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NEWS ARCHIVE - OPINION AND ODDITIES
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The Scope of Collateral Damage When innocent communications are occasionally intercepted this has to be considered collateral damage... 01/20/2006 What the Monster Learned You have learned that monsters are meant to be free. .. 01/20/2006 Making Sense of Nonsense Understanding what we're in... 01/20/2006 Need More Than a Fly Swatter The right way to "reform." 01/20/2006 Let's Call It a Draw Osama's generous offer... 01/20/2006 The lessons of aping US business 01/20/2006 Medicare's new drug program 01/20/2006 CEO dough How much do top corporate executives really make? 01/20/2006 Silence that speaks volumes Pope's bombshell is being ignored... 01/20/2006 A European dictatorship Mr. Lukashenko has initiated a Cold War campaign against the West and the United States... 01/20/2006 George Will: Shoplifting as governance 01/19/2006 Open Sesame! the role of the Internet has been to open up things that were once closed... 01/19/2006 Rights Schmights What if souls and rights are fictions? Is there any way out of the void? 01/19/2006 False Prophet Ahmadinejad is bad news for the world... 01/19/2006 A Dem Golden Boy If not Hillary, why not Virginia's Mark Warner? 01/19/2006 GOP housecleaning must be thorough 01/19/2006 The US should express regret for lives lost in Pakistan airstrike 01/19/2006 Sanity 101 Two words can trigger irrational behavior in parent and child alike: "college admissions..." 01/19/2006 Targeting Iran's nuclear threat In technical terms, the U.S. military has the ability to inflict major damage to Iran's nuclear weapons program, potentially setting it back for years... 01/19/2006 The politics of stereotypes Tears of a wife drown the Mommy Party... 01/19/2006 Cal Thomas: Congress needs binding arbitration 01/18/2006 The Enemy of Your Enemy Is Sometimes Your Enemy Watching the bad guys turn on each other. Michael Totten explains from Beirut... 01/18/2006 Do We Need the IMF? Given its original mandate, do we need the IMF? 01/18/2006 Al Gore's Mad Message The former vice president gets worked up at Constitution Hall... 01/18/2006 Indian Givers The tribal-casino scandal... 01/18/2006 No more hiding the corporate jet 01/18/1006 Questioning US arrest statistics 01/18/2006 Court protects dignity of dying patients—for now 01/18/2006 The Tony Coelho factor As Congress readies itself for possible indictments from the Abramoff scandal, it would be useful to remember some recent history... 01/18/2006 Open borders, closed minds What goes on at the border, stays at the border... 01/18/2006 Cal Thomas: Infiltration by the book 01/17/2006 George Will: What it might take to clean up Washington 01/17/2006 Armor All? What additional improvements to the body armor could be made without compromising the mobility and fighting ability of the troops... 01/17/2006 Blame the Republithugs? Or Women? How is it that hourly wages are unchanged since the 1960s? 01/17/2006 The Man Who Didn't Come to Dinner Missing Zawahiri and the art of war... 01/17/2006 Wooed The media hypes a fraud... 01/17/2006 Tipping points for women 01/17/2006 Can Africa's first woman president get Liberia back on track? 01/17/2006 Iran and oil prices The ability of Iran to cause worldwide economic damage is no idle boast... 01/17/2006 The search for 'something' Keeping good people off the bench... 01/17/2006 "Enraged and Engaged" The women of the Left whine again... 01/13/2006 "Giving Birth" Iraqis show their pride... 01/13/2006 Why "Diplomacy" with Iran Had to Fail 01/13/2006 The Butcher with the Terror Ties The evidence mounts... 01/13/2006 Media U-Turn on Sharon? 01/13/2006 The Multilateral Moment? Our bad and worse choices about Iran... 01/13/2006 UnKingly Statutes Discrimination lives... 01/13/2006 Always a Monetary Phenomenon The Fed should stop trying to redefine inflation... 01/13/2006 Cal Thomas: Who has an agenda? 01/12/2006 Latin America's Axis of Socialism Brazil and the Southern Cone will determine the future of U.S. relations with Latin America... 01/12/2006 New chancellor comes to call The Bush administration can use friends like Germany's new Chancellor Angela Merkel in Europe... 01/12/2006 A Hyped "Hero" Falls And we get a second chance to preserve the dignity of human life... 01/12/2006 The Economist's Surrender How the world's foremost economic magazine aids Islamist intimidation and the chilling of free speech... 01/12/2006 Too Soon to Say Two Will John Shadegg enter the race for House majority leader?... 01/12/2006 Bolivia at a crossroads The rise of Evo Morales as president of Bolivia means Bolivia is in for a rough ride... 01/12/2006 Armey on the House The former House majority leader on the current leadership race... 01/11/2006 Iran policy is calculated risk Assumptions not sure things... 01/11/2006 Stupid Judge Tricks Choosing to kill school choice... 01/11/2006 Government girth growth 01/11/2006 "who's an Iraqi?" It's a regional war... 01/11/2006 Vote keyed to ideology? Saying the Senate should vote on Supreme Court nominees without considering ideology is like saying people should choose their food without considering taste... 