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Obama Can’t Get Past the Past
Alfred S. Regnery | from the December 2011 - January 2012 issue
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Feature
The Gospel According To Wright
Charles C. Johnson | from the December 2011 - January 2012 issue
How much of Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s race-based “theology” does Barack Obama really share?
Political Hay
Mitt versus Newt
Ross Kaminsky | 12.9.11
When all is said and done, which one is is, for lack of a better word, preferable?
Ben Stein’s Diary
Bad On You, Mr. Obama
Ben Stein | 12.9.11
A few mixed days in Chicago, amid some good thoughts about RN.
A Further Perspective
Sunni Realignments
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | 12.9.11
A New Turkey-Qatar bloc is in the works in the wake of the tumoil in Syria, Libya, and other Islamist hot spots.
The Nation’s Pulse
Inequality in Perspective
Ron Ross | 12.9.11
Liberal thinking is all we need to know about life’s fundamental unfairness.
Special Report
The NEA’s Progressive Turn
RiShawn Biddle | 12.9.11
The NEA’s influence over public education remains in decline.
At Large
Jihad Brewing in Nigeria
George H. Wittman | 12.9.11
The cost of doing business is quietly going up in this richly commercial country.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Feature
FDR’s Class Warfare: A Tutorial For Obama
Burton Folsom, Jr. & Anita Folsom | from the December 2011 - January 2012 issue
Not that he needs any further lessons from the master of confiscatory taxation.
Special Report
Hillary’s Surreal State Department
George Neumayr | 12.8.11
She discovers a new global right.
Political Hay
Democrat Economic Illiteracy Has Consequences
David Catron | 12.8.11
Obamaworld’s breathtaking ignorance about “the dismal science” is dangerous.
A Further Perspective
ACORN Visits Obama White House
Matthew Vadum | 12.8.11
New evidence also reveals that it lobbies the Justice Department to prevent voter fraud enforcement.
The Current Crisis
Republicans Are Losing the Tax Debate
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.8.11
What prevents them to make the Reaganite case for what demonstrably works?
Ben Stein’s Diary
Major League Sinners
Ben Stein | 12.8.11
The view from the street and the TV studio.
The Nation’s Pulse
Village People
Christopher Orlet | 12.8.11
Time to rethink the wisdom of withholding judgment.
Movie Takes
Melancholia
James Bowman | 12.8.11
More clowning around from the obnoxious Lars von Trier.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Special Report
Days of Infamy
Roger Kaplan | 12.7.11
Marking the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we cannot fail to remember another day of treacherous attack.
Campaign Crawlers
Santorum’s Round-Trip Ticket
Robert Stacy McCain | 12.7.11
Conservative candidate sees hope in the Hawkeye State.
The Obama Watch
Organizing the Takers Against the Makers
Peter Ferrara | 12.7.11
Obama unveils his campaign strategy for 2012.
Streetcar Line
The Fallacy of the Master Debater
Quin Hillyer | 12.7.11
Staged face-offs will mean little next fall.
At Large
In Praise of Euroskeptics
Robert Taylor | 12.7.11
They paid a price for opposing a single currency for Europe, but they were right all along.
The Obama Watch
Stabbed in the Back
Robert M. Goldberg | 12.7.11
Obama pats himself on the back for making Israel less secure.
The Nation’s Pulse
Religious Isolationism and Pearl Harbor
Mark Tooley | 12.7.11
The pacificism of the post-World War I era would no longer do.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Politics
Jon Huntsman’s Moment
W. James Antle, III | 12.6.11
Why he’ll find it’s hard — if not impossible — to get a second look.
Campaign Crawlers
Mitt Misfires
Andrew Cline | 12.6.11
His attacks on Gingrich for being a politician amounts to an admission of how unsuccessful he’s been as one.
The Obama Watch
Obama’s Greatest Failing
Arnold S. Trebach | 12.6.11
Our president has failed every racial test he has taken.
Political Hay
Why Mitt Must Debate Newt
Aaron Goldstein | 12.6.11
Either way, he has everything to lose so why not display courage?
Another Perspective
The Demonizing of Conservatives
Jeffrey Lord | 12.6.11
From Nixon to Gingrich and Cain: a list, the media, and Sunshine conservatives.
A Further Perspective
Hurtling Over a Fiscal Cliff
Doug Bandow | 12.6.11
Spendthrift Europe’s week of reckoning.
The Environmental Spectator
Let the People of Fukushima Go Home and Get Back to Work
Theodore Rockwell | 12.6.11
The science does not support the panic.
Movie Takes
The Descendants
James Bowman | 12.6.11
As good an American movie as you’re likely to see these days.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Campaign Crawlers
Dreams Die Hard
Robert Stacy McCain | 12.5.11
The heartbreaking wreckage of Herman Cain’s campaign.
Political Hay
Rand’s Rebellion
W. James Antle, III | 12.5.11
The Tea Party senator from Kentucky picked his battles on war and civil liberties.
Special Report
Richard Cordray’s ‘Heroes’ Occupy Banks and Private Homes
John Berlau | 12.5.11
Obama consumer nominee’s long support of radical East Side Organizing Project.
Loose Canons
The EU’s Big Kazoo
Jed Babbin | 12.5.11
As Europe insists on still more socialism as a solution to its ill, the U.S. Fed is doing its best to help out — in deep secrecy, of course.
The Obama Watch
You’re Starting to Creep Me Out, First Family
Jeremy Lott | 12.5.11
Barack and Michelle, Joe and Dr. Jill — spammers or stalkers?
The Environmental Spectator
Gloomy Days in Durban
Peter Hannaford | 12.5.11
Climate change comes to $100 billion and counting — nice government work if you can get it.
Sports Arena
Viva Rafa! España en mi Corazon!
Roger Kaplan | 12.5.11
Argentina fights hard but loses the tie.
Buy the Book
Free to Be Responsible
David N. Bass | 12.5.11
Personal responsibility and other keys to American renewal, from John Andrews, doing the right thing.
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