Federal Judiciary

A Free Pass for Politically Correct Banks -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on August 03, 2010
As usual, our race-obsessed media has decided that the larger story to be derived from the recent slew of ethics charges against Democrats is that the members of Congress who have featured most prominently in the scandals, Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) and Maxine Waters (D...

Britain?s New Export: Islamist Carnage -- By: Daniel Pipes

Posted on August 03, 2010
Britain's largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up transatlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster offers a pungent reminder of the global danger posed by U...

Attack of the Adults -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on August 03, 2010
If you could boil down the public's lament about Washington, it might be: 'What happened to the adults?'Not adults of the Clark Clifford variety, the Washington fixtures who alternate between serving administrations and commenting on them sagely for PBS...

Democrats Disillusioned -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on August 03, 2010
You expect Republican politicians to criticize Democratic administrations and vice versa. But when Democrats start criticizing Democratic administrations, that is news. Someone once said that the headline 'Dog bites man' is not news, but 'Man bites dog' is...

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Is President Obama Fair to African Americans? -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on August 03, 2010
I'm starting to wonder: Is President Obama fair to African Americans?Asked about Rep. Charlie Rangel's ethics problems on CBS's evening news, the president could hardly have been more direct if he'd seized Rangel by the belt and the back of the collar and pitched him out the door...

Five Days in Pyongyang -- Part I -- By: Reggie Gibbs

Posted on August 03, 2010
I arrived in Pyongyang one Saturday evening last December, and the next morning I woke up at 5 a.m., not as a result of the 13-hour time difference between Washington and Pyongyang, but rather because of loudspeakers blaring out military-style anthems down below...

Fix the Treaty -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on August 02, 2010
Earlier this month, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney raised a number of questions about the wisdom of the New START treaty in a Washington Post op-ed. In response, the treaty's proponents unfortunately shed more heat than light on the matter, attacking Romney personally for raising 'hyperbolic' and 'discredited' objections, for 'politicizing' the arms-control process, and, of course, for being ill-informed...

Losing Turkey to the Islamists -- By: Barbara Lerner

Posted on August 02, 2010
'Democracy is like a streetcar. When you reach your stop, you get off.' -- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan   Turkey's recent open embrace of terrorist regimes like Iran and Syria, its high-profile attempt to thwart our efforts to impose sanctions on Iran, and its dramatic push to take over the leadership of the Islamic world by supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and attacking Israel even more virulently than current Arab leaders do -- all this came as a big surprise to the foreign-policy establishment in both the European Union and the United States...

Ban the Burqa -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on August 02, 2010
Istanbul -- I moved here five years ago. In the beginning, I was sympathetic to the argument that Turkey's ban on headscarves in universities and public institutions was grossly discriminatory. I spoke to many women who described veiling themselves as an uncoerced act of faith...

Botched Campaigns in Colorado -- By: David Harsanyi

Posted on August 02, 2010
If Colorado is a bellwether of national political fortunes, as many believe, then Republicans will be#...#well, they'll be screwed. Unless some unlikely and unforeseen things happen, any chance of the GOP's retaking the governor's mansion in November was eradicated last Monday when erstwhile Republican Tom Tancredo announced that he would jump into the race on the Constitution party's ticket...

A Call for Energy Realism -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on August 02, 2010
In the summer of 2008, at a time of widespread anger over historically high oil prices, Al Gore challenged his countrymen 'to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within ten years...

Fighting for Arizona's 8th -- By: Jesse Naiman

Posted on August 02, 2010
From 1985 through 2006, Republican Jim Kolbe represented Arizona's 8th congressional district. But when Kolbe retired, Democrat Gabrielle Giffords took his place. In 2008, Giffords won reelection by 12 points, and she has raised over $2 million for this November's election...

Minimize It, Don?t Supersize it -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on August 02, 2010
Let's put government on a diet. That's what voters seem to be saying in response to the Barack Obama Democrats' vast expansion of the size and scope of government.Evidence comes from pollster Scott Rasmussen. He asked likely voters -- his usual sample, which tilts more Republican than all adults -- whether increased government spending is good or bad for the economy...

Facebook Saves a Teacher -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on August 02, 2010
EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello at cpuello@unitedmedia.com.Kenneth Howell was booted from his job at the University of Illinois for teaching Catholicism...

It?s About Sharia -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on July 31, 2010
The 2010 midterms have not happened yet, but the 2012 campaign is under way. For that we can thank Newt Gingrich. Not because Gingrich is a candidate, though he almost certainly is. And not because he can win, because that is by no means certain. We should thank Gingrich because he has crystallized the essence of our national-security challenge...

Freaky Politics: Terry Jeffrey vs. the Left -- By: Interview

Posted on July 30, 2010
‘I believe freedom and prosperity are uniquely threatened at this point in our history,' says Terence P. Jeffrey, author of the new book Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life. He sat down with NRO's Kathryn Lopez to discuss his new book...

