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Government Spending Can?t Fix the Economy -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on July 12, 2010
Home-mortgage interest rates are the lowest in history, but house sales are plunging. Banks can make money easily because of the Federal Reserve's low interest rates, but they're not making many loans. Major corporations are sitting on something like $2 trillion in cash, but they're not investing...

The World Cup Abuse Nightmare -- By: Christina Hoff Sommers

Posted on July 10, 2010
Do brutal attacks on women by their husbands or boyfriends surge during the World Cup? According to a May 25 press release by England's Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), 'cases of domestic abuse increase by nearly 30% on England match days...

Gulf State Officials Should Defy Obstructionist Feds -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on July 09, 2010
Crude oil has reached Lake Pontchartrain. How did it get there? Ask the listless Obama administration, which rarely misses a chance to put its collective feet up on the desk, even as petroleum batters the Gulf Coast, its wildlife, and the economies of the Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and (as of Sunday) Texas shorelines...

Glenn Beck in Person -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on July 09, 2010
New York -- Here in his midtown office, high up in the Manhattan skyline, Glenn Beck sinks into a plush leather sofa and starts to gab about interior design. ?I have art from progressive movements from around the world,? he says, glancing around. ?This is from Russia,? he says, nodding toward a Soviet figurine...

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Three Cheers for Politics -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on July 09, 2010
A guilty plea by one of Osama bin Laden?s most trusted minions demonstrates yet again that political accountability can spur even a Democrat-controlled Congress to correct the Obama administration?s wayward national-security instincts. Ibrahim Mahmoud al-Qosi, a 50-year-old jihadist who helped move al-Qaeda?s operations from his native Sudan to Afghanistan, served for years as bin Laden?s bodyguard, driver, and cook...

Trading Up -- By: The Editors

Posted on July 09, 2010
During his State of the Union address in January, President Obama made an improbable promise: The United States will double its exports by 2015. History overflows with failed five-year plans for the economy -- and the president?s habit of locating all performance metrics on the far side of November 6, 2012, is exasperating -- but his new attention to trade is welcome, as is news that the administration will take up stalled trade pacts with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea, the better to facilitate those exports...

Islamism Resurgent: A Review of The Grand Jihad -- By: David Pryce-Jones

Posted on July 09, 2010
The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, by Andrew C. McCarthy (Encounter, 455 pp., $27.95)The very notion of a Muslim America might seem preposterous, downright laughable, but there are people and forces identifiably working towards that end...

Whitewashing Black Racism -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on July 09, 2010
Why haven?t national media outlets reported on the vile and violent rants of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) thugs whose 2008 voter-intimidation tactics got a pass from the Obama administration? Simple: Radical black racism doesn?t fit the Hope and Change narrative...

See You Next Tyranny Day! -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on July 09, 2010
According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman in his mega-best-selling book Hot, Flat, and Crowded, China banned plastic bags a few years ago. ?Bam! Just like that -- 1.3 billion people, theoretically, will stop using thin plastic bags,? he gushed...

America's Cuba Policy: A 50-Year Failure? -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on July 09, 2010
After a 134-day hunger strike, Guillermo Fariñas?s waist is so small that a dog collar could fit around it. This living skeleton (who has survived this long only because he has taken nutrients intravenously) is now victorious; the Cuban government has announced the planned release of 52 political prisoners...

The Selective Modesty of Barack Obama -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on July 09, 2010
Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Obama?s vision of NASA?s mission, as explained by Administrator Charles Bolden: One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering...

Bedtime Stories for the Islamic World -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on July 09, 2010
In the 16th century, astronomer Taq? al-D?n built one of the world?s great observatories in Istanbul. It rivaled that of the pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe -- while it lasted.?Taq? al-D?n?s observatory was razed to the ground by a squad of Janissaries, by order of the sultan, on the recommendation of the Chief Mufti,? Bernard Lewis writes in his book What Went Wrong? ?This observatory had many predecessors in the lands of Islam; it had no successors until the age of modernization...

Elena Kagan's 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Sharia Policy -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on July 08, 2010
I wonder if Elena Kagan knows about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. Ms. Ashtiani is about to be stoned. That?s where they bury you up to your chest and hurl rocks at you until you die. The rocks can?t be too big. You see, this is real torture, religion-of-peace torture...

The Progressives' Legacy of Bankruptcy -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on July 08, 2010
There is a growing sense in the minds of Americans that we, as a nation, are reenacting the dramatic climax of Thelma and Louise: The pedal?s to the metal, the car?s gaining speed, and we are about to plunge into the abyss. The abyss is not the Grand Canyon, of course, but its fiscal equivalent ? national bankruptcy...

At Last, the Debate has STARTed -- By: Jim Talent

Posted on July 08, 2010
The weaknesses of President Obama?s New START treaty with Russia are finally starting to surface in Washington. On Monday, Mitt Romney weighed in against the treaty in a Washington Post column. The former Massachusetts governor raised concerns previously aired by Amb...