01/11/2006 Girls in Glass Houses The media news of the week... 01/11/2006 Cal Thomas: Lessons learned (and not learned) from the French riots 01/10/2006 George Will: Leadership: When Darwinian stirrings replace moral epiphanies 01/10/2006 Fueling Energy News What to expect from the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate... 01/10/2006 The Scarcity of Security DHS grant reform means some hope for the security of the country... 01/10/2006 Let Iran Go Nuclear? The latest really bad idea... 01/10/2006 Time is ripe to reform lobbying 01/10/2006 The tangled web of lobbyists and the majority party 01/10/2006 In nuclear challenge, Iran bets world will blink first 01/10/2006 Touting productivity For more than two years now, important economy-wide indicators, such as the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) and employment expansion, have been steadily increasing... 01/10/2006 The closing of Ted Kennedy's mind Something unusual happened on the way to this week's nomination hearings for Judge Samuel Alito: Reporters scoffed at the ridiculousness of Sen. Ted Kennedy... 01/10/2006 George Will: Hot tubs and cold moralizing 01/09/2006 Bill O'Reilly: David Letterman and the culture war 01/09/2006 Fines and the Fraudsters The SEC policy on fines is a conceptual advance, but needs further refinement to protect investors from the actual wrongdoers... 01/09/2006 Even a Zombie Can Understand It Keeping tax rates where they are does not equate to a tax cut... 01/09/2006 On balance Could Sunni Iraqi opinion finally be turning against Al Qaeda in Iraq?... 01/09/2006 Illegal Invaders The key steps to secure our borders... 01/09/2006 One Moment in Time Our age of revolution... 01/09/2006 The Wages of Spanish Appeasement Spain learns the hard way that bowing before terror doesn't pay... 01/09/2006 Dems 2006? How the Senate is looking... 01/09/2006 Intel, Lies & Treason If we have all been betrayed by Big Brother intelligence tactics as Evil government operatives invaded the privacy of innocent Americans, show us the victims... 01/09/2006 Cal Thomas: Dissing the 'Iron Lady' 01/06/2006 Tapping Our Common Sense This issue transcends the politics of the moment; it concerns the basic powers of the executive branch. Michael Rosen on the NSA wiretaps... 01/06/2006 Microeconomic Microcosm What we can learn from NBC's "Deal or No Deal"... 01/06/2006 A Letter to the Europeans Cry the beloved continent... 01/06/2006 Raw Deal Arnold Schwarzenegger's big-spending gambit... 01/06/2006 Secret surveillance is not new 01/06/2006 Instead of raising stamp rates, the USPS should cut costs 01/06/2006 Drivers find a snitch States should set parameters for automakers... 01/06/2006 The wiretap hearings What will the coming National Security Agency wiretap hearings reveal and how will they affect U.S. surveillance of al Qaeda? 01/06/2006 George Will: Chief among the silliness 01/05/2006 The Materialism Fallacy Economists are gradually shifting the way we think about the determinants of economic well-being... 01/05/2006 The Dog That Has Not Barked Has George W. Bush succeeded at the number-one task that Americans have assigned him, which is to keep them safe?... 01/05/2006 Decisions, Decisions David Henderson on risk, arbitrage and the need for constitutions both personal and political... 01/05/2006 FISA Gotcha! For the frivolous, war is scandal fodder any which way you choose... 01/05/2006 Coal is king but its queen is safety This week's mine disaster points to a need for greater care to justify a rising US reliance on coal... 01/05/2006 Mideast democracy after the honeymoon Last year's early euphoria about elections across the Middle East should yield to more sober assessments... 01/05/2006 Dread, jubilation, despair rock miners' families 01/05/2006 Bearing down on the G7 Mr. Putin displayed an incomprehensible level of ingratitude for the undeserved honor his G8 colleagues had bestowed upon him... 01/05/2006 Fabricated death toll Pollster distorts Iraqi numbers... 01/05/2006 Cal Thomas: The return of British dependency 01/04/2006 The Left's Intelligent Design Problem 01/04/2006 Particle Civics Americans mistakenly believe air pollution has been worsening and that too little is being done to improve air quality... 01/04/2006 Earth Profits Up, Stock Prices Down The connection between commodities, government regulation, and broad-index performance... 01/04/2006 Human Guinea Pigs? Ian Wilmut wants to experiment on the dying with embryonic stem cells--even though the treatments haven't been properly tested... 01/04/2006 Russia fails a leadership test 01/04/2006 Secure the US against bloodless terrorist warfare 01/04/2006 Lobbyist's plea likely to expose seamy underside of Congress 01/04/2006 Nuclear danger from Iran One of the most difficult issues American policy-makers will face this year is how to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons... 01/04/2006 Let's organize to end war disunity The weakness that leads to all other weaknesses... 01/04/2006 Bill O'Reilly: The hate Bush syndrome 01/03/2006 George Will: Tobacco perversions 01/03/2006 Activist Shareholder Proposals, Totally Unfit Some recent shareholder efforts, at Bally Total Fitness and elsewhere, are legally dubious... 01/03/2006 Ominous Prospects for an Aging Population 01/03/2006 Environmental Enemy #1 Greens vs. Alito... 01/03/2006 Khomeini Redux Tehran Rising... 