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Ten Liberal Perspectives on Manning

Posted on March 14, 2011
The professional Left is at odds with the president. Yesterday, P. J. Crowley was forced to an early resignation from his post as State Department spokesman. His blunder? At an event at MIT last Thursday, he said that 'what is being done to Bradley Manning is ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid on the part of the Department of Defense,' and that Manning was being mistreated...

Cowboy Subsidies

Posted on March 12, 2011
In Harry Reid?s world, the cowboy embodies dependency without end. How mean-spirited are House Republicans? So mean-spirited that they would end federally funded cowboy poetry! Last Tuesday, Harry Reid, the majority leader, took to the Senate floor to thunder that this town ain't big enough for both him and the Mean-Spirited Kid (John Boehner)...

All Aboard the Climate Gravy Train

Posted on March 11, 2011
There was a time when climate scientists were not extremely well paid, but that is no longer the case. Global-warming alarmists often portray climate scientists as poorly paid academics whose judgment is impervious to the influence of money...

Wisconsin: Playing the Recall Card

Posted on March 11, 2011
Which side has its finger on the public?s pulse? Because of their vote on Wednesday night to limit collective bargaining for some public workers, eight GOP Wisconsin state senators may face recall elections in the coming weeks...

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Obama?s Social Security Hoax

Posted on March 11, 2011
The president will demagogue Social Security as his ticket to reelection. Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three -- Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security -- Social Security is the most solvable...

Peter King?s Important Service

Posted on March 11, 2011
Rep. Peter King is being demonized for holding hearings on a problem that Attorney General Holder says ?keeps me up at night.? Betty Friedan famously wrote about 'the problem that has no name...

All Things Contemptible

Posted on March 11, 2011
What NPR?s ?educated and intelligent? elite really thinks James O'Keefe, who is now felling executives of National Public Radio as he previously trap-doored ACORN, must be a deeply cynical young man...

Dems? Dull Budget Scissors

Posted on March 11, 2011
Nancy Pelosi demands more while President Obama refuses to lead. According to earthly logic, if you got a raise of 10 percent last year, but this year you got a raise of only 8 percent, you still got a raise...

The Right to Choose

Posted on March 11, 2011
It?s time for the National Right to Work Act. Even as they scream for 'workers' rights,' the one right that union bosses despise is the right to work. Big Labor and its overwhelmingly Democratic allies oppose a woman's right to choose whether to join a union...

Back to the Shores of Tripoli?

Posted on March 10, 2011
On intervention in Libya The official hymn of the U.S. Marine Corps famously begins with 'From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country's battles in the air, on land, and sea...

No Intervention in Libya

Posted on March 10, 2011
In the absence of compelling national-security interests, we should stay out. I am against intervention in Libya. In explaining why, four things about the ongoing commentary and handwringing over no-fly zones and other potential U...

Obama's Gitmo Doubletalk

Posted on March 10, 2011
On Monday, President Obama issued a new executive order (with attendant new policies explained in the White House's 'New Actions on Guantanámo and Detainee Policy' fact sheet) that resumes military-tribunal prosecutions of terrorists detained at Guantanámo Bay...

A Diplomatic Surge in Iraq?

Posted on March 10, 2011
Without the right people and the right strategy, it won?t help. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently proposed a 'diplomatic surge' in Afghanistan to end the war. The goals are threefold: breaking the alliance between the Taliban and al-Qaeda, defeating the Taliban insurgency, and restoring regional stability...

The State of Obama

Posted on March 10, 2011
A calamity on all fronts An observer is entitled to wonder if this administration has taken leave of its senses. I have often written here that it might do better at some point, but it has been in office for 26 months and its policy record is a shambles...

Real Health-Care Reform

Posted on March 10, 2011
We don?t need top-down, centralized health-care reform; we need governance reform. President Obama announced this week his support for legislation that would give states more flexibility in meeting the objectives of his signature health-care reform...

Endgame in Wisconsin

Posted on March 10, 2011
The state senate moves boldly against collective bargaining. After an exhausting three-week stalemate, Wisconsin Republicans maneuvered late Wednesday to curb collective bargaining for public-sector workers, passing an amended budget-repair bill by an 18–1 vote in the state senate...

