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The Wages of Primitivism in the Islamic World

Posted on September 10, 2010
A little perspective on Pastor Jones. Richard Nixon famously had his 'madman theory' during the Vietnam War. He wanted the North Vietnamese to believe he was irrational (not such a stretch, as it turned out) and ready to do anything to end the war...

The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage

Posted on September 10, 2010
If they?re not outraged by Ground Zero mosque protesters, it will be something else. Shhhhhhh, we're told. Don't protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don't burn a Koran. It'll imperil the troops. It'll inflame tensions...

The Next Hoover

Posted on September 10, 2010
With his inability to fix the economy, Obama looks more like FDR?s predecessor than like FDR. ‘Worst president since Hoover.' Democrats have said this at one point or another about every Republican president since, well, Herbert Hoover...

Reverend Jones and Both-Sidesism

Posted on September 10, 2010
When the press covers one extreme, it always feels a need to find someone, anyone, at the opposite extreme. For once, I'm with Hillary Clinton. Regarding the Rev. Terry Jones, the would-be Koran igniter who has at last backed down, the secretary of state said, 'It is regrettable that a pastor in Gainesville, Florida, with a church of no more than 50 people can make this outrageous and#...

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Holding the Line

Posted on September 10, 2010
President Obama has suddenly discovered the virtues of deficit reduction: Having spent all the money, he now thinks it would be downright irresponsible of taxpayers not to pick up some of his tab. His defenders would have us believe that every form of fiscal austerity would sink us deeper into the quicksand -- except for tax increases on the most productive individuals and profitable small businesses in the country...

Bashing Bush and Boehner Won?t Work

Posted on September 10, 2010
Obamanomics is the real problem. Under pressure from a barrage of bad midterm-election polls, President Obama has gone on the campaign trail to blame Pres. George W. Bush for all our economic problems, and to bash House Republican leader John Boehner as nothing more than a Bush retread...

Honoring Cardinal Newman

Posted on September 09, 2010
His greatness transcends religion. Most Americans may not have noticed the ascent of John Henry Cardinal Newman up the exacting heights of the blessed and toward the officially saintly, a progress that will bring Pope Benedict XVI to England this month...

The Event Horizon

Posted on September 09, 2010
We must fight the tendencies that are pulling our country toward a debt crisis. Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return...

Racial Voyeurism

Posted on September 09, 2010
A new program requires lenders to guess the races of clients who refuse to classify themselves. Mortgage servicers are now expected to record the race of all their clients -- including those expressly unwilling to provide one...

A Tax-Cutting Democrat

Posted on September 09, 2010
Rep. Gerry E. Connolly challenges his fellow Democrats on the Bush tax cuts. It's not often that Democratic congressmen turn to the Wall Street Journal to defend their stance on taxes. But as one of the first, and certainly the most outspoken, members of his party to come out in favor of extending the Bush tax cuts, even for the wealthiest Americans, freshman Rep...

Burning Questions

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Koran-burning stunt is a stupid and pointless provocation -- sound familiar? How do you know your vacation has been too short? You leave behind one charlatan, whose concept of 'building bridges' is a patently offensive project to build a giant Islamic center on a site where the remains of the thousands killed by Islamist terrorists are still being found, and then return to deal with another charlatan, one whose idea of nurturing a Christian community is to rally it to the gratuitously offensive gesture of burning Korans...

Nine Years Since 9/11

Posted on September 09, 2010
And still so much to learn. Nine years ago this week, I began a series of discussions about terrorism with Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and a small group of concerned philanthropists. Since Saturday is the ninth anniversary of the 9/11/01 atrocities, that won't surprise you...

O?Donnell and the Battle of Delaware

Posted on September 09, 2010
Will the state?s GOP take a chance on her? If this were simply a battle of ideas, then, perhaps, the conservative insurgent would be galloping ahead, with the washed-out moderate left choking on tea-party dust...

October Surprises

Posted on September 09, 2010
Will the Obama administration tackle Iran?s nuclear ambitions? In less than 60 days, the Democrats will probably suffer historic losses in both the House and the Senate. The eleventh-hour campaigning of the now-unpopular Barack Obama on behalf of endangered congressional candidates will not change much...

Sinking with Obama

Posted on September 09, 2010
The 2010 midterms look to be a historic defeat of Democrats. When you spot the word 'triage' in a political news story, you know someone is in trouble. Triage is the procedure by which medical personnel screening people who have been injured in combat or disasters separate those who can be saved from those who can't...

