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Winter?s Bone: A Time for Endurance -- By: Joan Frawley Desmond

Posted on July 23, 2010
Hollywood has trained us to anticipate a soaring resolution to a flinty heroine's foray into enemy territory. Romantic fulfillment, career success, or the upending of the status quo will pull the strands of the narrative together and tie them up into a tidy package for the audience...

Sarah Palin?s Granite Grizzly -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on July 23, 2010
Bedford, N.H. -- Kelly Ayotte meets me at Panera Bread, which, a campaign aide confides, is one of her favorite spots. Lodged in the corner of a concrete strip mall south of Manchester, Panera -- a corporate chain -- is part café, part 'artisan' bakery, with plush chairs and gourmet grinds...

An Open Conspiracy To Slant the News -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on July 23, 2010
The JournoList has started to leak like an over-ripe diaper. Just in case you've been living in a cave, or if you only get your news from MSNBC, here's the story. A young blogger, Ezra Klein, formerly of the avowedly left-wing American Prospect and now with the avowedly mainstream Washington Post, founded the e-mail listserv JournoList for like-minded liberals to hash out and develop ideas...

The Washington Post Finds Waste -- In Government! -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on July 23, 2010
Congratulations are due to the Washington Post. 'Top Secret America,' its in-depth, multi-part, two-year investigation into the vast network of government security agencies and private contractors is an eye-opener -- obvious Pulitzer bait. Reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin have revealed a 'hidden world, growing beyond control...

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Beware the Lame Duck -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on July 23, 2010
Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare, financial reform, and a near trillion-dollar stimulus that will significantly transform the country...

The Democrats? War On the American West -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on July 23, 2010
‘Why do they hate us?' It's a burning question on the minds of border-dwelling taxpayers, small-business owners, and farmers, and of Rocky Mountain oil- and gas-industry workers suffering under punitive Democratic policies. Eighteen months into the Obama administration, the war on the American West is in full swing...

Shirley Sherrod and American Progress -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on July 23, 2010
Editor's note: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com, or phone 800-708-7311, ext 246.What do you call it when a woman who grew up under a system of American apartheid comes to be caught up five decades later in an utterly ridiculous racial controversy? Progress...

Liberal Tax Revolt Game-Changer? -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on July 23, 2010
The liberal tax revolt, as the Wall Street Journal is calling it, is a very important topic -- especially for investors and small-business entrepreneurs. And for new jobs.The so-called revolt is comprised of three Democratic senators: Kent Conrad, Evan Bayh, and Ben Nelson...

Childhood Obesity and Lunchbox Privacy -- By: Julie Gunlock

Posted on July 22, 2010
Among adherents of the nanny state, it's no longer enough to require schools to provide healthy meals for kids. Now schools are making sure parents do too.Recent news articles out of Great Britain reveal that staff members in a Gloucestershire school district have become a food-police force...

Khalidi?s Audacity of Hope -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on July 22, 2010
Earlier this month, hosting Benjamin Netanyahu -- the Israeli prime minister he had humiliated back in March -- President Obama was at pains to prove he is not hostile to the Jewish state. In fact, he took umbrage at a reporter's suggestion that his administration is not committed to what he called the 'special bond,' America's relationship with Israel...

The Common Core Curriculum -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on July 22, 2010
After votes yesterday in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, 28 states have now embraced the new 'Common Core' standards for primary and secondary education. Already, a majority -- including red states such as South Carolina, Utah, and Oklahoma -- have declared that they will use Common Core English and math standards in their public schools...

Preferred Risk -- By: Iain Murray

Posted on July 22, 2010
A seemingly endless parade of British lizards, winsome cavemen, and good neighbors populates our TV screens. They tell us how much money we could save by switching insurance companies. Here's a real money-saving proposition: We, as a nation, could save many billions of dollars by switching from government to insurance...

Punting on Financial Reform -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on July 22, 2010
Sen. Ted Kaufman (D., Del.) supported the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, but he also expressed 'significant reservations' just before casting his vote. 'This was a time for Congress to draw hard lines that get directly at the structural problems that afflict Wall Street and our largest banks,' Kaufman said...

Rising Speculation About Bombing Iran?s Nukes -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on July 22, 2010
Many years ago, I was privileged to attend a dinner with James Rowe, one of the passion-for-anonymity young aides to Franklin Roosevelt, original author of the winning strategy for Harry Truman's 1948 campaign, and close confidant of Lyndon Johnson. Rowe described how Johnson tested insider opinion...

The New Racial Mess -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on July 22, 2010
Weren't we supposed to enter a new age of tolerance with the election of Pres. Barack Obama? His half-black, half-white ancestry and broad support across racial lines suggested that at last Americans judged each other on the content of our characters -- not the color of our skin or our tribal affiliations...

Imagine a Nuclear Iran -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on July 22, 2010
It's been said that a diplomat is a gentleman paid to go abroad and lie for his country. Sometimes, however, diplomats slip up and tell the truth. In response to a question at the hopefully named Aspen Ideas Festival this month, Yousef al-Otaiba, the ambassador from the United Arab Emirates, said bluntly: 'We cannot live with a nuclear Iran...

