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A Very Special G-File

Posted on November 11, 2010
NR has always relied on the kindness of friends and allies. Dear Reader (and the super-intelligent psychic chicken who realized he was wasting his talents in Chinatown playing tic-tac-toe with tourists), This is a very special G-File...

An Opening Volley against the Deficit

Posted on November 11, 2010
We are both pleasantly surprised and modestly encouraged by the program outlined by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairmen of the president's deficit-reduction task force. There's no VAT in sight, nor is there unrealistic happy-talk about balancing the budget through a federal Taylorism campaign or symbolic assaults on the unholy trinity of waste, fraud, and abuse...

Why We Continue the Fight

Posted on November 11, 2010
The challenge for this generation of veterans is to harness our shared lessons to ensure that America?s best days remain ahead. Since the towers fell in 2001, America's newest warrior generation has liberated two countries, battled two insurgencies, surged to victory in Iraq, and begun working toward the same outcome in Afghanistan...

A Post-Election Agenda for Washington

Posted on November 11, 2010
A few bold proposals. There has been much talk about how the two parties will act in the new Congress. What should happen is that the administration, and in fact the Republican leadership in the House, should bring forth the program the country has been impatiently awaiting for two years...

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Knight of Columbus, Knight of Consensus

Posted on November 11, 2010
Carl Anderson talks with NRO about America?s moral core. This midterm cycle has been a time of unprecedented civic engagement, and Carl Anderson sees a lot of consensus in it. The New York Times–bestselling author and head of the Catholic men's group the Knights of Columbus has a new book, Beyond a House Divided: The Moral Consensus Ignored by Washington, Wall Street, and the Media...

Obamacare and the War on Drugs

Posted on November 11, 2010
Some conservatives outraged by Obamacare?s individual mandate had helped pave the way for it through the war on drugs. If the generation of 'limited government' lawmakers freshly chosen to man the trenches in Washington wishes to be taken seriously, the butcher's bill must include some of the social conservatives' sacred cows...

GOP Freshmen Will Hold Boehner to His Big Promises

Posted on November 11, 2010
The new majority has the right numbers and people to get serious. For political junkies of a certain age, it was a given that the House of Representatives would always be controlled by Democrats...

The Politics of Budget-Cutting

Posted on November 11, 2010
Six things that stand in our way. The voters just spoke. They think they want no more gargantuan deficits, massive public spending, and exponential growth in government -- or the specter of higher taxes to pay for all of it...

Angry America? Tea Partiers with Pitchforks?

Posted on November 11, 2010
It?s a bum rap. The USA Today headline the day after the election: 'Voters Send Angry Message.' Time's two-word explanation for the electoral tsunami: 'voter rage.' The Economist's cover: 'Angry America...

Knight of Consensus

Keep the Information Flowing

Posted on November 10, 2010
If you're reading this, you probably already like NRO. You may have even given in the past, and for that, we owe you a drink of your choice when we next meet. The first two years of Obama's presidency have been a rough ride for a lot of folks, and if you're like most Americans, you probably have a little less disposable income than you did during those allegedly awful Bush years...

What Can Republicans Do About Obamacare?

Posted on November 10, 2010
Let it twist slowly, slowly in the wind. Everyone expects the new Republican House of Representatives will vote to repeal Obamacare. This move will probably be blocked in the Democrat-controlled Senate, however; and failing that, the president will use his veto pen to save the Democrats' crown-jewel policy achievement...

Yes, It?s a Mandate

Posted on November 10, 2010
But it is an ideological mandate, not a partisan one. Since it has become virtually impossible for Democrats and their allies to avoid acknowledging that they have received a 'shellacking,' to use President Obama's phrase, they have now settled on a new theme: Republicans may have won, but they don't have a mandate...

The Real Cure for Medicare

Posted on November 10, 2010
An aging population is expensive. But instead of Obamacare rationing, we should be looking at making seniors healthier. The steep challenge confronting Republicans as they try to restrain entitlement spending came into focus on Sunday's Meet the Press...

