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The Anti-Beer Libertarian -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on May 26, 2010
By now it?s become a disturbingly familiar pattern for conservatives: A candidate who seems promising at first glance wins a Republican primary, and then suddenly the press -- often fed by a Democratic rival?s opposition-research team -- begins looking in-depth at every controversial and regrettable statement and act that candidate ever made...

Korean Conundrum -- By: The Editors

Posted on May 25, 2010
Discussing United States policy toward North Korea can seem exhaustingly futile. There are no ?good? options, and the North?s behavior appears utterly intractable; yet because of its magnitude, the threat from Pyongyang demands our constant attention...

Plug-In Pablum -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on May 25, 2010
When politicians and environmental activists hammer the table about the need to break our so-called ?addiction to oil? -- as they are doing with increased fervor in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico -- they seldom spend much time explaining exactly how we should go about doing so...

Up in Norway, Part I -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on May 25, 2010
You know how Hemingway wrote a story called ?Up in Michigan?? (Such a good title.) Well, this little journal here will be ?Up in Norway.? And it is not to be confused with the series I had about a month ago: the ?Oslo Journal.? That was about the Oslo Freedom Forum, the human-rights conference that takes place in the Norwegian capital...

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The Sources of Inequality -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on May 25, 2010
EDITOR?S NOTE: While Thomas Sowell is on vacation, enjoy this classic column from the archives.A heartbreaking social statistic is that children on welfare have only about half as many words per day directed at them as the children of working-class families -- and less than one-third as many words as children whose parents are professionals...

How Islamists Came to Dominate European Islam -- By: Daniel Pipes

Posted on May 25, 2010
The 7/7 bombings in London, in which Islamists killed 52 and injured 700, prompted British authorities to work with Muslims to avoid future violence.However, rather than turn to anti-Islamist Muslims who reject the triumphalist goal of applying Islamic law in Europe, they promoted non-violent Islamists, hoping these would persuade coreligionists to express their hatred of the West in lawful ways...

As Morally Serious as a Root Canal -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on May 25, 2010
I am often asked whether I support Sarah Palin for president. I don?t. But I do very much support her as America?s next Oprah. Her cultural antennae are exquisitely sensitive, and she relishes combat. ?Sarah?s book club? would be an improvement. After a recent speech in which she argued that ?choosing life may not be the easiest path, but it?s always the right path,? the Washington Post web edition invited responses...

Arizona and Our National Self-Abasement -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on May 25, 2010
Editor?s note: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, kfsreprint@hearstsc.com or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.The Arizona immigration law has become the occasion for a sorry exercise in national self-abasement...

Global Moral Decline and Who's to Blame for It -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on May 25, 2010
One of the many beliefs -- i.e., non-empirically based doctrines -- of the post-Christian West has been that moral progress is the human norm, especially so with the demise of religion. In a secular world, the self-described enlightened thinking goes, superstition is replaced by reason and reason leads to the moral good...

Meg at Bay -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on May 24, 2010
For Meg Whitman, it never should have been this tough -- or, for that matter, this expensive. Whitman, a former eBay chief executive, has burned through $68 million from her personal fortune in the run-up to California?s GOP gubernatorial primary on June 8...

The End of Peter Pan Fiscal Policy -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on May 24, 2010
The bond vigilantes have pulverized Greece, and New York University economist Nouriel Roubini (a.k.a. ?Dr. Doom?) is warning that they may eventually target the United States. Southern Europe?s riot-torn basket case has come to epitomize a nightmare scenario of budgetary meltdown triggered by unsustainable government spending...

Obama at West Point: Lessons Unlearned -- By: Arthur Herman

Posted on May 24, 2010
On Saturday, Pres. Barack Obama gave a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy at West Point, which in effect told the thousand or so soon-to-be second lieutenants that, if he has his way, they?ll soon be out of a job.Obama outlined for the cadets his vision of a new international order organized around bodies such as the United Nations...

The House Divided -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on May 24, 2010
Bill Bennett and Seth Leibsohn don?t mince words on NRO:�?Allowing the running down of a part of the United States by the head of a foreign government, at the White House, standing next to the president ? who not only didn?t challenge him, but encouraged him ? is a foreign- and domestic-policy catastrophe...

The Gathering Revolt against Government Spending -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on May 24, 2010
This month, three members of Congress have been beaten in their bids for reelection -- a Republican senator from Utah, a Democratic congressman from West Virginia, and a Republican-turned-Democratic senator from Pennsylvania. Their records and their curricula vitae are different...

