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Common-Sense Medicine

Posted on November 08, 2010
Will medical studies of dubious validity decide whether you get life-saving treatment? For lung experts everywhere, there has never been much controversy about smoking and lung cancer. If patients stop smoking, their risk of lung cancer drops dramatically...

The Politics of the NPR Boards

Posted on November 08, 2010
The data behind ?Public Radio's Political Sympathies.? The NPR Foundation board of directors has 50 members: Antoine van Agtmael (chairman of the NPR Foundation): He is a trustee of a liberal think tank, the Brookings Institution...

Public Radio?s Political Sympathies

Posted on November 08, 2010
The boards of directors that control NPR are overwhelmingly liberal. On Sunday, October 17, the New York Times reported that NPR had accepted a $1.8 million grant from George Soros's left-leaning Open Society Institute...

God Bless the Tea Party

Posted on November 08, 2010
More than a rejection of big government or high spending, it is a revolution against moral decline. I doubt that what happened in the United States on November 2 could have occurred in any European country...

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Star Freshmen

Posted on November 08, 2010
In one of the largest freshman classes in history, these twelve congressmen-elect stand out. When the 112th Congress convenes in January, it will include at least 72 new members -- one of the largest freshman classes in the nation's history -- at least 63 of whom will join the Republican majority...

A Republican Bonus in 2012

Posted on November 08, 2010
The GOP is poised to reap redistricting rewards. Let's try to put some metrics on last Tuesday's historic election. Two years ago, the popular vote for the House of Representatives was 54 percent Democratic and 43 percent Republican...

We?ve Come a Long Way, Baby!

Posted on November 08, 2010
Women win some, women lose some. In the summer of 2008, Nancy Pelosi wrote a book, Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters. The book implored the women of America to thank the San Francisco congresswoman for breaking the so-called 'marble ceiling' in Congress by becoming the first woman speaker of the House -- and for carrying a lot of cargo when she headed to the White House for the first time as speaker...

The World Against Bernanke

Posted on November 08, 2010
We just don?t need QE2. The great Bernanke QE2 debate continues to heat up. In the run-up to the G-20 meetings, China, Russia, Germany, and others are all coming out against the Federal Reserve's quantitative-easing agenda...

Earmarks Aren?t Even the Beginning

Posted on November 06, 2010
Our trouble isn?t the symbolism, it?s the substance. In offering himself as the next speaker of the House after last Tuesday's sea-change election, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed of about 800 words...

Barack Obama, Dealmaker

Posted on November 06, 2010
Is Barack Obama as suave a diplomat as George W. Bush? His arrival in Bombay on Saturday morning, with 200 anxious American business executives in tow, will give him the opportunity to answer that question. President Obama, sheepish recipient of the Nobel peace prize, is paying a visit to a world leader who actually deserves one: Manmohan Singh, who engineered the economic liberalization that has lifted many millions of Indians out of needless misery a decade before he took over the reins of government as prime minister...

European Modeling

Posted on November 05, 2010
A much-maligned region is far more heterogeneous than you might think. France has been convulsed by violent demonstrations against modest pension reforms. Britain is imposing a tough fiscal 'austerity' regime to plug a cavernous budget gap...

Lame START

Posted on November 05, 2010
Pres. Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both signaled their hope that the Senate will ratify New START during the lame-duck session, before a larger Republican minority can be sworn in. It is vital to our national security that the Senate disappoint them...

Terrorism?s Victims

Posted on November 05, 2010
A journalist documents what Islamist attacks have done to Israelis. Giulio Meotti, who is neither an Israeli nor a Jew but a concerned and compassionate Italian journalist and author (his work has appeared in Il Foglio in Rome, the Wall Street Journal, and Commentary), has written A New Shoah, a necessary book on the 'unsung dead of Israel...

Voters Show Their Enthusiasm for Obamacare?s Repeal

Posted on November 05, 2010
Support for the president?s health-care reform was electoral poison for Democrats. Democrats cannot spin Tuesday's election as merely an anti-incumbent exercise. Rather, it was Washington, D.C...

Don?t Rush New START

Posted on November 05, 2010
The Senate should review the negotiating record before approving the treaty?s ratification. The Senate may address the New START Treaty -- an arms-control agreement between the U.S. and Russia that President Obama would like to ratify -- in its upcoming lame-duck session...

