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Real Simpletons -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on July 20, 2010
My wife subscribes to Real Simple, a women's-interest magazine specializing in articles on how to make life more organized. I often joke that our lives would be more organized if we didn't have eight copies of Real Simple floating around the apartment at any given time...

Race-Card Fraud -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on July 20, 2010
Credit-card fraud is a serious problem. But race-card fraud is an even bigger problem. Playing the race card takes many forms. Judge Charles Pickering, a federal judge in Mississippi who defended the civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku Klux Klan back when that was dangerous, was depicted as a racist when he was nominated for a federal appellate judgeship...

Sestak?s Attempt to Suppress Speech -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on July 20, 2010
The story goes that after The New Times Magazine labeled Virginia senator William L. Scott the country's 'dumbest' congressman in 1974, he confirmed this judgment by calling a press conference to deny it. Is Democratic congressman and Senate candidate Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania in the same league? After the U...

The Forgotten Man, Forgotten Once Again -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on July 20, 2010
EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this material, contact kfsreprint@hearstsc.com or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.The 19th-century academic William Graham Sumner had a famous formulation for the hidden costs of feel-good economic legislation...

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NAACP Confirms Election of a Black President Made No Difference -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on July 20, 2010
When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, every prominent conservative I know was unhappy that a left-wing Democrat had been elected but very happy that a black American had won. Among conservatives, the general thinking was that it was good for America, good for blacks, and good for the world to see that America, so often (and in the conservative view unfairly) criticized as racist, could elect a black man as president...

Get With the Program -- By: The Editors

Posted on July 20, 2010
Congressional Republicans who don't think the party needs an agenda should consider the performance of Rep. Pete Sessions and Sen. John Cornyn on Meet the Press over the weekend. Asked about their affirmative program, the leaders of the GOP campaign committees in the House and the Senate sounded a very uncertain trumpet -- indeed, one that was halting to the point of being embarrassing...

A Year and a Half of President Obama -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on July 20, 2010
As the Obama administration marks 18 months in power today, no one should be terribly surprised that it is the hardest-Left U.S. government since that of FDR. For those who paid attention, Obama's hyperliberal U.S. Senate record pierced like a dive light through the squid ink of Hope and Change that Obama squirted at anyone who demanded programmatic specifics...

The Welfare Script -- By: Michael G. Franc

Posted on July 19, 2010
America's welfare state has grown into an unwieldy hodgepodge of programs that provide various forms of assistance to tens of millions of Americans. It costs taxpayers nearly a trillion dollars annually and experts predict that, absent reform, it will keep growing in the years ahead...

Mad Men and the Paradox of the Past -- By: Natasha Simons

Posted on July 19, 2010
Mad Men is a show about an unbending generation on the cusp of dissolution; Matthew Weiner, the show's head writer, has often said that the majority of America in the early '60s was still, by and large, living in the domestic '50s. Weiner, a Baby Boomer, has a conflicted relationship with this time period...

Government vs. Google -- By: Berin Szoka & Adam Thierer

Posted on July 19, 2010
Is an Internet Fairness Doctrine a good idea? The New York Times seems to think so. The editors last week demanded Google be subject to 'search neutrality' -- without specifying how this would work. 'Some early suggestions for how to accomplish this,' they note, 'include having Google explain with some specified level of detail the editorial policy that guides its tweaks...

Restless in Seattle -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on July 19, 2010
Dino Rossi settles into a chair in the National Review boardroom with ease. His blazer is sharp, his collar loose, his hair flecked with gray. With his crinkly eyes and ready smile, he has the air of a successful real-estate broker, which he is. It's also clear that this kind of forum -- a chat with reporters -- is old hat for the former Washington state senator...

The Good War No More -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on July 19, 2010
Over the last eight years, most Democratic politicians have made a distinction between The Good War (Afghanistan) and The Bad War (Iraq). That very much includes Barack Obama.As an Illinois state senator, he spoke out against military action in Iraq in 2002...

Risky Business: Mothers Against the Madness -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on July 19, 2010
‘We don't like this fundamental transformation, and we're going to do something about it.' With that line, in her savvy 'Mama Grizzlies' video, Sarah Palin may have captured not only the political mood of much of the country, but also why women seem to be getting ready to make tea -- and political hay -- this year...

No, Dubya Did Not Whitewash the New Black Panther Party -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on July 19, 2010
MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and other left-wing commentators have been busy high-fiving each other over 'proof' that none other than George W. Bush was to blame for the Justice Department's whitewash of the New Black Panther Party's intimidation of voters on Election Day, 2008...

Coyotes in the State of Nature -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on July 17, 2010
Here's a two-Americas story for you: Westchester County, in the suburbs of New York City, was home to Hillary Clinton when she pretended to represent New York in the U.S. Senate, and its voters gave Barack Obama 63 percent of their ballots in 2008. It's the sort of place that causes heavy breathing among the liberal faithful devoutly awaiting the coming of the New Democratic Majority, that blessed condition that will enrapture America when formerly Republican white suburbanites once and for all join forces with the traditional Democratic coalition of ward heelers and welfare recipients in common cause against the pro-lifers, gun nuts, and tea-partying Palin enthusiasts of the GOP...

