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The Larger Problems -- By: Jim Talent

Posted on June 25, 2010
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the Rolling Stone interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan...

Reject the Financial Bill -- By: Mark A. Calabria

Posted on June 25, 2010
The House and Senate will soon vote on a finalized financial-regulation bill, one that was mostly hammered out in a closed-door conference between the two chambers. Legislators will have a stark, simple choice: support a bill that gives us more of the same flawed banking regulations, or reject it in the hopes that new congressional leadership next year will address the actual causes of the financial crisis...

The Law? How Quaint! -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on June 25, 2010
We are well into revolutionary times, but perhaps not in the way we traditionally think of political upheaval. Instead, insidiously, the law itself is becoming negotiable -- or rather, it is becoming subservient to what elite overseers at any given time determine is a higher calling of social change...

Faisal Shahzad, Jihadi, Explains Terrorism -- By: Daniel Pipes

Posted on June 25, 2010
Jaw-dropping court testimony by Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, single-handedly undermines Obama-administration efforts to ignore the dangers of Islamism and jihad. Shahzad?s forthright statement of purpose stands out because jihadis, when facing legal charges, typically save their skin by pleading not guilty or plea bargaining...

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The Meaning of Orszag -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on June 25, 2010
President Obama?s budget director Peter Orszag, who supposedly made ?nerdy sexy,? is skedaddling from Washington before the huge budgetary Potemkin fa�ades he erected come crashing down. Orszag was the numbers-crunching guru who supplied the economic myths, er, rationale for Obamacare...

The Democrats' Vision Problem -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on June 25, 2010
Head to the local big-box electronics store and buy yourself: a Panasonic home theater system ($500), an Insignia 50-inch plasma HDTV ($700), an Apple 8GB iPod Touch ($175), a Sony 3-D Blu-ray disc player ($219), a Sony 300-CD changer ($209), a Garmin portable GPS ($139), a Sony 14...

Obama Needs to Find His Inner W. -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on June 25, 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.To succeed in Afghanistan, we?ll need the support of the likes of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha...

Even with Petraeus in Charge, Afghanistan Remains a Conundrum -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on June 25, 2010
President Obama was fully justified in dismissing Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The firing offense did not rise to the level of insubordination -- this was no MacArthur undermining the commander-in-chief?s war strategy -- but it was a serious enough show of disrespect for the president and for the entire civilian leadership to justify relief from his post...

The U.S. Department of Illegal-Alien Labor -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on June 25, 2010
President Obama?s labor secretary, Hilda Solis, is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open-borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of ?American.? At a Latino voter-registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, ?We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not...

Financial 'Reform' Bill Won't Stop the Next Crisis -- By: Mark A. Calabria

A Nation of Trentons -- By: The Editors

Posted on June 24, 2010
Government employees? unions already maintain a death grip on the finances of most state and local governments, and a remarkably bad piece of legislation -- the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act -- threatens to tighten that stranglehold, imposing the unionization of public-safety workers in the 21 states that currently do not extend that privilege...

A Political Moment to Savor -- By: Abigail Thernstrom

Posted on June 24, 2010
State representative Tim Scott, a black Republican, has won the GOP primary in South Carolina?s First Congressional District. It?s not particularly big news in the mainstream media; perhaps Republican victories are always unwelcome -- particularly ones that put a tiny chip in the image of the GOP as whites-only...

Non-Leaders at the Toronto Summit -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on June 24, 2010
The G-8 and G-20 economic summit meetings about to be inflicted on the unenthused population of Toronto are illustrative of the absurdity of much of the world?s political leadership. A catalogue of all that is amiss in the world in policy terms is hardly necessary...

A Conversation with Arthur C. Brooks, Part 2 -- By: Interview

Posted on June 24, 2010
EDITOR?S NOTE: Kathryn Jean Lopez continues her conversation with�Arthur Brooks on his new book,�The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America?s Future. Part 1 of the interview can be read here.KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: How was Scott Brown ?in touch with America?s mainstream?? And why is that an important lesson for politicians who want to win this November? ARTHUR C...

Why Ditching McChrystal Was Wrong -- By: Brock Dahl

Posted on June 24, 2010
General McChrystal, for all his staff?s missteps, was the right leader for the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. If recent reports are to be believed, the U.S. military has started focusing more resources on collecting information on corrupt Afghan officials and the widespread criminal syndicates with which they are involved...

Victims of the Ayatollah -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on June 24, 2010
Iran?s rulers have long embraced Stalin?s impeccable logic: ?The people who cast the votes don?t decide an election; the people who count the votes do.? So a year ago this month, they held an election and blatantly falsified the results. Iranians protested and were brutally suppressed...

