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Friday, October 23, 2009

The Right Prescription

Medi-Fraud for Everyone

Philip Klein | 10.23.09 @ 6:09AM

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.

topics: Health Care, Medicare, Corruption

Campaign Crawlers

Revolt on the Right

W. James Antle, III | 10.23.09 @ 6:09AM

Conservative activists are no longer a sure bet to play the role of good Republican footsoldier.

topics: Conservatism, Republican Party

Streetcar Line

Yes, "The One" Should Fail

Quin Hillyer | 10.23.09 @ 6:08AM

Distracting tactics won't work -- and we will not be intimidated.

topics: Barack Obama, Saul Alinsky

Political Hay

Kerry Looks for a Legacy

William Yeatman & Jeremy Lott | 10.23.09 @ 6:07AM

What we're seeing is an ugly repeat of what happened in the House to pass cap-and-trade.

topics: Pork Spending, Cap and Trade

Special Report

The Goldstone Report's Cold Logic

Robert M. Goldberg | 10.23.09 @ 6:07AM

topics: Israel, Goldstone Report, Universal Jurisdiction

At Large

Judgment in Waziristan

George H. Wittman | 10.23.09 @ 6:07AM

A political outing with an Afghan tribal leader.

topics: Afghanistan War

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Devils in the Outfield

Shawn Macomber | 10.23.09 @ 6:06AM

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 @ 6:09AM

Perhaps Dunn meant to say that he is one of her favorite media strategists.

topics: Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Rahm Emanuel

The Current Crisis

Dangerous Zanies

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 10.22.09 @ 6:08AM

The road from Midge Costanza to Anita Dunn.

The Right Prescription

The AMA's Quisling Strategy

David Catron | 10.22.09 @ 6:08AM

Collaborating with the enemy on health care reform.

topics: Obamacare, American Medical Association, J. James Rohack

Political Hay

Selective Urgency

Robert P. Kirchhoefer | 10.22.09 @ 6:07AM

In this administration Heaven can't wait -- except in Afghanistan.

Ben Stein's Diary

Breathless

Ben Stein | October 2009

Above the fresh ruffles of the surf -- a selection from Ben Stein's monthly Diary.

topics: Hart Crane

Car Guy

Nothing New at Chrysler

Eric Peters | 10.22.09 @ 6:06AM

Fiat takes the doomed company for one last bad ride.

topics: Automakers

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Cuba 1962: Lessons for Today

John C. Wohlstetter | 10.22.09 @ 6:05AM

Michael Dobbs' magisterial account of the U.S., USSR, and Cuba on brink of nuclear war is available in paperback.

topics: Foreign Policy, Fidel Castro, Nuclear War

Reader Mail

Technically Not Treason

10.22.09 @ 6:01AM

Choosing decline. Placidly Conservative. Silencing Fox. Crosses and secularism. No marvericks, just RINOs. Administrators first, students last.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Campaign Crawlers

It's Up to You, Upstate New York

Robert Stacy McCain | 10.21.09 @ 6:08AM

NY23: Hoffman's three-way fight ignites the right.

topics: Republican Party, Doug Hoffman

The Obama Watch

President Obama Chooses Decline for America

Peter Ferrara | 10.21.09 @ 6:08AM

Today, in Part I, we focus on his determination to diminish America as a great power.

topics: Foreign Policy, Charles Krauthammer, Garry Kasparov

The Nation's Pulse

Evangelicals and Immigration

Mark Tooley | 10.21.09 @ 6:08AM

The National Association of Evangelicals moves in the direction of the National Council of Churches.

topics: Illegal Immigration, Evangelicals

Special Report

Fed to the Wolves

Jay D. Homnick | 10.21.09 @ 6:07AM

Entrapment and the arrest of Stewart David Nozette.

topics: Israel, Espionage, FBI

The Public Policy

It Will All Come to Tears

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 10.21.09 @ 6:07AM

GAO tells it like it is.

topics: Federal Budget, Entitlements, Deficits

Sports Arena

Hike!