01/03/2006 Westward ho! in Europe Thousands protested in Ireland Dec. 10, angry about a plan by transport firm Irish Ferries to replace Irish workers with mostly Latvians at less than half the minimum wage... 01/03/2006 The enormous US dam problem no one is talking about While Congress quickly approved $3 billion to restore New Orleans' levees, a bill to help states repair aging dams has languished for a year... 01/03/2006 College football fumbles minority hiring 01/03/2006 The Democrats' bubble Delusions about Bush's demise... 01/03/2006 An Atheist's Dream Forcing Intelligent Design into the classroom is a tactical misjudgment... 12/22/2005 Why American Muslims Stay Silent Why do American Muslims stay silent in the face of extremism and terrorism? 12/22/2005 Cracks In the 'Knowledge Monopoly' Leading scientific authorities increasingly question the IPCC... 12/22/2005 Micro Economics Why people are doing well, but think the economy is doing poorly... 12/22/2005 Gloomy conservatives of the present Has the American conservative movement reached a dead end?... 12/22/2005 Don't do Chávez a favor in Bolivia Anti-Washington feelings run deep in Latin America... 12/22/2005 Sound of shifting ground 12/22/2005 The Morales morass in Bolivia Bolivia's incoming President Evo Morales could easily become the nightmare for the United States... 12/22/2005 Israel's political reshuffling There's good news and bad news for former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... 12/22/2005 Tough times for Prozac Democrats Political left may be clinically depressed... 12/22/2005 Who's Watching the Watchers? With domestic espionage, it's possible there's more than meets the eye... 12/21/2005 The Earle of Criminalizing Politics Our freedoms are never completely safe when this "public servant," or others of his ilk, are "serving" us... 12/21/2005 Socialism Reborn The word socialism is increasingly being drained of its old meaning and is being filled with a new one -- and its new meaning could not be clearer... 12/21/2005 The "Ultimate Betrayal"? Humvee realities... 12/21/2005 Bug 'Em! Normal Americans won't hold the surveillance flap against Bush... 12/21/2005 Public unions on trial in the Big Apple New York's transit workers revealed the desperation of powerful public-sector unions to hang on to unsustainable benefits and workplace rules... 12/21/2005 Where are the voices of college presidents? 12/21/2005 New York's transit strike heralds a growing divide 12/21/2005 A Christmas bombing Bush attacked for defending America... 12/21/2005 In Hong Kong, failure averted Last week's summit of trade ministers in Hong Kong did not end in disaster. That modest achievement contrasts with the trade summits of the past... 12/21/2005 Cal Thomas: One step forward, two backward 12/20/2005 George Will: Why Didn't He Ask Congress? Bush assumes too much executive power 12/20/2005 Intergalactic Space Virgins "There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting..." 12/20/2005 We Need Domestic Spying But that in turn means that we need independent, professional audits of our domestic security policies, procedures, and operations... 12/20/2005 The Light of the World 'Tis the season to celebrate the triumph of liberty over tyranny... 12/20/2005 Wartime learning curve Bush's acknowledgment of setbacks in Iraq is significant. Not because it presents a "gotcha" moment for the media or his opponents, but because it indicates a willingness to make adjustments... 12/20/2005 When government withers 12/20/2005 Hard to be humble Bush goes on communication offensive... 12/20/2005 Presidents and spies NSA's substantial resources, like those of the CIA and the military, should be properly and legally harnessed to fight the al Qaeda threat wherever it appears... 12/20/2005 Some (belated) fiscal restraint If the Senate passes the budget-reconciliation conference report, it will mark the first time in eight years that Congress applies restraint to the nation's soaring benefit programs... 12/20/2005 Bill O'Reilly: The Lieberman factor 12/19/2005 The Original Green Beret The father of the Green Berets has passed; as an innovator he changed the military forever... 12/19/2005 Energy in the UK Britain considers the nuclear option... 12/19/2005 Justice Breyer's Active Liberty Here's one alternative to originalism... 12/19/2005 What torture does to torturers 12/19/2005 "Without America, I Would Still be a Refugee" Meet "an amazing man with an amazing story." 12/19/2005 Here Come the Brides Plural marriage is waiting in the wings... 12/19/2005 Want to snoop on Americans? Get a court order. White House shows disrespect to Americans... 12/19/2005 The sugar police In an appalling extension of the nanny state, New York is slated to become the first city to monitor diabetics' blood-sugar levels... 12/19/2005 Security and the baseball stadium As the D.C. Council braces itself to vote on the lease agreement for a new baseball stadium, we pose a simple but fundamental question: Who shall be in charge of security? 12/19/1005 Blood Alcohol Blues No one wants to see a family of four killed by a drunk driver. But the United States has veered way out of the lines in its DUI laws, and it's time to rethink them from bumper to bumper... 12/16/2005 Beware of the Fogh The decisive Dane stands firm against Islamic onslaught... 