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The real summer games…
Yogi Love | from the July - Aug 2012 issue
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Friday, July 6, 2012
Political Hay
Time for One More Flip-Flop
W. James Antle, III | 7.6.12
Mitt Romney should admit his mandate was a mistake.
Special Report
Romney’s Tom Dewey Moment
Jeffrey Lord | 7.6.12
Obamacare tax confusion a warning sign: the peril of playing it safe.
Spectator’s Journal
A Conservative Free Zone
Daniel J. Flynn | 7.6.12
Don’t look for conservative books in the Library of Congress’s summer book exhibit.
A Further Perspective
Meandering Mitt
Aaron Goldstein | 7.6.12
Romney must give Americans a choice on health care.
Media Matters
Glitter and Be Gay
Gerald Nachman | 7.6.12
Some candid talk about Anderson Cooper’s new ratings.
With the Tea Partiers
The Crime Scene Is Local
Ned Ryun | from the July - Aug 2012 issue
Because that’s where big-government spending begins.
Flashback
Republicans Are Stupid: Jan. 1987
Fred Barnes | 7.6.12
(Editor’s Note: Fred Barnes excoriated the GOP for missing the lessons of the 1986 election. Now, with Republicans split on whether — and how — to attack Obamacare, and with Mitt Romney arguing the individual insurance mandate is a tax, and his surrogate saying it’s a penalty… do we need a remedial class in campaigning?)
Thursday, July 5, 2012
The Current Crisis
Chief Justice Roberts, You Fox You
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 7.5.12
All things considered, we conservatives did not come out so badly.
Another Perspective
Repealing Healthcare Is a Losing Hand
William Tucker | 7.5.12
Don’t kid yourself — the Democrats have won this round.
The Right Prescription
How to Defeat and Replace Obamacare Now
Peter Ferrara | 7.5.12
There is life after Roberts’ double cross and Obama’s latest flurry of lies.
State Watch
Missing the Black Gold Rush
Bradley Anderson | 7.5.12
There is much Montanans can learn from the oil boom in neighboring North Dakota.
Ben Stein’s Diary
Too Much Illness and Death
Ben Stein | 7.5.12
Yet on Independence Day, in many places, America itself still works.
Political Hay
The States — Our Last Best Hope
Lisa Fabrizio | 7.5.12
There’s one escape from an increasingly tyrannical central government.
The Nation’s Pulse
Get Back in the Game
Christopher Orlet | 7.5.12
An interview with the head of the conservative pro-environmental group ConservAmerica.
A Further Perspective
Teaching Economics
Thomas Sowell | 7.5.12
Most students in most introductory economics courses are not going to become economics majors, much less professional economists.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Special Report
Walking to America
Jeffrey Lord | 7.3.12
A Fourth of July remembrance of one boy’s journey to the land of his dreams.
Streetcar Line
Obamacare’s Hideous History, Recounted
Quin Hillyer | 7.3.12
This law remains utterly illegitimate.
The Obama Watch
Still a ‘Fine’ Mess
J.T. Young | 7.3.12
Forget Obamacare — this election is still about the state of the private sector economy.
The Nation’s Pulse
Who Is Reading Whom?
Larry Thornberry | 7.3.12
Another post-privacy portal into our lives.
A Further Perspective
Judicial Betrayal
Thomas Sowell | 7.3.12
Conscience can be an implacable and inescapable punisher.
Economics
Creative Destruction and the Pruning Shears
Rev. Robert A. Sirico | 7.3.12
Choosing between withering on the vine and fruitful new growth.
Ben Stein’s Diary
A Case of Intracoastal Blues
Ben Stein | from the June 2012 issue
A magazine installment from the world’s leading Diarist.
Another Perspective
Born on the Fourth of July
Peter Hannaford | 7.3.12
Calvin Coolidge and July 4 go way back.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Political Hay
Supreme Beings
W. James Antle, III | 7.2.12
A Constitution, if we can keep it from being just whatever the judges say it is.
Another Perspective
Dragging America Into Turkey’s War with Syria?
Doug Bandow | 7.2.12
Once again NATO demonstrates just how outmoded it has become.
Buy the Book
Bad, Bad Republicans
James Piereson | from the July - Aug 2012 issue
The Washington establishment knows who to blame for the problems it refuses to address.
A Further Perspective
The Prophet of Europe’s Crisis
Samuel Gregg | 7.2.12
Wilhelm Röpke was a “euroskeptic” long before the term was coined.
Ben Stein’s Diary
The Homecoming
Ben Stein | 7.2.12
Some deep thoughts upon returning from Sandpoint.
Movie Takes
Your Sister’s Sister
James Bowman | 7.2.12
Everything is “weird” to these charmless nonentities.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
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