Brownback?s Mountain -- By: William Yeatman

Posted on July 30, 2010
It looked like we had dodged a bullet. With an election looming, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) decided that a provision requiring a minimum of 15 percent renewable-energy generation nationwide by 2020 was too controversial to include in the so-called energy bill he introduced this week...

FDR and the Depression: A New Round -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on July 30, 2010
Before my spirited exchange with my esteemed friend Amity Shlaes about the New Deal reaches the point of diminishing returns, it should be possible to agree on some points that may be applicable to current economic questions.I think we agree that Obamanomics has not succeeded, beyond a tentative stabilization, easily shaken by lack of public confidence in the regime and the absence of any serious deficit-reduction plan...

A Crisis Gone to Waste -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on July 30, 2010
Well, that was fast. Just a few weeks ago, the Gulf oil spill was a turning point for America. It was precisely the providential prodding Americans needed to wean ourselves from the diabolic goo that runs our cars, heats our homes, and forms the plastic that makes the G...

Ignoring the Law -- By: Heather Mac Donald

Posted on July 30, 2010
The Obama administration's hilarious commerce-clause argument against Arizona's immigration law was too much even for U.S. District Judge Susan 'Rubber Stamp' Bolton. The Justice Department had maintained that the Arizona statute's ban on smuggling illegal aliens while committing another crime -- a provision targeting drug dealers -- violates the Constitution's assignment of the regulation of interstate commerce to the federal government...

A Democrat Goes into a Psychiatrist?s Office -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on July 30, 2010
Come in. Make yourself comfortable. What's that? You're a congressional Democrat? You voted to triple the national debt; destroy a health-care system that an overwhelming majority of Americans were happy with in a way that creates a massive and infinitely complex new entitlement; bail out the banks and auto companies; and 'stimulate' the economy with an $862 billion boondoggle that hasn't created a single private-sector job? Your president is suing the state of Arizona for having the effrontery to enforce a law he wishes not to enforce (though he does have the constitutional responsibility to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed')? The war in Afghanistan is not going well? The president's approval ratings are under water? Congress's approval ratings are running even with Mel Gibson's? Naturally you're upset...

Iran Starts to Feel Heat -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on July 30, 2010
'[The United States and Israel] have decided to attack at least two countries in the region in the next three months.' -- Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, July 26 President Ahmadinejad has a penchant for the somewhat loony, as when last weekend he denounced Paul the Octopus, omniscient predictor of eight consecutive World Cup matches, as a symbol of decadence and purveyor of 'Western propaganda and superstition...

The Hilarious Arizona Ruling -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on July 30, 2010
Editor's note: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please write kfsreprint@hearstsc.com, or phone 800-708-7311, ext 246. Judge Susan Bolton has to get credit for her cheekiness...

The Enablers of Charlie Rangel -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on July 30, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the world's worst cleaning lady. How has she fulfilled her vaunted promise to 'drain the swamp' and preside over the 'most ethical Congress in history'? By shrugging her shoulders, downplaying the gravity of myriad ethics charges against corruptocrat Democrat Rep...

The Treaty Is MAD -- By: Jim DeMint

Posted on July 29, 2010
The nuclear-weapons treaty President Obama has negotiated with the Russians may help him make America's erstwhile Cold War adversary happy, but it won't help protect us from the rogue nations that threaten the United States today. If ratified, the New START treaty would force the U...

One Month after McDonald -- By: David Rittgers

Posted on July 29, 2010
One month ago, the Supreme Court held in McDonald v. City of Chicago that states, not just the federal government, are prevented from violating Americans' Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The Supreme Court did not, however, define the full scope of the right, nor the standard of review by which challenged statutes will be judged...

Detaining Arizona -- By: The Editors

Posted on July 29, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder could have dictated most of Judge Susan Bolton's decision blocking key parts of the Arizona immigration law. The judge twists facts and logic to support the Justice Department's claim that the state law preempts the federal immigration scheme...

A Dead-Letter Energy Bill? -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on July 29, 2010
Judging from the previous remarks of key Senate Democrats, Senate majority leader Harry Reid isn't likely to get enough votes for the energy bill he unveiled this week. Even without carbon caps or renewable-energy mandates on utility companies, Reid's bill is too much of a job-killer to pass...

Limbaugh?s Boswell, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on July 29, 2010
Have you read Zev Chafets's biography of Rush Limbaugh -- An Army of One? (Actually, the complete and proper title is 'Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One.') It's a highly interesting book about a highly interesting man. And Chafets is a total pro: as a writer and a journalist...

Why Are We Beginning to Hate Congress? -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on July 29, 2010
Recent polls show that more than 70 percent of the public holds an unfavorable view of Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) wins about a 10 percent approval rating; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) has similarly rock-bottom poll numbers...

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