12/16/2005 100 Years of Fill 'Er Up You pay no more attention to them than you do to the refrigerator in your kitchen, but they have been an important adjunct to most Americans' lives for a century... 12/16/2005 Dazed and Confused on Iraq The damaging power of Democratic convictions... 12/16/2005 The Moral Chasm Tookie Williams's execution reveals the gulf between Left and Right... 12/16/2005 The Yanks are Coming! U.S. soccer gets ready to take on Old Europe and the soccer snobs at the World Cup... 12/16/2005 For shoppers' sake, a June Christmas 12/16/2005 American originals Remembering William Proxmire and Richard Pryor... 12/16/2005 Oh, no, Canada For a growing number of people in our country, "O, Canada" is now less about a national anthem and more about frustration, confusion, disappointment and anger... 12/16/2005 Democracy wins at Iraq polls The willingness of Sunni leaders to embrace the political process means that they have finally come to regard democracy as the future of Iraq... 12/16/2005 |
George Will: Our Fake Drilling Debate: Collectively Hiding Behind ANWR 12/15/2005 Cal Thomas: Steamy teen 'love' in Tampa 12/15/2005 What To Do About Iraq The election in Iraq marks another milestone. Are these milestones really leading us somewhere, or are we going around in circles? 12/15/2005 A New Bill of Rights Beginning a new political campaign for important political freedoms... 12/15/2005 Have You Read This Good News on Iraq? A new poll's "surprising" results... 12/15/2005 Rooting for Iraq's unifiers 12/15/2005 A gender divide over NBA dress code 12/15/2005 McCain, victim of torture, makes case for a ban 12/15/2005 A good start on border security In many ways, today's House vote on an immigration-security bill will test whether Republicans are able to stand against the interests of K Street... 12/15/2005 On balance In today's Iraqi elections, Coalition forces will not be providing protection at polling sites... 12/15/2005 George Will: The poet who took on LBJ 12/14/2005 Why Are Workers Earning Less Than They Used To? Real weekly earnings have decreased since the advent of modern environmental regulations... 12/14/2005 Good Drugs, Bad Rap These are turbulent times for the pharmaceutical industry and for its regulator, the FDA... 12/14/2005 Will Rove be Indicted? As rumors fly, here's what's known at this point... 12/14/2005 Hit or Miss. Katrina lives in Waveland... 12/14/2005 A Mosque Grows in Boston but not without multiple lawsuits. The strange story of the Islamic Society of Boston's new mosque... 12/14/2005 China's great balancing act as it gains world prominence Two items of unconnected resistance on the international scene went virtually unnoticed last week, but they were of considerable significance for China's communist regime... 12/14/2005 Qualms about anti-terror law unite the left and right 12/14/2005 Fed considers end to increases in rates 12/14/2005 'Soldiers' gear up to defend Christmas 12/14/2005 Cal Thomas: Not so silent night 12/13/2005 Is Islamic Democracy The Answer? 12/13/2005 Obesity Hum-Bug The repetition of those images every Christmas season should have kids everywhere salivating and making heavy demands on parents... 12/13/2005 Going Medieval The nature of jihad and this war we're in... 12/13/2005 The Pledge for Iraq A campaign for human rights and freedom... 12/13/2005 First question in a disaster 12/13/2005 If only Iraq's progress could keep pace with American hope 12/13/2005 Carrots Monster? Linking TV ads with childhood obesity... 12/13/2005 On balance Yesterday, Ambassador Dan Speckhard, head of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office in Washington, reported that 30,000 new businesses have registered with the Iraqi government in the last year... 12/13/2005 History lessons "Why the U.S. bombed," The Washington Times, Oct. 16, 1998, by National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger... 12/13/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Twas the Night Before Solstice 12/12/2005 George Will: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' hypocrisy 12/12/2005 The Turn of the Screw Professor Bainbridge explains why screw-cap wines are an innovation you should celebrate... 12/12/2005 Giving the Gift of Flexibility Telecommuting workers are more productive than you think... 12/12/2005 Stop to Think Is sleep deprivation torture? 12/12/2005 Potomac Fever Diagnosising Congress... 12/12/2005 Power Play What is the future of energy policy in America? 12/12/2005 Preparing Americans for disaster 12/12/2005 Progress in Iraq Najaf, Mosul and the Iraqi economy: These were the three pillars of President Bush's speech yesterday before the Council on Foreign Relations... 12/12/2005 McCarthy's rare mold An unusual politician at a unique moment in time... 12/12/2005 Poor Countries, Tear Down This Wall! Trade negotiations in Hong Kong should focus on trade barriers by poor countries, too... 12/09/2005 The Strongest Economy You've Never Heard Of The underreporting of a financial boom... 12/09/2005 Jack Murtha and the Lessons of Vietnam Is it true that "we're making no progress at all"? 12/09/2005 Harrison Ford & the Ticking Time Bomb Hollywood tortures... 