Letting it all hang out, &c.

Posted on March 10, 2011
Like you, maybe, I have mixed feelings about these journalistic 'sting operations' -- in which people assume false identities, catching other people in the act of being themselves. But what these operations uncover is marvelous. The targets speak very, very frankly...

The Procrastinating Generation

Posted on March 10, 2011
We can?t keep delaying a national reckoning. The Obama administration figures it has read the national mood well. This therapeutic generation of Americans loves to talk and worry about problems and then assume that either someone else will solve them or they will go away on their own...

What Should We Do About Libya?

Posted on March 10, 2011
Experts weigh in. ELLIOTT ABRAMS There are things we should do and things we should not do. The president of the United States should not make vain boasts and empty statements. As the president has said Qaddafi must go, we (the United States, not just the president) will look weak and foolish if he stays on and wins his war...

Go Rogue, NPR

Posted on March 10, 2011
NPR should urge Congress to end its subsidy. What do they put in the water cooler at NPR? First, they fire Juan Williams in October for comments he made on Fox News Channel -- and Vivian Schiller, the CEO of public radio, smilingly suggests he needs to have his head examined...

Those Magic Billions

Posted on March 10, 2011
Accounting fraud you can believe in Imagine that you have $500 in your left pocket. You shift it to your right pocket. Can you now buy $1,000 worth of merchandise at your favorite store? Of course not! #ad#Now, a politician tries the same experiment, only with 1 billion times as much money...

It?s Not Just Al-Qaeda

Posted on March 10, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood also promotes jihad. It is a fact -- not an opinion -- that al-Qaeda and similar groups are waging what they call a jihad against America, Israel, and the West. Also beyond dispute: These groups are not equal-opportunity employers...

The New Paul Revere

Posted on March 10, 2011
Rep. Peter King is alerting us to the Islamic radicals already among us. As House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King (R., N.Y.) opened this morning's hearings on domestic Muslim radicalism, his ears must have stung from the nasty names he had been called...

A Diplomatic Surge in Afghanistan?

Rep. Keith Ellison?s Bigotry

Posted on March 10, 2011
The congressman told a teachable story this morning. One problem: It?s untrue. This morning, Rep. Keith Ellison (Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, Minn.) appropriated a hearing on Islamic radicalism by weeping his way through a speech about whata-buncha-nasty-bigots Americans are...

A Very Modest Victory in Madison

Posted on March 10, 2011
The political theater under way in Madison invites both Democrats and Republicans to imagine that something more significant has transpired there than is in fact the case: By curtailing the collective-bargaining powers of some government-employee unions, Wisconsin merely joins the ranks of Colorado and Maryland -- not precisely hotbeds of right-wing extremism...

Obamacare?s Magic Billions

Zandinomics

Posted on March 09, 2011
McCain's pet Democrat is peddling a free lunch with a free dessert. It is virtually impossible to pick up a newspaper without seeing Mark Zandi -- or, as he is invariably identified, 'Mark Zandi, a former adviser to John McCain' -- extolling the virtues of government spending...

Send In the Clowns

Posted on March 09, 2011
Yippee! We?ve all got a front-row seat at the three-ring Stupid Party circus. Am I the only potato who levitated from his couch last week when my favorite cartoon character, Mr. Newt, announced to a breathlessly waiting world that he and his running mate, Callista, were forming an 'exploratory committee' for a possible presidential run next year? There he was, waddling along and grinning from ear to ear, good old SpongeBob SquarePants himself, coyly flirting with the wingnut electorate like an aging Sally Rand who left her fan collection back at the Casa di Riposo...

The Triumph of the Therapeutic Mind

Posted on March 09, 2011
Whether it?s budget deficits, teachers? pay, or delta smelts, the therapeutic mind refuses to count the cost. Beyond the political posturing over state and federal budgets, there looms an age-old philosophical divide over human nature, perhaps defined as the therapeutic versus the tragic view of our existence...

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