Saving Obama from Himself -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on June 24, 2010
Do you remember candidate Barack Obama offering his hope-and-change platitudes in front of the fake Greek columns during the Democratic convention? Or, earlier, pontificating at the Victory Monument in Berlin? Why didn?t an old cigar-chomping Democratic pro take him aside and warn him about offending Nemesis? She is the dreaded goddess who brings divine retribution in ironic fashion to overweening arrogance...

Beyond the McChrystal Flap -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on June 24, 2010
The flap about Gen. Stanley McChrystal?s ?resignation? was nobody?s finest hour. But there are some painful lessons in all this that go beyond any of the individuals involved -- the general, the president, or any of the officials at the Pentagon or the State Department...

Whether He Likes It or Not, Obama Must Command -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on June 24, 2010
We didn?t need this. By ?we,? I mean the large majority of citizens who want America to succeed in Afghanistan. By ?this,? I mean the Rolling Stone article that quoted Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his aides saying uncomplimentary things about Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and other civilian officials...

Glenn Beck's Thriller -- By: Keith Korman

Posted on June 23, 2010
The uniformed factotums of Homeland Security and TSA are checking airline travelers? papers; grumpy crowds, long lines. But follow the beautiful people past the velvet rope and through an unmarked door to the VIP lounge, and you?re no longer in a major New York airport, but in the spaceport of Mos Eisley: streamlined ?security? where the privileged are quietly ushered past the polloi...

The FDA Is Killing Private Enterprise -- By: John Derbyshire

Posted on June 23, 2010
The first federal regulator I ever knew was a fellow named Ernie. This was 40 years ago, a few weeks after I?d first landed on these shores. I?d run out of money and taken work as kitchen help at a small family firm in New Rochelle, N.Y. The firm made frozen kosher TV dinners...

Dale Peterson's Ultimate Political Ad -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on June 23, 2010
When I finally get Dale Peterson on the line, he tells me to wait a minute. He?ll talk politics, sure, but at the moment, on the porch of his farmhouse in Shelby, Ala., he is in the middle of a snack. ?When I was in the Marine Corps, everybody used to refer to this as cream of wheat...

Debating Where Life Begins -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on June 23, 2010
Fertilization in humans and other mammals produces a new member of the species in the embryonic stage of its natural development. That is to say, the entity produced by the union of spermatozoon and oocyte is a complete, though developmentally immature, organism...

Barney, in Context -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on June 23, 2010
The proceedings of the congressional conference committee on financial regulation are being broadcast on C-SPAN, as Rep. Barney Frank promised, while all the important deals are being conducted in backrooms with no input from Republicans, as I reported would be the case...

A Conversation with Arthur C. Brooks, Part 1 -- By: Interview

Posted on June 23, 2010
AEI?s Arthur C. Brooks always manages to see the world from a fresh prospective, one that is buoyed by first principles. A manifestation of this is his latest book, The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America?s Future...

Obama the Isolationist? -- By: Tony Blankley

Posted on June 23, 2010
Is it possible for an American president to accidentally carry out an isolationist foreign policy? That odd question crossed my mind last week as I talked with various foreign-policy experts about the Middle East, Russia, and Afghanistan. Judging by his words and his travels, there can be no doubt that President Obama intends to be anything but an isolationist president...

The Latest Thievery: Best Friends -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on June 23, 2010
There?s a great moment in the 1993 movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. Ben Kingsley plays a coach for a seven-year-old chess prodigy named Josh. Kingsley wants the boy to stop playing chess in the park and devote himself completely to Kingsley?s tutelage...

Ken Salazar Gets a Kick in the You-Know-What -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on June 23, 2010
For all his John Wayne rhetoric on the BP oil spill, President Obama has failed to administer a swift kick to the ample, deserving rump of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. No matter: Federal judge Martin Feldman has now done the job the White House won?t do...

Mend the Fed -- By: Josh Barro

Posted on June 22, 2010
Last month, delegates to Maine?s state Republican convention junked the party?s proposed platform in favor of one promoted by tea-party activists. While a majority of its planks are unremarkable conservative proposals, the platform garnered some national attention for its more extreme elements, particularly a flat assertion that global warming is a myth and that its proponents should be investigated for illegal collusion...

The Volcker Dilemma -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on June 22, 2010
Of all the financial-reform ideas that have been entertained over the past year, few have aroused as much vigorous opposition on Wall Street as the proposal to outlaw or restrict ?proprietary trading? (trading for profit) by commercial banks and bank holding companies (BHCs)...

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