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Voyeurism Dressed Up as a Public Service -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on March 02, 2010
It?s none of my business what Pres. Barack Obama?s LDL cholesterol level is. I don?t have to know that he is using nicotine therapy to help kick his smoking habit. But all of this and more is dutifully passed along after the president?s annual physical...

John, Chuck, Kathleen, and Mr. President -- By: Dennis Prager

Posted on March 02, 2010
There was something particularly annoying -- even harmful to society -- about the health-care summit held last week between President Obama and leading members of the House and Senate.It was the president?s calling all the congressmen and senators by their first names...

Crisis in Turkey -- By: Daniel Pipes

Posted on March 02, 2010
The arrest and indictment of top military figures in Turkey last week precipitated what is potentially the country?s most severe crisis since Ataturk founded the republic in 1923. The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country will continue its slide toward Islamism or revert to its traditional secularism...

Alice in Health Care -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on March 02, 2010
Most discussions of health care are like something out of Alice in Wonderland.What is the biggest complaint about the current medical-care situation? ?It costs too much.? Yet one looks in vain for anything in the pending legislation that will lower those costs...

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Our Lady's University -- By: Michael Novak

Posted on March 01, 2010
Relocating temporarily from Washington, D.C., to Florida from January 10 to February 20 was a kind providence. True, Florida had its coldest weather in 50 years, but don?t cry for me, northern America. Down there, ?cold? means about 45 degrees Fahrenheit early in the morning, rarely below that...

An Economist in Freefall -- By: Samuel Gregg

Posted on March 01, 2010
A rare growth industry following the 2008 financial crisis has been financial-crisis commentaries. An apparently endless stream of books and articles from assorted pundits and scholars continues to explain what went wrong and how to fix our present problems...

More Harm than Good -- By: Brett D. Schaefer

Posted on March 01, 2010
The United Nations?s emphasis on working with and through governments can horribly undermine its efforts to alleviate suffering -- especially when governments are key drivers of the suffering to begin with. A Foreign Policy article this week offers a chilling story of how this has unfolded in Zimbabwe over the last several years...

Strike Against Iran -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on March 01, 2010
Is it beyond hope that something serious may yet emerge from the portentously trembling mountain of U.S. rumination about Iran? Whatever may be said about George W. Bush, and he certainly had his infelicities, he identified Iraq as an international outlaw in violation of 17 U...

A No-Win Situation -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on March 01, 2010
Make no mistake: If Barack Obama actually wanted to be the post-partisan agent of change in Washington, his health-care summit would have looked a whole lot different�from the meeting at the Blair House, across the street from the White House. Every Republican from Majority Leader John Boehner to maverick John McCain (the latter is being challenged from the right in an upcoming primary, by the way) walked into the meeting imploring the White House to start over, to begin again, to hit the reset button...

Losing It? -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

Posted on March 01, 2010
If you like to believe that no bad deed goes unpunished, don?t look at the British opinion polls. In its nearly 13 years in power, the United Kingdom?s Labour party has wrecked the economy, ruined the national finances, lost control over the country?s borders -- and that?s just the beginning of the rap sheet...

Disinvited -- By: Helen Rittelmeyer

Posted on March 01, 2010
When the Air Force chaplain?s office rescinded its invitation to Tony Perkins to keynote a military families? prayer luncheon, it should have been over something truly dreadful. Disinvitation is serious business; usually, once an offer has been made and accepted, hospitality is supposed to kick in...

When Responsibility Doesn't Pay -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on February 27, 2010
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand-new, even-more-unsustainable entitlement at the health-care ?summit,? thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen -- because they?re part of the same story...

Follow-Up Appointment Needed -- By: NRO Symposium

Posted on February 26, 2010
In the wake of the Blair House summit, we asked a few of our health-care experts: Was anything accomplished on Thursday? What is a constructive next step for Republicans?� JEFFREY H. ANDERSONSeveral things were accomplished at the summit. The Democrats�failed to make their case -- which, in itself, was an accomplishment of sorts for the country...

Falling Behind in Florida -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on February 26, 2010
Last spring, Charlie Crist seemed to have it all: popularity, a sharp tan, and a surefire ticket to Washington as Florida?s next U.S. senator. Now the Republican governor is struggling mightily to catch up with conservative Marco Rubio, a former speaker of the state house, in the Sunshine State?s GOP Senate primary...

Obamacare: Federal Price Controls You Can Believe In -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on February 26, 2010
Imagine a small town whose sole shoe store suddenly charged $500 for sneakers and $1,000 for wing tips. Shocked and awed, citizens convened a town-hall meeting to decide what to do. Some wanted Congress to establish a Federal Footwear Commission to block ?unreasonable? shoe prices...