12/09/2005 Another Good Year on Deck But lawmakers could lock-in several more good years by extending the 2003 tax cuts... 12/09/2005 Shadow over both parties' houses 12/09/2005 America's soft power in Kazakhstan 12/09/2005 Airport shooting: Tragic product of post-9/11 world 12/09/2005 Air marshals and Mr. Alpizar A marshal who hesitates to shoot someone behaving as Mr. Alpizar did is not doing his job... 12/09/2005 On balance Despite the ongoing insurgent violence, the amenities of modern life are spreading to places in Iraq where they never previously existed... 12/09/2005 George Will: The Inalienable Right to a Remote 12/08/2005 Cal Thomas: New ABC anchors: Interchangeable parts 12/08/2005 How Do You Spur American Competitiveness? Rep. John Boehner on letting markets work... 12/08/2005 No More of the Same Mistakes A free trade imperative for Latin America... 12/08/2005 Go Purple An Open Letter to Store Owners & Managers Nationwide... 12/08/2005 Wasn't Hamilton-Burr the Ultimate Catfight? The world according to MoDo... 12/08/2005 Locking Uncle Sam out of Asia 12/08/2005 A more candid Bush subtly alters pitch on Iraq 12/08/2005 Media darling debuts If charm and crowd appeal were rated on a per-pound basis, 5-month-old giant panda cub Tai Shan might be thinking about breaking into more than the outside pen... 12/08/2005 Progress in Iraq Najaf, Mosul and the Iraqi economy: These were the three pillars of President Bush's speech yesterday before the Council on Foreign Relations... 12/08/2005 Ten Years After the Shutdowns As Republicans prepare for the future, they must look at their past... 12/07/2005 Save the Slaves While there are human slaves still on earth, human rights groups are preoccupied with politics... 12/07/2005 Iraq and the Corruption Trap There is one indicator to track in order to predict success or failure in Iraq... 12/07/2005 Killing Kyoto The world climate is changing... 12/07/2005 Debate Amongst Yourselves Free advice for liberals... 12/07/2005 Out of Touch on Taxes Congressional Democrats would rather take shots at President Bush's tax cuts than listen to their constituents... 12/07/2005 US credibility gap in Europe 12/07/2005 Boys lag; does anyone care? 12/07/2005 Environmental talk Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat and the international diplomats are set to celebrate the season with an eagerly anticipated round of America-bashing in Montreal... 12/07/2005 On balance If Washington seems increasingly pessimistic about Iraq these days, Iraqis themselves aren't... 12/07/2005 Cal Thomas: Propaganda and the eye of the beholder 12/06/2005 This Market Is Sending a Signal This year's experience with a carbon market is telling just how hard and costly it will be to cut greenhouse gas emissions... 12/06/2005 Life At the Generational Crossroads... ...or, what I learned from dating college girls. 12/06/2005 Strength & Constancy It's a strategy... 12/06/2005 Gerrymander Slander Democrats cry foul on Texas redistricting... 12/06/2005 It's All Bad News Except for the economic reality on the ground... 12/06/2005 Kyoto out of kilter What's needed at talks for a post-Kyoto treaty that began last week in Montreal is a new realism... 12/06/2005 9/11 panel shuts down, issuing final warning 12/06/2005 Venezuela's pitiful election Turnout for Venezuela's parliamentary election on Sunday, which was boycotted by opposition parties, was a mere 25 percent... 12/06/2005 The Orange Revolution Ukrainians see integration with West... 12/06/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Hey, it's the solstice buying season 12/05/2005 George Will: Windfall for the dimwitted 12/05/2005 A Windfall of Bad Ideas When "consumer protection" becomes a rhetorical cover for other agendas... 12/05/2005 Counterinsurgency and the American Way of War Can the American military handle insurgencies? 12/05/2005 "The Right Sort of Men" Iraqi boot camps are producing young soldiers who will stay the course... 12/05/2005 The Silent Bias How the media quietly gives cloning advocates a pass... 12/05/2005 A soldier's doodling bridges the distance for a mom's heart 12/05/2005 Saddam's trial stirs tempest 12/05/2005 Going for the knockout This is no time for America to 'go wobbly' in Iraq... 12/05/2005 Reform the Patriot Act Senators are right to raise questions... 12/05/2005 Peak Curiosity Predicting the end of oil era has been a venerable (albeit fruitless) pseudo-intellectual pursuit for 100 years... 12/02/2005 The Networked Creators Surprising new research shows U.S. innovators are not losing their competitive edge... 12/02/2005 A Moral War The project in Iraq can succeed, and leave its critics scrambling... 12/02/2005 The Winning Side Fox tells some of the mostly untold stories from Iraq... 12/02/2005 Italy Gets Tough on Iran And the Italians are in a unique position to put pressure on the mullahs... 12/02/2005 A culture of bribery in Congress 12/02/2005 For a stronger America, tell the truth 12/02/2005 On abortion, would nominee put personal views aside? 12/02/2005 Impressive economic growth The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that the economy grew at an upwardly adjusted annual rate of 4.3 percent during the July-September period... 12/02/2005 Defining terrorism Conferences produce meager results... 12/02/2005 Cal Thomas: Out of many, many? 12/01/2005 George Will: The abortion argument we missed 12/01/2005 Why the Top-Down Approach Has Failed Roger Bate explains why high profile global AIDS treatment targets are inevitably missed... 