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Assorted Jackasses | from the March 2011 issue
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Feature
A Week in the Death of the New York Times
James Taranto | from the March 2011 issue
How a once great paper overdosed on the Tucson massacre.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Breaking News
Support Your Local Police?
Robert Stacy McCain | 3.4.11
Ohio’s fight over public-sector unions presents a conservative dilemma.
Streetcar Line
Stop Bernanke’s Hanky-Panky
Quin Hillyer | 3.4.11
Raise rates, strengthen the dollar, now.
The Right Prescription
Judge Vinson Fails to Apply the Two-By-Four
David Catron | 3.4.11
Why did he stay his own ObamaCare ruling? Surely, not to reward the administration’s mulish defiance?
Another Perspective
Helpful Solutions for Cleaning Up Madison
Ross Kaminsky | 3.4.11
All while saving Wisconsin many millions.
The Nation’s Pulse
Reagan-Era Paperboy
Daniel J. Flynn | 3.4.11
The best job for a kid is no longer available.
The Obama Watch
No Slam Duncan
RiShawn Biddle | 3.4.11
It’s tricky backing teachers in Wisconsin while pushing reforms they object to.
At Large
Mexico Lost
George H. Wittman | 3.4.11
Even the tourist spots are now drug cartel country — just in time for Spring Break.
A Further Perspective
Make Way for Mini-Labor
Ron Ross | 3.4.11
And mini-Democrats too — if indeed the Democrat-Labor alliance is in a death spiral.
The Public Policy
What Would Jesus Cut?
Mark Tooley | 3.4.11
But, for starters, would He have regarded federal budgets as “moral documents”?
Thursday, March 3, 2011
TAS Live
Quotations From Chairman Ryan
G. Tracy Mehan, III | 3.3.11
Shifting from a culture of spending to one of cutting.
The Pursuit of Knowledge
Non-Discrimination
Roger Scruton | from the March 2011 issue
By penalizing old-fashioned morality you do not make toleration of the new morality more likely.
Another Perspective
Time for a Congressional Conclave
James M. Thunder | 3.3.11
How might we nudge this Congress and future Congresses to meet their obligations?
The Great American Saloon Series
The Royale Treatment
Christopher Orlet | 3.3.11
A remembrance of corner taverns gone by.
Freedom Watch
In Defense of American Exceptionalism
Herman Cain | from the March 2011 issue
Unfortunately, some politicians have either forgotten or chosen to ignore the glory of our founding.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Political Hay
Comeback Cowboy
W. James Antle, III | 3.2.11
George Allen’s boots are made for walking back into the Senate. But with Tea Party challengers, is that just what they’ll do?
The Right Prescription
Waiver Goodbye to Obama
Ross Kaminsky | 3.2.11
No matter what he’s selling, states know there’s no way out of the fiscal trainwreck that is Obamacare.
The Public Policy
They’re All Detroit Democrats Now
Peter Ferrara | 3.2.11
As they resist budget restraint and Wisconsin’s reforms, their ideal becomes a crumbling city where government accounts for 40 percent of available jobs.
Buy the Book
Daddy Dimmest
Aram Bakshian, Jr. | from the March 2011 issue
Ron Reagan, author of My Father at 100, was the baby of the family.
The Nation’s Pulse
Leveling Justice: Tax Code as Moral Code
Hunter Baker | 3.2.11
New insights into income inequality and the redistribution of wealth as a purported remedy.
Special Report
Inhuman Rights at the UN
Aaron Goldstein | 3.2.11
Condemning the same Libya it was about to commend.
Reader Mail
On Bush’s ‘March of Freedom’: Answering My Critics
Paul Kengor | 3.2.11
Is the Middle East really destined to remain hopeless?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Feature
Money Train
Philip Klein | from the March 2011 issue
In California, Obama’s grand vision of America’s high-speed rail future is meeting reality.
Special Report
Is Scott Walker the Next Calvin Coolidge?
Jeffrey Lord | 3.1.11
Reagan and Silent Cal — will union attacks help Wisconsin’s Governor onto GOP ticket?
A Further Perspective
Scrapping the Hero of Benghazi
Hal G.P. Colebatch | 3.1.11
Britain’s defense goes from bad to unbelievable.
The Obama Watch
Barack Carter-Obama Is Back
Ross Kaminsky | 3.1.11
Even CNN has noticed, as will voters as 2012 nears.
Movie Takes
Reality Hunger at the Oscars
James Bowman | 3.1.11
There’s another long winter’s evening wasted.
Monday, February 28, 2011
A Further Perspective
Nowhere to Hide
Roger Kaplan | 2.28.11
Muammar Gaddafi, international outlaw, has made his bed.
Loose Canons
Fear and Loathing on the Arab Trail
Jed Babbin | 2.28.11
What happens in Saudi Arabia on March 11 could severely disrupt our already-shaken economy.
Political Hay
Hiding Out at the Clock Tower Resort
G. Tracy Mehan, III | 2.28.11
Sooner or later, Wisconsin’s anti-democratic Democrats who lit out for Rockford will have to show up.
Special Report
Thriving Christianity
Mark Tooley | 2.28.11
Its numbers increase worldwide with every new day.
Another Perspective
The Many Lives of Clarence King
Bill Croke | 2.28.11
The great geologist who surveyed America’s West took a most unusual turn.
The Nation’s Pulse
Lincoln Goes to Hollywood
Jay D. Homnick | 2.28.11
You won’t want to miss his press conference.
Buy the Book
A Gentle Man
Matthew Kenefick | from the February 2011 issue
Don’t bet against the unexpected pope from Bavaria.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Breaking News
Ferry Diplomacy
James P. Gannon | 2.27.11
America’s disgracefully inept response to the Libyan crisis.
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