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Security, Extremism and Terrorism

Posted on February 14, 2011
Is there a way forward? In his speech on terrorism at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month, David Cameron brilliantly analyzed the religious and social background to extremism. It seems that, at last, someone is listening to what many of us have been saying for years...

Obama's Disconnect

Posted on February 14, 2011
The president's model WiFi companies don?t use WiFi. Touting WiFi infrastructure as the next generation's answer to government-funded railroad and interstate systems, Pres. Barack Obama came to the remote northern Michigan town of Marquette last week to tout his National Wireless Initiative -- a program that, he boasted, has connected rural businesses to the world and helped them expand international trade...

Let There Be Light

Posted on February 14, 2011
Freedom Action defends the incandescent light bulb. In the beginning, Congress banned the incandescent light bulb. And the people were without rest. Seventy-two percent believed the government had no right to dictate their lighting choices...

Which Uprising?

Posted on February 14, 2011
Iran, China, East Germany? It looks like 2/11/11 will go down in history with 11/9/89, not 6/4/89. 6/4/89 is when the Chinese military obeyed orders to massacre protesters in Tiananmen Square; 11/9/89 is when East German leaders announced the opening of the Berlin Wall and declined to order border guards to shoot the Berliners who began dismantling the barrier that had stood for 28 years...

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The Federal Government?s Unspent Billions

Posted on February 14, 2011
?Unobligated balances? sit in government accounts. It's enough to make a budget hawk lose his feathers. Notwithstanding President Obama's promise in his State of the Union address to freeze domestic discretionary spending for five years, Vice President Joseph Biden Tuesday proposed $53 billion in high-speed-rail projects -- atop $8 billion so previously 'invested...

Planned Parenthood's Misery Index

Posted on February 14, 2011
While my sisters gently weep She was 'small, bubbly, and joyful. She had a radiant smile#...#' with a 'sweet' face. She was young and Sound of Music–like. And yet, she wept. #ad#She was a nun -- in full habit...

Mr. Lincoln?s Economics Primer

Posted on February 12, 2011
From the Dec. 20, 2010, issue of NR. Abraham Lincoln's greatest love was politics, but his intellectual passion was for what the 19th century called 'political economy' -- the way economics and politics intersected in society and government...

The ?Secular? Muslim Brotherhood

Posted on February 12, 2011
The Obama administration is preparing the political ground for failure in Egypt. How fitting that it was Juma -- Friday, the Islamic Sabbath day -- that convinced Hosni Mubarak to end his 30-year reign as Egypt's ruler...

Unionizing the TSA

Posted on February 11, 2011
In case you thought airline security wasn?t annoying enough. After a mere nine years in existence, the Transportation Security Administration rivals the DMV and the Postal Service as a played-out comedy cliché...

The High-Speed-Rail Boondoggle

Posted on February 11, 2011
The president?s new project would hurt freight transportation and waste money. Key Republicans are rightly going after President Obama's $53 billion pie-on-the-tracks high-speed-rail schemes. House Transportation Committee chair Rep...

Big Government's Next Frontier: WiFi

Posted on February 11, 2011
Obama wants to ?invest? in high-speed Internet. Voters may have slapped Democrats for their spendaholic overreach in November, but Obama was undeterred as he used the small college town of Marquette, Mich...

Last In, First Out

Posted on February 11, 2011
?Reverse seniority? rules are harmful to American education. It isn't hard for New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to grab the attention of both the nation's school-reform movement and the teachers' unions...

Lights Out for the Middle East?s Christians?

Posted on February 11, 2011
The tumult in Cairo may spell much worse to come for the Copts. Hosni Mubarak can count on at least one loyal supporter. Coptic Christian leader Pope Shenouda wants the anti-Mubarak protesters to stand down...

Defund the Predators of Planned Parenthood

Posted on February 11, 2011
It is an organization with blood on its hands. Thanks to the persistent investigative work of young pro-life journalists, Planned Parenthood's ruthless, money-grubbing colors are on full, fresh YouTube display...

When They Grow Up

Posted on February 11, 2011
It may be autumn for the baby boomers, but it?s springtime for the marketing euphemists. Companies are quietly redesigning their products to accommodate the needs of (shh, don't say it aloud) aging baby boomers...