Status Quo Anti-

Posted on November 10, 2010
The race for chairman of the House Republican conference between Reps. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and Jeb Hensarling (Texas) has become, according to much of the media, a battle between the Tea Party and 'The Establishment.' On Fox News Sunday last weekend, Chris Wallace questioned Eric Cantor over his support for Hensarling...

Ten Mysteries of 2010

Posted on November 10, 2010
Why was the GOP aced out in Massachusetts and Connecticut? How did Blago?s right-hand man win in Illinois? And eight other unanswered questions. With only a handful of House races still being sorted out, the 2010 midterm elections are now almost entirely settled...

No Illegal-Alien Pilot Left Behind

Posted on November 10, 2010
Obama administration lassitude enables would-be terrorists. Chalk up another Code Red Elmo moment for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. While Islamic terrorists groom suicide bombers starting in kindergarten, the grownups in charge of protecting America can't seem to reach an elementary level of competence...

The Bashing of American Exceptionalism

Posted on November 10, 2010
Liberals believe in holding America back. In 2008, when asked if he believed in American exceptionalism, President Obama responded, 'I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism...

The ?Gridlock? Bogeyman

Posted on November 10, 2010
The last time we had a budget surplus, we had divided government. Whenever the party that controls the White House does not also control Capitol Hill, political pundits worry that there will be 'gridlock' in Washington, so that the government cannot solve the nation's problems...

Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment

Posted on November 10, 2010
From the November 15, 2010, issue of NR Joe Miller, Alaska's Republican nominee for the United States Senate, recently expressed support for an idea that is rapidly gaining steam in Tea Party circles: the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment...

A World without NRO ? Too Scary

Posted on November 09, 2010
For many years, I have relied on National Review to provide me with the most insightful and incisive commentary on the most important political issues of our time. Both the magazine and National Review Online have been a very special part of my political journey, and I can't imagine making this journey without our friends at NR and NRO at my side...

Red Scapegoat

Posted on November 09, 2010
The problems with the U.S. economy ? and therefore the solutions ? stem not from Beijing but from Washington, D.C. During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama's most loyal and affectionate constituency was one that cannot legally vote in U...

Lessons from London

Posted on November 09, 2010
The British Tories have demonstrated how a newly elected party can deliver a program of radical spending cuts. Deficit hawks are flying high in Washington. With rediscovered virtue, Republicans are vowing to rein in government spending and cut the deficit...

Obama Embraces India

Posted on November 09, 2010
We should hope that India continues to emerge, its status as a friend now blessed by both President Bush and President Obama. Pres. Barack Obama's speech to the Indian parliament contained a benign untruth: 'In Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged...

A senatorial lifer, &c.

Posted on November 09, 2010
This lil' Impromptus will be mainly politics-free -- but I wanted to tell you this. I went home to Michigan recently. And there at the airport in Detroit was Senator Levin. He has been in the Senate virtually my entire life, or so it seems. And he always looks the same, year after year: rumpled, professorial, vaguely genial...

California: Heading for an Iceberg

Posted on November 09, 2010
How do the Golden State and the Titanic differ? Okay, riddle fans, here's a toughie: What's the difference between California voters and the passengers on the Titanic? The passengers on the Titanic didn't vote to hit the iceberg...

Stopping Judicial Imperialism

Posted on November 09, 2010
If judges are going to act like politicians, then they should be voted out like politicians. Results of the recent elections showed that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with 'public servants' who act as if they are public masters...

Smash the Union Thugocracy

Posted on November 09, 2010
Republicans must not bailout profligate states nor the unions behind them. One of the first orders of business in the next Republican-controlled House of Representatives will be the demand for bailouts of states that have been especially profligate: California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut...

Is Obama Trapped?

Posted on November 09, 2010
The president has lost the means for Clinton-style triangulation. It's almost enough to evoke sympathy: The entire journalistic world poring over President Obama's post-election comments and applying a humility meter to his words, his facial expressions, and his mood...

Yes We Can -- Use Your Help!

Posted on November 08, 2010
‘Marco Rubio easily won election,' I've read. Marco Rubio was a handpicked Republican-establishment candidate adopted by the tea party, I've heard. Marco Rubio did, in fact, win an impressive 49 percent of Florida voters in the three-way Senate race...

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