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The Misguided Ireland Bailout

Posted on November 24, 2010
The EU wants to sacrifice a low-tax state to pay for the Euro-dream. The Irish government is teetering on the brink of collapse. In a humiliating about-face, the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister), Brian Cowen, yesterday accepted a European Union bailout package that he had claimed Ireland neither wanted nor needed...

On Welfare, an Unlikely Voice of Reason

Posted on November 24, 2010
Even Marion Barry can see what is wrong with our welfare system. It was largely lost amid the glut of post-election news, but last week an important political figure called for a major cutback in social-welfare benefits...

TSA Is Terrible

Posted on November 24, 2010
There is no reason to treat everybody like a terrorist. More years ago than I care to remember, I prosecuted some violent drug dealers. During the trial, we got some reliable information that their associates were transferring contraband to them in prison, and they were smuggling some of it into the courtroom...

Cruising Speed, Part II

Posted on November 24, 2010
I was writing about National Review's latest voyage, a cruise of the Western Caribbean. Would you like to read Part I? Go here. Just plunge into Part II? Okay. Speaking of plunging: One of our islands was Grand Turk, and that is the island on which -- near which -- John Glenn splashed down, in 1962...

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This Pope Plays It Right

Posted on November 24, 2010
The world needs more rocks in the river. In the spring of 2005, Pope John Paul II died. My father, who passed away that summer, watched the funeral and the inauguration of the current pope, Benedict XVI, from his hospital bed...

A Day to Be Thankful

Posted on November 24, 2010
Let?s remember why ? and then get back to work. Once a year, we Americans set aside a day for a feast of thanksgiving. It is worth remembering -- and, may I suggest, taking time to discuss with the family and friends gathered at the Thanksgiving table -- to whom and for what we are thankful...

On North Korea, a Bipartisan Failure

Posted on November 24, 2010
The Bush administration got it wrong, too. The revelation earlier this week that North Korea appears to have developed an indigenous uranium-enrichment capability has bewildered North Korea watchers and the media establishment alike...

Redeclaring Our Solidarity

Posted on November 24, 2010
This letter from Bill Buckley, dated February 4, 2004, was sent to the friends of National Review, appealling for financial help to keep the principle voice of conservatism strong (and operating). We share it with you today, coincidentally the birthday of our late founder, in the hopes that Bill's words might inspire you to help the institution that, in its 55th year of print and 14th year on the web, is central and vital to conservatism...

Giving Thanks

Posted on November 24, 2010
Celebrating Thanksgiving with a speaker, a governor, a TV-show host, and more. 'Tis the season to be grateful. Here we have messages of thanks from some friends and family -- some you'll know and some you'll be grateful to meet...

Pass the Methyl Eugenol

Posted on November 24, 2010
Why you should enjoy your Thanksgiving chemical feast. It is that time of year: parties, presents, family gatherings -- and dining-room tables laden with a tempting array of mouthwatering seasonal chemicals...

?Where Do We Get These People??

Posted on November 24, 2010
If you try to thank Bill Krissoff, he?ll just say he?s grateful for the opportunity to serve his country. In this season of gratitude, Bill Krissoff has a different notion of thankfulness than most of us...

The First Thanksgiving

Posted on November 24, 2010
How property rights transformed Plymouth Colony. In grade school, we're taught that the story of the First Thanksgiving illustrates the importance of teamwork and charity. That's true, so far as it goes...

The Food Police Take Aim

Posted on November 24, 2010
Providing nutritional information is one thing. Trying to outlaw the occasional splurge is quite another. As people all across this nation prepare to loosen their belts and load their dinner plates high with delicious holiday fare, public-interest groups are busy trying to send us all on a collective guilt trip for unhealthy eating habits...

Giving Thanks for American Ingenuity

Posted on November 24, 2010
Liberty, not 'government vision,' yields innovation. One of my favorite television programs is How It's Made on the Science Channel. The documentary series shows 'how the everyday objects people use become the things they are...

Pence for President?

Posted on November 23, 2010
No one has gone straight from the House to the White House since James Garfield. Mike Pence might be the one. He hasn't held executive office. He isn't a paid Fox News contributor. He hasn't written a best-seller or starred in a reality show...

