Campaign Crawlers
The Race for Comparative Advantage
Philip Klein | 2.14.11
CPAC shows why there is no clear frontrunner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
Failure to raise the debt ceiling, pace Messrs. Obama-Geithner-Goolsbee, would not cause America to default on its debts.
What’s it all about — an unquenchable thirst for freedom? The Muslim Brotherhood? As Algeria is showing again, this just the start.
Was that sly creature who visited Capitol Hill last week really the celebrated medical maven?
Why is Jim Wallis’s Sojourners giving voice to 9/11 conspiracy theories?
As his record shows, when Jimmy Carter says there’s no reason to be afraid of, say, the Muslim Brotherhood, that’s when there’s every reason to be very much afraid.
As opposed to philanthropic giving that doesn’t.
Michigan Democrats and Republicans alike hand the Senate Majority Whip a stinging defeat.
How did it come to this point anyway?
Moral fervor needn’t be their only weapon.
What kind of a country is it where abortion is subsidized and smoking is criminalized?
When a Rep. Jan Schakowsky is the best you can hope for in an opponent.
Coming to terms with one’s “nauseating puerilia.”
V.S. Naipaul has a problem, and the problem’s name is God.
A guide to the most reckless budget in U.S. history.
What was once the indispensable state is now an asylum of decline that threatens to drag the rest of America down with it.
President Obama has much to learn about President Reagan.
Happy Washington’s Birthday, America.
A medal for the Man — from the current President.
What’s making Puerto Rico special?
Yet another Hollywood attempt to bring the good old rom-com up to date.
Chris Christie’s showdown with judicial activism in revolutionary New Jersey.
The 9/11 hijacker was a member of its Engineers Syndicate. The Times and willful blindness.
Once again, his predecessor George W. Bush is making him look bad.
How did it escape the House Republicans’ budget axe?
Too much funding goes out the door in grants to states.
A whiff of Milton Friedman amid the Saul Alinsky.
Americans are profuse in their politeness of thanking everyone for everything. But there’s more to it than that.
CPAC shows why there is no clear frontrunner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
How Rand Paul could broaden his father’s message.
Maureen Dowd came to CPAC but wasn’t treated like royalty.
Is the Indiana governor running for president?
Leon Panetta is the least of this administration’s problems.
In religion, as in so much else, Ike was far more sophisticated than commonly realized.
A sad turn of events for bibliophiles.
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A man of faith in a godless age is hitting Americans where it hurts.
Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O’Rourke talk sense to your kids.
In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our culture.
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it?
Was the President done in by the economy, or by the politics of the economy?
H/T to National Review Online