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Friday, June 24, 2011
Ben Stein’s Diary
Moving About the Country
Ben Stein | 6.24.11
Your are free to discover Southwest, while there’s still time.
The Obama Watch
Obama’s Oily Desperation
Ross Kaminsky | 6.24.11
After yesterday’s panicky move, all the world knows our president has nothing left in reserve.
Political Hay
Answering the Dreaded ‘Evolution’ Question
Jay Richards & David Klinghoffer | 6.24.11
Evolution is the speed trap of presidential campaigns.
The Public Policy
Why Raise Taxes Now?
G. Tracy Mehan, III | 6.24.11
They’re going up anyway, says the President.
Streetcar Line
Conservatives’ Foolish Search for a ‘New New Thing’
Quin Hillyer | 6.24.11
Successful legislating is an underappreciated virtue.
Another Perspective
The Kids Are Not All Right
Patrick Howley | 6.24.11
A “youth candidate” like Jon Huntsman will have much to learn from the straight-shooting activists of Generation Opportunity.
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The Night the Game Wouldn’t End
Larry Thornberry | 6.24.11
It was baseball’s longest game ever, and not because it took more than two months to be completed.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Obama Watch
Withdrawal Toward What?
John Tabin | 6.23.11
It won’t produce the domestic surge the president needs above all else.
A Further Perspective
Victory and Defeat in Afghanistan
George H. Wittman | 6.23.11
The Taliban have to like their chances now.
The Current Crisis
The Presidential Race Made Easy
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 6.23.11
At any other time, Obama would be challenged from within his party.
Another Perspective
Feminist Foolery
Christopher Orlet | 6.23.11
How does labeling oneself a slut help one’s cause?
The Pursuit of Knowledge
The Rebirth of Nations
Roger Scruton | from the June 2011 issue
Europeans are standing up for their national identities at the risk of being labeled “extremists” by the Eurocrats.
Campaign Crawlers
The Bear in the Woods
Lisa Fabrizio | 6.23.11
It’s not the Russian bear we’re talking about, but he’s domestic and he’s still out there.
Freedom Watch
Government Spends Too Much Because It Does Too Much
Gary Johnson | from the June 2011 issue
Just about everyone says spending should be reduced — but how can we tell if they’re serious?
Political Hay
Past and Future Weiners
Kelly M. Cohen | 6.23.11
They’ll continue to appear in various forms and with differing fates.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Another Perspective
What’s Another $2.4 Trillion?
Rand Paul | 6.22.11
Our national debt currently hovers at $14,352,045,270,245.76.
At Large
Europe’s Not-So-Revolutionary Youth
Samuel Gregg | 6.22.11
Going nowhere fast, indignantly and in denial.
Campaign Crawlers
A Florida Senate Primer
Larry Thornberry | 6.22.11
Folks like Mike Haridopolos are lining up to oust moderate sounding, liberal voting incumbent Bill Nelson.
The Public Policy
Reaganomics’ Resurgence
Peter Ferrara | 6.22.11
We need to examine what we did the last time America fell into a downward economic spiral.
The Nation’s Pulse
My Mother-in-Law Is Owed an Apology
Ryan Young | 6.22.11
Where do TSA-confiscated items go?
The Obama Watch
The Audacity of Hype
Ken Blackwell | 6.22.11
There’s a real problem when the President of the United States feels the need to become the entertainer-in-chief.
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Magisterial and Indispensable
Jason Emerson | from the June 2011 issue
George Washington — so inscrutable to those around him, yet so revered for his honorable and transparent qualities.
Spectator’s Journal
Crammed Onto Buses
David Aikman | from the June 2011 issue
Easter in China is when the government makes clear it doesn’t like China’s house churches.
A Further Perspective
Defending Deviancy Down
Manon McKinnon | 6.22.11
Early apologists for Anthony Weiner gave new definition to the Moynihan-Krauthammer thesis.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Obama Watch
Operation Fast and Spurious
W. James Antle, III | 6.21.11
A failed gun-running sting operation by Obama’s gang that couldn’t shoot straight. But who authorized it?
Political Hay
Is Sarah Palin Bachmann’s Goldwater?
Jeffrey Lord | 6.21.11
The politics of going first — from Al Smith to Goldwater. (Does the ‘S’ in MSNBC stand for sexist?)
Eminentoes
A Comedian of Errors
Aaron Goldstein | 6.21.11
Is Jon Stewart America’s most consistently misinformed talk show host?
Constitutional Opinions
Ganging Up on Justices Thomas, Scalia, and Alito
Curt Levey | from the June 2011 issue
The left used to apply the politics of personal destruction to judicial nominees. Not anymore.
A Further Perspective
Economic Advice for Obama
Ralph R. Reiland | 6.21.11
He’s going to have to be more like Ronald Reagan — and find better friends than the Fortune 500 crowd.
Buy the Book
Persuasively Enduring
Joseph Shattan | from the June 2011 issue
Irving Kristol’s intellectual self-confidence was astounding — and justifiably so.
Movie Takes
City of Life and Death
James Bowman | 6.21.11
This fictionalization of the murder of 300,000 in Nanking can only leave the viewer numb — if not feeling superior.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Loose Canons
Charlie Foxtrot McCain
Jed Babbin | 6.20.11
Why are Republicans allowing him to speak for them on Libya?
Special Report
Don’t Blame Us
Ross Kaminsky | 6.20.11
And especially not Obama, for the state of the economy — when we know it’s all the doing of a right-wing conspiracy.
Washington Prowler
Anti-Business as Usual
The Prowler | 6.20.11
Bill Daley got an earful, which was music to the president’s ear. Plus: Final proof Rick Perry’s running.
Campus Scenes
When Towers Fall — At Notre Dame
James M. Thunder | 6.20.11
Does the Catholic mission of a Catholic institution still have meaning?
Another Perspective
A Mennonite ‘Gay Girl’ in Syria
Mark Tooley | 6.20.11
A U.S. anti-Iraq war hoaxter undermines the Syrian dissident cause.
With the Tea Partiers
Two Women of Bucks County
Ned Ryun | from the June 2011 issue
One of the amazing aspects of the Tea Party movement is how much it is driven by women.
Buy the Book
Innovate or Languish
Joseph Lawler | 6.20.11
A full-throated defense of innovation and creative destruction from someone who knows.
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