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Saturday, October 13, 2012

The Public Policy

Romney’s Education Choice

Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara | from the October 2012 issue

Romney’s education proposal would provide sweeping national leadership.

Conservative Tastes

The State of Our Nature

James Bowman | from the October 2012 issue

Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint, And knew not eating Death.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Feature

Dreams From Frank Marshall Davis

Paul Kengor | from the October 2012 issue

Meet the hard-core Communist who mentored the future 44th President of the United States.

Ben Stein’s Diary

Let’s Clean House

Ben Stein | 10.12.12

The Obama Libya gang must go — along with Joe Biden of the unfair debate. 

Campaign Crawlers

Crazy Uncle Joe

Robert Stacy McCain | 10.12.12

Democrats cheer Biden’s debate antics, but Ryan scores better overall.

Political Hay

Bluster and Loose Talk

George Neumayr | 10.12.12

Biden swung hard but mostly hit air.

A Further Perspective

Style to Ryan, Substance to Ryan

Matt Purple | 10.12.12

Biden was good but he lost on both.

Sports Arena

The Gambler

Daniel J. Flynn | 10.12.12

In the end, Alex Karras was lucky he didn’t play for the Detroit Tigers.

The Nation’s Pulse

Sleepless in St. Louis

Andrew B. Wilson | 10.12.12

Entrepreneur/Super-Mom fears an Obama victory.

Special Report

A Glimpse of Berkeley

Tom Bethell | 10.12.12

And some thoughts about racial preferences and equality before the law.

In Memoriam

The Old Paratrooper’s Last Drop

Larry Thornberry | 10.12.12

RIP Sam Gibbons — perhaps the last liberal who was not a leftist.

Flashback

Gary Sick’s Bald-Faced Lies: March 1993

Steven Emerson | 10.12.12

(Editor’s Note: With the November election just days away, it’s time for October Surprise, a venerable American political tradition. Except that perhaps the most famous entry in the genre was, of course, a liberal lie.)

Feature

Gary Sick’s Bald-Faced Lies

Steven Emerson | from the March 1993 issue

The October Surprise hoax is laid to rest — at least outside the Clinton Administration.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Special Report

Reagan on Biden: ‘Smooth But Pure Demagogue’

Jeffrey Lord | 10.11.12

Gipper accused VP of being part of “lynch mob.”

Political Hay

An Army of Breitbarts

Robert Stacy McCain | 10.11.12

New Media brigades keep marching, and taking the fight to the liberal foe.

The Current Crisis

The Essential Obama

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 10.11.12

So I wasn’t insane.

Campaign Crawlers

The Businesswoman and the Bumbler

Matt Purple | 10.11.12

Connecticut’s Senate race turns brutal.

Another Perspective

Memorandum for the Vice President

Dean Clancy | 10.11.12

Insider tips on how Mr. Biden might bury his opponent tonight.

The Environmental Spectator

With Obama It’s Top and Bottom Against the Middle

William Tucker | 10.11.12

Among the 47 percent, there’s a sucker born every minute.

A Further Perspective

Tough Time to Be a Woman

Melissa O'Sullivan | 10.11.12

Where would we be without the Sinisterhood?

Movie Takes

End of Watch

James Bowman | 10.11.12

From Hollywood, a police story in which the cops are allowed to be good guys again.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Nation’s Pulse

A Secularizing America?

Mark Tooley | 10.10.12

Not so fast — the new Pew study confirms Mainline Protestantism’s decline but otherwise shows religious practice to be thriving in the U.S.

Special Report

Time to Investigate the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Peter Ferrara | 10.10.12

What’s with the Household Survey’s miraculous spurt of 873,000 new jobs?

Political Hay

Old Smirkin’ Joe:

Paul Kengor | 10.10.12

Paul Ryan readies for the Biden Treatment.

Feature

A Conservative Defense Agenda

Jed Babbin | from the October 2012 issue

Reconciling great power responsibilities with economic stagnation.

Eminentoes

‘The Dozen Most Overrated Black People’

Ross Kaminsky | 10.10.12

Racism pays at Columbia University and the Huffington Post.

A Further Perspective

A Heartbeat Away

Russ Ferguson | 10.10.12

The real reason to pay attention to tomorrow’s debate.

Sports Arena

The Other Big 33

W. James Antle, III | 10.10.12

New England running back Kevin Faulk always put the team first.

Buy the Book

Race Cards

Thomas Sowell | 10.10.12

Ann Coulter’s Mugged is a rarity — an honest book about race.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Special Report

Obama’s Jobs Flimflam

Jeffrey Lord | 10.9.12

1.7 million illegals suddenly added to job pool — but the unemployment rate drops?

Streetcar Line

Volleyball Dad Channels Tug McGraw

Quin Hillyer | 10.9.12

Believing is the first, essential step toward winning.

Ben Stein’s Diary

A Reason to Be Republican

Ben Stein | 10.9.12

A reading from Hayek via Bartlett’s.

The Obama Watch

The Great Pretender

Aaron Goldstein | 10.9.12

Obama isn’t intelligent enough to be in the same room with Romney.

2065: America Fifty Years After Obama

Federer in Hawaii

William Tucker | 10.9.12

Chapter 7 of Mr. Tucker novel 2065, now in its fifth week of serialization, on America and China after the latter’s seizure of Pearl Harbor.

A Further Perspective

Crackup Central

Ralph R. Reiland | 10.9.12

The federal government’s own numbers crunchers project utter budgetary collapse. 

The Obama Watch

Phony in Chief

Thomas Sowell | 10.9.12

When he gave that demagogic speech, in a feigned accent and style, it was world class chutzpah and a rhetorical triumph.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Loose Canons

CSI Benghazi

Jed Babbin | 10.8.12

Futile and pointless best describe the FBI investigation of the consulate attack.

Campaign Crawlers

Counting on Coal Country

Robert Stacy McCain | 10.8.12

Romney fights for jobs — and votes — in an industry at war with Obama’s EPA.

The Right Prescription

AARP Stands by as Obama Gets Mugged by Reality

David Catron | 10.8.12

The President’s erstwhile ally in the Obamacare debate says it doesn’t want to get involved.

Political Hay

A Wolf That Comes as a Wolf

Jack Park | 10.8.12

Beware the Democrats’ Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2011 (S. 1994).

Special Report

Analyzing Aleppo

Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | 10.8.12

Just who are the rebels and why is the fight here against Syria’s regime dragging on so long?

The Tax and Spend Spectator

A Time for Choosing—Really

Grover G. Norquist | from the October 2012 issue

Democrats claimed to be delighted that Republicans put their plans in writing. They have it backward.

Movie Takes

The Master

James Bowman | 10.8.12

A wonderful movie, in which the dupe outshines the con-man.

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