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Friday, December 21, 2012

Editorial Cartoon

Promising the Moon

Yogi Love | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

Special Report

More Than Just Another Cartoon

Shawn Macomber | 12.21.12

Iraq combat vets pay tribute to the heroes of “the forgotten war.”

The Vacation Spectator

The Jet Lag Journal

Ross Kaminsky | 12.21.12

Postcards from a family holiday get-away to half-way around the world.

The Nation’s Pulse

Man Out of Time

Daniel J. Flynn | 12.21.12

Dragnet’s Jack Webb died thirty years ago, and a lot of America has been dead ever since.

Another Perspective

The ‘Max Tax’ Amendment to the Constitution

James M. Thunder | 12.21.12

Advocates of genuine fairness would have it no other way.

At Large

Afghanistan Report Card

George H. Wittman | 12.21.12

Now the U.S. and NATO are being blamed for not dragging the country out of the 19th century.

Eminentoes

The Good Face, Not the Good Book

Jay D. Homnick | 12.21.12

Beware of Mark Zuckerberg bearing gifts.

Among the Intellectualoids

Trash on the Hudson

Mark Tooley | 12.21.12

The new FDR movie Hyde Park on Hudson is a travesty and total lie.

Flashback

Counting the Costs of Clintonism: Nov. 1998

Robert H. Bork | 12.21.12

(Editor’s Note: The death of judge Robert Bork has sparked an outpouring of admiration on the right. “A more decent man it would be hard to find,” writes our own Jeffery Lord. The crew over at National Review adds the adjectives “wise” and “humane” and “stoic.” He was a man with “teriffic comic timing!” Those characteristics and more would have made him a superb Supreme Court justice. Would that we lived in “Robert Bork’s America.”)

Feature

Counting the Costs of Clintonism

Robert H. Bork | from the November 1998 issue

The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our culture.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Political Hay

The Three Not So ‘Wise Men’ of Washington, D.C.

Betsy McCaughey | 12.20.12

These politicians are cooking the books.

In Memoriam

Robert Bork’s America

Jeffrey Lord | 12.20.12

Reagan’s Supreme Court nominee: The Constitution and the savage attack that made his name a verb.

The Current Crisis

Hillary Takes a Fall

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.20.12

Why hasn’t she been hospitalized?

The Obama Watch

Obama’s Gettysburg Address?

Patrick O'Hannigan | 12.20.12

Must we continue to set the bar too low?

Special Report

South Korea’s New Direction

Doug Bandow | 12.20.12

The election of its first woman president could mean some new “sunshine” for North Korea.

Another Perspective

Right of Revolution?

Joseph Shattan | 12.20.12

Reflections on a senator and the Second Amendment.

The Public Policy

‘Forward’ to the Past?

Thomas Sowell | 12.20.12

Obama remains oblivious to lessons China and India learned the hard way.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Special Report

The Media’s Gunsmoke

George Neumayr | 12.19.12

Its lamentations are empty.

The Obama Watch

Lockouts and Fiscal Cliffs

Gerald D. Skoning | 12.19.12

As the Obama-Boehner negotiations run amok, the president has the temerity to instruct the NHL to resolve its standoff.

The Public Policy

Fewer Guns, More Crime

Peter Ferrara | 12.19.12

It is time to put liberal posturing aside.

The Nation’s Pulse

Bushwhacked

Nicole Russell | 12.19.12

Compare your kids’ school to the rest of the country — or world — with an updated tool from the Bush Institute.

A Further Perspective

He Says He Wants Us to Change

Aaron Goldstein | 12.19.12

How might that be?

Sports Arena

The Toy Department

Lisa Fabrizio | 12.19.12

Who says sports are an escape from the real world?

Buy the Book

On Knowing When to Shut Up

John R. Coyne, Jr. | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

Edmund Morris failed at one of his most important undertakings.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Another Perspective

Abortion and Newtown: The Culture of Violence

Jeffrey Lord | 12.18.12

Mass shootings on rise since Roe v. Wade: Planned Parenthood as the NRA of Abortion? By Jeffrey Lord

A Further Perspective

Evil Comes Calling

Matt Purple | 12.18.12

Searching for answers after Newtown and finding little.

Ben Stein’s Diary

Honoring My Father

Ben Stein | 12.18.12

Last night’s introduction to the first annual NEC Herbert Stein Memorial Lecture.

Special Report

Iraq: One Year After Withdrawal

Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | 12.18.12

The U.S. withdrew one year ago today — if anyone in Iraq cares to notice.

Streetcar Line

Children as Victims, Children as Healers

Quin Hillyer | 12.18.12

Musings on hope, love, and Grace.

Letter From Paris

Slouching Toward Dhimmitude

Joseph A. Harriss | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

What rough beast is being born in France?

The Obama Watch

Give It to Me

Ralph R. Reiland | 12.18.12

“Giving something back” is Obama-speak for shaking down those who already pay twice their fair share.

The Public Policy

Invincible Ignorance

Thomas Sowell | 12.18.12

Anti-gun zealots continue to deny the facts.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Loose Canons

Preventing School Massacres

Jed Babbin | 12.17.12

Are there ways to defend the defenseless?

Ben Stein’s Diary

God Help Us

Ben Stein | 12.17.12

A massacre that has turned the world upside down.

Another Perspective

A Time for Everything

Nicole Russell | 12.17.12

Sandy Hook’s lesson: Mourn with those who mourn.

The Right Prescription

Kathleen the Terrible

David Catron | 12.17.12

Kathleen Sebelius is the most corrupt and arrogant HHS secretary in history.

A Further Perspective

A Tale of Two (Reagan) Cities

Paul Kengor | 12.17.12

Dixon, Illinois is Reagan’s America. Chicago, Illinois is not.

The Nation’s Pulse

Laws and More Laws

Peter Hannaford | 12.17.12

These never fail to display annoying, intended consequences

Buy the Book

A Final Memoir of William Faulkner

Mark Tooley | 12.17.12

The great writers, remembered by the niece he helped raise who herself died last year.

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