A Return to the Norm

Posted on November 05, 2010
Waves comes and waves go, but the republic endures. For all the turmoil, the spectacle, the churning -- for all the old bulls slain and fuzzy-cheeked freshmen born -- the great Republican wave of 2010 is simply a return to the norm...

The Shellacking that Hubris Wrought

Posted on November 05, 2010
?The party of no? was rewarded in ?the election of no.? There may be no more deadly force in politics than hubris. It sneaks up on politicians at their weakest moments — the height of their success — and destroys them, sometimes slowly, sometimes spectacularly...

Voters Speak: No to Soak-the-Rich Schemes

Posted on November 05, 2010
Even in liberal Washington State, voters have rejected ?Robin Hood? tax hikes. Do Americans share President Obama's desire to impose redistributive social justice on the well-off? In liberal Washington State, of all places, voters gave a definitive answer this Tuesday: No! The resounding rejection of a punitive 'Robin Hood' initiative shows that it's not just red-state Republicans who oppose extreme tax hikes on the nation's wealth generators...

Defeat, then Denial

Posted on November 05, 2010
Obama?s self-exonerating narrative about the midterm elections is simply wrong. In 2007, when police busted Rep. Barney Frank's partner for illegally growing pot, Frank waved away the controversy by saying he hadn't noticed since he's 'not a great outdoorsman' and has trouble recognizing any plants...

Impressions From a Historic Election

Posted on November 05, 2010
It may produce important realignments, far outside of Congress. It's an occupational hazard of pundits to see what they want to see in election returns. After the Democrats' 2008 sweep, any number of liberal commentators (and even some conservatives) consigned the Republican party to Whig status (the Whigs ended with a whimper in 1856)...

Nancy?s End, Marco?s Rise

Posted on November 04, 2010
Winners and losers, post-election edition. National Review Online asked politicos and commentators a series of questions about their top picks and low points from the midterm elections of 2010...

Cost Analysis

Posted on November 04, 2010
Jay Cost talks to NRO about the midterms and their aftermath. Few know and love the political horserace like Jay Cost. We talked with him before Election Day, and we're back with him now. Cost, a staff writer for The Weekly Standard, talks to National Review Online's Kathryn Jean Lopez about yesterday's results...

Don?t Cut Military Spending

Posted on November 04, 2010
Defense is an obligation, not an option. After their big election gains, congressional Republicans must now commit to getting the federal budget under control. Unfortunately, some have advocated cutting the defense budget as part of the solution...

The Bums Were Thrown Out

Posted on November 04, 2010
But America is still looking for leadership. As was generally predicted, the Republicans appear to have picked up about 65 House seats, the greatest one-year pickup they have had since 1894, and, though it is not certain, seven Senate seats, to close the Democratic lead to 52–48 and force Vice Pres...

America Just Checked into Rehab

Posted on November 04, 2010
If Republicans do not restrain spending, in two years it will be their turn ? again. On Tuesday, voters rejected President Obama's attempt to remake America in the image of an imploding Europe -- not just by overwhelmingly electing Republican candidates to the House, but by preferring dozens of maverick conservatives who ran against the establishment...

An Alternative Road to a ?Two-State Solution?

Posted on November 04, 2010
Does President Obama not see that it leads to a minefield? Last week, not for the first time, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas said he was considering declaring a Palestinian state and asking the United Nations to recognize it...

Voters Reject Obama?s Big-Government Ambitions

Posted on November 04, 2010
That?s the simple meaning of Tuesday?s elections. Uncharted territory. Historic upheaval. The tallies are not all in as this is written. But it seems that the 2010 elections have produced results that are unprecedented in the lifetimes of most readers...

A Big Win for Immigration Control and Hispanic Outreach

Posted on November 04, 2010
Let?s not squander this opportunity. The president of the League of United Latin American Citizens issued a statement in the wake of Tuesday's elections: 'The elections of 2010 are further proof of the power of the Latino vote...

The Midterms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Posted on November 04, 2010
Have an intelligent message, and fight for your right to be heard. Now that the dust has settled on the 2010 midterm elections, it's slowly becoming clear just how monumental the results really are...

Ten Takeaways from the Big Night

Posted on November 03, 2010
Lessons to be learned from the Republican victory. Having won a nearly unprecedented electoral victory, Republicans now find themselves in the position of the proverbial dog that caught the car, wondering what they should do next...

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