12/01/2005 String Theory Versus Intelligent Design Who is right in this high-stakes cosmological debate—if anybody? 12/01/2005 Wishing Drug-Warrior Thinking No, the U.S. is not winning a battle vs. Coke... 12/01/2005 The Goal is Victory What the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq means for fighting the counterinsurgency... 12/01/2005 Why avoid using 'Merry Christmas'? How do we respect the holiday traditions of one group of citizens without causing detriment to another? 12/01/2005 In the spirit Today, when President Bush lights the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse, it's worth reciting the real name of America's other tree—the Capitol Christmas Tree. 12/01/2005 Past the water's edge Mood of America reflects partisan sniping... 12/01/2005 Inflation Tango The sole remaining link with orthodoxy is now gone... 11/30/2005 Bolivia's Nightmare The forces of Latin American populism are arrayed behind Evo Morales... 11/30/2005 Will the Court fix its abortion mess? 11/30/2005 Leaking At All Costs What the CIA is willing to do to hurt the Bush administration... 11/30/2005 Earthquake Diplomacy In the Himalayas, there is an unprecedented chance for peace... 11/30/2005 No need to fear the color orange 11/30/2005 It's too early to assess a legacy, but not presidential candidates 11/30/2005 Thanksgiving leftovers A refreshing tale on a slow news day... 11/30/2005 As Washington dithers, fiscal storm clouds gather As Washington dithers, fiscal storm clouds gather... 11/30/2005 Abortion and the Roberts court An abortion test begins today for the Roberts Supreme Court, one that will shed some light on whether the Roberts years are likely to be genuinely conservative ones... 11/30/2005 Cal Thomas: Who is lying about Iraq? 11/29/2005 The Coming $100 Laptop Tragedy Nicholas Negroponte has a very good idea that could go very, very wrong... 11/29/2005 When France Polls America... ...Americans become French! What's with the AP's poll partner, Ipsos? 11/29/2005 Bland Old Party Bipartisan move to the center... 11/29/2005 Second Time's a Charm? Mary Mapes comes back for more... 11/29/2005 Republican woes won't rescue Democrats from their confusion 11/29/2005 First things first on the border 11/29/2005 Political wining and dining bring ethical indigestion 11/29/2005 No whitewash in Iraq Defending democracy is the only choice... 11/29/2005 Biden's risky business Full-court press on Alito nomination... 11/29/2005 George Will: Small cuts, big ideas 11/28/2005 Bill O'Reilly: San Francisco blues 11/28/2005 No Peace Without Syria Once again Lebanon's hot southern border is a frontline in the Arab-Israeli conflict... 11/28/2005 New York's Stockholm Syndrome A Manhattan traffic-congestion tax would be bad for business... 11/28/2005 The Big Paradox A swirl of self-contradiction in New Orleans... 11/28/2005 Is Tookie's Time Up? Governor Schwarzenegger weighs clemency for the killer of four... 11/28/2005 In the Black Despite everything, Black Friday was a roaring success this year... 11/28/2005 Europe's telltale year 11/28/2005 Set a deadline that lets Iraqis prove what they want 11/28/2005 The naked campus truth Who can shock when nothing is shocking? 11/28/2005 Gitmo detainees and the courts Graham amendment undermines civil liberties... 11/28/2005 Cal Thomas: Narnia: Up from the church basement 11/23/2005 What(American)Wine Shall We Have for Thanksgiving? Food and wine matching isn't just about flavor. One must also have a sense of occasion... 11/23/2005 Life in the Balkans is Not a Comic Book The fate of the world rests in God's hands. But in the short term, the destiny of Kosovo and of all Albanians rests... 11/23/2005 Asian Values George W. Bush hit a rhetorical home run last week in Japan... 11/23/2005 Evidence of progress and freedom 11/23/2005 Legalizing the Muslim Brotherhood 11/23/2005 3 years too late, U.S. finally gives Padilla day in court 11/23/2005 Gobble, gobble We knew that being a little overweight is no huge deal. But this year, a team of scientists quantified it -- proving that tomorrow, everyone should relax a little and be true to the spirit of Thanksgiving... 11/23/2005 History lessons A quote about Saddam Hussein from Sen. John Kerry, Nov. 9, 1997... 11/23/2005 Cal Thomas: Sounding the trumpet of retreat 11/22/2005 You Want to Keep This Revolution? Be Ready to Fight For It. You want to keep this media revolution going? Glenn Reynolds on threats at home and abroad... 11/22/2005 The Democrats' Vietnamization Strategy If Iraq becomes Vietnam, the Democrats' alternative becomes palatable... 11/22/2005 Bad for Business Barriers to growth are often self-constructed... 11/22/2005 Communications Station The president gets back to a winning strategy... 11/22/2005 Open Books Ben Bernanke aims for consistency, coherence and clarity... 11/22/2005 The Iraq war and Lincoln's Thanksgiving 11/22/2005 Plan a moderate Iraq exit strategy 11/22/2005 Mini-ambassadors Sending more U.S. students overseas an important goal... 11/22/2005 Drug plan for seniors causes headaches; also brings relief 11/22/2005 Alito on abortion Careful observers of Judge Alito's judicial career say that it is not at all clear what he would do to Roe v. Wade... 11/22/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Congress and the Iraq war 11/21/2005 George Will: Rudeness rewarded 11/21/2005 Obesity Threat No Child Left Behind for the Ivy League... 