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Hazardous to Your Health -- By: Angela Logomasini

Posted on September 24, 2009
As U.S. lawmakers mull over whether to restructure the nation?s health-care system via a ?public option,? even the biggest advocates of government intervention should be careful what they wish for. Just look at Europe -- not only the widespread health-care rationing, but also the European Union?s new chemicals policy, which was first enacted in 2005...

Pinstripe Suits and Purple Pimp Hats -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on September 24, 2009
Jamie Dimon has been described as ?Obama?s favorite banker? by the New York Times. He?s ACORN?s favorite banker, too, and with good reason. Mr. Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, which operates a charitable foundation that gave ACORN $1 million in 2007, along with a smaller grant to the ACORN Institute...

Authority Complex -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on September 24, 2009
In 1996, Vice President Al Gore was named by Pres. Bill Clinton to chair the White House Commission on Aviation Safety. Over the months that followed, he and an impressive list of commissioners -- including senior law-enforcement and military officers, government officials, and academics -- conducted ?an intensive inquiry into civil aviation safety, security and air traffic control modernization...

A Fishy Tale -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on September 24, 2009
Nearly a quarter-million acres worth of contracted federal irrigation deliveries have been cut from the big farms of the west side of the San Joaquin Valley in central California. The water in large part is being diverted to the salty San Francisco Bay and the delta to improve marine ecology...

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Obama's Confession -- By: The Editors

Posted on September 24, 2009
To grasp what is either the bad faith or the dimwittedness of President Obama?s speech to the United Nations, read the following paragraph carefully: I took office at a time when many around the world had come to view America with skepticism and distrust...

The Silence of NOW -- By: Julie Gunlock

Posted on September 23, 2009
By now, just about everyone has heard about the scandal involving ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), in which two twenty-somethings exposed the rank corruption of this powerful component of the Democratic party?s political machine...

The Dog Ate Global Warming -- By: Patrick J. Michaels

Posted on September 23, 2009
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U...

Barack Obama, College Administrator -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on September 23, 2009
If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern. The president, you see, thinks America is a university and that he is our campus president. Keep that in mind, and almost everything else makes sense...

Obama's Misguided Nuclear Triad -- By: Henry Sokolski

Posted on September 23, 2009
On September 24, President Obama will be campaigning again, not on Jay Leno?s program or the Sunday talk shows, but at a UN Security Council summit on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Unfortunately, his UN Security Council appearance -- a first for a U...

Irving Kristol's Clear Thinking -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on September 23, 2009
?I am so nostalgic.? That?s the phrase I associate most with Irving Kristol, who died last week at the age of 89.What piqued Irving?s nostalgia, at an American Enterprise Institute conference I worked on in 1992, was old-fashioned censorship. In the good old days, he explained, local communities were able to determine their own standards without inviting lawsuits from the ACLU and overwrought invocations of Fahrenheit 451...

Choosing the Right College -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on September 23, 2009
There is so much for high-school seniors and their parents to know about colleges that they not only need to get a lot of information but also need to make sure it is the right kind of information.A number of college guides have useful information but, unfortunately, the best-known and most pretentious of these guides -- America?s Best Colleges -- is grossly misleading...

ACORN: Tax Cheats -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on September 23, 2009
ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis told Fox News Sunday on September 20 that her group ?absolutely pays its taxes.? But her claim crumbles before the $548,213.25 federal tax lien that the Internal Revenue Service filed against the embattled New Orleans-based activist organization...

Garbage In, Gospel Out -- By: Max Schulz

Posted on September 23, 2009
There are two kinds of models that mean anything to most Americans. There are the models who pose for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue or the cover of Vogue, date movie stars, host talk shows, and have their antics chronicled on Page Six of the New York Post...

The Reign of the Czars -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on September 22, 2009
The education bill that Obama hit the stump to defend on Monday contains a provision that would create a new green-schools advisory council and, in all likelihood, a green-schools czar. The controversy over White House policy ?czars? -- the unconfirmed, largely unaccountable advisers with whom Obama has surrounded himself -- started before the resignation of green-jobs czar Van Jones, but the Jones episode has prompted Republicans in Congress to get involved...

The Truth about the Public Option -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on September 22, 2009
When will the press notice President Obama?s hypocrisy when it comes to the ?public option??Speaking at a community college in Troy, N.Y., on Monday, Obama slammed the banking industry for opposing his education bill, which passed the House last week...

The First Lady's New Tactic -- By: Carrie Lukas

Posted on September 22, 2009
They?ve tried citing exploding health-care costs, the millions of uninsured, and the harm to business competitiveness. Now Michelle Obama has a new explanation of why we need to radically remake our health-care system: The current one is unfair to the fairer sex...

