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The Gulf Spill: Everyone's Dirty Now -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on June 18, 2010
Amidst all the political jockeying over the BP catastrophe, the main players are missing what is really uppermost on America?s mind: It?s the spill rate, stupid. It?s jobs, stupid. It?s the economy, stupid. Miss, miss, miss.All eyes in Washington, Wall Street, and Main Street were turned this week to the congressional show trial featuring beleaguered BP CEO Tony Hayward...

It's Complicated -- By: Jeffrey Friedman

Posted on June 17, 2010
The public?s support for vigorous financial regulation is a wake-up call for conservatives who imagined that the tea party signaled the triumph of conservative ideas. Much as with health-care reform, where the public opposed the administration?s bill but supported its promised benefits, a Rasmussen poll in late May found the public opposed to the financial-reform bill, 46 percent to 37 percent, even while an earlier ABC News-Washington Post poll showed that stricter regulation of major financial companies commanded more than two-to-one popular support...

Bon Jovi Islam -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on June 17, 2010
We?ve tried ?radical Islam,? ?extremist Islam,? ?fundamentalist Islam,? and ?sharia Islam.? Inevitably, political correctness gave us ?political Islam.? Now, ironically, under the guise of correcting an even worse case of political correctness, comes what we might call ?Bon Jovi Islam...

Santorum: The Darkest Horse -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on June 17, 2010
After Rick Santorum lost his Senate seat in 2006, he was, to many, a political dead man. Not only did he lose, but he lost big -- by 18 points -- to Democrat Bob Casey. Statistically, it was the worst loss for a sitting senator since Ronald Reagan?s first term...

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Voters in Big States Prefer Skinflint Candidates -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on June 17, 2010
?Government in New York is too big, ineffective, and expensive,? the candidate?s website proclaims. ?We must get our state?s fiscal house in order by immediately imposing a cap on state spending and freezing salaries of state public employees as part of a one-year emergency financial plan, committing to no increase in personal or corporate income taxes of sales taxes and imposing a local property tax cap...

Boxing Iran: A Case against Containment -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on June 17, 2010
President Obama?s policy of ?engagement? with Iran can be viewed as an experiment. There was at least a chance that it was only President Bush -- that swaggering, unilateralist cowboy -- with whom Iran?s theocrats did not want to engage. But a year and half into Obama?s tenure, we should recognize the obvious: Iran is ruled by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...

'Bush Did It' Is Not a Foreign Policy -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on June 17, 2010
Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America?s purported sins is not a foreign policy.Ronald Reagan came into office with the idea of rolling back the Soviet Union. Reagan hoped that such an evil empire might collapse from its inability to match a newly confident United States...

BP: Beyond Publicity -- By: Daniel Foster

Posted on June 16, 2010
Nobody has better exploited the iconography of shallow environmentalism than British Petroleum, which -- with a big assist from the same political spin-masters that brought you the Democratic party -- has spent vast sums over the past decade trying to convince the credulous that it is something, anything, other than what it has always been: a tremendously successful for-profit petroleum company...

Andrew C. McCarthy on Wartime Reading - and Leading, Pt. 2 -- By: Interview

Posted on June 16, 2010
EDITOR?S NOTE: Kathryn Jean Lopez continues her conversation with Andrew McCarthy on his new book,�The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. Part 1 of the interview can be read here.KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: ?So atrocious has been the bloodbath wrought by al-Qaeda, its affiliates, and its imitators that it has enabled more methodical Muslim extremists to operate under the radar...

All about Sharron Angle -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on June 16, 2010
When Sharron Angle stepped into National Review?s boardroom on Monday, she wasn?t flanked by a phalanx of aides. It was just her; her husband, Ted; and a friend. They sat down, cracked open Diet Cokes, and began to chat. Sen. Harry Reid, we thought, would be the main topic of conversation...

Here Come the Federal Education Standards -- By: Neal McCluskey

Posted on June 16, 2010
The Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), a joint project of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) -- no bureaucracy there, folks -- recently unveiled proposed national education standards that are all the rage in Washington...

Talking Cures -- By: James P. Pinkerton

Posted on June 16, 2010
Republicans are campaigning this year on a pledge to repeal Obamacare -- and who can blame them? The Democrats are slathering another layer of bureaucracy onto the medical sector, an act that promises to both�lower the quality of our health care and raise the price we pay for it...

The Bishops' Bomb -- By: John Andrews

Posted on June 16, 2010
In the months preceding the Obama administration?s Nuclear Posture Review, which reshaped the principles governing the size and purpose of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was busy at work. Its Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development issued various position papers urging the administration to drastically reduce the role and size of the arsenal...

Oil: The Real Green Fuel -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on June 16, 2010
A rolling ?dead zone? off the Gulf of Mexico is killing sea life and destroying livelihoods. Recent estimates put the blob at nearly the size of New Jersey.Alas, I?m not talking about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As terrible as that catastrophe is, such accidents have occurred in U...

