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The good guys win one, &c.

Posted on October 14, 2010
Here on this blessed website, I've gone on a bit about the Nobel Peace Prize -- the award this year to Liu Xiaobo. And I will have a piece in the forthcoming National Review (available in digital form tomorrow, and available in the hoary paper form shortly thereafter)...

Of Niqabs and Neo-Colonialism

Posted on October 14, 2010
How gender apartheid goes mainstream. What's your opinion of polygamy? Many consider the practice immoral, and it's illegal in this country and most of the developed world. It's probably not just coincidence that few, if any, polygamous countries are liberal democratic societies in which women enjoy equal rights...

Deficits and Depression

Posted on October 14, 2010
Americans can tolerate belt-tightening, but not the national humiliation of the deficit. We will learn in November just how angry the public is about a lot of things, from higher taxes to massive unemployment...

Dick Blumenthal and the Death Penalty

Posted on October 14, 2010
A Connecticut Senate candidate is running from his record on capital punishment. If voters are curious about what Dick Blumenthal would be like as a United States senator, they should first be aware of his record as a state legislator...

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Another Mortgage Mess

Posted on October 14, 2010
The scandal at the center of our latest mortgage mess is not the 'robo signers' who played fast and loose with the affidavits submitted in foreclosure cases. It is that after years of propping up the banks and the alleged reform of the financial system under the Dodd-Frank bill, we still are teetering on the same precipice upon which we found ourselves in the wake of the Lehman Bros...

Some Pragmatism

Posted on October 13, 2010
Obama is turning back the clock on counterterrorism. ‘Obama's administration has adopted what it calls a flexible approach' to terrorism cases, says the Reuters dispatch. The president, Reuters elaborates, 'favor[s] military tribunals in some cases and civilian trials in others...

Keeping the Poor in Poverty

Posted on October 13, 2010
School choice, lower taxes, job creation: These, and not welfare payments, are what would really help the poor. In his autobiography, former British prime minister Tony Blair recounts the political epiphany that caused him to break with the old-style class-warfare–based Labour Party that he had grown up with...

The Prisoner of Sex

Posted on October 13, 2010
From the Oct. 18, 2010, issue of NR. I was out of the country during most of Camille Paglia's rise as a commentator on sex and culture. I encountered her writing directly for the first time only this summer, in a New York Times opinion piece about erotic malaise in the American bourgeoisie ('No Sex Please, We're Middle Class,' June 27)...

Late to the Tea Party

Posted on October 13, 2010
John Kasich?s base problem. A month ago, Ohio's Republican gubernatorial hopeful, John Kasich, seemed to have nothing to worry about. His opponent, incumbent governor Ted Strickland, was running an unfocused, attack-of-the-week-style campaign...

Tea for Three

Posted on October 13, 2010
The Tea Party Express will go into overdrive for a trio of Senate candidates. @font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }@font-face { font-family: "Lucida Grande"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div...

Look Who?s Nativist Now

Posted on October 13, 2010
GOP candidates should remind voters of all the shady foreign and mystery cash Democratic donors have pumped into the political system. Oh, this is side-splitting: After exporting U.S. jobs, importing foreign debt, and kowtowing to global thugs shamelessly over the past two years, the Obama administration is now playing the 'America First' card...

Government Greed

Posted on October 13, 2010
Politicians are more rapacious than CEOs. Those who are always accusing people in the private sector of 'greed' almost never level that charge against the government, no matter what it does. Indeed, the question of whether the government is greedy almost never comes up, so most of us probably never think about it...

Obama's Outsized Ego

Posted on October 13, 2010
It?s become impossible to miss the president?s high self-regard. ‘That's all right, all of you know who I am,' President Obama joked last week when the presidential seal fell off his podium during a speech in Pittsburgh...

Pledge Drive

Posted on October 12, 2010
A majority of voters in key districts want Obamacare repealed. This is a gift for Republicans ? if they grasp it. In a recent survey of twelve battleground districts for The Hill, Democratic pollster Mark Penn found that 56 percent of voters want the new health-care law repealed...

Obama?s Radical Past

Posted on October 12, 2010
And his connection to socialism isn?t all ancient history, either. On the afternoon of April 1, 1983, Barack Obama, then a senior at Columbia University, made his way into the Great Hall of Manhattan's Cooper Union to attend a 'Socialist Scholars Conference...