Underdogs -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on September 22, 2009
It is a good reflection on Americans that they tend to be on the side of the underdog. But it is often hard to tell who is in fact the underdog, or why. Many years ago, there was a big, lumbering catcher named Ernie Lombardi, whose slowness afoot was legendary...

On Afghanistan, Never Mind? -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on September 22, 2009
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.At the height of their anti-Iraq War fever, Democrats accused Pres...

Catholic Health Care in the Age of Obama -- By: Interview

Posted on September 22, 2009
Democrat-sponsored health-care legislation currently before Congress could require violations of Catholic teaching in such areas as abortion, contraception, euthanasia, assisted suicide -- even infanticide. Leonard J. Nelson III, a professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, has been studying these issues for years and discusses them in his new book, Diagnosis Critical: The Urgent Threats Confronting Catholic Health Care (OSV 2009)...

Beware the body-snatchers, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on September 22, 2009
I seem to be reading a lot about conservatism lately, especially with the publication of Sam Tanenhaus?s book, The Death of Conservatism. As the book title says, we?re supposed to be kaput. And what is conservatism supposed to be, in some minds? A philosophy or temper that basically accedes to liberalism, while perhaps tinkering around the edges...

Irreplaceable Irving -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on September 22, 2009
Irving Kristol, who passed away last week at the age of 89, was like everyone?s favorite uncle -- if the uncle were a transformative intellectual of empyrean stature. He was both a warm and approachable human being and a penetrating social critic. He was, in a very American way, a practical man, and his approach to ideas was always firmly and refreshingly reality-based...

The Truth That Tells a Lie -- By: Alex Castellanos

Posted on September 21, 2009
Let?s agree that the U.S. House of Representatives is not the place to use the word ?lie? to demean your political opponents. Joe Wilson?s outburst was shameful and uncivil. Just when you think no one could drag political discourse down any lower than it is, along comes Congressman Wilson to shout an insult at our president...

ACORN Scandal Has Deep Roots -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on September 21, 2009
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a scandal. Its story has become news lately thanks to some recent BigGovernment.com-sponsored guerrilla journalism. But the problems of ACORN represent a broader and even more scandalous idea: the conventional acceptance of the Left?s self-righteous claim to have a monopoly on all politics, policy, and lifestyles that are good...

We Need an Administrative-Detention Law -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on September 21, 2009
It is received wisdom in the United States government that good law enforcement is good security. As we are seeing once again, it ain?t necessarily so. On Saturday, the Justice Department announced the arrests of three Muslim men in an ongoing terrorism investigation...

The Long Retreat -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on September 19, 2009
Was it only April? There was President Obama, speaking (as is his wont) in Prague, about the Iranian nuclear program and ballistic-missile capability, and saluting America?s plucky allies: ?The Czech Republic and Poland have been courageous in agreeing to host a defense against these missiles,? he declared...

Dr. Barack and Mr. Obama -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on September 18, 2009
No one imagined that Barack Obama, during his first nine months in office, would be falling in the polls even faster than George W. Bush did prior to 9/11. We all knew what Obama?s weaknesses were as he came into office -- a lack of experience in foreign affairs, little knowledge of how private business works, and poor judgment concerning the extremist company he had kept in the past...

Rebooting American Foreign Policy -- By: Mark Hemingway

Posted on September 18, 2009
It has been a bad decade for America?s foreign-policy and intelligence establishment. We?ve seen a devastating terrorist attack in America?s largest city, followed by two protracted wars fraught with strategic missteps. Meanwhile, in the face of threats to our security, the country?s intelligence-gathering methods have been the subject sharp political and moral disagreement...

College Rerun -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on September 18, 2009
College Park, Md. -- Before the Fourth of July, President Obama went to a community college in Annandale, Va., to make the case for his health-care-reform plan. Yesterday, Obama staged a similar event, on the other side of the Capitol Beltway, speaking before a full house at the University of Maryland in College Park...

A Four-Way Play for Terrorists -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on September 18, 2009
Call it the grand slam. The Obama/Holder Justice Department is about to: (1) undermine a critical tool for prosecuting terrorists by military commission, (2) force more enemy-combatant cases into the civilian federal courts, (3) advance the transnationalist agenda to subordinate the Constitution to international law, and (4) provide what we might call ?material support? to a convicted terrorist...

Everything's up the Spout in Kansas City -- By: John Derbyshire

Posted on September 18, 2009
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an excerpt from John Derbyshire?s upcoming We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, to be released Sept. 29, 2009.Okay, you?re probably thinking that when politicians and edbiz theorists talk about spending more money on education, they don?t have leafy suburbs and ivy-clad universities in mind...

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