Turkey: Christians in Danger -- By: John F. Cullinan

Posted on July 08, 2010
For all the attention Turkey has gotten lately, very few Americans are aware that the Roman Catholic bishop serving as apostolic vicar of Anatolia was stabbed to death and decapitated last month by an assailant shouting, ?Allahu Akbar! I have killed the great Satan!? There are fewer than 60 Catholic priests in all of Turkey, and yet Bishop Luigi Padovese was the fifth of them to be shot or stabbed in the last four years, starting with the murder of Fr...

Your Money Back -- By: Gary Wolfram

Posted on July 08, 2010
Is Ron Paul?s suggestion that the Federal Reserve be eliminated a ?fringe position,? as Josh Barro suggested in the June 21 issue of National Review (?Mend the Fed?)?It depends on what ?fringe? means. If it means simply that a large majority disagrees, then Representative Paul?s position deserves that characterization...

Thomas's Principled Jurisprudence in Arms Case -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on July 08, 2010
In 1978, Justice Lewis Powell wrote an opinion in the Bakke case asserting that the need for diversity could justify racial preferences in university admissions. No other justice joined this opinion, but because the other justices were split 4-4, Powell?s opinion decided the case, and in time his argument has been embraced by a majority of the Court...

Our Friends, the Saudis? -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on July 08, 2010
Last week, Saudi Arabia?s King Abdullah was welcomed to the White House by President Obama. According to the Washington Post, their meeting provided an opportunity ?to demonstrate the friendship between their countries, a point the king was particularly keen on highlighting...

American Decline Is a State of Mind -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on July 08, 2010
We are hearing all sorts of reasons why the United States is doomed to decline. After all, America is piling up deficits at a record rate of about $1.5 trillion a year while other countries are slashing their spending. The national debt cascades over $13 trillion and is on track to reach $20 trillion within a decade...

Gun Rights Are Civil Rights -- By: Robert VerBruggen

Posted on July 07, 2010
Reading the opinions in McDonald v. Chicago, you might think it was as much a civil-rights case as a gun case.In the ruling, the Supreme Court decided 5-4 that the Second Amendment applies to states and localities, not just the federal government, and struck down Chicago?s handgun ban...

Obama's New Take on Partisanship -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on July 07, 2010
One of President Obama?s strangest complaints is that there are too many in Congress who act, well, like former senator Obama.In his recent speech on the question of comprehensive immigration reform, President Obama once again blasted Republican political opportunism that opposes his initiatives for partisan, rather than principled, reasons...

Afghanistan: McCain's War -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on July 07, 2010
Washington -- Barry Goldwater?s snapshots of scenic Arizona dot the walls of his private office, but Sen. John McCain pays them little attention. ?Here,? he says, gesturing toward a picture of his children. ?This is my son Jack. He is serving in the Navy...

One Giant Leap (Backward) -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on July 07, 2010
?Waste anything but time.? That was the motto of the teams behind NASA?s Apollo missions. That spirit has long since evaporated. Today?s NASA is pulled by a million missions, from improving education and spinning off more products like Tang to its latest call of duty: telling Muslims how good they are at math...

NASA Does Muslim Outreach -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on July 07, 2010
It?s not really surprising that President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden that his highest priority should be ?to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science#...

Open-Borders DOJ vs. America -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on July 07, 2010
The Obama administration?s lawsuit against Arizona, officially unveiled on Tuesday, is an affront to all law-abiding Americans. It is a threatening salvo aimed at all local, county, or state governments that dare to take control of the immigration chaos in their own backyards...

The Anatomy of Defeat -- By: Tony Blankley

Posted on July 07, 2010
The Afghan war may be the first one we lose primarily because our civilian leadership did not understand the effect of its public words on our government, our allies, and our enemy. Throughout the summer and fall of 2009, as experts were getting more pessimistic about success in Afghanistan, President Obama began having second thoughts...

The United States vs. Arizona -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on July 07, 2010
The legal case against the Arizona immigration law is unassailable. The Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union argue that the law impermissibly ?conflicts with federal law and enforcement priorities,? in the words of the ACLU suit...

The New Frontier: 'Covering' Conservatives -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on July 07, 2010
There has been a lot of news in the last couple of weeks: the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the death of Sen. Robert Byrd, the oil spill off the Gulf Coast, the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings, the cratering economy and stock market, even the World Cup...

Spilling Oil, Not Blood -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on July 06, 2010
This seems to be a time for extreme, equal-opportunity, no-fault alarm. Just two months ago, the New York Times seemed to be offering Manhattan tours to Patagonians, Tasmanians, or Bessarabians who had had a sexual experience with a Roman Catholic clergyman sometime in the last 75 years, even if only like that of Tennessee Williams?s spinster in The Night of the Iguana...

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