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Lift Up Your Hearts -- By: Newt Gingrich

Posted on April 06, 2010
Following Pope John Paul II?s death five years ago, the world prayerfully reflected on a life that had transformed the lives of millions of people worldwide. Today, the world continues to reflect on the life of Pope John Paul II because his teaching and his actions point the way forward to building a future worthy of man...

Go Quietly, Michael Steele -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on April 06, 2010
How to put this politely? Michael Steele is a mn of considerable talents -- it?s just that he conspicuously lacks those required for his present position. He?s energetic, personable, and articulate. But those are not the qualities most required of a party chairman...

Abolishing Good Friday -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on April 06, 2010
When a town in Iowa seeks to rename Good Friday ?Spring Holiday,? you know America has problems. Those of us who affirm the Judaeo-Christian values that have constituted the basis of America?s values since before the founding of the United States expect such things on the two coasts...

Starved and dangerous, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on April 06, 2010
Readers of this column have heard perhaps more than they want about hunger strikes in Cuba. In late February, the prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo died after an 83-day strike. Yes, 83 days -- that?s a long time. And his jailers did not make it any easier for him, as I detailed in this piece...

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The Great Iran Charade -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on April 06, 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.The rules of the great Iranian nuclear charade are simple: We pretend to punish the Iranians for the nuclear-weapons program that they pretend doesn?t exist...

Go Quietly, Michael Steele -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on April 06, 2010
How to put this politely? Michael Steele is a man of considerable talents -- it?s just that he conspicuously lacks those required for his present position. He?s energetic, personable, and articulate. But those are not the qualities most required of a party chairman...

Race and Politics -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on April 06, 2010
Few combinations are more poisonous than race and politics. That combination has torn whole nations apart and led to the slaughters of millions in countries around the world.You might think we would have learned a lesson from that and stayed away from injecting race into political issues...

What the Reporters Saw (and Didn't See) -- By: Daniel Foster

Posted on April 06, 2010
You?d think that the short stretch of grass and asphalt between the Capitol and the Longworth Office Building were Dealey Plaza, given all the conspiracy theorizing that has emerged in the wake of what may or may not have been an isolated incident of racial harassment on the eve of the Obamacare vote...

Lift Up Your Hearts -- By: Newt & Callista Gingrich

It's Not the Size That Counts -- By: Andrew Redleaf & Richard Vigilante

Posted on April 05, 2010
Imagine for a moment that the TSA announced it was going to remove all X-ray machines from airports and instead limit carry-on bags to the size of a small briefcase. Would you feel safer? Any Jack Bauer fan knows it?s not the size of the bag but what?s inside that should worry us...

Rand against the Machine -- By: David Wolfford

Posted on April 05, 2010
Dr. Rand Paul has emerged as a contender in the Republican primary to replace Kentucky?s outgoing senator, Jim Bunning. In his first-ever run for public office, Paul has taken the lead in the polls and a slight lead in money -- even though Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has all but endorsed Paul?s chief rival, Secretary of State Trey Grayson...

Cue the Boys of Summer 2010 -- By: Jason Epstein

Posted on April 05, 2010
For Christians around the world, Easter is a time of rebirth and remembrance. In baseball, Opening Day evokes memories of the previous season -- good and bad -- that mingle with hopes for the new one. Last October, I experienced the rare joy of not being able to view the World Series in its entirety...

Change, but No Hope -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on April 05, 2010
Last summer, I wrote a column framed as a letter to a young Obama voter. It concluded: ?You want policies that will enable you to choose your future. Obama backs policies that would let centralized authorities choose much of your future for you. Is this the hope and change you want?? It seems that some young Obama voters have decided it isn?t...

Celebrating Entrepreneurship in El Salvador -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on April 05, 2010
Suchitoto, El Salvador -- For Americans nauseated by the federal takeover of seemingly everything these days, a recent gathering here recalled what once made the U.S. great: entrepreneurs leading companies that create goods and services and deliver jobs, profits, and wealth...

Boehner for Life -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on April 05, 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 he finally voted for President Obama?s health-care bill, ?pro-life? Rep...

Why NRO Matters -- By: Jack Fowler

Posted on April 05, 2010
NRO matters. Take it from Scott Brown. Shortly after his special-election victory in Massachusetts, the newly elected senator wrote this letter: Mr. Richard Lowry Editor National Review 215 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10016 Dear Rich,As I begin my work as the newly elected United States senator for Massachusetts, I wanted to thank you for your leadership at National Review...