Scattershot Stimulus

Posted on September 08, 2010
The scattershot nature of President Obama's latest economic proposals is a sign that the administration is starting to panic -- and panic it should: The GOP's advantage in generic-ballot polling is approaching historic proportions. But the composition of the proposals also tells us something else: The administration knows it is losing its fight to let certain of the Bush tax cuts expire -- even though it now has explicitly ruled out a compromise on extending them -- and it is making one last push to buy leverage for its position by offering 'targeted' tax cuts to the business community...

In November, It?s Democrats vs. Obamacare

Posted on September 08, 2010
There are 31 anti-Obamacare Democrats, but none with the guts to cross Pelosi. When Obamacare finally passed the House, 34 Democrats voted no. Thirty-one of those Democrats are now running for reelection, and, not surprisingly, many of them are highlighting their opposition to the bill...

Our Waning Obama Worship

Posted on September 08, 2010
We Americans know not what we do. In just 20 months, President Obama's polls have crashed. From near 70 percent approval, they have fallen to well below 50 percent. Over 70 percent of the public disapproves of the Democratically controlled Congress...

This Is Where We Begin to Say No

Posted on September 08, 2010
On the Ground Zero mosque, Americans reject the opinion elites that empower the Islamists. A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West...

I, Market Economy

Posted on September 08, 2010
Central planning never works. No one in the world knows how to make the computer monitor you are looking at (and, if you're reading this on your phone, iPad, or Kindle, no one knows how to make those things either)...

A November wish, &c.

Posted on September 08, 2010
I know you heard Harry Reid's infamous statement. Which one, you ask? The one he made recently before a group of his Hispanic supporters. He said, 'I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay? Do I need to say more?' No...

Deep in the Obama Bunker

Posted on September 08, 2010
Amidst a potentially historic revolt against the status quo, the former agent of change offers only more of the same. Who is trapped in a deeper, more inaccessible bunker? The 33 Chilean miners getting food, water, and messages from the outside world through a tiny borehole, or Rahm Emanuel and the fellas at the White House who have apparently not yet received word that the American public is summoning itself for a shattering rejection of the administration's spending? Pres...

Obama?s $50 Billion Infrastructure Boondoggle

Posted on September 08, 2010
Recovery Summer turns to Union Payback Fall. President Obama calls his latest attempt to revive the economy a 'Plan to Renew and Expand America's Roads, Railways and Runways.' I'm calling it 'The Mother of All Big Dig Boondoggles...

Rasmussen Retorts

Posted on September 08, 2010
The pollster chats with NRO about the midterms and more. This week began with several big-name polls showcasing dire news for Democratic incumbents. But the results weren't all that surprising to those who have been following the much-discussed surveys of Scott Rasmussen...

Mary Jo Kilroy, Socialist Revolutionary

Posted on September 07, 2010
Ohio candidate published socialist newspaper calling for revolution. Given the strong prospects of Republican resurgence this year, the Left has taken to blaming their pending debacle on paranoia...

Fighting for Alaska

Posted on September 07, 2010
Senatorial hopeful Joe Miller hopes that his campaign will be about more than tea-party buzz. After toppling Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP Senate primary, Joe Miller is in no mood to compromise...

America Wants School Reform

Posted on September 07, 2010
American schoolchildren do very badly on international comparisons. It?s not their fault. The great tragedy of American education is not that the system fails so many children, but that we know why and yet do very little about it...

The Case for Marriage

Posted on September 07, 2010
From the Sep. 20, 2010, issue of NR. If it is true, as we are constantly told, that American law will soon redefine marriage to accommodate same-sex partnerships, the proximate cause for this development will not be that public opinion favors it, although it appears to be moving in that direction...

The Biggest Bubble-Makers

Posted on September 07, 2010
No, not investors ? government officials. Amid signs that another financial bubble might be in the making -- this time involving U.S. Treasury bonds priced at about 100 times their yield -- it would be helpful to review what one might call bubble dynamics...

Americans Wake Up to Islamism

Posted on September 07, 2010
An energetic public reaction to something like the Ground Zero mosque would have been inconceivable a decade ago. The furor over the Islamic center, variously called the Ground Zero mosque, Cordoba House, and Park51, has large implications for the future of Islam in the United States and perhaps beyond...

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