11/21/2005 Real Revelations North Koreans apologists should apologize... 11/21/2005 The Naysayer Why is Daniel Benjamin so certain that Saddam Hussein had "no interest" in working with al Qaeda? 11/21/2005 Germany's new start (not) 11/21/2005 A Thanksgiving proclamation 11/21/2005 Goblet of teen angst Hopefully Harry Potter can make teenagers more human... 11/21/2005 The 'Bush lied' lie Starting today, we introduce "History lessons" at the bottom of this page. This is to make plain how the president's critics are trying to rewrite the history of the lead-up to the Iraq war... 11/21/2005 There may be a fruitfly in Darwin's ointment How religious belief contributes to 'natural selection'... 11/21/2005 The Killer That Matters Most A new study by a University of Wisconsin - Madison research group has concluded that global warming is causing the deaths of about 150,000 people each year... 11/18/2005 'Data Never Tell a Story; They Must Be Interpreted' A new study from the Commonwealth Fund buttresses the case for freer markets in medicine... 11/18/2005 The Relevance of Romance Genre fiction and its implications for today... 11/18/2005 Grand Old Ground Game Republicans' "block and tackle" politics... 11/18/2005 War & Reconstruction For Bush's critics, even hindsight is cloudy... 11/18/2005 Secretary Rice's night of negotiation 11/18/2005 The next CIA leak case 11/18/2005 China's growing influence tests U.S. staying power 11/18/2005 Money and the Senate races With President Bush's popularity having taken a major hit in recent months, his ability to help fellow Republicans running for the Senate next year has diminished... 11/18/2005 A free Internet The great beauty of the Internet is that no single entity -- much less a government -- controls it... 11/18/2005 Cal Thomas: Recovering from falling numbers 11/17/2005 George Will: Grand Old Spenders 11/17/2005 The Flu the Next Time Why quick fixes proposed by Sen. Schumer and anti-industry zealots are a hazard. 11/17/2005 Good News out of New Orleans We may some day look to post-Katrina New Orleans as the model for improving failing urban school districts... 11/17/2005 Reid This Protecting speech online... 11/17/2005 To protect New Orleans, go Dutch 11/17/2005 Save Pakistan from 'donor fatigue' 11/17/2005 Baseball finally connects with tough steroids policy 11/17/2005 France still on fire Civil unrest continues in France even though media coverage in the United States suggests the riots are finished, the violence subsided and peace restored... 11/17/2005 A tangled web of lies Somebody's lying, but it's not George W. Bush... 11/17/2005 How Big Can Small Get? Glenn Reynolds explains how the changes technology is bringing to business may reach even farther than expected... 11/16/2005 Making Sense of Drug Safety Henry Miller on two FDA innovations - DailyMed and Drug Watch—one good and one bad... 11/16/2005 Un-Jolly Rogers Piracy 'has never been reduced through any process of negotiation...' 11/16/2005 The Future for The Unheavenly City Of the riots here, there is both less and more than meets the eye. Jim Glassman reports from Paris... 11/16/2005 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory The Senate reverses itself and opens the courts to al Qaeda... 11/16/2005 Selective Memories The Dems remember what they want to about the road to war in Iraq... 11/16/2005 Foreign Correspondent Why was Sen. Jay Rockefeller talking to Bashar Assad about the president's "plans" for Iraq? 11/16/2005 In leading the US to war, did Bush purposely lie to the public? 11/16/2005 An incontinent Congress Republicans and Democrats go wobbly... 11/16/2005 Protect the 'Net 11/16/2005 Cal Thomas: Bush and Rove find offense matters 11/15/2005 A Grain of Salt Dietary advice should to be tailored to individuals, not populations... 11/15/2005 Truth and Doodie Gunga Dan, Mary Mapes and the hinge moments in the evolution of the media. Jim Pinkerton takes a look... 11/15/2005 Monty Wants You The British citizenship test misses some essentials... 11/15/2005 Say "No" to the McCain Amendment Long on high-profile piety, short on protecting Americans... 11/15/2005 The Bubble Bursts Only it's not the bubble you think... 11/15/2005 Revisionist History The Amman bombings are a reminder that Iraqis have been involved with terrorism for a long time... 11/15/2005 Yard by yard in Iraq 11/15/2005 Are White House ethics briefings a waste? 11/15/2005 House spending concerns 11/15/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Forecast for the GOP: Dark 11/14/2005 George Will: Senator on the Left 11/14/2005 America's First War on Islamic Terror 11/14/2005 Did Bush Lie? Ask Google 11/14/2005 Zarqawi's Big Mistake The Jordan attacks may hurt... 11/14/2005 George W. Bush, Comeback Kid? Some suggestions for how to do it... 11/14/2005 Stampede Is the GOP in disarray or has the party finally gotten its momentum back? 11/14/2005 Free those digital documents 11/14/2005 Misplaced outrage 11/14/2005 Questions for Judge Alito 11/14/2005 I Am Privileged to Know Them Ralph Bennett on another Veterans Day... 11/11/2005 That Other Cultural War Grinds On An idea only the government of Iran (and France) could love... 11/11/2005 Is There a Doctrine in the Haass? 11/11/2005 Moving On Rhetoric at war with reality... 