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Saying it all, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on February 09, 2010
I?ve never much liked it when a writer quotes something, or links to something, and says, ?This says it all? -- you know what I mean? Almost nothing ?says it all,? about any topic.But I must tell you, I thought of ?This says it all? when I spotted this headline: ?Hamas backtracks on apology over harming civilians...

The Fallacy of 'Fairness' -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on February 09, 2010
If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people?s thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word ?fair.? It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it...

The Potent Tea Party -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on February 09, 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. No one has vested more hope in the tea-party movement than the Democrats...

Frontier Suburbanite -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on February 09, 2010
Al Gore is responsible for this. He taunted Mother Nature. Consider this her memo: Don?t Presume to Know What I Have in Store.Here in Fairfax County, we thought we were prepared. I had purchased enough milk to last our family of five for a week. We had plenty of food...

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The 'Shut Up' Candidate -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on February 08, 2010
Barack Obama and his closest allies have a message for America, and that message is: ?Shut up.? Obama himself is famous for telling his critics to shut up: ?I don?t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking,? he said while defending his so-far ineffective economic-recovery agenda...

Stealth Stimulus -- By: The Editors

Posted on February 08, 2010
With the prospects for their transformative health-care bill looking dimmer by the day, Democrats have retreated to familiar ground: Stimulus! The $787 billion stimulus passed last winter is working, Democrats contend, but not fast enough. We need another $100 billion or so to spend our way out of this recession...

Marginal Impacts -- By: Samuel R. Staley

Posted on February 08, 2010
High-speed rail has emerged as the Obama administration?s signature transportation initiative. While advocates hail the project as a long-overdue commitment to the nation?s passenger-rail infrastructure, in reality it reflects a remarkable marginalization of the U...

Western Civilization on Trial -- By: NRO Symposium

Posted on February 08, 2010
As the Geert Wilders case goes into pre-trial, National Review Online asked our experts: Is there any legitimate reason he?s in court? What are the implications of such a trial being held, nevermind its outcome?BAT YE?ORGeert Wilders is a hero for those countless Europeans who cherish a free and democratic Europe -- a Europe proud of its Judeo-Christian and humanistic values, its civilization, and its achievements in the field of human rights...

Losing Our Religion -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on February 08, 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.Even with its centuries-old roots throughout the continent, is Christianity history in the West? In a speech at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D...

Unsustainable -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on February 06, 2010
At the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama singled out for praise Navy Corpsman Christian Bouchard. Or as the president called him, ?Corpseman Bouchard.? Twice.Hey, not a big deal. Throughout his life, the commander-in-chief has had little contact with the military, and less interest...

Peyton's Place -- By: Duncan Currie

Posted on February 06, 2010
As television broadcasters and analysts constantly remind us, the NFL is a quarterback-driven league. Super Bowl XLIV will showcase two of the very best signal-callers around: Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts and Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints...

Two Cheers for the Maine Ladies -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on February 05, 2010
When Obamacare sailed into rough waters near Christmas, most Republicans jumped ship. But two GOP senators, Maine?s Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, clung to the battered vessel right until Ben Nelson cut the rope. � This week, the Maine ladies redeemed themselves with their handling of the Republican riposte to President Obama?s foundering anti-terror policy...

Save Money, Live Longer -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on February 05, 2010
One can learn much about the state of liberal thinking on health care by considering the following statement: ?The theory of the Medicare system, of the European systems, is that the best way to do this is to have the government fund research to discover the effectiveness of treatments and then use its purchasing power the same way Wal-Mart would -- to drive prices down...

Killing Abstinence -- By: Robert Rector

Posted on February 05, 2010
This week, the media gave us what appeared to be startling news: Research, appearing in a journal published by the American Medical Association, showed (shock!) that abstinence programs dramatically reduced teen sexual activity. No one knowledgeable about abstinence education, however, would find this startling...

Michigan's Blueprint for America -- By: Henry Payne

Posted on February 05, 2010
Detroit -- Most Americans are just getting warmed up to the idea of a self-centered chief executive who has divined America?s future as a green economy and is brashly installing the industrial-policy tools to get us there. But we here in Michigan have been living it since Gov...