A tragic miscoloring, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on May 24, 2010
I know that the issue of color-coding the states is over and done with in America: The left-leaning states are the ?blue? states, and the right-leaning ones are the ?red? states. But it still irks me. I mean, how in the heck did the lefties end up blue while the righties ended up red? For ages and ages, the color of conservatism has been blue; and for ages and ages, the color of -- well, I don?t want to sound McCarthyite...

The Era of Unlimited Government Is Here -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on May 24, 2010
?Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business,? Pres. Calvin Coolidge told journalists in March 1929. If Coolidge suddenly sprang to life today, he would look around and drop dead.Washington Democrats are minding their own business#...

Sarah Palin: A Feminist in the Pro-Life Tradition -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on May 24, 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.When Sarah Palin speaks, liberal feminists go wild. The woman is like a stilettoed catalyst for backlash from the professional political sisterhood...

One of Those Moments -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on May 22, 2010
Barack Obama?s remarkable powers of oratory are well known: In support of Chicago?s Olympic bid, he flew into Copenhagen to give a heartwarming speech about himself, and they gave the games to Rio. He flew into Boston to support Martha Coakley?s bid for the U...

Gold Bugs -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on May 21, 2010
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.) has uncovered a conspiracy between conservative talk-radio hosts and the gold companies that advertise on their shows. According to Weiner, the conservative talkers scare their listeners into believing that the government under Pres...

Cruising with NR, Part III -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on May 21, 2010
Friends, welcome to the third and last installment of these notes from our recent cruise in Portugal -- and when I say ?our,? I mean National Review?s. ?Are you a magazine or a cruise line?? someone once asked, not too politely. We are a magazine that lives it up on a cruise once or twice a year...

The Shady ShoreBank Bailout -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on May 21, 2010
?No more bailouts, no more greed, how many profits do you need?? That?s been a signature chant of the community organizers and Big Labor thugs who have stormed bank offices and financial executives? private homes decrying corporate welfare over the past several months...

The Fruits of Weakness -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on May 21, 2010
It is perfectly obvious that Iran?s latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent)...

A Problem Like Paul -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on May 21, 2010
Editor?s note: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, kfsreprint@hearstsc.com or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.How do you solve a problem like Rand Paul? The Kentucky Republican and son of libertarian icon Ron had hardly won his party?s nomination for U...

Over the Rainbows -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on May 21, 2010
Falling Down (1993) was one of the worst political films of the last 20 years, but it had one memorable line. A stunned Michael Douglas asks, ?I?m the bad guy?#...#How did that happen?? Barack Obama should be asking himself something similar these days...

Getting Lectured on Human Rights by Mexico -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on May 21, 2010
The Obama administration is deeply embarrassed by the legislators of Arizona. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner, in discussions with representatives from China (China!), cited the Arizona law as evidence of human-rights failures in the U.S. Doubling down, State Department spokesman P...

Terror by Lawsuit -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on May 21, 2010
Alleged Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was presented to a judge this past Tuesday, after being held in custody, incommunicado from everyone except his interrogators, for two weeks. According to reports, the interrogators included federal prosecutors and agents from Manhattan, as well as members of the president?s newly minted High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG)...

Dying for the Karzai Cartel -- By: Ann Marlowe

Posted on May 20, 2010
The classic defense of our involvement in Afghanistan is that we need to make sure that Afghanistan never again becomes a sanctuary for al-Qaeda or other enemies of the United States. Ungoverned spaces attract terrorists, especially when they?re in bad neighborhoods...

A New NATO-Based Alliance -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on May 20, 2010
It is becoming urgent that international organizations be reevaluated and reformed. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have tried to adapt to post-Cold War conditions, but the United Nations is as mockingly perverse as ever, and the increasing ambiguity of NATO requires attention...

Trading toward Recovery -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on May 20, 2010
As the economy continues to stumble, Congress and President Obama have repeatedly refused a unique opportunity to bolster our workforce and our economy. Their inaction on three pending Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) -- particularly one with Colombia (CFTA) -- is costing U...

Melanie Phillips on a World Gone Mad -- By: Interview

Posted on May 20, 2010
Melanie Phillips, the British journalist, is author of The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power. As the title suggests, the book covers a lot of ground. Phillips touches on much of it in an interview with National Review Online?s Kathryn Jean Lopez...

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