The Check on Healthcare Is in the Mail

Russ Ferguson | 9.24.09

If delivery of U.S. mail is a problem, imagine the delivery of U.S. healthcare.

Reader Mail

Post-Victory Warfare

9.24.09

Obama’s retreat. Missile defenseless. Carterism. Plus more.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Special Report

Secret Protocols of Beck’s Legions

Robert Stacy McCain | 9.23.09

Liberals warn America: Beware the Fox News menace!

The Right Prescription

Baucus Blunders

Peter Ferrara | 9.23.09

Before this is over, the mean-spirited Montana senator will be dubbed Mad Max.

Among the Intellectualoids

Misremembering History

Mark Tooley | 9.23.09

America’s “sordid history,” as memorialized in Taos, New Mexico.

The Nation’s Pulse

Confusing a Liberal Education With Public Education

Perry L. Glanzer | 9.23.09

Requiring that a child be exposed to “different points of view” can only mean one thing.

Political Hay

Colorblind?

Lisa Fabrizio | 9.23.09

Color permeates wacko lefty politics.

Buy the Book

Brief Thoughts From Think Tanks

Tom Bethell | from the September 2009 issue

A sampling of new offerings.

Ben Stein’s Diary

Plugging Away

Ben Stein | from the September 2009 issue

A reminder of the summer just past. From our September issue.

Movie Takes

My One and Only

James Bowman | 9.23.09

In the end, a pretty pedestrian celebrity biopic, Renée Zellweger’s presence notwithstanding.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Special Report

Still Lying

Daniel J. Flynn | 9.22.09

Nancy Pelosi’s historically inaccurate attempt to tie Joe Wilson to the violent San Francisco left of the 1970s.

The Obama Watch

A War Too Rough

George H. Wittman | 9.22.09

Obama’s Afghanistan War problem in a nutshell.

Political Hay

Race Pimping With Mistuh Jimmy and White Mo

Jeffrey Lord | 9.22.09

The shamefully cold-blooded marriage between progressivism and race.

Political Hay

The Reality of Myth

J.T. Young | 9.22.09

A hundred days is all a president gets — if he’s lucky.

The Nation’s Pulse

No College Student Left Behind

James Mazol | 9.22.09

The peril of turning colleges into diploma factories.

High Spirits

Kazakh Hospitality

Jonathan Aitken | from the September 2009 issue

From the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, a report on the triennial interfaith conference known as the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.

Movie Takes

Bright Star

James Bowman | 9.22.09

Much to po-mo man’s incomprehension, “Let’s Spend the Night Together” isn’t what Fanny Brawne and her poet boyfriend were about.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Political Hay

ACORN’S Useful Idiots

Matthew Vadum | 9.21.09

Some defenders of ACORN are blind. Some like Joe Conason are something else again.

Washington Prowler

Obama Bytes

The Prowler | 9.21.09

The administration makes its move against Internet freedom. Plus: Hillary’s Albany shuttle.

The Right Prescription

Lost in the Senate

William Tucker | 9.21.09

Dim Democrats and the “choice” Wyden plan.

At Large

Prague Autumn

Joseph P. Duggan | 9.21.09

Despite their deep sense of history, betrayal by the United States is not something the Czechs expected.

Special Report

The Gray Zone: Poland and the Abandoned Missile Defense Shield Initiative

Matthew Omolesky | 9.21.09

Under the Obama administration, the U.S. is acting in bad faith toward loyal allies and undermining its own successes.

Media Matters

All the News That’s Fit to Bury

Ralph R. Reiland | 9.21.09

The New York Times finds itself on the wrong page of history.

A Further Perspective

Turning Over a New Leaf

Jay D. Homnick | 9.21.09

The indispensability of the “new” in the Jewish New Year.

Reader Mail

Adara and the Admiral

9.21.09

Was Adara discussed? Plus: Injecting race. Scientists gone maverick. Death of a giant. And more.

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