The Verdict on Obamacare -- By: The Editors

Posted on February 26, 2010
The White House was hoping the health-care summit would create momentum among Democrats to push their bill through Congress. It almost certainly did not work.Both sides repeated points that have been made countless times over the past year. That being the case, it seems likely that the public will react to what they heard from the Blair House meeting much as they have to the months-long debate in Congress: by agreeing in larger numbers with the Republican view that the bill the Democrats are pushing is hopelessly flawed...

Health-Care Humdrum -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on February 26, 2010
The longest week I ever spent was the six hours I spent watching yesterday?s health-care summit.� The better angel of my nature says that this confab was a wonderful spectacle of democracy -- serious men and women airing serious disagreements in a (relatively) respectful and substantive manner...

The Exceptionalism Backlash -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on February 26, 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.Pres. Barack Obama learned from Bill Clinton?s mistakes in 1993 and ?94...

The Anti-Obama? -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on February 26, 2010
On the morning of November 5, 2008, the world rocked to news that the United States had elected Barack Obama to the presidency. That same morning, Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, joined the list of those most often mentioned as potentially defeating President Obama in 2012...

You Lie! -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on February 26, 2010
The Democratic leadership in Washington wants you to believe that the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church are trying to create a theocracy and reverse Roe v. Wade with one congressional vote. (As if anyone could.) Don?t get suckered in by the lies of the president and the pro-choice Catholics he has flanking him as cover, most notably Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...

Toyota and the Price of Modernity -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on February 25, 2010
Amazingly, the congressional hearings on Toyota were relatively civilized. Apart from some inevitable theatrical hectoring, the questioning was generally respectful, the emotions controlled. This was all the more remarkable given the drama of some of the testimony, such as that offered by a tearful Rhonda Smith, who recounted how, in her runaway Lexus, she had called her husband because ?I wanted to hear his voice one more time...

Going Off Senator Graham's Cliff -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on February 25, 2010
Closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay is ?the pragmatic thing to do.? So says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) in remarks reported by the Wall Street Journal. And why is that? ?It?s an image problem for the United States.? Actually, Gitmo is not a problem at all for the United States...

Terrorists' Lawyers at the DOJ -- By: The Editors

Posted on February 25, 2010
The Obama administration promised Americans an era of unprecedented transparency in the operations of government. At his confirmation hearing and in subsequent testimony, Attorney General Eric Holder professed a desire to work openly and cooperatively with Congress...

The Summit Cometh -- By: Tevi Troy

Posted on February 25, 2010
The machinations leading up to the Blair House summit have resembled a chess match in which one side - the Democrats -- can?t decide who gets to move the pieces on its side of the board. Both the House and Senate passed health-care bills about two months ago, yet President Obama?s plan, released earlier this week, did not have the support of either chamber?s Democrats when it was released...

Obamacare's Costly Flaw -- By: Dr. David Gratzer

Posted on February 25, 2010
Today, President Obama will meet with congressional leaders for a�summit to discuss reforming American health care. The White House is expected to tout aggressive measures to reign in spending, and then contrast the president?s ideas with the smaller and -- in the administration?s view -- less substantive Republican proposals...

Green madness, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on February 25, 2010
For a long time now, many of us have written about the green movement, and I don?t mean democratic protests in Iran: I mean the environmentalist movement here in the United States. Is it a sane, realistic, and admirable response to genuine environmental problems? Or is it a foolish, often bullying cult, which will one day be regarded as a bizarre chapter in our history?Sometimes you think -- or at least I think -- Has the whole world gone mad? Green-mad?A reader in Cleveland sent me something that dismayed her...

Too Little, Too Late, Too Cynical -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on February 25, 2010
The United States may very well owe a crushing $20 trillion by 2020. And thus President Obama last week named a bipartisan commission to find ways to address our national debt.Such a Periclean response might sound sincere and worthwhile. But it comes 13 months into this administration -- and only after Obama added nearly $1...

How to Stifle Speech -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on February 25, 2010
There?s an old Soviet joke in which an American tells a Russian: ?In my country we have freedom of speech. I can stand in front of the White House and yell, ?Nixon is an idiot!? and nothing will happen to me.? The Russian replies: ?In my country, we have the same freedom...

Ducking and Dodging -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on February 25, 2010
?We have some strong disagreements on the numbers,? President Obama said after Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) concluded his devastating critique of the Democrats? budget claims, ?but I don?t want to get too bogged down.? In the ensuing debate, what became clear is that the Democrats just don?t have an answer to Ryan?s arguments...

ACORN's New Shell -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on February 24, 2010
ACORN is not dissolving. But some of its local affiliates, in an effort to suggest they?re cutting ties with the organization, are giving themselves new names. The reason is money: ACORN cites a string of ?vicious right-wing attacks? -- and here I doff the purple pimp hat to James O?Keefe -- that have made it hard for them to shake down their usual banker benefactors and nonprofit patrons...

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