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Why 'Obamacare' Is Failing -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on August 19, 2009
To listen to the White House and its supporters in and out of the media, you would think that opposition to ?Obamacare? is the hobgoblin of a few small minds on the right. Racists, fascists, Neanderthals, the whole Star Wars cantina of boogeymen and cranks stand opposed to much-needed reform...

That's Where the Money Is -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on August 19, 2009
When famed bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he said: ?Because that?s where the money is.?For the same reason, it is as predictable as the sunrise that medical care for the elderly will be cut back under a government-controlled medical system...

Playing the Joker -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

Posted on August 18, 2009
If the right to vote (or not vote) for our leaders is a sign of a healthy democracy, so is the right not just to criticize, but also to insult them. Jeering, heckling, and rude, impious laughter are no less a part of the democratic process than the force-fed ecstasy of a party convention, the cheers of the shining-eyed faithful, or the complacent applause at rubber-chicken dinners...

The Harder He Falls -- By: David Kahane

Posted on August 18, 2009
I?m the world?s biggest fan of the great boxer Barry ?the Punahou Kid? Obama. I supported him throughout his grueling qualifying bouts with John ?Pretty Boy? Edwards and Chris ?Tammany? Dodd, and his classic 15-round heavyweight contest with Hillary ?the Beast? Clinton...

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Whose Medical Decisions? -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on August 18, 2009
There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been attempted twice in the first six months of a new administration. The fact that they got away with it before -- with the ?stimulus? bill -- may have led them to believe that they could get away with it again...

Obama's Option Play -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on August 18, 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.One of the few strictly accurate things that Pres...

Up North -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on August 18, 2009
A comedian once said that visiting Canada was like rummaging in your attic. ?You go up there and say ?Wow, there?s all this neat stuff up here! There are mountains and rivers and cities.? ? And a parliament and a television network.It is a fact of life -- whether sad or not I leave to readers -- that most Americans have no strong feelings about our northern neighbor because we often forget entirely that Canada exists...

Robert Novak, R.I.P. -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on August 18, 2009
Now we say good-bye to Robert Novak, who passed away early Tuesday morning at the age of 78. Yet another conservative icon has left us. He was a good friend, and an amazing reporter. In fact, I believe he was the best reporter of his generation, which spans all the way back to the Eisenhower years...

Rationing and Rationality -- By: The Editors

Posted on August 17, 2009
Defined at a high level of abstraction, rationing is inevitable in medicine. Not everything that might be in a patient?s best interest can be done in a world of finite resources, and some constraint has to limit his treatment. Thus the left-wing jibe that the market features ?rationing by price...

Poisoned Water in Green Hell -- By: Mark Hemingway

Posted on August 17, 2009
I like where I live, but I didn?t quite realize that it was turning into a green hell. At least not until I read Steven Milloy?s new book, Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them. I live in one of the older neighborhoods in Washington, D...

Hillary Snaps -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on August 17, 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. Hillary Clinton snapped. It was unfortunate, because she is our secretary of state and she blew a fuse while abroad, but it?s only human to unload now and again...

Terrorists Get Appeals, Obamacare Patients Don't -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on August 17, 2009
Remember when Congress tried to limit al-Qaeda?s access to our courts? There was hell to pay. That the nation was at war after a 9/11 was irrelevant. That the complainants at issue made no bones about their desire to kill Americans was beside the point...

Up, Up, and Away -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on August 17, 2009
?Obama talks about $600 billion. The Congressional Budget Office talks about $1.1 trillion,? a gray-haired man in a striped shirt bluntly told Democratic senator Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Pa., last Tuesday. ?I have spent 40 years in government,? this vocal American continued...

What Went Wrong -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on August 17, 2009
We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history. President Obama?s popularity has plummeted to 50 percent and lower in some polls, while the public expresses even less confidence in the Democratic-led Congress and the direction of the country at large...

You've Had a Good Innings -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on August 15, 2009
Some years ago, when I was a slip of a lad, I found myself commiserating with a distinguished American songwriter about the death of one of his colleagues. My 23-year-old girlfriend found all the condolence talk a bit of a bummer and was anxious to cut to the chase and get outta there...

Grassley's 'Come to Grandma' Moment -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on August 14, 2009
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Senate Finance Committee?s senior Republican, announced on Thursday that his committee will drop consideration of the end-of-life provisions outlined in the House?s health-care legislation, due to potentially controversial interpretation and implementation issues...