Reid Collins | 10.21.09 @ 6:05AM

Let football revert to what it used to be-- a game run essentially by the quarterback.

topics: National Football League

Movie Takes

The Damned United

James Bowman | 10.21.09 @ 6:02AM

Honor has a go in English football.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Right Prescription

The Bad Road to Baucus

William Tucker | 10.20.09 @ 6:09AM

Everything you'll wish you had known about healthcare after the Baucus bill passes.

topics: Health Care, Max Baucus, ERISA

Political Hay

The Real Abortion Fabrications

Fred Lucas | 10.20.09 @ 6:08AM

They are advanced by those who deny Obamacare will subsidize abortion.

topics: Health Care, Abortion

Breaking News

FCC-Church Conspiracy to Silence Talk Radio and Fox?

Jeffrey Lord | 10.20.09 @ 6:08AM

Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Dobbs, Savage targeted: White House, Soros involved.

topics: Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, United Church of Christ

Special Report

Bertha Lies

Matthew Vadum | 10.20.09 @ 6:08AM

ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis's recent appearance at the National Press Club was an exercise in denial -- and worse.

topics: ACORN, Wade Rathke, Bertha Lewis

The Nation's Pulse

The Patriotic Lessons of Disneyland

Patrick O'Hannigan | 10.20.09 @ 6:07AM

Lost in a Fantasyland of their own, progressive commentators now accuse conservatives of hating America.

topics: Patriotism, Anti-Americanism, American Exceptionalism

A Further Perspective

Clunker Nation

Ralph R. Reiland | 10.20.09 @ 6:06AM

Everything from clunker cars to clunker nukes.

Movie Takes

An Education

James Bowman | 10.20.09 @ 6:02AM

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 @ 6:09AM

Huckabee, Hoffman, and Club for Growth. Also: The arrest of an Obama tiger.

topics: Mike Huckabee, Doug Hoffman, Raj Rajaratram

Campaign Crawlers

Charlie Sees Red

Larry Thornberry | 10.19.09 @ 6:08AM

In the ultimate tribute to his opponent, Charlie Crist is suddenly pretending to be the true-blue conservative in the Florida Senate race.

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

Special Report

The Lost Art of Due Diligence

Mark Hyman | 10.19.09 @ 6:08AM

Some unpleasant history in the Vice President's family.

topics: Bernie Madoff, James Biden, Hunter Biden

The Nation's Pulse

America's Cross

Ben Stein | 10.19.09 @ 6:08AM

The mean ACLU is at it again.

At Large

Subverting Democracy

Daniel Mandel | 10.19.09 @ 6:07AM

The Obamaistas continue to insist on an Ortega-Chavez-Morales ending to the Honduran crisis.

topics: Honduras, Manuel Zelaya

Political Hay

No Shortage of Contempt in Detroit

Mark G. Michaelsen | 10.19.09 @ 6:06AM

Continuing unseemly fallout from the Kwame Kilpatrick case.

topics: Corruption, Kwame Kilpatrick

Conservative Tastes

Look at Me

James Bowman | October 2009

The problem with fantasy is also the point of it: there are no natural limits.

Reader Mail

Under the Table

10.19.09 @ 6:01AM

No honor or morality. Too conservative for the NFL. Asking and telling. The mediocre man in the White House.

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The Threat to Medical Innovation

Philip Klein

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Get That Hacker a Pimp Coat

Paul Chesser

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Justice Dep't Recusal List!

Quin Hillyer

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The Ben Nelson Shuffle

W. James Antle, III

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AHIP Opposes Senate Health Bill

Philip Klein

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Moment of Truth

W. James Antle, III

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No Sales Days in the Afghan War

George H. Wittman

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Bureaucrats With Badges

Mark Hyman

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Obama in Wonderland

Ken Blackwell

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A Writer Speaks

William Tucker

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What Has Changed?

Robert P. Kirchhoefer

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High Stakes

Manon McKinnon

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