Three Visits -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on June 16, 2010
Like many magazines and newspapers, National Review has a fairly steady stream of visitors -- officials, thinkers, personages. I thought I would tell you a little about three recent visitors -- different people with interesting things to say. I?m not going to encapsulate our conversations...

The Afghanistan War Is a Farce -- By: Tony Blankley

Posted on June 16, 2010
Since last summer, President Obama has publicly doubted whether Afghan president Hamid Karzai?s corruption and incompetence make him a fit partner for our policy goals in Afghanistan. Now, according to Saturday?s New York Times: ?Mr. Karzai [has] lost faith in the Americans and NATO to prevail in Afghanistan...

Krugman on Ireland and Spain -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on June 15, 2010
In his farewell column, New York Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent wrote that Paul Krugman ?has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults.? That was in 2005, and Krugman has only gotten worse...

Cameron Capers -- By: John O'Sullivan

Posted on June 15, 2010
Politics is the art of the plausible. Only two weeks after the British electorate ushered in the apparent uncertainty of a hung Parliament, the Lib-Dem-Con coalition cobbled together from the disappointed Tories and the third-place Liberal Democrats has already acquired an aura of inevitability...

Roe v. Obamacare -- By: Adam Freedman

Posted on June 15, 2010
In April, a group of Mississippi citizens, including Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, filed the first private class-action suit to challenge the Obama health-care law. The complaint cites all the legal precedents one would expect, but there is one big surprise: Roe v...

The Right's Civil Wrongs -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Posted on June 15, 2010
Civil rights are a problem for the American Right: a political problem, an intellectual one, a moral one. In the civil-rights debates of the 1950s and 1960s, many conservatives -- including William F. Buckley Jr., other figures associated with this magazine, and Sen...

Andrew C. McCarthy on Wartime Reading - and Leading, Pt. 1 -- By: Interview

Posted on June 15, 2010
We suffer from�willful blindness now more than ever. Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, who prosecuted the Blind Sheik, who masterminded the first attack on the World Trade Center, warned us of our error in his terror memoir by that name; as we continue our denial of the threat Americans face, McCarthy names names in his new book, The Grand Jihad, which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list this weekend...

Revolt Against the Blob -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on June 15, 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.Eva Moskowitz has become an expert at being hated...

When Good People Do Bad Things -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on June 15, 2010
Almost 30 years ago, Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a powerful book that propelled him to national and international renown. Though we have differed on some important theological matters, many of the book?s insights have been indispensible to me in understanding God and suffering...

What Obama Should Say Tuesday Night -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on June 15, 2010
My fellow Americans: Events of the past 55 days have taught me some valuable lessons about leadership and I?d like to share those with you tonight. When the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up and spawned a terrible oil spill on April 22, my administration?s response was conditioned by decades of liberal and leftist thinking about business and government...

Obama's Snake-Oil Spill -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on June 15, 2010
The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough in itself. But politics can make anything worse. Let?s stop and think. Either the government knows how to stop the oil spill or it doesn?t. If they know how to stop it, then why have they let thousands of barrels of oil per day keep gushing out, for weeks on end? All they have to do is tell BP to step aside, while the government comes in to do it right...

Oil Taxes and Fiscal Honesty -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on June 15, 2010
Every so often, members of Congress are given the chance to cast a vote in favor of fiscal honesty. Such an opportunity presented itself last month, when Sen. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho) introduced a financial-reform amendment requiring housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to be counted as part of the federal budget and reestablishing limits (at $200 billion apiece) on their access to Treasury Department credit...

Getting It Right in Afghanistan -- By: John McCain

Posted on June 15, 2010
EDITOR?S NOTE: The following is adapted from remarks made by Sen. John McCain in his opening statement at the Senate Armed Services Committee?s hearing on Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 15, 2010.As all of you know, I believe that winning the war in Afghanistan is a vital national-security interest...

'Stuck on Stupid': Obama's Czar Fetish -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on June 15, 2010
Here is the Obama Disaster Management Theory: In times of crisis, you can never have enough unelected, unvetted political appointees hanging around. Nearly two months after the BP oil spill, the White House will now name an oil-spill-restoration point person to oversee recovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico...

Mixed-Signal Surge -- By: The Editors

Posted on June 14, 2010
Afghans are masters of hedging their bets, and Pres.�Hamid Karzai is hedging his. Who can blame him? After an agonizingly long period of deliberation, President Obama approved an Afghan surge with an expiration date of July 2011 attached.That?s when Obama said we?d ?begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan...

Making Hay -- By: Jon Entine

Posted on June 14, 2010
This month, the Supreme Court will rule on its first-ever case involving genetically modified (GM) crops. It also prepares to welcome a new member who, as solicitor general, intervened on behalf of the controversial technology, angering many liberals...

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