In Defense of Defense

Posted on November 23, 2010
From the November 29, 2010, issue of NR. Two bedrock beliefs of traditional conservatism are fiscal discipline and strong national defense. Likewise, two general rules of budgetary reform in times of economic crisis are, first, to scale back expenditures rather than raise taxes, and, second, to look at defense for some of the deepest cuts...

Why Unhappy People Become Liberals

Posted on November 23, 2010
. . . and why liberalism makes them even unhappier. According to polls -- Pew Research Center, the National Science Foundation -- and studies such as Arthur Brooks's Gross National Happiness, conservative Americans are happier than liberal Americans...

A Poor START

Posted on November 23, 2010
The case for New START is so weak that we?d better hope the fate of the planet doesn?t hinge on it. Sometime after the Democratic losses in the midterm elections, a funny thing happened to the New START treaty...

Cruising Speed, Part I

Posted on November 23, 2010
Fans of William F. Buckley Jr. -- and who's not? -- will recognize the title over this column. 'Cruising Speed' was the title of one of Bill's books: an account of a week in his life. He followed that up with Overdrive -- the account of another week (as I recall)...

Airport ?Security??

Posted on November 23, 2010
The Obama administration would rather look under a nun?s habit than detain a jihadist imam for questioning. No country has better airport security than Israel -- and no country needs it more, since Israel is the most hated target of Islamic extremist terrorists...

Democrats Hold Out for Pork

Posted on November 23, 2010
Mitch McConnell did an about-face to stop earmarks. When will Senate Dems follow suit? After initially resisting -- in a way that was slightly disconcerting given the tide and tenor of the midterm elections -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R...

Look for Terrorists, Not Weapons

Posted on November 23, 2010
We should follow Israel?s example in airline security. Back in January, the Obama administration announced a new policy for airline safety: country-based profiling. Travelers from 14 countries known to harbor terrorists would automatically receive extra scrutiny, including additional pat-downs or full-body scans...

Getting Serious about North Korea?s Nukes

Posted on November 23, 2010
Four things the U.S. can do to address the threat in Pyongyang. News this weekend that North Korea showed off 2,000 uranium-enrichment centrifuges and the initial construction of a 100-megawatt light-water reactor before a visiting team of American scientists generated two very different political responses...

Deflating the NYT Condom Scoop

Posted on November 22, 2010
No, the pope did not change Catholic teaching on condoms. Here is what the New York Times reported to its readers on November 21: 'Pope Benedict XVI has said that condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS ...

Wisconsin Turns GOP

Posted on November 22, 2010
Republicans have a chance to govern. The GOP earned a momentous victory on November 2 by taking back the House of Representatives and making considerable gains in the Senate. However, most agree that significant reform is on hold until at least 2012, when Republicans can potentially win control of both houses and the White House...

Toward the Precipice

Posted on November 22, 2010
From the November 29, 2010, issue of NR. Come January, America will have a Democratic president and a Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, a rare configuration in the 150-plus years that there has been a Republican party...

Needed: An Economics for Grownups

Posted on November 22, 2010
Around 1700, a new way of speaking about commerce gave birth to the modern world. Economic history looks, in graphic representation, like a hockey stick. For tens of thousands of years we traced nasty, brutish, and short lives along the shaft...

As the Nation Goes, So Goes Maine

Posted on November 22, 2010
A new Republican majority in Maine treads carefully into power. On Nov. 2, the Pine Tree State breathed new life into the old adage, 'As Maine goes, so goes the nation.' For the first time since the 1960s, Republicans won both the governor's mansion and the state legislature...

Beware a Hollow Air Force

Posted on November 22, 2010
If we intend to maintain American military dominance abroad, the U.S. Air Force cannot be relegated to a supporting role. As the youngest of America's military branches, the Air Force has sometimes suffered from an inferiority complex...

Sharia Law: Coming Soon to a Courtroom Near You

Posted on November 22, 2010
An Oklahoma judge rules against the public interest. If you thought only U.S. laws ruled the land, you thought wrong -- at least according to a crazy decision recently handed down by a federal judge in Oklahoma...

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