Tax Cuts for the Good Guys
Speaking on one of the political television shows before the election, Vice President Joe Biden proposed to make a deal with Republicans on...
Opinion
Real Men Want Globocops — and Other Imperial Delusions
Some eternal verities have outlived their usefulness. Okay that's a contradiction, which I cheerfully acknowledge. To be more accurate, some things that seem...
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Understanding the Election Results beyond Skin Deep
In just the way some voters believed that Obama’s 2008 ascendancy heralded a new era of hope-and-change leftist hegemony, it’s easy to view...
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Book Review: Sapping Americans’ Shrewdness
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry, by Lenore Skenazy, Jossey-Bass Publishers (a Wiley Imprint): San...
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The “Gridlock” Bogeyman
Whenever the party that controls the White House does not also control Capitol Hill, political pundits worry that there will be "gridlock" in...
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Khadr’s Coerced Confession
Imagine you pull into your drive after work to find the beagle from next door dying on your lawn, victim of a hit-and-run....
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How Americans Engineered the Rescue of the Chilean Miners
In all the excitement created by the rescue of the Chilean miners, which has been called a miracle, very little recognition has been...
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Political Judges
Results of the recent elections showed that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with "public servants" who act as if they are...
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World Bank’s Trial Balloon Pops
Before the Internet, Robert Zoellick’s brief outline of suggested topics for the G20 meeting this week in Seoul, Korea, might have been considered...
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Prometheus for President (Or The Myth of an All-powerful President Lives On)
I am not inclined to rush to the library or bookstore to find and read the latest bestseller or new release, like Deciding...
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A Review of Gere’s “Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism”
Cathy Gere’s new book, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, is of profound significance because it offers the reader an opportunity to examine...
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Madison and Jefferson: A New Perspective on the Great Collaboration
On your last visit to Washington, D.C., did you stand marvelling at the size and craftsmanship of the Lincoln Memorial? Did you pause...
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John Allison: Free Market Banker
When asked during an “Online with Terry Jeffrey” interview about how to solve the debt crisis facing the country, former Branch Banking &...
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Behind the Numbers: October Employment Report
Even though 151,000 new real jobs were added in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate stayed at 9.6...
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Morning After Headache at the Times
Especially after bad days, liberals like to go to columnists like Maureen Dowd at the New York Times for some reassurance that everything’s...
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