From a Freedom Agenda to a Freedom Doctrine

Posted on February 11, 2011
We should be clear-eyed about our preferred outcome. Today, everyone and his cousin supports the 'freedom agenda.' Of course, yesterday it was just George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and a band of neocons with unusual hypnotic powers who dared to challenge the received wisdom of Arab exceptionalism -- the notion that Arabs, as opposed to East Asians, Latin Americans, Europeans, and Africans, were uniquely allergic to democracy...

The Conservative Woodstock

Posted on February 11, 2011
On-the-scene reporting from CPAC 2011: Day One Washington, D.C. — As bleary-eyed reporters settled into the press pen on the mezzanine level of the Marriott Wardman Park early Thursday, black coffees and laptops in hand, the grand ballroom of the sprawling hotel in northwest Washington was already a bustling spectacle...

The Egyptian Precipice

Posted on February 11, 2011
Dictator-for-life isn't a position conducive to good judgment and selflessness. Hosni Mubarak is a case in point. In extending his exit, he's increasing the instability of an already-dangerous situation in Egypt. The interest of the United States in Egypt is to avoid the worst case -- chaos, or a takeover of the state by the Muslim Brotherhood...

Obama = Reagan?

Posted on February 11, 2011
So far, it ain?t even close. A week after Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday celebration, comparisons between presidents Obama and Reagan continue. The conversation began when Obama praised Reagan in a USA Today op-ed...

The Burden of Regulation

Posted on February 10, 2011
A House Republican seeks out the facts. In November, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) reached out to around 150 business leaders with a simple request: Let the government know what regulations are hurting your ability to create jobs...

Obama, Ryan, and Medicare Costs

Posted on February 10, 2011
Ryan and Rivlin have a better chance of bending the cost curve. Slowing the pace of rising health-care costs is the holy grail of domestic and economic policy. It's pretty much the key to everything that's desirable...

Conservative Principles and Prison

Posted on February 10, 2011
Let?s stand for limited government, federal accountability, and reduced spending. When it comes to education, pensions, health care, Social Security, and hundreds of other government functions, conservatives are a beacon for fiscal responsibility, accountability, and limited government -- the very principles that have made this country great...

Cutting Spending to Revive Federalism

Posted on February 10, 2011
Republicans can start a national debate about the proper role of the federal government. House Republicans have promised major spending reforms, but GOP leaders are tongue-tied when they are asked which specific programs they want to cut...

Obama?s Foreign-Policy Follies

Posted on February 10, 2011
Wrong on France, wrong on disarmament. The revelation, thanks to WikiLeaks, that the United States has promised -- as part of the recently ratified New START agreement -- to identify precisely the Trident nuclear-tipped missiles it sells to the United Kingdom, incites again serious doubts about this administration's notions of arms control...

'Ladies and Gentlemen, the Film The Illusionist!'

Posted on February 10, 2011
A true magician never explains his illusions. The Illusionist has been nominated for Best Animated Feature (I mean the new animated film, of course, not the 2006 live-action movie by the same title), and no one who has seen it was surprised...

Vanishing Democratic Moderates

Posted on February 10, 2011
Jane Harman and Joe Lieberman are part of a disappearing breed. Political pundits of a certain stripe have been lamenting the disappearance of Republican moderates for years. It's time now to lament the disappearance of moderate Democrats...

Pangin? for Jeb, &c.

Posted on February 10, 2011
There's been a lot of Jeb talk lately -- certainly in our mag and on our site. I'm a big Jebber, from way back. This column was filled with arguments about why he should run in '08. 'Dynasty, schmynasty' was a phrase I used more than once, I'm pretty sure...

Pyramid Scheme

Posted on February 10, 2011
Americans should support Egypt?s freedom fighters. We should warn them, too. Amid a harmattan of news, analysis, and commentary blowing out of Egypt, one Twitter post stands out. An Israeli tweeted: Dear Egyptian rioters, Please don't damage the pyramids...

Jerry Brown, a Modern Sisyphus

Posted on February 10, 2011
The new governor must change his state?s philosophy. California's new governor, Jerry Brown, must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. Right now it seems almost a hopeless task, since the state's disastrous budget is merely a symptom, not the cause, of California's much larger problems...

Cutting the Full $100 Billion

Posted on February 10, 2011
To the Tea Party, ?technically? fulfilling a pledge just doesn?t cut it. If there was ever any doubt about it, yesterday removed it -- the Tea Party has arrived on Capitol Hill. The revolt of freshman and conservative Republicans over spending cuts for this fiscal year ended almost before it began, because it prevailed so rapidly...

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