FDR Yes, Obama No -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on July 16, 2010
The Yalta Myth is no longer sufficiently credible to be flammable, and the argument that Roosevelt failed to end the Depression is too foamite-sodden for even so fiendishly persistent and endearing a pyromaniac as the delightful and otherwise rigorous Amity Shlaes to make any headway reigniting it...

Straight Talk on Fannie and Freddie -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on July 16, 2010
Here's one thing you won't find in the 2,300-page financial-overhaul legislation that passed the Senate Thursday afternoon: any serious reform of housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the longtime 'government-sponsored enterprises' (GSEs), both of which have been in federal conservatorship since September 2008...

Harvard Wimps Out on Testing -- By: Chester E. Finn Jr. & Mickey Muldoon

Posted on July 16, 2010
To oppose 'results-based accountability' in education is close to a taboo nowadays, a position so antithetical to the spirit of the age that few dare mention it. Let us, therefore, declare ourselves shocked and saddened that Harvard University, in so many ways a pacesetter in education, is embracing that very position...

When Did the Rules Change? -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on July 16, 2010
When Rome was 'falling,' did it feel like it? When all of the tasty, leafy fronds started vanishing, did the dinosaurs say, 'So this is what extinction looks like'? When British troops signed up for a quick war in 1914, they expected to be 'home by Christmas...

Obama?s Second Act -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on July 16, 2010
In the political marketplace, there's now a run on Obama shares. The Left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the Right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November, when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House...

The Agony of the Revolution -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on July 16, 2010
EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this material, contact kfsreprint@hearstsc.com or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.The great Democratic revolution of 2008 is entering its pitiful stage...

The NAACP?s Descent -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on July 16, 2010
The NAACP's decision to condemn 'racist' elements within the tea-party movement is about as surprising as the U.N. Human Rights Council voting to condemn Israel. Still, there's a difference. The U.N. Human Rights Council never had any moral authority to lose...

NAACP Hurls False Racism Charge at the Tea-Party Movement -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on July 16, 2010
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution at its national convention in Kansas City condemning the tea-party movement as -- guess what? -- racist. This is false, outrageous, and no surprise...

Ken Salazar Needs Another Behind-Kicking -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on July 16, 2010
When President Obama picked former Democratic senator Ken Salazar as his interior secretary last year, the Coloradan donned a ten-gallon hat and dubbed himself 'the new sheriff in town.' But Cowboy Ken is the one who needs to be run out on a rail. In his continued quest to shut down offshore drilling, Salazar has run roughshod over scientific integrity, transparency, and the Gulf Coast economy...

The Radicalism of the Anti-Arizona Suit -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on July 15, 2010
If nothing else, the state of Arizona has smoked out the Obama administration. To make the case that the Arizona immigration law conflicts with, and therefore is preempted by, federal law, the Justice Department has to make an extraordinary claim -- that the federal laws as written don't matter so much...

Respecting the Law -- By: Israel Ortega

Posted on July 15, 2010
America, we have a problem. Millions upon millions of people want to move here. Permanently. Even a country as prosperous as ours cannot possibly absorb so much humanity. As problems go, however, this is not a bad one to have. For the day that 'huddled masses yearning to breathe free' no longer besiege America is the day we will have to admit that America has lost its 'magic formula...

Real Health-Care Reform -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on July 15, 2010
The recently passed health-care-reform legislation, which I opposed, has been pilloried as 'worse than 9/11' and 'the end of prosperity in America forever' and 'the end of America as you know it' and 'the end of the republic.' Utter nonsense. Its supporters have said the law 'is a triumph in terms of deficit reduction' that will 'significantly reduce long-term health-care costs' and 'not add one dime to the deficit' and 'strengthen Medicare' and 'reduce premiums and out-of-pocket costs...

Obamacare Is Not Entitlement Reform -- By: James C. Capretta

Posted on July 15, 2010
White House budget director Peter Orszag stated in February 2009 that 'health-care reform is entitlement reform.' As Mr. Orszag prepares to leave the White House this month, it's clear the health-care-overhaul law that President Obama signed in March falls far short of what was promised...

The Jobs Americans Should Not Have to Do? -- By: John Derbyshire

Posted on July 15, 2010
In the dismaying-but-not-surprising category of news stories recently, this one in the July 2 New York Times got my attention. It describes how the Obama administration is killing off the summer-internship programs, many of them unpaid, that are so popular with high-school seniors and college students...

Bullets across the U.S.�Mexican Border -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on July 15, 2010
Whether one favors blanket amnesty for undocumented workers, mass deportation of illegal aliens, or something in between, all Americans should worry about what is happening on our southern border. The situation has devolved into bedlam, and grows more lethal daily...

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