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Revel against the machine
Last Exit to Utopia
Amateur hour
Spleen-venting by Obama officials over the administration's mishandling of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253 would be comical if the stakes were not ...
General de Gaulle famously said that France had 246 cheeses and nobody could govern a country...
General de Gaulle famously said that France had 246 cheeses and nobody could govern a country as anarchic as that.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, facing imploding support in his reelection bid in Nevada,...
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, facing imploding support in his reelection bid in Nevada, scrapped a bipartisan "jobs bill" and cut the price tag from $85 billion to $15 ...
Recall the thinking of Barack Obama and Joe Biden about the Iraq War
Recall the thinking of Barack Obama and Joe Biden about the Iraq War. Obama opposed President Bush's surge in Iraq, saying it would make things worse.
Senator tea party: in Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the conservative resurgence finds an ally
JIM DEMINT wasn't looking forward to his conversation with Arlen Specter last spring, but he didn't want to avoid his Senate colleague, either.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2009, for the first time, more than half of...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2009, for the first time, more than half of American union members worked for the government.
Men of letters
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters, by Thomas Mallon (Pantheon, 352 pp., $26.95) DUBIOUS legend has it that the world's first letter was written by Queen Atossa ...
The bucks don't stop
FEDERAL fiscal policy has run completely off the rails. Budgetary pressures have been building for decades because of unconstrained entitlement spending and Washington's ...
In an interview with his booster Joe Klein, President Obama said, "I'll be honest with you.......
In an interview with his booster Joe Klein, President Obama said, "I'll be honest with you.... This is just really hard." He was talking about the creation of Middle East ...
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EUbris: the Greeks have a word for Europe's unstable currency regime
It's a cliche to use the word "hubris" in an article involving Greece, but when that article is about the single European currency, what else will do? From its ...
Mortgage morality: on the question whether Americans are economy-destroying knaves
'Political writers," David Hume once wrote, "have established it as a maxim, that, in contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and ...
Cold Hearts
Movie criticism, like most human affairs, suffers during extreme weather. Before Washington, D.C., was buried beneath successive blizzards, I was planning to review The ...
Gender gaps
The Science on Women and Science, edited by Christina Hoff Sommers (AEI, 340 pp., $20) The famous Title IX provision in the 1972 civil-rights legislation sounds ...
The cause of humanity
A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy
An exceptional debate: the Obama administration's assault on American identity
It's almost a commonplace on the left that conservatives are "nihilists" for their opposition to President Obama.