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Friday, July 13, 2012

Streetcar Line

Rice Should Not Be on Romney’s Menu

Quin Hillyer | 7.13.12

Former Sec-State would be disastrous veep choice.

The Nation’s Pulse

Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?

Daniel J. Flynn | 7.13.12

The DirecTV-Viacom cable war is intense because nothing of value is at stake.

Special Report

Ordering More Disorders

Noel Koch | 7.13.12

As it discovers new “disorders,” the DSM guidebook for psychotherapists should dispose of Post-Traumatic Stress.

The Right Prescription

No More Gun to the Head

Andrew B. Wilson | 7.13.12

There’s no reason the states should participate in the president’s Bernie Madoff-type scheme.

Campaign Crawlers

PACs Pound Nelson

Larry Thornberry | 7.13.12

What’s behind the Republican surge against vulnerable Democrat Bill Nelson in Florida Senate race.

A Further Perspective

The Real Damage Done by High Tax Rates

Ron Ross | 7.13.12

The real problem is how they misdirect and misallocate economic activity.

At Large

Turkey Struggling With Ambition

George H. Wittman | 7.13.12

Breaking up with Assad is costing Prime Minister Erdogan big time.

The Public Policy

The Invincible Lie: Part II

Thomas Sowell | 7.13.12

As far back as the 1920s, a huge cut in the highest income tax rate led to a huge increase in the amount of tax revenue collected by the federal government. Why?

Flashback

The Tempting of Justice Kennedy: Feb. 1993

Terry Eastland | 7.13.12

(Editor’s Note: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee, has over decades traveled a winding path from solid jurisprudence to judicial shenanigans. Yet in the court’s recent ruling on Obamacare, he sided with those willing to strike down the law entirely. Has Kennedy’s pendulum swung home for good?)

Flashback

The Tempting of Justice Kennedy

Terry Eastland | from the February 1993 issue

Is it the Greenhouse Effect that has turned Anthony Kennedy into the Harry Blackmun of our time — that is, a Justice who “grew”?

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Political Hay

It’s Not the Clinton Economy Anymore

W. James Antle, III | 7.12.12

Bringing back 1990s tax rates won’t bring back that decade’s economic boom.

Eminentoes

The Titanic of Talk Radio?

Jeffrey Lord | 7.12.12

Has an iceberg named Limbaugh already started to sink the Huckabee show?

Another Perspective

Don’t Count on a Housing Rebound Any Time Soon

William Tucker | 7.12.12

Even if you’re qualified to buy now the banks couldn’t care less.

At Large

Rethinking Libya

Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | 7.12.12

What explains the Islamist setback in the recent elections?

The Current Crisis

The Coming Election and My Life Jacket

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 7.12.12

Captain Tyrrell navigates the Great Lakes.

Special Report

Contraceptive Evangelicals?

Mark Tooley | 7.12.12

Exposed by Marvin Olasky, the National Association of Evangelicals completes its leftward drift.

The Nation’s Pulse

Mayberry 2012

Christopher Orlet | 7.12.12

Revisiting America’s hometown a half-century later.

The Public Policy

The Invincible Lie

Thomas Sowell | 7.12.12

Once we have put aside the lies and the convoluted use of words, what are we left with?

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Obama Watch

A Second Term Will Be Terminal

Peter Ferrara | 7.11.12

Another four years of Obamanomics and Argentina will be crying for us.

Special Report

Bring Fenty Back

RiShawn Biddle | 7.11.12

Under Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, our nation’s capital is again a bastion of urban corruption.

Campaign Crawlers

Heavenly Hillsborough

Larry Thornberry | 7.11.12

From the center of the political universe.

Another Perspective

George Can’t Tell a Lie

Jay D. Homnick | 7.11.12

An Obama to remember and admire (with special thanks to Dinesh D’Souza).

Sports Arena

All-Time All-Stars: Part II

Thomas Sowell | 7.11.12

Who is the greatest all-time pitcher?

Politics

California Demon

John H. Fund | from the July - Aug 2012 issue

A state fast becoming America’s version of Greece.

Movie Takes

The Intouchables Upsets the Politically Correct

James Bowman | 7.11.12

Imagine a French movie doing that!

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

A Further Perspective

Obama vs. Job Creation

Doug Bandow | 7.10.12

The Regulatory State keeps Americans unemployed.

Streetcar Line

Veep, Veep: The Update

Quin Hillyer | 7.10.12

Cherchez la femme.

Political Hay

Chief Justice Neville Chamberlain

Jeffrey Lord | 7.10.12

Appeasing Statism: John Roberts abandons Constitution, Court, and Conservatives.

Special Report

Drone Coming

Reid Smith | 7.10.12

The growing use of domestic drones is setting off alarms — justifiably?

The Nation’s Pulse

A Return to Oratory

Andrew Roberts | from the July - Aug 2012 issue

A Churchill exhibition in Manhattan reminds us of what’s missing in our politics.

Economics

Jobs Versus Net Jobs

Thomas Sowell | 7.10.12

There is no free lunch in the job market.

Sports Arena

Yes, Virginia, There Is an All-Star Break

Aaron Goldstein | 7.10.12

Kansas City, here we come.

Monday, July 9, 2012

The Right Prescription

The States Can Still Kill Obamacare

David Catron | 7.9.12

By taking aim at its insurance exchanges, the law’s Achilles’ heel, they can do it in.

Loose Canons

Romney’s Doldrums

Jed Babbin | 7.9.12

He should be doing a lot better — and it’s increasingly becoming more apparent why he’s not.

The Obama Watch

The Color of Your Character

Ross Kaminsky | 7.9.12

Liberals have a racial answer to everything they find inconvenient about our president.

Another Perspective

Memo to the Zimmerman Judge

Arnold S. Trebach | 7.9.12

Judge Lester should recuse himself in the Zimmerman-Martin case.

Campaign Crawlers

Having a Cow for Freedom



Jeremy Lott | 7.9.12

A political rally where at least one speaker’s sermonizing proved counterproductive.

A Further Perspective

Federer Overwhelms Murray, Returns to Top

Roger Kaplan | 7.9.12

Scot’s Wimbledon heroics insufficient after loss in epic point.

Buy the Book

Spenser for Rehire

Larry Thornberry | 7.9.12

Buy at least one of these books.

Sports Arena

All-Time All-Stars

Thomas Sowell | 7.9.12

Who was the all-time greatest hitter?

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