Keep the Bush Tax Cuts -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on July 22, 2010
If pumping money into people's pockets stimulates the economy, then vacuuming money from their pockets should depress the economy. Given how sad today's economy is, depressing it even further may make it leap out a window.The best way to cheer up the economy, and those who make it tick, is for Washington to stop raising taxes and to reverse its reckless and relentless spending spree...

It?s a Fiscal Problem, Not a Fed Problem -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on July 22, 2010
Ben Bernanke threw a curveball in his midterm report to Congress this week. The Fed view of the economy has been downgraded since it last reported in February. Although the official Fed forecast for 2010-11 is still 3 to 4 percent real growth, Bernanke sounded particularly gloomy when he characterized the economy as 'unusually uncertain...

Election Wins Can Stop Lame-Duck Threat -- By: Phil Kerpen

Posted on July 22, 2010
Senate Democrats who think they can use a lame-duck session to force the country into a final, decisive lurch to the left may be in for a big surprise: newly elected senators ready to take their seats and derail major policy changes before the new Congress convenes...

The SEIU?s Friendly Inquisitor -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on July 21, 2010
Carole Jean Badertscher was a California nurse who just wanted to go to work and take care of her patients -- but the SEIU was determined not to let that happen. The union's contract with Badertscher's employer, the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, had expired, and the union had called a strike in response...

U.N. Insider: ?There Is No Transparency? -- By: Brett D. Schaefer

Posted on July 21, 2010
It's often tempting, after the latest scandal, to think that the United Nations' reputation for shoddy oversight and lack of transparency can't sink any lower. And yet it keeps doing so.The latest charges of mismanagement, corruption, and fraud come from the organization's own bureaucracy...

Turkey in Cyprus vs. Israel in Gaza -- By: Daniel Pipes

Posted on July 21, 2010
In light of Ankara's recent criticism of what it calls Israel's 'open-air jail' in Gaza, this week, which marks the 36th anniversary of Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, has special relevance.Turkish policy toward Israel, historically warm and only a decade ago approaching full alliance, has cooled since Islamists took power in Ankara in 2002...

Not Obama Is Not Enough -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on July 21, 2010
Republicans will shortly need to stand for something more than just being against much of the Obama agenda. Only a superior and detailed alternative can win more lasting support than just a midterm correction.Obama, after all -- with nationalized health care, amnesty, cap-and-trade, financial overhaul, government absorption of private enterprise, takeover of the student-loan industry, and gorge-the-beast deficits that will ensure a generation of higher taxes -- at least seems to have some sort of plan to change America...

Exceptional Down to the Bone -- By: James C. Bennett

Posted on July 21, 2010
In recent months, National Review has hosted a fascinating and important discussion of American exceptionalism -- the belief that the United States is qualitatively different from all other nations in important ways, and that these differences have given its people different characteristics and caused it to follow different paths...

Dealergate: Destroying Jobs in the Name of ?Shared Sacrifice? -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on July 21, 2010
Everything you need to know about the nightmare of government-controlled businesses can be found in a damning new inspector general's report on Dealergate. The independent review of how and why the Obama administration forced Chrysler and General Motors to oversee mass closures of car dealerships across the country reveals grisly incompetence, fatal bureaucratic hubris, and Big Labor cronyism...

The Boundless Beneficence of Big Brother -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on July 21, 2010
‘Should we let Americans fall off a cliff or should we help them? There shouldn't be a debate as to where the money comes from. I mean, if your brother or your sister needed something, you wouldn't say, ‘When are you going to pay me back?'' That's Jim Chukalas, a car-parts manager who has been unemployed for nearly two years...

Is It Enough for the GOP to Just Say No? -- By: Tony Blankley

Posted on July 21, 2010
Over the past year, the Democrats fixed on what they thought was a devastating four-word slogan to defeat Republicans in 2010: 'The Party of No.' Unlike many campaign slogans, it was fair enough. After all, the Republicans had opposed almost unanimously all of President Obama's major legislation (socialized health care, stimulus, nationalization of GM and Chrysler, cap-and-trade, financial overregulation, multi-trillion-dollar yearly deficits, tax increases, etc...

The Case Against the New Black Panthers -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on July 20, 2010
‘Forget about the New Black Panther Party case,' writes Abigail Thernstrom. It's 'very small potatoes.' She is suddenly upset over the 'overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges' about the case that she grudgingly admits may 'perhaps' have been a civil-rights violation...

On FDR, Shlaes Annotates Black -- By: Amity Shlaes

Posted on July 20, 2010
My friend Conrad Black takes up the topic of the New Deal's economic success in a recent column for NRO. He seeks to demonstrate that Franklin Roosevelt is not to be blamed -- or, so it seems, even criticized -- for economic trouble in the 1930s. Conrad frames his attack around my work...

We Can?t Afford This House -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on July 20, 2010
At the end of June, the House of Representatives voted to extend the $8,000 homebuyers' tax credit, by an extraordinary margin of 409–5. The Senate approved the measure on a voice vote. At a polarized political moment, this near unanimity was noteworthy in itself...

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