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Our Road to Oceania -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on August 13, 2009
In George Orwell?s allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the picture of ?Big Brother? appears constantly in the adoring media. Perceived enemies are everywhere -- supposedly plotting to undo the benevolent egalitarianism of Big Brother. Citizens assemble each morning to scream hatred for two minutes at pictures of the supposed public traitor Emmanuel Goldstein...

Herzlinger: Health Cares Taxing Problem

Posted on August 12, 2009
Fixing the unfair tax system should be one of Congresss top priorities when it comes to health reform.

Mamchur: The Benefits of Bartering

Posted on August 12, 2009
Meet the economic mastermind whos helping Russians overcome their countrys lack of financial liquidity.

Kenneally: The Public Option

Posted on August 12, 2009
Obama has embraced the tripartite formula for technocratic politics: the illusion of immanent crisis, the pretense of public consensus, and the suppression of open debate.

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Goldberg: Dogs Dont Care about Dogma

Posted on August 12, 2009
Dogss greatest gift is to remind us that love and loyalty exist outside the ephemeral pieties of contemporary life.

May: Fascism 101

Posted on August 12, 2009
Town-hall protestors are not fascists, but Islamists are.

Obama's Hoof-in-Mouth Disease -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on August 12, 2009
It?s hard to know why President Obama said what he said at Tuesday?s health-care town hall in New Hampshire. He actually stated, ?If you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It?s the Post Office that?s always having problems.?Oops. Freudian slip? Subliminally speaking, was the president implying that private health insurers are doing just fine?Government insurance is what?s in trouble today...

Health Care's Taxing Problem -- By: Regina Herzlinger

Posted on August 12, 2009
Mainstream economists generally agree that current U.S. tax policy for health insurance is fundamentally irrational, regressive, and ultimately destructive. Fixing this system should be one of Congress?s top priorities when it comes to health reform. Sadly, the current Congressional health-reform proposals would leave the worst feature of the current system in place and make a bad situation worse...

The Benefits of Bartering -- By: Yuri Mamchur

Posted on August 12, 2009
MOSCOW -- German Sterligov is well known here, but unlike Roman Abramovich, Oleg Deripaska, and other publicly flamboyant Russian billionaires, he is little known abroad. Sterligov neither sails the Caribbean nor drinks in London?s Mayfair district; most of the time he lives a traditional peasant lifestyle deep in the Russian countryside with his wife and five children...

The Public Option -- By: Ivan Kenneally

Posted on August 12, 2009
In the last few weeks, the debate over health care has taken an angry and contentious turn by any standard. Town-hall meetings and public rallies, not known for their docile tenor under normal circumstances, have been punctuated by unusually spirited opposition to Democrat proposals for sweeping reform...

Dogs Don't Care about Dogma -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on August 12, 2009
My wife and I took our dog to the neurologist the other day. Yes, the neurologist. For a dog.I?m sure it sounds extravagant, but Cosmo had been having unexplained seizures, so we took him in for an MRI and a spinal tap after a batch of the normal, cheaper tests...

Fascism 101 -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on August 12, 2009
In the heat of America?s many debates, ?Nazi? and ?fascist? are among the epithets too often hurled. Last week, for example, Rush Limbaugh compared Adolf Hitler to Pres. Barack Obama, saying each ?ruled by dictate? and claimed to represent ?the will of his people...

McCarthy: Drop the Investigation of CIA Interrogators

Posted on August 11, 2009
The CIA interrogators are having a rougher time with prosecutors than did the Black Panthers. Why?

Marsico: Garden State Gubernatorial

Posted on August 11, 2009
Recent polls show that Democratic dominance may be coming to an end in New Jersey.

Pitney: Virtual Town Halls

Posted on August 11, 2009
With voters turning mutinous, congressmen are tempted to retreat to the safer, less revealing expedient of phone or Internet meetings.

Kahane: The Untouchables

Posted on August 11, 2009
Yes, my friends, the great line of gangsters with the letter D after their names has now reached its apotheosis.

Lowry: A Backroom Drug Deal

Posted on August 11, 2009
Obama has bought off an industry group in a secret deal to spare it the worst of a far-reaching government scheme.

Sowell: A Sowell Sampler

Posted on August 11, 2009
Sowell on politics, boxing, and the prospect of an intoxicated Joe Biden.

Drop the Investigation of CIA Interrogators -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on August 11, 2009
?We?re going to follow the evidence wherever it takes us, follow the law wherever that takes us.? So decreed Attorney General Eric Holder in April when asked whether government officials would face prosecution over coercive interrogation tactics used against terrorist detainees...

Garden State Gubernatorial -- By: Jennifer Marsico

Posted on August 11, 2009
It has been twelve years since a Republican won a statewide race in New Jersey -- a longer run of GOP losses than in any other state. But recent polls show that Democratic dominance may be coming to an end in the Garden State. New Jersey?s incumbent governor, Jon Corzine, is trailing Republican challenger Chris Christie by double digits in recent polls...

Virtual Town Halls -- By: John J. Pitney Jr.

Posted on August 11, 2009
�As voters start talking back -- first with the tea parties, now with protests against Democratic health-care proposals -- members of Congress are showing more interest in ?virtual town halls.? By ?meeting? constituents via phone or Internet, lawmakers can exercise more control and thus avoid the unpleasantness that can accompany face-to-face meetings...

The Untouchables -- By: David Kahane

Posted on August 11, 2009
It?s too bad that Michael Mann?s latest film, Public Enemies, was more or less a flop at the box office -- budgeted at $100 million, it?s grossed about $93 mil domestically, which means that Johnny Depp or no Johnny Depp, it?s not going to earn out -- because if ever the time was right for a great gangster film, it?s now...

A Backroom Drug Deal -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on August 11, 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 White House has yet to entice any members of the Axis of Evil to the negotiating table, unless Billy Tauzin counts...

A Sowell Sampler -- By: Thomas Sowell

Posted on August 11, 2009
Different people have very different reactions to Pres. Barack Obama. Those who listen to his rhetoric are often inspired, while those who follow what he actually does are often appalled.New York and Chicago have both recently had their coldest June in generations...

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