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Assorted Jackasses | from the May 2011 issue
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Another Perspective
Law & Order: Special SEALs Unit
Gerald Nachman | 5.6.11
An alternative scenario.
Special Report
Benedict XVI: In No One’s Shadow
Samuel Gregg | 5.6.11
Critics seem willfully blind to his civilizational mission.
The Obama Watch
What Makes Us Great?
Fred Lucas | 5.6.11
Government “investment” in Democratic party building?
The Tax and Spend Spectator
That’s Another Rap
Nicole Russell | 5.6.11
Rap and economics meet again for round two.
The Nation’s Pulse
We Have No Cause to Lecture Happy People
Patrick O'Hannigan | 5.6.11
Was it wrong to cheer the news of Osama bin Laden’s demise?
A Further Perspective
Science Could Solve the Torture Debate
Alex B. Berezow | 5.6.11
With no apologies to Jonathan Swift.
Buy the Book
Hal Colebatch’s Counterstrike Is a Thriller of Ideas
Lars Walker | 5.6.11
In the Information Age, a lie may be the most powerful weapon of all.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Another Perspective
War Over, Our Boys Did It Again!
Roger Kaplan | 5.5.11
It may well be that the moment has come for us to bid all these people in the Hindu Kush a fond farewell.
The Current Crisis
Do I Hear Cheers for George Bush?
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 5.5.11
Not in bucolic Abbottabad, perhaps, and especially not inside the editorial compound of the New York Times.
Special Report
Walking Too Softly
Ben Lerner | 5.5.11
More official cluelessness along our southwestern border.
Political Hay
The Aftermath
George Neumayr | 5.5.11
Celebration and confusion follow the death of Bin Laden.
A Further Perspective
Cut U.S. Funding for Osama’s Mourners
Ken Blackwell | 5.5.11
Now that Fatah has dropped its mask, it’s time to put teeth into U.S. policy.
Among the Intellectualoids
The End of Evil
Christopher Orlet | 5.5.11
It is now called empathy deficiency, and it’s treatable.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
The Obama Watch
Obama’s War on Oil
Peter Ferrara | 5.4.11
A campaign promise kept: he wants higher gasoline prices and his policies guarantee they will only go higher.
Special Report
Inside the Palestinian Unity Deal
Matthew RJ Brodsky | 5.4.11
Bypassing Israel to hook up with the terrorists of Hamas.
Political Hay
The Demise of Canada’s Liberals
Aaron Goldstein | 5.4.11
The great party of Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau is left in smithereens under star intellectual Michael Ignatieff.
At Large
Unilateralism Is Not a Crime
George H. Wittman | 5.4.11
Even President Obama now knows that.
The Nation’s Pulse
Wide-Left in Wisconsin
J.T. Young | 5.4.11
Liberals tried, but they can’t turn back the clock.
With the Tea Partiers
The War of the Flea
Ned Ryun | from the May 2011 issue
Tea partiers are proving feisty in opposing public employee behemoths.
A Further Perspective
Sacred Cows
Lisa Fabrizio | 5.4.11
So another royal wedding has come and gone.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Special Report
Obama’s Churchill Dilemma
Jeffrey Lord | 5.3.11
Hitler’s suicide, victory in World War II could not keep legendary British leader from political defeat.
The Public Policy
Red Ink and Upward Redistribution
Ralph R. Reiland | 5.3.11
How “caring” Democrats have gamed the system the rest of us pay for.
The Obama Watch
Hard on Drug Execs, Soft on Dictators
Robert M. Goldberg | 5.3.11
That’s the way this administration likes to conduct its business.
A Further Perspective
Seeing Is Relieving
Jay D. Homnick | 5.3.11
Why is it that liberals are always getting mugged by reality?
Another Perspective
Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’ — Forget It!
Hal G.P. Colebatch | 5.3.11
What explains the popularity of this ghastly hymn, its words written by a 18th-century free-lance kook and sung at royal weddings?
The Nation’s Pulse
Pale Imitations
Larry Thornberry | 5.3.11
Remakes are the best way to ruin a movie.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Streetcar Line
Santorum’s Clarity of Vision
Quin Hillyer | 5.2.11
His substantive foreign-policy speech merits praise.
Loose Canons
Obama vs. the ‘Undisclosed Donors’
Jed Babbin | 5.2.11
There he goes again, moving corruptly and unconstitutionally.
Special Report
Firing Into a Continent
Matthew Omolesky | 5.2.11
Humanitarian intervention in Libya — “an appalling fatuity,” to borrow words from Joseph Conrad.
Car Guy
The One ‘Big’ You Can’t Escape
Eric Peters | 5.2.11
Big Banks or Big Oil you can ignore. Not so Big G.
The Obama Watch
Obama and the Nature of Truth
G. Tracy Mehan, III | 5.2.11
What would Lincoln think? Mistake him for Stephen Douglas, probably.
Buy the Book
Defending Constantine and Christendom
Mark Tooley | 5.2.11
Restoring a great Roman emperor to his rightful place in the history of the West.
Another Perspective
Letting Go in Russia
Michael Johnson | 5.2.11
My Perestroika is a wonderful documentary, must viewing not just for old Cold Warriors.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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