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10.22.09
Choosing decline. Placidly Conservative. Silencing Fox. Crosses and secularism. No marvericks, just RINOs. Administrators first, students last.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
The Right Prescription
Medi-Fraud for Everyone
Philip Klein | 10.23.09
Democrats argue that creating a new government-run health care program will bring efficiency to the system, but the existing programs are rife with fraud.
Campaign Crawlers
Revolt on the Right
W. James Antle, III | 10.23.09
Conservative activists are no longer a sure bet to play the role of good Republican footsoldier.
Streetcar Line
Yes, “The One” Should Fail
Quin Hillyer | 10.23.09
Distracting tactics won’t work — and we will not be intimidated.
Political Hay
Kerry Looks for a Legacy
William Yeatman & Jeremy Lott | 10.23.09
What we’re seeing is an ugly repeat of what happened in the House to pass cap-and-trade.
At Large
Judgment in Waziristan
George H. Wittman | 10.23.09
A political outing with an Afghan tribal leader.
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Devils in the Outfield
Shawn Macomber | 10.23.09
A baseball-themed thriller for World Series season.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Obama Watch
The Obama Administration’s Inner Mao
George Neumayr | 10.22.09
Perhaps Dunn meant to say that he is one of her favorite media strategists.
The Current Crisis
Dangerous Zanies
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 10.22.09
The road from Midge Costanza to Anita Dunn.
The Right Prescription
The AMA’s Quisling Strategy
David Catron | 10.22.09
Collaborating with the enemy on health care reform.
Political Hay
Selective Urgency
Robert P. Kirchhoefer | 10.22.09
In this administration Heaven can’t wait — except in Afghanistan.
Ben Stein’s Diary
Breathless
Ben Stein | from the October 2009 issue
Above the fresh ruffles of the surf — a selection from Ben Stein’s monthly Diary.
Car Guy
Nothing New at Chrysler
Eric Peters | 10.22.09
Fiat takes the doomed company for one last bad ride.
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Cuba 1962: Lessons for Today
John C. Wohlstetter | 10.22.09
Michael Dobbs’ magisterial account of the U.S., USSR, and Cuba on brink of nuclear war is available in paperback.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Campaign Crawlers
It’s Up to You, Upstate New York
Robert Stacy McCain | 10.21.09
NY23: Hoffman’s three-way fight ignites the right.
The Obama Watch
President Obama Chooses Decline for America
Peter Ferrara | 10.21.09
Today, in Part I, we focus on his determination to diminish America as a great power.
The Nation’s Pulse
Evangelicals and Immigration
Mark Tooley | 10.21.09
The National Association of Evangelicals moves in the direction of the National Council of Churches.
Special Report
Fed to the Wolves
Jay D. Homnick | 10.21.09
Entrapment and the arrest of Stewart David Nozette.
Sports Arena
Hike!
Reid Collins | 10.21.09
Let football revert to what it used to be— a game run essentially by the quarterback.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Right Prescription
The Bad Road to Baucus
William Tucker | 10.20.09
Everything you’ll wish you had known about healthcare after the Baucus bill passes.
Political Hay
The Real Abortion Fabrications
Fred Lucas | 10.20.09
They are advanced by those who deny Obamacare will subsidize abortion.
Breaking News
FCC-Church Conspiracy to Silence Talk Radio and Fox?
Jeffrey Lord | 10.20.09
Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, Dobbs, Savage targeted: White House, Soros involved.
Special Report
Bertha Lies
Matthew Vadum | 10.20.09
ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis’s recent appearance at the National Press Club was an exercise in denial — and worse.
The Nation’s Pulse
The Patriotic Lessons of Disneyland
Patrick O'Hannigan | 10.20.09
Lost in a Fantasyland of their own, progressive commentators now accuse conservatives of hating America.
A Further Perspective
Clunker Nation
Ralph R. Reiland | 10.20.09
Everything from clunker cars to clunker nukes.
Movie Takes
An Education
James Bowman | 10.20.09
In a number of ways, this movie is like the AMC television series Mad Men.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Washington Prowler
Grudge Match
The Prowler | 10.19.09
Huckabee, Hoffman, and Club for Growth. Also: The arrest of an Obama tiger.
Campaign Crawlers
Charlie Sees Red
Larry Thornberry | 10.19.09
In the ultimate tribute to his opponent, Charlie Crist is suddenly pretending to be the true-blue conservative in the Florida Senate race.
Special Report
The Lost Art of Due Diligence
Mark Hyman | 10.19.09
Some unpleasant history in the Vice President’s family.
At Large
Subverting Democracy
Daniel Mandel | 10.19.09
The Obamaistas continue to insist on an Ortega-Chavez-Morales ending to the Honduran crisis.
Political Hay
No Shortage of Contempt in Detroit
Mark G. Michaelsen | 10.19.09
Continuing unseemly fallout from the Kwame Kilpatrick case.
Conservative Tastes
Look at Me
James Bowman | from the October 2009 issue
The problem with fantasy is also the point of it: there are no natural limits.
Reader Mail
Under the Table
10.19.09
No honor or morality. Too conservative for the NFL. Asking and telling. The mediocre man in the White House.
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