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We’re All Catholics Now
James Taranto | from the April 2012 issue
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Campaign Crawlers
Gingrich and the ‘Money Power’
Robert Stacy McCain | 4.6.12
Will campaign debt lead Newt to make a deal with Romney?
The Obama Watch
The Contradictions of Obamaism
William Tucker | 4.6.12
As a faithful tool of the environmentalists, the president betrays his main constituents.
Special Report
Affirmative Action on Life Support
Ross Kaminsky | 4.6.12
Isn’t it past time that Martin Luther King’s dream be recognized?
Political Hay
How the President ‘Accommodates’ Free-Market Thinking
Andrew B. Wilson | 4.6.12
He does it the same way a boa constrictor swallows its prey.
Ben Stein’s Diary
A Know Nothing
Ben Stein | 4.6.12
What else besides the Constitution does Mr. Obama not know?
The Nation’s Pulse
The Fun Won’t Last
Daniel J. Flynn | 4.6.12
But for now, Bill Haley has finally found a rock music successor.
At Large
A World Bank Nomination Goes South
George H. Wittman | 4.6.12
With the nomination of Dr. James Young Kim, Obama wants to rewrite development economics.
Another Perspective
Truth and Falsehood at Passover
Jay D. Homnick | 4.6.12
The view from Miami Beach.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Current Crisis
Romney Is Coming On Strong
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 4.5.12
And he doesn’t have to become a jogger to prove that point.
The Tax and Spend Spectator
The Tax Hike Election of 2012
Grover G. Norquist | from the April 2012 issue
Obama and the Democrats think the promise of higher taxes will be a winner for them this year.
Special Report
Mark Stevens: A Profile in Courage
Jeffrey Lord | 4.5.12
Threatened for sticking with Rush, defiant advertiser declares “Battle for America.”
The Nation’s Pulse
A Liberal in Name Only
Christopher Orlet | 4.5.12
Evil and apathy are two sides of the same coin.
Ben Stein’s Diary
History and Today
Ben Stein | 4.5.12
As we saw in Toulouse, there still are people who truly hate Jews and will use any means to kill them.
At Large
Hey! Mullahs! Leave Them Emos Alone
Ralph R. Reiland | 4.5.12
Young people in Iraq are being murdered for the kind of music they listen to.
Among the Intellectualoids
A Bland Society Is a Sensitive Society
Frank Schell | 4.5.12
The latest educationist mania? Erasing words from history.
Movie Takes
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
James Bowman | 4.5.12
Another Slacker comedy, but perhaps too funny for its own good.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Obama Watch
Obama’s Officious Opinions
Ross Kaminsky | 4.4.12
If he thinks they’re helping him politically, he should think again.
Campaign Crawlers
Predictably Predictable
Robert Stacy McCain | 4.4.12
Rick Santorum defiantly resists Mitt Romney’s “inevitability.”
Special Report
Obama’s Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament
Peter Ferrara | 4.4.12
The decline and fall of America under a pinko, flower-child president.
The Nation’s Pulse
The Hate Crimes Farce
Daniel Allott | 4.4.12
The threshold for what constitutes a hate crime continues to decline.
Spectator’s Journal
Roman Fever
G. Tracy Mehan, III | 4.4.12
A city like no other, maybe even more so this time of year.
What’s Still Great
Plain Speaking
Lisa Fabrizio | 4.4.12
The Constitution is for everyone — the last thing liberals want you to know.
Sports Arena
Touchy-Feely Football
Reid Collins | 4.4.12
Once the lame game gets flagged, this is what we’re left with.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Political Hay
Obama’s Preemptive Strike on the Supreme Court
W. James Antle, III | 4.3.12
What’s ahead if the president doesn’t get his way on the health care decision.
Special Report
Huckabee Stars in RINO Radio
Jeffrey Lord | 4.3.12
Who are the Dickey brothers and why do they hate the conservative movement?
The Right Prescription
Ten Ways That Obamacare Is Bad Law
Andrew B. Wilson | 4.3.12
If not struck down, it must be repealed.
A Further Perspective
Cardinal Wuerl’s Continuing Crisis
George Neumayr | 4.3.12
Denouncing me through surrogates will not make it go away.
Capitol Ideas
The Mystery of Eric Hoffer
Tom Bethell | from the April 2012 issue
We know very little about his life before he was 35.
In Memoriam
Irving Louis Horowitz, RIP
Roger Kaplan | 4.3.12
A great scholar and publisher leaves us.
Sports Arena
My 2012 MLB Predictions
Aaron Goldstein | 4.3.12
Only one thing is certain — Bobby Valentine is no bargain and his Red Sox are headed for the basement.
Buy the Book
The Girl Who Hid the Real Victims
Lars Walker | 4.3.12
Meet the world and women of the late communist, feminist author of The Girl Who…mysteries.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Streetcar Line
This Race Is Far From Over
Quin Hillyer | 4.2.12
How an open convention could reinvigorate Republicans.
Feature
The ‘Big Lie’ Defense
Peter J. Wallison | from the April 2012 issue
The painful task of taking on the left.
Campaign Crawlers
The Going Gets Tough
Robert Stacy McCain | 4.2.12
Santorum fights on against the odds — and against the media.
Special Report
Bashar’s Iron Fist Goes Airborne and Thermobaric
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi & Oskar Svadkovsky | 4.2.12
Assad is now resorting to fireball bombing, on the Russian model in Chechnya.
The Right Prescription
Progressive Puling About the Obamacare Hearings
David Catron | 4.2.12
Obamacare advocates blame its legal troubles on everything but flaws in the actual law.
Political Hay
A Lot of Moving Parts in Florida
Larry Thornberry | 4.2.12
Nelson, Mack IV, LeMieux, Rubio and other non-Trayvon news from the grapefruit state.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
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