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Eight Years and Counting -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on September 10, 2009
Eight years ago this week, Osama bin Laden watched and then celebrated as a terrorist attack he had authorized brought down the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, slaughtering thousands of innocent Americans. Bin Laden was, at that time, in Afghanistan, which was, at that time, ruled by the Taliban...

The Government-Insurance Option Is Dead -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on September 10, 2009
The day after President Obama?s impassioned speech for big-government health care, Wall Street bet heavily that the so-called government-insurance option he supports is dead.In a strong stock market on Thursday -- the market?s fifth-straight daily rise (so much for the September swoon) -- health-insurer shares advanced significantly...

Joe Wilson Is Rude But Right -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on September 10, 2009
Set aside Joe Wilson?s bad manners -- what about the substance of his accusation? Mr. Wilson claims that various Democratic proposals wending their way through Congress will use U.S. taxpayer dollars to further subsidize health care for illegal immigrants...

Your Life Is Not Worth Living -- By: Jim Towey

Posted on September 09, 2009
Pres. Barack Obama needs to ask the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) why its end-of-life planning tool, ?Your Life, Your Choices,? deserves circulation throughout its vast health-care system. Despite the controversy that has angered many veterans and enveloped the VA since the ?your life is not worth living? message in the document was exposed last month, the VA continues to make it available and has announced its plan to launch an online version of it in the spring of 2010...

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Juice for Juicers -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Posted on September 09, 2009
Spend any time with the Left at heart and you are bound to hear some version of the following rant: Advertising is ruining this country. It?s convincing people to buy things they don?t need! The big corporations have convinced us that happiness equals material possessions...

The Trouble with Harry -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on September 09, 2009
If you think Senate majority leader Harry Reid might lose his reelection bid in 2010, you?re not the first to envision that result. In fact, Las Vegas Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick predicted back in May 2006 that ?in 50-plus months, Nevada voters will march to the polls and replace Sen...

Lockerbie Families Deserve Answers -- By: Robert P. George

Posted on September 09, 2009
The cat is out of the bag. British justice secretary Jack Straw has admitted that commercial issues ?played a very big part? in the decision of British authorities to release ailing Lockerbie mass murderer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. Straw?s admission falsifies claims by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that neither oil deals nor other commercial considerations were factors in the decision...

Green Is the New Red -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on September 09, 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.Van Jones spent the 1990s as an avowed Communist...

Teacher Tenure Must Go -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on September 09, 2009
Brandi Scheiner believes she is a political prisoner. Held against her will in what is euphemistically dubbed a ?rubber room,? Scheiner, 56, likens her two-year captivity to being imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Alas, it?s unlikely the Red Cross will hear her case...

The AP's Decision to Exploit a Marine's Death -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on September 09, 2009
Arguably violating its embed agreement, the near-universal press practice since 9/11, and the express wishes of the family, the Associated Press went ahead and published a photograph of mortally wounded Marine Lance Corporal Joshua ?Bernie? Bernard, killed in action in Afghanistan...

Obama's Missed Opportunity -- By: Abigail Thernstrom

Posted on September 09, 2009
The president gave an innocuous and useless speech on education yesterday. Some on the right charged politics-in-the-classroom, but, really, get a grip folks. The problem was not its offensiveness; it was screamingly boring. There was a message he could have delivered that would have been of real importance, but no chance...

Talking Cure, Again -- By: The Editors

Posted on September 09, 2009
President Obama began his speech tonight by noting that liberals have been trying to foist ?comprehensive health reform? on this nation for nearly seven decades. (He did not use these exact words.) These decades of failure have not led liberals to reconsider their basic assumptions about the proper role of government in American health care...

Once Upon a Time . . . -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on September 08, 2009
Once upon a time, a fresh new politician, Barack Obama -- black, young, eloquent, and hip -- soared with rhetoric about hope and change. The people were mesmerized. What a contrast with the tongue-tied outgoing president, George W. Bush, and his unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan! Presidential Candidate Obama sensed their ecstasy, and so he made two great promises: 1...

Public Ignorance on the Public Option -- By: Mark Hemingway

Posted on September 08, 2009
With one eye on his plummeting approval ratings, the president is dropping his support for a government-run insurance plan, AKA the ?public option.? The White House says it wants to ?synthesize and harmonize? and that it?s ?going to approach [health-care reform] in a different way,? but it?s hard to see this as anything other than a significant retreat...

