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The Life of Robert Byrd -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on July 01, 2010
About 10,000 men and women have served in the United States Congress. Robert C. Byrd, who died Monday at age 92, served longer than all the rest -- more than 57 years, with six in the House and 51 in the Senate.In 1917, the year he was born, the United States had 103 million people and the nation had just entered World War I...

Obama the Edsel -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on June 30, 2010
Earlier this month, Resurgent Republic -- an independent public-opinion-research group headed by former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie -- conducted focus groups in five key House districts, measuring how independent voters and, separately, self-identified tea-party members felt about the direction of the country...

Message: I'm Insecure -- By: Rob Long

Posted on June 30, 2010
Rule One of great acting is, Do not read the stage directions. You don?t, for instance, wrap up Hamlet?s big Act Two soliloquy -- ?#...#the play?s the thing / Wherein I?ll catch the conscience of the King? -- and then say ?Exit.? Years ago, during the George H...

Obama on Marriage: Bigot or Liar? -- By: Robert P. George

Posted on June 30, 2010
It has become a matter of orthodoxy among progressives that those who believe that marriage is properly defined as the union of one man and one woman are guilty of bigotry.There is a problem, however: Barack Obama has assured voters that he believes marriage to be the union of one man and one woman -- not two men, two women, or some combination of more than two people...

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The Education of Fred Thompson -- By: Carter Reese

Posted on June 30, 2010
Consider Fred Thompson?s résumé -- presidential candidate, actor, senator, attorney, and talk-radio host. Yet his memoir, Teaching the Pig to Dance, focuses on his childhood in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. The message of the book is that the small-town, conservative values he learned there have never failed him throughout his varied and accomplished career...

Back in the Black? -- By: Jesse Naiman

Posted on June 30, 2010
When Virginia?s fiscal year ends on Wednesday, the state?s budget will be in the black, says Republican governor Bob McDonnell: ?We turned a $4.2 billion deficit into a surplus, demonstrating good fiscal management on our part.? Elsewhere, the budgets of state and local governments are in such bad shape that President Obama has proposed spending $50 billion to bail them out...

Stay Out of the Mainstream -- By: Tony Blankley

Posted on June 30, 2010
There seems to be one thing on which everyone can agree. From archconservative pundits to archliberal White House staffers responsible for Solicitor General Elena Kagan?s confirmation to the Supreme Court, all agree that the test is whether she is in the ?mainstream of current legal thought...

The Un-Borkable Elena Kagan -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on June 30, 2010
Say it ain?t so, Elena. Elena Kagan thinks that the ?Borking? of Robert Bork during his 1987 confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court would deserve a commemorative plate if the Franklin Mint launched a ?Great Moments in Legal History? line of dishware...

Obama's Coffee-House Loophole for Lobbyists -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on June 30, 2010
President Obama is finally uniting the Left and the Right -- in joint opposition to his administration?s chronic sabotage of transparency and public-disclosure rules. It won?t be long before liberals disillusioned by Dear Leader?s reveal-as-we-say-not-as-we-conceal policies link arms with me and join in on my two-year-old chant: Obama lied, transparency died...

Asylum for Yousef -- By: The Editors

Posted on June 29, 2010
Mosab Hassan Yousef must have encountered nearly everything on his unlikely journey. But surely he never ran across anything as stupid as the American immigration bureaucracy.Yousef is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas founder, and was groomed to follow in his father?s footsteps...

'Appearance Discrimination': The New Racism? -- By: Robert VerBruggen

Posted on June 29, 2010
Anti-discrimination law hasn?t been controversial for years, but recently it has returned to the public debate. In Kentucky, GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul touched a nerve by suggesting that the government shouldn?t have forced southern businesses to desegregate...

Saudi Textbooks: Still Teaching Hatred -- By: Nina Shea & Bonnie Alldredge

Posted on June 29, 2010
Saudi Arabia?s King Abdullah will be received by President Obama in Washington today, nearly two years after the deadline by which the kingdom?s educational curriculum was to have been completely reformed. As the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom wrote to the president last week, ?This promise remains unfulfilled...

David Malpass Runs for Senate -- By: Raymond J. Keating

Posted on June 29, 2010
How about a senator from New York who actually understands how the economy works?Economist David Malpass is squaring off against former Nassau County legislator Bruce Blakeman in a Republican primary, with the winner taking on U.S. senator Kirsten Gillibrand in November...

Obama Owes Bush an Apology -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on June 29, 2010
Had it not been for opposing war, President Obama might never have been catapulted to the White House. It was taken for granted in the run-up to the presidential campaign of 2008 that candidate Obama had principled objections to the war in Iraq. He was the Left?s champion against Sen...

Gun-Control Laws -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on June 29, 2010
Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the Second Amendment to the Constitution means that individual Americans have a right to bear arms, what can we expect?Those who have no confidence in ordinary Americans may expect a bloodbath, as the benighted masses start shooting each other, now that they can no longer be denied guns by their betters...

