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It's About Government, Not Health Care -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on March 07, 2010
So there was President Obama giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats...

Getting Out of Medicine -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on March 07, 2010
Some years ago, one of my favorite doctors retired...

One Giant Government Leap Backwards -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on March 07, 2010
Rather than a post-partisan olive branch to congressional Republicans and the American public, President Obama’s latest health-care speech was a declaration of war...

The Gitmo Volunteers -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

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Fed-Bashing and Consumer Protection -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on March 07, 2010
Senate Banking Committee members Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) and Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) are reportedly on the verge of introducing a landmark financial-reform bill...

February Diary -- By: John Derbyshire

Posted on March 07, 2010
February is the boringest month. In any month of the year there is something really boring going on that we thumb-suckers in the commentariat are supposed to come up with penetrating observations about...

Holder's Office of Professional Irresponsibility -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on March 07, 2010
Last week, House Democrats launched a sneak attack on the CIA, inserting into the intelligence authorization bill -- without advance notice to Republicans or the CIA -- a provision that would have criminalized the intelligence services’ use of certain interrogation tactics...

International Injustice -- By: Robin Harris

Posted on March 07, 2010
A turning point has been reached in the arguments about universal criminal jurisdiction. Significantly, this happened in Britain. The country’s role in radically broadening the scope of international jurisdiction in the Pinochet affair -- when the former president of Chile was arrested on a Spanish warrant and held for two years -- had far-reaching, and baleful, effects...

Myths about Reconciliation -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on March 07, 2010
How could you tell when the Democrats had finally settled on the reconciliation route? It was at some point between the time Harry Reid <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/83645-reid-no-one-has-talked-about-reconciliation">told</a> Republicans at the health-care summit that “nobody has talked about reconciliation” and the time the White House stopped uttering the word altogether...

Credit Where Credit Isn't Due -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on March 07, 2010
‘Victory has a hundred fathers,” John F...

A Bright, Shining Green Lie -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on March 07, 2010
Editor’s note: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate...

Onward, He Said, Regardless -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on March 07, 2010
So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’ devastatingly negative January 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time...

Mostly Hope -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on March 07, 2010
After more than a year in office, the Obama foreign policy based on hope has run its course...

Obamacare Declares War on Growth Capital -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on March 07, 2010
American companies are gasping for cash like beached fish fruitlessly flapping their gills...

The President's Imaginary Health Plan -- By: The Editors

Posted on March 07, 2010
The president launched a last-ditch effort to pass a government takeover of American health care yesterday...

AWOL in the Bunning Battle -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on March 07, 2010
If Obamacare passes, Obamacare is forever. Just ask Jim Bunning. The Kentucky Republican finally caved in Tuesday after relentless pressure from other senators -- including Republicans -- to drop what the Politico <a href="http://www...

Unreforming Welfare -- By: Katherine Bradley

Posted on March 07, 2010
The devil, they say, is in the details. That certainly applies to presidential budgets. Consider President Obama’s 2011 budget...

'A Period of Subpar Growth' -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on March 07, 2010
For anyone eager to understand the history of financial meltdowns and the consequences of skyrocketing public debt, the work of economists Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard is simply invaluable...

A President's Relentless Optimism -- By: Interview

Posted on March 07, 2010
Ronald Reagan is not just the stuff of right-wing confabs and campaigns. He was a key catalyst in the fall of the Soviet Union and its poisonous empire, an accomplishment that is widely celebrated and covered -- most recently, by Time magazine’s managing editor, Romesh Ratnesar, in his book <a href=" http://www...

Hope in Harlem -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on March 07, 2010
New York -- The reverend picks the spot: 113 West 116th Street, three o’clock sharp. You know the neighborhood -- directly north of Central Park -- as part of Harlem...

Green-Jobs Fantasy -- By: Iain Murray

Posted on March 07, 2010
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is adapted from the March 8, 2010 issue of National Review...

Unhealthy Hype -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on March 07, 2010
With all the controversies, charges, counter-charges and buzzwords swirling around the issue of medical care in the United States, there is a lot to be said for going back to square one and asking just what is the fundamental problem...

This War Would Be Hell, Too -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on March 07, 2010
If a top intelligence expert said America was not prepared for war and, indeed, that if we went to war “we would lose,” that would worry you, wouldn’t it? Start worrying...

No Allies, But Plenty of Enemies -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on March 07, 2010
Almost 30 years after losing a war over the Falkland Islands, Argentina is once again warning Britain that it still wants back what it calls the Malvinas...

Interesting Times in Texas -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on March 07, 2010
Students at the University of Texas celebrate March 2, Texas Independence Day, with a traditional tea toast. But there was a different kind of tea party in Texas this Tuesday, with the high-profile gubernatorial primary between Gov...

Unprecedented -- By: Michael G. Franc

Posted on March 02, 2010
With the dust settled on the health summit, it is clear that the president and his allies on Capitol Hill intend to plow forward with their sweeping proposal to overhaul the nation?s health sector. As the Los Angeles Times observed, it is also clear that ?they will have to do it by themselves...

Charter Schools Lose in L.A. -- By: Marcus A. Winters

Posted on March 02, 2010
Last week, the Los Angeles school board had the opportunity to fundamentally improve its lowest-performing public schools by transferring them to successful charter-school operators. Instead, the board handed the schools right back to the teachers? union that was responsible for their inferiority in the first place...

The 77 Percent Effect -- By: Frederick M. Hess

Posted on March 02, 2010
Cynics have argued that the Department of Education?s ?Race to the Top? (RTT) program has distracted attention from the need to address unsustainable state budgets. Such cynicism has been deemed unfashionable by Obama-administration allies, cash-starved state and local officials keen to stay in the administration?s good graces, and editorial writers eager to say nice things about our earnest education secretary, Arne Duncan...

Where Is Pelosi's Broom? -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on March 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.It may have been the shrewdest thing Nancy Pelosi ever said...

Heavyweight writer, heavyweight statement, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on March 02, 2010
Salman Rushdie has done something good -- and I don?t mean a new novel. He has spoken up for Gita Sahgal and against Amnesty International. Who is Sahgal? She is an official of Amnesty International who has now been suspended. She had opposed, publicly, an alliance between Amnesty and a man named Moazzam Begg...

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