Bluegrass Bummer -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on April 04, 2010
In the mid-1990s, Kentucky was one of eight state governments that boldly went where the rest of the country refused to go: The commonwealth imposed Clintoncare?s restrictions on its insurance companies, even though Clintoncare had been vanquished from the national stage...

Parochially Post-American -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on April 03, 2010
Hillary Clinton, America?s secretary of state, was in Canada last week. She criticized Ottawa for not inviting aboriginal groups to a meeting on the Arctic, and for not including the facilitation of abortion in the Canadian government?s ?maternal health? initiative to developing countries...

A Good Friday to Remember -- By: Michael Fumento

Posted on April 02, 2010
Good Friday, April 17, 1992: I?d just started a great job at Investor?s Business Daily in Los Angeles, and two weeks earlier I?d purchased the car of my dreams, a beautiful, blue Toyota MR2 Turbo. To me, at least, it looked like a small Ferrari. It was fast and sleek...

The Same Old Drill -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on April 02, 2010
Too little, too late, too clever, and for the wrong reasons. That?s a good way to describe President Obama?s decision to allow a little offshore drilling. Of course, most of the environmentalist base of the Democratic party sees it the other way around: too much, too soon (since ?never? is their preferred timeline), too dumb, but for the right reasons...

An American Family's Cancun Horror -- By: Michelle Malkin

Posted on April 02, 2010
It was every parent?s worst spring-break nightmare come true: Fun in the sun somehow turned into a south-of-the-border bloodbath for 21-year-old Zeke Rucker. The vacationing Rutgers University graduate was discovered alone outside his resort hotel in the wee hours of the morning of March 16, bleeding and unconscious by a swimming pool...

Barack and Bibi, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on April 02, 2010
You may remember that President Obama had some advice for Israelis last summer. He said they needed to ?engage in serious self-reflection.? Well, I had a serious cow when he said that. May I quote from the relevant Impromptus? Of all the things Obama has said in his half-year in office, I think the most offensive was his assertion that Israel must ?engage in serious self-reflection...

Slapping Friends -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on April 02, 2010
What is it like to be a foreign ally of Barack Obama?s America?If you?re a Brit, your head is spinning. It?s not just the personal slights to Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- the ridiculous 25-DVD gift, the five refusals before Brown was granted a one-on-one with The One...

It's Not Like Civil Rights -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on April 02, 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 victory as transcendent as that of the civil-rights movement in the 1960s is a rare and marvelous thing...

Fossil Future -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on April 01, 2010
In the Gulf of Mexico -- One of the first things you need to know when visiting an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico is that a hard hat and safety goggles must be worn at all times. Another thing you might like to know is that the strippers on Bourbon Street prefer not to take Diners Club...

Just Djou It -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on April 01, 2010
With Scott Brown winning a Senate seat in Massachusetts, the Bay State no longer qualifies as the toughest terrain for Republican candidates. So which deep-blue spot will be the next one to shock the political world? It could be Hawaii?s 1st congressional district, which encompasses Honolulu and is sometimes referred to as ?Barack Obama?s home district,? since the president lived in Hawaii?s capital city during his teen years...

Drill, Obama, Drill -- By: The Editors

Posted on April 01, 2010
It?s not that we?re opposed to Barack Obama?s executive order allowing some limited oil exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf. It?s just that we?re a little#...#suspicious. A brief history of this issue: In 2008, with oil prices topping $140 a barrel, President Bush lifted an executive order banning offshore drilling...

Blundering into Success -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on April 01, 2010
By the standards of other Great Powers, the foreign policy of the United States has often been erratic. Its national interest has frequently been questioned, and sometimes negated, especially by conscientious groups who represent America?s allies and protégés as morally unworthy of U...

The Spy Who Loved Peace -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on April 01, 2010
President Obama thinks Israel?s policies are the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Hamas disagrees. The problem for Hamas, writes Mosab Hassan Yousef, has never been ?Israel?s policies.? The problem for Hamas is ?Israel?s very existence.? Hamas, Yousef adds, is ?animated by religious fervor and the theology of jihad,? and it is ?dedicated to the extinction of Israel...

Tea Partiers Embrace Liberty, Not Big Government -- By: Michael Barone

Posted on April 01, 2010
Over the past 14 months, our political debate has been transformed into an argument between the heirs of two fundamental schools of political thought, the Founders? and the progressives?. The Founders stood for the expansion of liberty, the progressives for the expansion of government...

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