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Ten Questions Politicians Won't Answer -- By: Tom Coburn

Posted on August 10, 2009
The past week?s debate about health care has shown that in Washington the only things more stubborn than facts are politicians who evade them. In spite of a torrent of independent analyses showing that the so-called health-care ?reform? bills moving through Congress will dramatically increase the deficit and cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance, the politicians leading the effort have steadfastly refused to consider that their ideas and policies, rather than the character of their critics, may be flawed...

The Secret Schools -- By: Dan Lips

Posted on August 10, 2009
People across the world have been inspired by the bestselling book Three Cups of Tea -- the story of mountain climber Greg Mortenson?s personal journey to promote peace in remote Pakistan and Afghanistan, ?one school at a time.? But Mortenson?s heroic tale fails to offer a realistic solution to the challenge that has vexed the international-aid community: How can we ensure that even the world?s poorest children have a chance to go to school? University of New Castle professor James Tooley offers a surprising answer in his new book, The Beautiful Tree...

Not a Victimless Crime -- By: D. Hughes & R. P. George

Posted on August 10, 2009
Tiny Rhode Island prides itself on its history and charm. But since it decriminalized prostitution in 1980, it has become a haven for something decidedly uncharming: the trafficking of girls and young women into the commercial sex industry. There is a lesson in this for the nation...

Town-Hall Trickery -- By: Andrew G. Biggs

Posted on August 10, 2009
During the August congressional recess, elected officials conduct ?town hall? meetings to gauge their constituents? opinions on a range of issues. This month, the dominant subject is health-care reform -- and Democratic lawmakers aren?t happy about what they?re hearing...

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Missing John Hughes -- By: Mark Hemingway

Posted on August 10, 2009
Saying that John Hughes was a chronicler of the American teenage experience is quite an understatement. Even if the film writer/director/producer is remembered primarily for his unparalleled string of classic teen comedies in the 1980s, that misses the bigger picture...

Doing Harm -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on August 10, 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.?Do no harm? is as vital a political principle as it is a medical maxim...

Steyn: The Community Is Restless

Posted on August 08, 2009
When the community starts organizing against the organizer, the whole rigmarole goes to hell.

The Community Is Restless -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on August 08, 2009
DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTI-#...#No, wait, that bumper sticker expired January 20. Under the stimulus bill, there?s a new $1.3 trillion bills-for-bumpers program whereby, if you peel off old slogans now recognized as environmentally harmful (?QUESTION AUTHORITY?), you can trade them in for a new ?CELEBRATE CONFORMITY? sticker, complete with a holographic image of President Obama that never takes his eyes off you...

Rittgers: Expanding Double Jeopardy

Posted on August 07, 2009
Civil liberties at risk.

Geraghty: Marco Solo

Posted on August 07, 2009
If we keep going down the path that were on in Washington, then what we do in Tallahassee wont matter.

Spruiell: President Obama, Hawaii, and Dodgy Certificates

Posted on August 07, 2009
Hawaiis government monopoly shut out new competitors.

Goldberg: Democrats Fear Is Showing on Health Care

Posted on August 07, 2009
The worlds most famous community organizer is whining about community organizing.

Lowry: In Pursuit of a Silent Majority

Posted on August 07, 2009
If engaged citizens shower Obama with adoration at stage-managed rallies, they are the very stuff of American democracy. If they boo their congressman, they are a scandalous eruption of fake or hateful sentiment.

Murdock: Government Medicine Kills

Posted on August 07, 2009
Government medicine has proved an excruciating disaster in the U.K. and Canada.

Hibbs: Half Bad

Posted on August 07, 2009
Funny People is a lost opportunity, for Adam Sandler and especially for Judd Apatow.

Hemingway: Waxing and Whining

Posted on August 07, 2009
Henry Waxman: Little insight, no regrets.

Gunlock: Eating Is No Fun Anymore

Posted on August 07, 2009
Food Inc. shines a light on the dangers of farm subsidies. Lets hope a few politicians make it to the movies.

Editors: No on Sotomayor: A Sound Stand on Principle

Posted on August 07, 2009
The easy path for Senate Republicans would have been to cave to political reality and to jump on the Sotomayor bandwagon.

Half Bad -- By: Thomas S. Hibbs

Posted on August 07, 2009
Midway through the new Judd Apatow film, Funny People, Eminem in a cameo appearance admonishes a leukemia-suffering George Simmons (Adam Sandler): Your best move would simply be to die. Apatow might have applied that piece of advice to the film itself...

Smetters: Obama vs. Mathematics

Posted on August 06, 2009
On health care, entitlements, and taxes, the administrations numbers just dont add up.

Editors: Insult and Injury

Posted on August 06, 2009
So the American people are "the mob" now, Mr. President?

Franc: Phase II for Obamacare

Posted on August 06, 2009
Once Democrats realized their health-care talking points weren't fooling anyone, they changed strategies.

Finn: A Constitutional Moment for American Education?

Posted on August 06, 2009
We need some coming together of forward-looking leaders able to conceptualize and construct a new set of arrangements that will work better than the old.

Geraghty: Gordons Blue-Dog Blues

Posted on August 06, 2009
A Democrat struggles to strike a balance between his partys goals and his districts conservative leanings.

May: Process This

Posted on August 06, 2009
One American administration after another has embraced the same false premises and, from that starting point, set into motion a peace process that ineluctably fails.

Hanson: Obamas Great Race to Change America

Posted on August 06, 2009
If he does not achieve his initiatives soon, he never will.

Petrilli: Failing to Learn Bushs Lessons

Posted on August 05, 2009
On education, a touch of humility would have been helpful during the Bush years, and thats one lesson it would be good for the Obama team to learn sooner rather than later.

Hanson: The Great American Debt

Posted on August 05, 2009
We congratulate ourselves on how brilliantly we have let the Chinese lend us money so that we can buy their cheap consumer goods. Someday the IOUs will come due.

Goldberg: How Much Is That Clunker in the Window?

Posted on August 05, 2009
Washington can only see the economic activity it has created, not the activity it has destroyed.

Sowell: Care Versus Control

Posted on August 05, 2009
Are decisions made by doctors who have treated the same patient for years to be overruled by bureaucrats sitting in front of computer screens in Washington, following guidelines drawn up with the idea of bringing down the cost of medical care?

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