The World's Great Evangelist for Debt -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on June 29, 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. A specter is haunting the world: the specter of Canada...

Think the U.S. Has Bad Health Care? -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on June 29, 2010
If you believe that Americans have lousy health care, it is probably not because you have experienced inferior heath care. It is probably because you were told America has inferior health care. Last week, major news media featured these headlines:Reuters: ?U...

Kagan's Abortion Distortion -- By: Shannen W. Coffin

Posted on June 29, 2010
When President Obama promised in his inaugural address to ?restore science to its rightful place,? he never explained what that rightful place would be. Documents recently released in connection with the Supreme Court nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan suggest an answer: wherever it can best be used to skew political debate and judicial outcomes...

Let's Cut Defense Spending -- By: E. D. Kain

Posted on June 28, 2010
Democratic congressman Alan Grayson has proposed a new bill sure to ruffle a few feathers: HR 5353, ?The War Is Making You Poor Act,? which would carve out $159 billion of pork from the defense budget and give 90 percent of that money back to taxpayers...

Turkey, the Headscarf, and Secularism -- By: Jane Clark

Posted on June 28, 2010
This April, Western society laughed off an Iranian cleric?s assertion that women?s clothing choices are responsible for earthquakes. Commentators assumed that he was speaking literally, and most probably he was. But if he had been speaking metaphorically, he would have had a point: From Belgium to Turkey, Muslim women?s clothing is causing plenty of political tremors...

Pearls Richer than Tribe? -- By: Robert VerBruggen

Posted on June 28, 2010
Does Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe write all of his own material? Or does he often misappropriate the work of others? Tribe is one of the Left?s leading constitutional scholars, but these questions have plagued him for years.In 2004, The Weekly Standard broke the story that much of his 1985 book God Save This Honorable Court had been taken, in one case word-for-word but usually with small adjustments, from Judges and Presidents, a 1974 book by historian Henry J...

McCain, Once More -- By: The Editors

Posted on June 28, 2010
That this magazine has not always agreed with Sen. John McCain?s judgments is an understatement. For a few years at the start of the decade, not an issue went by, it seemed, without our feeling obligated to criticize the Arizona Republican. That conservatives in his state should be in the market for a senator who agrees with them more consistently is not remarkable...

Why Obamacare Is Unpopular -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on June 28, 2010
Democrats are reportedly planning to raise $125 million for a campaign to sell Obamacare to the voting public. Apparently, the idea is that what 50-plus presidential speeches and statements and months of congressional debate could not do can be done by spending $125 million on everything from TV ads to community organizers...

A Moving Sidewalk for Terrorists -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on June 28, 2010
While Americans march against Arizona?s new restrictions on unlawful immigration, hundreds of illegal aliens from countries awash in Muslim terrorists tiptoe across the U.S.-Mexican frontier. According to the federal Enforcement Integrated Database, among the deportable aliens apprehended along that border from FY 2009 through April 20, 2010 were two Syrians, seven Sudanese, and 17 Iranians, all nationals from the three Islamic countries that the U...

KSM's elliptical machine, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on June 28, 2010
Last week, I did a little blogpost about Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who has been held hostage by Hamas for four years now. Ehud Barak, the defense minister of Israel, had made a pointed comment to Robert Gates, the U.S. defense chief: ?A million and a half people are living in Gaza, but only one of them is really in need of humanitarian aid...

Bob Turner, a Challenger for Anthony Weiner -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on June 28, 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.It?s a wild political climate out there. In keeping with the blistering heat afflicting previously ultra-safe incumbents, a happily retired Queens businessman by the name of Bob Turner thinks he can unseat his Democratic congressman, six-term representative Anthony Weiner...

Gun Prohibition, R.I.P. -- By: David Rittgers

Posted on June 28, 2010
The Supreme Court?s rejection of Chicago?s handgun ban in McDonald v. City of Chicago is more than a recognition that the Second Amendment applies to the states as well as the federal government. The McDonald decision is a harbinger for the end of gun prohibition as an idea...

The Unengaged President -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on June 26, 2010
What do General McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they?re both Democratic-party supporters.Or they were. Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U...

Don't Bank on this Bill -- By: The Editors

Posted on June 26, 2010
In a final amendment to the far-reaching overhaul of the nation?s financial-regulatory framework that is expected to become law, House and Senate negotiators named the bill after its chief authors, House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D...

Echoes of Korea -- By: Mario Loyola

Posted on June 25, 2010
Sixty years ago today -- at dawn on a quiet Sunday morning -- the Korean War broke like a clap of thunder. After a short artillery barrage along the 38th parallel, more than 200,000 North Korean forces, under the command of Gen. Kim Il Sung, began pouring into the newly born Republic of Korea...

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