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Liberal Imperialism
F.H. Buckley | from the April 2012 issue
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Friday, April 27, 2012
The Energy Spectator
Hold the Oil, Pass the Algae
William Tucker | 4.27.12
Welcome to the Age of Biofuels — and the latest Obama crackpot scheme.
Special Report
Scaring the Children
Ross Kaminsky | 4.27.12
Obama’s Democrats want to stick Republicans with student loan interest rates they themselves mandated.
The Nation’s Pulse
Bully Pulpiteers
Daniel J. Flynn | 4.27.12
Anti-bullying activists are starting to resemble the bullies they crusade against.
The Obama Watch
The List Could Be Longer
Gary Shapiro | 4.27.12
Fifty ways the Obama Administration has hurt the economy and job creation.
A Further Perspective
Grim Holiday
Peter Hannaford | 4.27.12
Northern California’s pot paradise is no longer immune to law enforcement.
Ben Stein’s Diary
At War and at Peace
Ben Stein | from the April 2012 issue
Reeling from another viewing of The World at War.
At Large
Persian Prospects and Pretensions
George H. Wittman | 4.27.12
The ups and downs of becoming a regional power.
Flashback
Chuck Colson vs. The Fundamentalists: Feb. 1986
Malcolm Gladwell | 4.27.12
(Editor’s Note: As the nation mourns Chuck Colson, the one-time villain who defined “repentance” in the popular consciousness, we reflect on the doctrinal humility that set him apart from Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells. In this 1986 essay, Malcom Gladwell explores the man who once said, “the Kingdom of God will not arrive on Air Force One.”)
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The Obama Watch
President Barack Carter
Jeffrey Lord | 4.26.12
The myth of the incumbent President: a look back at the Reagan/Carter race.
Constitutional Opinions
Verrilli’s Latest Losing Hand
Ross Kaminsky | 4.26.12
When even an Obama appointed justice won’t allow herself to be patronized, you know you’ve had a bad day.
Political Hay
Toward a Neo-Reaganite Marco Rubio
John Tabin | 4.26.12
His Brookings Institution speech yesterday wasn’t about the vice-presidency.
Special Report
The Road to Surfdom
Scott Hogenson | 4.26.12
Storied Hatteras Island is threatened with depopulation the modern way.
At Large
The Middle East Quartet
Daniel Mandel | 4.26.12
An institutionalized failure sustained by U.S. complicity.
Public Nuisances
I Take the Secret Service Scandal Personally
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the June 2012 issue
Where is its Elmer Washburn?
The Nation’s Pulse
Give Us That Old Time Religion
Christopher Orlet | 4.26.12
Remembering a time when churches cared enough to safeguard faith and morals.
Buy the Book
A Good Man Who Outlived His Country
Aram Bakshian, Jr. | from the April 2012 issue
The short, overwhelmingly sad life of Joseph Roth.
Feature
The Millennial Perspective
David N. Bass | from the May 2012 issue
Social Security won’t be there for today’s twentysomethings. Yet their piggy banks—and 401(k)s—remain empty.
Feature
The Road From Serfdom
Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara | from the May 2012 issue
Let workers choose: the New Deal, or a better deal?
Feature
Empowering Individuals or Bureaucrats?
Rep. Paul Ryan | from the May 2012 issue
The choice and the contrast in health care.
Feature
A Time for Choosing
James Piereson | from the May 2012 issue
Better that we become a nation of choosers rather than beggars. An introduction to our special symposium.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Streetcar Line
The Mob in Mobile
Quin Hillyer | 4.25.12
The roosting of the Trayvon Martin chickens.
Special Report
Fix the Economy and Conservative Values Will Follow
Lewis M. Andrews | 4.25.12
A big reason for social conservatives to like Mitt Romney.
Political Hay
Stealing Our Elections
Peter Ferrara | 4.25.12
All of it done under the watchful eye AG Holder and ACORN Obama.
The Obama Watch
Write a Check, Mr. President
Doug Bandow | 4.25.12
Barack Obama fails the “Buffett Rule,” depriving his government of vital revenue.
Feature
Solyndra Nation
W. James Antle, III | from the April 2012 issue
A greener shade of crony corruption — er, capitalism — courtesy of the Obama administration.
In Memoriam
We Remember What They Did
Roger Kaplan | 4.25.12
Three World War II veterans died this April.
Car Guy
‘Your’ Car Won’t Be After 2015
Eric Peters | 4.25.12
Mandatory “Event Data Recorders” will even know you’re speeding in reverse.
Buy the Book
Root Hog, or Die
John R. Coyne, Jr. | from the April 2012 issue
Thomas Frank is an earnest liberal confounded by conservatism’s revival under Obama.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Right Prescription
Obama’s Latest Plan to Snooker Seniors
David Catron | 4.24.12
GAO outs $8 billion Medicare Advantage “demonstration project” as an election year scam.
Special Report
The Perfect Storm of Liberalism
Jeffrey Lord | 4.24.12
Racial quotas, political correctness ignite scandals: the Secret Service, Ft. Hood, GSA.
The Obama Watch
Barackward
Daniel Allott | 4.24.12
Our President is out of touch — the very flaw his sympathizers see in Mitt Romney.
The Tax and Spend Spectator
America’s Alternate Economic Reality
J.T. Young | 4.24.12
For those who increasingly see government as the engine of the economy, acceptance of the unthinkable has become routine.
Constitutional Opinions
‘A Legal Backwater’
Seth Lipsky | from the April 2012 issue
So many constitutions worldwide — and how many except ours recognize the right to keep and bear arms?
Another Perspective
A Beer for Mister Bond
Frank Schell | 4.24.12
You won’t hear Daniel Craig saying “vodka martini, shaken not stirred.”
The Nation’s Pulse
Who Is ‘Racist’?
Thomas Sowell | 4.24.12
There is rampant hypocrisy and irrationality in public discussions of race.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Political Hay
The First Cuts Are the Deepest
W. James Antle, III | 4.23.12
Republicans are beginning to debate how, rather than whether, to reduce spending.
Loose Canons
Lost Sense of Duty
Jed Babbin | 4.23.12
If the Secret Service can’t get it back, it might as well merge with the GSA.
At Large
Nizar Nayouf, al-Haqiqa, and Syrian Christians
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | 4.23.12
Unraveling and exposing a pro-Assad disinformation and smear campaign.
The Nation’s Pulse
The Nature That We Make
G. Tracy Mehan, III | 4.23.12
Reflections in the wake of Earth Day 2012.
Among the Intellectualoids
Very Political Science
Larry Thornberry | 4.23.12
Ideology with charts and graphs and a very low tolerance threshold for disagreement.
Buy the Book
Absolute Power
Jeffrey Lord | from the April 2012 issue
An instant classic from Mark Levin on Post-Constitutional America.
Movie Takes
Bully
James Bowman | 4.23.12
A documentary that can only worsen the problem it sets out to explore.
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