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Saturday, June 2, 2012
The Public Policy
Medicaid Freedom of Choice
Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara | from the June 2012 issue
Editorial Cartoon
The Last in Line
Yogi Love | from the June 2012 issue
“Santorum’s ‘suspension’ of his campaign essentially makes all or most of the remaining primaries between now and June functionally irrelevant…”
Friday, June 1, 2012
The Public Policy
Why We Don’t ‘Owe It To Ourselves’
William Tucker | 6.1.12
The national debt, that is — no matter how often Paul Krugman tells you otherwise.
The Nation’s Pulse
Facebook Is the New MySpace
Daniel J. Flynn | 6.1.12
The big social networking site may be losing its grip.
At Large
African Mysteries
George H. Wittman | 6.1.12
So why do they make no impression on the Chinese?
Special Report
Billy Graham Protects Marriage
Mark Tooley | 6.1.12
One of his last great gifts to America.
Campaign Crawlers
Conventional Wisdom
Larry Thornberry | 6.1.12
Tampa becomes a living cliché, as it prepares — with dread — for what it asked for.
Letter From London
Her Majesty’s X Factor
Robert Taylor | 6.1.12
No cynicism, please. She’s Queen Elizabeth.
Sports Arena
Win or Lose, Play With Style
Roger Kaplan | 6.1.12
Go outside the box, write your own book: winners are originals, and that quality is missing these days in American tennis.
Flashback
How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust: April 1995
Joshua Muravchik | 6.1.12
(Editor’s Note: While bestowing a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom on WWII hero Jan Karski, Barack Obama made a verbal error by saying Karski was smuggled into a “Polish death camp.” Yes, yes, the moment can be added to the litany of our prompter-in-chief’s blunders. But come now. Just for a moment, let us leave the spotlight where it truly belongs: on a professor, a resistance fighter, and a hero.)
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Political Hay
JFK and the Death of Liberalism
Jeffrey Lord | 5.31.12
John F. Kennedy, the father of the Reagan Democrats, would have been 95 this week.
Streetcar Line
Of Various Veepsters, and the Christie Conjecture
Quin Hillyer | 5.31.12
Choices seven through twelve on the Hillyer List.
The Current Crisis
While George Was Calling Donald a ‘Bloviating Ignoramus’
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the July - Aug 2012 issue
The New York Times gets on its high horse about the Romneys and their German friend.
Special Report
A Religious Fire Bell in the Night
Doug Bandow | 5.31.12
Religious intolerance is on the rise even in Kuwait, America’s best friend in the Arab world.
The Nation’s Pulse
My Speech to Graduates
Christopher Orlet | 5.31.12
Advice for young people who do not necessarily need advice.
Conservative Tastes
Look Back in Hunger
James Bowman | from the May 2012 issue
Our left-wing elites can’t even get dystopia right.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The Obama Watch
Plenty of Nutting
Peter Ferrara | 5.30.12
Yes, Obama’s spending binge did happen — all of it, like Obama’s unprecedented deficits, on his watch.
The Nation’s Pulse
Remembering Shiloh 150 Years Later
Mark Tooley | 5.30.12
Like First Bull Run, Shiloh was fought on Sunday around a Methodist church.
The Public Policy
Tax Equity for Real
Matthew Sinclair & Iain Murray | 5.30.12
You can’t get a fairer tax system by raising taxes.
Eminentoes
Shades of Bob Dylan
Aaron Goldstein | 5.30.12
Yesterday Bob Dylan was a lot more cool than the president who gave him a medal.
A Further Perspective
Occupying for a Failed Ideology
Ralph R. Reiland | 5.30.12
A free-market Mao is the target of an unscripted Occupy outbreak.
The Public Policy
‘Meaningful Work’
Thomas Sowell | 5.30.12
Telling young people that some jobs are “menial” is a huge disservice to them and to the whole society.
Political Hay
American Sins
Lisa Fabrizio | 5.30.12
Only President Obama could make someone who should know better miss Bill Clinton.
Sports Arena
Yankee Noodles
Roger Kaplan | 5.30.12
The nerve of those losers — but they’re still ours and we love ‘em.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Special Report
Terror by Any Other Name
Robert Stacy McCain | 5.29.12
Convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin now targets conservatives online.
Political Hay
The Bain of Romney’s Existence
W. James Antle, III | 5.29.12
Obama is having trouble replicating Ted Kennedy’s successful 1994 attacks.
A Further Perspective
The Sebelius Precedent: Time to Regulate Liberalism?
Jeffrey Lord | 5.29.12
Kansas votes to tax abortions — should labor unions be taxed as well?
Loose Canons
The White House Sieve
Jed Babbin | 5.29.12
Leaking away intelligence secrets — even to Hollywood — for re-election advantage.
Another Perspective
The Winner of Our Discontent
David Catron | 5.29.12
Time to stop descanting on Romney’s deformities and focus on Obama’s inductions dangerous.
At Large
The Champ on Court Six
Roger Kaplan | 5.29.12
What they say about hard work and dedication… is true. From our man at the French Open.
Sports Arena
Now Pitching For New York, Mr. Magoo
Larry Thornberry | 5.29.12
Sticking with your team, wherein patience is rewarded (cue “Ya Gotta Have Heart”).
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