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Friday, January 21, 2011

Streetcar Line

Public Service, Public Examples

Quin Hillyer | 1.21.11

Varied thoughts on the current scene.

Breaking News

Abortion on Demand, Ranker Style

Jeremy Lott | 1.21.11

A trendy state senator moves to terminate crisis pregnancy centers.

Another Perspective

A Syllogism for 2012

Neal B. Freeman | 1.21.11

There is only one right candidate. Here’s the proof.

The Right Prescription

A Natural Born Job Killer

David Catron | 1.21.11

Obamacare is already adding to the unemployment rolls.

Ben Stein’s Diary

Recessional

Ben Stein | 1.21.11

Hope and the recession that just grinds on and on.

Political Hay

What Defines Our Differences?

Ron Ross | 1.21.11

What is the encompassing issue that divides liberals and conservatives?

The Nation’s Pulse

Legalize It

Christopher Orlet | 1.21.11

The push to legalize drugs gets a shot in the arm.    

At Large

Vietnam Struggles

George H. Wittman | 1.21.11

Grudgingly moving in China’s direction.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Nation’s Pulse

Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom

Andrew Cline | 1.20.11

In place of military metaphors… what?

Ben Stein’s Diary

Bad Mothers

Ben Stein | 1.20.11

It’s not cute or the least bit funny to browbeat children.

Political Hay

The Spectrum of Socialism

George Neumayr | 1.20.11

The White House’s week of defending Obamacare and honoring China.  

The Current Crisis

Books for the Winter Cold

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 1.20.11

In training for a C-SPAN marathon.

Special Report

A Eureka Moment

Peter Hannaford | 1.20.11

Starting the Reagan Centennial in a perfect setting.

The Nation’s Pulse

Can the Religious Left Protect Obamacare?

Mark Tooley | 1.20.11

Not if it’s remembered there are faith-based reasons to oppose growing government authority over health care.

Another Perspective

When Democrats Were Cold Warriors

Paul Kengor | 1.20.11

What a different breed of men they were.

A Further Perspective

Not Playing with a Fuller Deck

Aaron Goldstein | 1.20.11

What’s the matter with all those bitter liberals?

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Special Report

Obamacare’s Skeptical Investors

Philip Klein | 1.19.11

Those cheering the fiscal responsibility of the national health care law often sound like corporate executives touting the latest earnings report.

Political Hay

Hit Me With Your Best Scott

W. James Antle, III | 1.19.11

Disappointments and opportunities a year after the Scott Brown special election.

The Obama Watch

Welcoming Hu Jintao

Ken Blackwell | 1.19.11

Another black mark for our Nobel Peace Prize winning president.

Washington Prowler

The FCC’s Cynical Forum Shopping

The Prowler | 1.19.11

Anything to stack the deck in favor of “net neutrality.”

A Further Perspective

Death and Liberalism

Peter Ferrara | 1.19.11

The libs’ hare-brained policies are a killer.

The Obama Watch

Obama’s Shell Game

Ross Kaminsky | 1.19.11

Pretending to deregulate while siccing the EPA and wildlly inflating the number of Americans with “pre-existing conditions.”

Another Perspective

Gone to the Devil

Lisa Fabrizio | 1.19.11

Why is the Evil One the subject of so much reverent attention?

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Political Hay

John F. Kennedy and Madness of the American Left

Jeffrey Lord | 1.18.11

Fifty years after JFK’s inaugural: left-on-left violence, ideological pornography.

Washington Prowler

Who’s Afraid of Darrell Issa?

The Prowler | 1.18.11

Media Matters’ reliable lounge Lizza come through. Also: White House political reactions to Tucson.

Special Report

Needed: An Alfred Kahn for Health Care Reform

Andrew B. Wilson | 1.18.11

He deregulated airline travel. Who will deregulate health insurance?

A Further Perspective

The GAO’s Credibility Gap

Mark Hyman | 1.18.11

The Obama government’s dirty war against for-profit schools gets dirtier still.

The Obama Watch

Cruising for Trouble

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 1.18.11

How Obama’s carelessness could set off another Falklands War – which Britain this time would lose.

The Right Prescription

Obamacare Shreds Mental Health Care

Robert M. Goldberg | 1.18.11

Expanding a system that debases and imprisons.

Letter From Paris

The First Superstar

Joseph A. Harriss | from the December 2010 - January 2011 issue

It was exactly 130 years ago this winter that Sarah Bernhardt made her long-awaited appearance in America.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Breaking News

Jared Loughner’s Zeitgeist Obsession

Robert Stacy McCain | 1.17.11

Did a conspiracy cult film inspire the Tucson shooter?

Special Report

How Not to Promote Freedom in Africa

Roger Kaplan | 1.17.11

From Tunisia to Sudan to the Ivory Coast, the bankruptcy of U.S. democracy-promotion programs.

A Further Perspective

Liberals Discover the Constitution

William Tucker | 1.17.11

They can’t seem to understand why it isn’t more exciting.

Political Hay

United We Sit

Ross Kaminsky | 1.17.11

Select Democrats and RINOs have a Rodney King moment.

Loose Canons

Obama Is Losing in Afghanistan

Jed Babbin | 1.17.11

When will Republicans finally call him on is failed strategy?

Among the Intellectualoids

Operation Mainstreaming

Daniel Oliver | 1.17.11

What’s next on the Smithsonian’s agenda?

The Nation’s Pulse

Gun Hazy

David N. Bass | 1.17.11

After Tuscon, liberals still don’t have a clue when it comes to guns.

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