Obama's Bookshelf -- By: An NRO Symposium

Posted on August 14, 2009
Our president has been spotted carrying an assortment of books, from FDR biographies to the collected poems of David Walcott. We asked some friends of NRO: What books would you recommend the president get on his nightstand and why? What might have a positive effect on him and history? HADLEY ARKES Obama has clearly shown, in several ways, that he doesn?t have the remotest understanding of Lincoln?s teachings, whether regarding Lincoln?s moral understanding of natural right, his view of the Constitution, or the precise sense of prudence that informed his statecraft...

Testing Obamacare's Meddle -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on August 14, 2009
If I went to a Democratic town hall, I?d probably boo, too. Hence, according to various Democrats and supporters of Obamacare, I?m paranoid and just a bit unpatriotic.Well, let me dilate on my paranoid treachery for a moment.Under the plan discussed at President Obama?s infomercial-esqe town halls, America would cut costs and expand coverage while avoiding rationing...

On Health Care, a Populist Revolt -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on August 14, 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.The best moment of almost every YouTube video of the raucous town-hall meetings on health care is the same: It?s the nonplussed look on the face of the senators and congressmen who have rarely suffered such indignity...

The 'Preventive Care' Myth -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on August 14, 2009
In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health-care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee?s reform bill would add $1 trillion in debt over the next decade...

Nazis for Me, but Not for Thee -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on August 14, 2009
It?s this week?s fashion on the left, and among such fashionably contemplative moderates as Mort Kondracke, to blast Rush Limbaugh for comparing Democrats to the Nazis. It?s no surprise that the Obama hardcores are misrepresenting the sequence and substance of events, but I would have hoped that Kondracke would at least have noted that Rush?s comparison -- even if Kondracke thought it unwise -- was neither gratuitous nor demagogic...

High School Rock Musical -- By: Thomas S. Hibbs

Posted on August 14, 2009
The new Walden Media production, Bandslam, is for the most part an entertaining story about the new kid in town, Will Burton (Gaelan Connell), a classic-rock purist and typical loner who suddenly finds himself drawing the attention of two beautiful and musically gifted classmates (Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical and Alyson Michalka from the pop duo Aly and AJ)...

Bowling for Embryos -- By: Kevin Williamson

Posted on August 14, 2009
Lines That Divide: The Great Stem Cell Debate is a conservative propaganda film arguing that Americans should forgo embryonic-stem-cell research in favor of research using stem cells derived from adults and from other sources that do not require the destruction of a human organism...

Happy and Hungry -- By: Julie Gunlock

Posted on August 14, 2009
Julie and Julia is a wonderfully lighthearted movie about food, love, and determination. Written and directed by well-known happy-movie doyenne Nora Ephron (the maker of such chick-flick blockbusters as When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You?ve Got Mail), Julie and Julia tells two stories...

Worst. Hires Rate. Ever. -- By: Jerry Bowyer

Posted on August 14, 2009
It?s not enough for most people to know what the unemployment rate is and whether it?s going up or down. It?s not enough for investors and entrepreneurs living during some of the strangest times in American financial history. And it?s not enough for citizens trying to decide whether the policy proposals now in Washington are worthy of their support...

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Posted on August 13, 2009
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Eyes on the Real Prize -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on August 13, 2009
After years of journalistic, academic, and even medical tut-tutting about politically apathetic Americans, we are now witnessing a strongly motivated, fired-up populace eager to make its opinions known to its elected leaders.Needless to say, having finally gotten the widespread, passionate grassroots activism that they yearned for over so many years, our political and media elites are shrieking in horror and declaring it an abomination, with Mark Halperin, editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine, declaring himself ?embarrassed about what?s going on as an American...

The Meanings of Moderation -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Posted on August 13, 2009
Reviewing Mark Levin?s Liberty and Tyranny in The Weekly Standard, Peter Berkowitz tries to make the case for moderation. The trouble is that this case is exceedingly difficult, perhaps impossible, to make. As William F. Buckley Jr. and Willi Schlamm wrote in the Fifties, ?Middle-of-the-Road, qua Middle of the Road, is politically, intellectually, and morally repugnant...

What to Do with the Uninsured -- By: John McClaughry

Posted on August 13, 2009
The version of Obamacare offered by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has a number of controversial provisions. Conspicuous among them is a proposed fine of as much as $1,000 a year on individuals who refuse to purchase health-insurance coverage as the bill mandates...

Tweaking the Census -- By: Michael Warren

Posted on August 13, 2009
The integrity of the United States Census may be at risk. That?s certainly what some Republicans are concerned about in the Obama era. For years, liberals have rightly pointed out that the decennial census undercounts certain groups -- minorities, illegal immigrants, transients...

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