Holder on Holder -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on February 05, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder has responded to criticism of the Obama administration?s handling of the Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, with an ?all?s well that ends well? letter to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. Holder?s missive vigorously defends what he says was his decision to treat Abdulmutallab as a criminal defendant, to impose peacetime law-enforcement protocols on his interrogation, and to charge him in civilian court...

Hollywood Has Seen the Enemy . . . -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on February 05, 2010
It?s Oscar time. Unfortunately -- or perhaps fortunately -- I haven?t seen anywhere near all of the contenders. For that reason alone, I can?t write an Oscar column. Then throw in the fact that I think the Oscars are one of the most overhyped events in American life...

Another Undead Conservative Idea -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on February 05, 2010
Barack Obama assumed the presidency determined not just to promote certain policies but to tidy up our minds as well. Some things we?d been saving, like conservative ideas on national defense and such, would have to go. Those were ?the failed policies of the past,? and he would not tolerate people clinging to them...

For Government, Let the Good Times Roll -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on February 05, 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. For most Americans, the Great Recession has been an occasion to hold on for dear life...

The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010 -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on February 05, 2010
?I am not an ideologue,? protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.Compare his 2010 State of the Union with his first address to Congress a year earlier...

Execute KSM and the 9/11 Killers -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on February 05, 2010
The Obama administration wisely is considering moving from Manhattan the trial of five September 11 conspirators, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Team Obama?s original idea of�trying Team al-Qaeda in civilian court cannot be scrapped soon enough...

Don't Ask, Tell, Or Investigate -- By: The Editors

Posted on February 04, 2010
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has shown the white flag on defending ?don?t ask, don?t tell.? He came out against it in congressional testimony this week, on the heels of Obama calling for its end in his State of the Union address...

'Merely Organized to Convict' -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on February 04, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder keeps on the wall of his office a portrait of Justice Robert Jackson, who was attorney general under FDR. Holder explains that Jackson is one of his heroes. The display is both an homage and a reminder to consider the justice?s reservoirs of wisdom, which ran deep...

The Obama Economy -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on February 04, 2010
In the intense debate about the U.S. economy, a few key points seem to be overlooked in the heat of partisan and ideological discussion. Among these is the fact that capitalism is the only economic system that can maximize economic growth and thus generalize prosperity, because it is most closely aligned with the acquisitiveness and desire for security and power that are so central to human nature and motivate almost everyone...

The humbling of Obama? &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on February 04, 2010
Did you hear what President Obama said the other day about the Middle East? In an interview with his fan Joe Klein, he said, ?I?ll be honest with you. This is just really hard.? Oh? That?s a stunning observation, Sherlock. He went on, ?This is as intractable a problem as you get...

Eye to Eye on Iran? -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on February 04, 2010
Washington?s partisan divide is as wide as it?s ever been. Democrats and Republicans bitterly disagree on fundamental points of principle and policy. So it should not go unremarked: Last week, the Senate passed -- unanimously -- a bill that would impose serious sanctions on Iran...

America Rides Off into the Sunset -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on February 04, 2010
Thousands in Tokyo have been echoing Barack Obama?s signature call for ?change? -- as in ?Change Japanese-U.S. relations!?Our military is rushing anti-missile batteries to Iran?s Arab neighbors in anticipation of new Iranian military escalation.As in the case of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, the U...

Illinois Primary Day Ends -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on February 03, 2010
If Illinois Primary Day snuck up on you, don?t feel bad. Until two years ago, it was held in March; the state moved up its primary to help out native son Barack Obama in 2008 and never switched back. Thus, this year?s crop of aspiring challengers had less time than usual to grab voters? attention and harness that burgeoning dissatisfaction and anger...

Mr. President, Words Matter -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on February 03, 2010
What is Barack Obama?s real problem? Too many people here and abroad took him at his word, and he now seems quite angry at that.For two years Obama serially damned the entrepreneurial classes. They should ?spread the wealth,? be ?patriotic,? and pay ?their fair share...

Roadmap to Solvency -- By: Paul Ryan

Posted on February 03, 2010
Congressman Paul Ryan recently put forward ?A Roadmap for America?s Future 2.0,? a comprehensive entitlement-reform proposal. The CBO has certified that Ryan?s plan solves the long-term fiscal crisis. Ryan?s proposal has attracted the attention of the president and Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag...

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