When Obama is graceless, &c.

Posted on October 12, 2010
Yesterday, I was writing a little something about Jim Jones and Tom Donilon: The one is leaving the post of national security adviser; the other is assuming it. And I listened to a clip of President Obama, talking about this development. You can find it here...

God, Liberals, and Liberty

Posted on October 12, 2010
America?s anomalous religiosity is very much worth celebrating. In a recent column, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow wrote: 'It's sometimes easy to lose sight of just how anomalous [America's] religiosity is in the world...

Obama?s McCarthyite Moment

Posted on October 12, 2010
Is it possible to be post-American and xenophobic at the same time? When Barack Obama went to the 2004 Democratic convention, where he made a splash as a mere U.S. Senate candidate, he told a reporter: 'I'm LeBron, baby...

Liu Si, Obama No

Posted on October 12, 2010
Liu Xiaobo's Peace Prize reminds us that China needs confronting. Ten months ago, when Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to eleven years in prison for 'inciting subversion of state power,' the world response was muted...

Feingold versus Johnson

Posted on October 12, 2010
The outcome will hinge on voters? knowledge of the facts. One of a surprising number of old, well-established politicians being challenged in this year's election by unknown newcomers is Sen. Russ Feingold in Wisconsin...

Five Foul Lies

Posted on October 12, 2010
Five dishonest television ads set the tone for this year?s Democratic campaigns. Domestic violence. Promoting prostitution. Impoverishment of the elderly. Higher unemployment. Drug dealing. These are the values that inspire and drive Republican politicians -- at least according to the barrage of Democratic attack ads airing this election season...

Obama the Alien

Posted on October 12, 2010
To be so completely disconnected from political reality and the investor class, the president must be from another planet. Believe it or not, with jobs falling for four consecutive months and unemployment stubbornly high near 10 percent, President Obama is out on the campaign trail bashing businesses and promoting class warfare...

Ashjian Threatens Angle

Posted on October 11, 2010
Can a fake Tea Party candidate derail the bid to unseat Harry Reid? The outcome of the nation's marquee Senate race may hinge on the number of votes that go to a man who cleverly co-opted the Tea Party name and has been called everything from 'opportunist' to 'egomaniac' to 'whack job...

Religion, Politics, and Other Unmentionables

Posted on October 11, 2010
Author Peter Wehner talks with NRO. Two former aides in the George W. Bush administration have collaborated again, this time on the new book, City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era. Michael Gerson is former policy adviser and chief speechwriter to President Bush...

Can Skinflint Mitch Daniels Win the Presidency?

Posted on October 11, 2010
The Indiana governor would bring long-range planning to the White House. It's an ornate office in Indiana's beautifully maintained mid-19th-century capitol, but the 49th governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, is not dressed to match the setting...

Federal Fat Cats

Posted on October 11, 2010
To Democratic officeholders (and, alas, Bush-Rove-Hastert Republicans) greed is fine when it is practiced in Washington, D.C. ‘I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street,' President Obama told CBS's 60 Minutes...

EMILY?s List Does Not Speak for Me

Posted on October 11, 2010
And probably not for you, either, if you?re like the majority of Americans ? including the majority of women. Do you have your John Boehner Halloween costume yet? I know they're not flying off the shelves of your nearest costume headquarters, but you'd never know that listening to Barack Obama and those who are trying to keep his party in power...

The Democrats? Latest Ploy

Posted on October 11, 2010
Bogus charges of GOP campaign-finance violations reek of desperation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently said Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is the primary cause behind Democrats' midterm woes...

Terrorist Trials for Radicals

Posted on October 09, 2010
The Obama administration is taking an Alinskyite approach to the prosecution of Ahmed Ghailani. Earlier this week, as sadly foretold here, Judge Lewis Kaplan suppressed the testimony of a key witness in the prosecution of Ahmed Ghailani for the 1998 bombings of American embassies in East Africa...

Tea Across the Pond

Posted on October 08, 2010
?A warning from someone whose present resembles your future.? Daniel Hannan could be the ultimate tea-party candidate, waving his pocket Constitution, citing the Founders, and warning that we are in danger of losing America itself...

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