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by | Oct 26, 2012

OH, NO! WHAT A WASTE!” called out my wife when I stuck my head into her study with the news that Governor Romney’s choice for vice president was Paul Ryan. “What do you mean?” I demanded. After all, I’d been…

by | Sep 22, 2012

THIS IS A DECIDEDLY MINORITY OPINION, but the case with the biggest potential impact before the federal courts this year is not the saga of Obamacare. There’s no gainsaying that Obamacare was an important case, and it’s hard to sugarcoat…

by | Jul 7, 2012

AS ABDELBASET AL-MEGRAHI settles in on the far side of the river Styx, let us reflect on the scandal of his final years. It will always be a mark on the administration of President Obama that the Libyan died a…

by | Jun 2, 2012

The wolf will live with the sheep and the leopard will lie down with the kid; and a calf, a lion whelp and a fatling [will walk] together, and a young child will lead them. All rise. It would no…

by | May 15, 2012

It looks like the presidential election is going to be haunted by the ghost of Estelle Griswold. She was the director of Planned Parenthood in Connecticut when she was fined $100 for violating laws of the Nutmeg State against disseminating…

by | Apr 24, 2012

America is in danger “of becoming something of a legal backwater,” a justice of the High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby, is quoted as telling the New York Times. His comment is in a scoop that ran under the headline…

by | Mar 31, 2012

One of the big tests for the Republicans as the presidential race moves into high gear will be whether they can draw out into an open contest the candidate I like to call William Jennings Obama. His name is a…

by | Feb 16, 2012

When the justices of the Supreme Court start preparing their decision in the challenge to Obamacare, they may yet have to get to the bottom of the question of whether James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were…

by | Mar 31, 2011

When historians look back on the predicament of American liberalism, no doubt they will regard with amazement the fracas that broke out when it became clear that the House of Representatives would open the 112th Congress with a reading of…

by | Nov 2, 2009

Why Are Jews Liberals?By Norman Podhoretz (Doubleday, 337 pages, $27) Some years ago the New York Sun issued an editorial called “The Podhoretz Method.” It was triggered by a jibe that had been made against the former editor of Commentary…

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