When protest is uncool, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on September 08, 2009
Friends, I hope you had a good Labor Day Weekend, and aren?t too shaken up by the loss of Van Jones to the administration, and to America. And aren?t you excited to hear President Obama address Congress, and the schoolchildren? He has been absent from the scene for a while, and I miss the sound of his voice! Not to mention all the post-partisan, post-racial, well-nigh post-human wisdom...

Listening to a Liar -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on September 08, 2009
The most important thing about what anyone says is not the words themselves but the credibility of the person saying them.The words of convicted swindler Bernie Madoff were apparently quite convincing to many people who were regarded as knowledgeable and sophisticated...

Obama's Propaganda Machine -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on September 07, 2009
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. ?Choose you this day whom ye will serve." That may be from the Bible?s Book of Joshua, but it could be from the Book of Barack Obama...

Rage Against Obama's Propaganda Machine -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Omnipresent Leader -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on September 05, 2009
On Friday, I had the rare honor of appearing in the pages of the New York Times, apropos President Obama?s plans to beam himself into every schoolhouse in the land in the peculiar belief that Generation iPod will find this an enthralling technical novelty...

Obama's UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls -- By: Anne Bayefsky

Posted on September 05, 2009
Looking for a quick and easy boost in the polls, President Obama has decided to go to the one place where merit bears no relationship to adulation: the United Nations. On September 24, the president will take the unprecedented step of presiding over a meeting of the UN Security Council...

Lasting Ramifications -- By: Pete Hegseth

Posted on September 04, 2009
I wasn?t surprised to read George Will?s Tuesday column calling for the U.S. to withdraw from Afghanistan. In fact, I?m more surprised that the recent Afghanistan debate (or lack thereof) progressed this far without a prominent conservative defector. I hope his column stimulates an exchange in which the best ideas (which rarely emanate from the Washington chattering class) reach the battlefield...

A Dangerous Delusion -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on September 04, 2009
Right after 9/11, Pres. George W. Bush made a succinct demand of the Taliban: Hand over Osama bin Laden and his cohorts or face horrific consequences. The demand, the president emphasized, was non-negotiable. The Taliban refused, insisting that the U...

Stop Bullying Honduras -- By: The Editors

Posted on September 04, 2009
Roughly a week after it suspended ?non-emergency, non-immigrant? visa services at the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, the State Department has formally suspended non-humanitarian U.S. aid to Honduras. Furthermore, Foggy Bottom has made clear that it will not support the outcome of the upcoming Honduran elections (scheduled for November) unless the country?s recently deposed and exiled leader, Manuel Zelaya, is first reinstalled as president...

Biden's Version -- By: The Editors

Posted on September 04, 2009
There?s a line in the movie Dave in which a guy impersonating the president, looking for ways to cut the budget, asks his commerce secretary, ?So, we?re spending $47 million so that somebody can feel better about a car that they have already bought?? It doesn?t cost $47 million to get Joe Biden to give a speech -- he?ll talk anywhere, anytime, at great length, for free -- and his address to the Brookings Institute on Thursday was intended to prevent buyer?s remorse...

David Axelrod as Christopher Walken -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on September 04, 2009
ABC News reports that Barack Obama has returned to Washington, only to step off the plane and ?into his next domestic crisis.? He ?planned to leave the details of health-care reform to Congress, but today the White House says he?ll play a much stronger role...

What Obama Could Say to Get Our Respect -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on September 04, 2009
As Democratic congressmen limp back to D.C. after bruising town-hall meetings, and Obama and the Democrats in Congress sink fast in opinion polls, the political team in the West Wing has surveyed the landscape and decided that what we need is another big Obama speech...

What Would Bush Do? -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on September 04, 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.If he wants to prevail in Afghanistan, Barack Obama needs a George W...

Obamacare Goes Primetime -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on September 04, 2009
For Republicans, August was a dream -- Obamacare sinking by the day, angry protestors confronting befuddled or insulting Democratic politicians, Obama?s poll numbers sagging. But the calendar inevitably turns, and it?s on to September. This week, the president?s team signaled that it might finally be ready to shift away from Obamacare?s current malignant incarnation...

Obama, the Mortal -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on September 04, 2009
What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down farther than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership...

Some Data for Mr. Biden -- By: Jerry Bowyer

Posted on September 04, 2009
?Facts are stubborn things,? wrote John Adams; I?m tempted to add: ?But not as stubborn as Joe Biden.?The vice president recently told the Brookings Institution that he has no doubt that the Obama administration?s stimulus plan has been a success. In fact, it?s been so successful that it has moved us from the precipice of a second Great Depression to the safer ground on which we now discuss recovery...

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