11/11/2005 I Never Knew His Name The true face of Muslim martyrdom... 11/11/2005 Whistling Dixie How actors, journalists, musicians, ministers, politicians, professors, and ordinary Joes pass themselves off as America's heroes... 11/11/2005 Anthrax whodunit: Is it a cold case file? 11/11/2005 Smart move in Dover There's nothing intelligent about dumbing down biology... 11/11/2005 The natural-gas solution Congress overlooks energy alternatives... 11/11/2005 George Will: Reddest state's rebellion against Bush 11/10/2005 Is Intelligent Design a Bad Scientific Theory or a Non-Scientific Theory? 11/10/2005 Setting America Free or Shackling Us with Mandates? Setting the stage for the biggest automotive disaster since the Edsel... 11/10/2005 Being Pragmatic Beware sweeping generalizations... 11/10/2005 Why Jordan? The terrorists "win" one... 11/10/2005 The Cicero Article A German magazine offers insight into Iran's ongoing support for terrorism... 11/10/2005 Europe needs its immigrants 11/10/2005 Senate grills Big Oil, but answers lie elsewhere Answers to high gas prices may lie elsewhere... 11/10/2005 Virginia's elections No amount of spin can change the fact that Tuesday was a bad day for Virginians who believe in lower taxes and limited government... 11/10/2005 The French riots To ignore the Islamist threat in France, as the U.S. media has done for 14 days, betrays a politically correct ideology that is willfully ignorant of the facts... 11/10/2005 Cal Thomas: France will be America's future, if we don't stop denying Muslim invasion is deliberate and purposeful 11/09/2005 Pro-Growth Progressives and 2008 11/09/2005 Burn, Social Model, Burn 11/09/2005 Senatorial Prospects Looking ahead to a year from now... 11/09/2005 To My Democratic Friends: What are you for? 11/09/2005 Sound and Fury Yesterday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey signify almost nothing... 11/09/2005 A European melting pot? 11/09/2005 FBI may be checking on you, but you have no way to know 11/09/2005 An empty amendment 11/09/2005 Cal Thomas: Man of Steele 11/08/2005 A Socialist Hemisphere? The U.S., with little or no consideration, has been making enemies of its traditional friends in Latin America... 11/08/2005 Some Rare Good News on the Obesity Front John Luik reports on some interesting findings at a recent obesity conference... 11/08/2005 The End of the Great Century? After a long, painful war... 11/08/2005 Growth Beats Simplicity A fix for the Mack-Breaux tax-reform proposal... 11/08/2005 Tea ceremonies and religious freedom 11/08/2005 Smart products can save the planet 11/08/2005 Three Years of the Condor Who's side is the CIA on, anyway? 11/08/2005 Channeling history in Iran New president channeling history... 11/08/2005 Japan's vibrant democracy Moving away from a two-party system? 11/08/2005 George Will: Corzine & corruption 11/07/2005 Cal Thomas: Oh no, Alito 11/07/2005 The Green of Green Government Understanding the mythology of "green" rent seekers... 11/07/2005 Academic Minor: Why Are Blacks Underrepresented in Academia? Relative to other areas, blacks have made negligible inroads within the academic world. Why? 11/07/2005 Union Dues, Union Don'ts A cop looks at California's Proposition 75... 11/07/2005 Should Bush Fire Rove? Not if he cares about winning... 11/07/2005 Erasing the gray areas of prisoner abuse 11/07/2005 Move the media elite outside its bubble 11/07/2005 A free pass for Tim Kaine? 11/07/2005 Our liberties under siege 11/07/2005 Job Summit of the Americas What Latina Americans need to do is look in the mirror... 11/04/2005 Liberia: From Barbarity to Hope "People who do not win are not losers. They should be partners." Liberia's lessons for the world... 11/04/2005 How Much Ice in the Global Cocktail? One of the great fears generated by global warming is that the ocean is about to rise and swallow our coasts. Will it? 11/04/2005 The Real Global Virus The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading... 11/04/2005 Intelligence Failure Dems, now... 11/04/2005 Has Feminism Failed? Maureen Dowd thinks so. She's wrong... 11/04/2005 Banking on the unluck of the Irish 11/04/2005 A year of setbacks costs Bush his political capital A year of setbacks costs Bush his political capital... 11/04/2005 Offline chatter The free-speech regulators won a victory Wednesday when the House failed to pass the Online Freedom of Speech Act by the required two-thirds majority... 11/04/2005 Sticks, stones and Steele We thought the gutter bigotry that first played itself out in the gubernatorial race had lost its glamour in Maryland. Alas, it has not. Maryland Democrats have embarrassed themselves again... 11/04/2005 Cal Thomas: Bring it on with Alito 11/03/2005 What's at Stake When Bush Meets with Lula Events that are far more important than the nonsense swirling around "Scooter" Libby... 11/03/2005 Sovereignty Redefined Understanding transnationalism and its alternatives... 11/03/2005 Hollywood on the Tigris Saddam can't strangle (or worse) filmmakers anymore... 11/03/2005 Content Camilla That silence is possession of something her successor never had... 11/03/2005 Hey Big Spenders Everybody wants to spend money on Katrina relief; nobody wants to follow the law... 11/03/2005 The Afghan Parliament Democracy isn't as easy as holding an election... 11/03/2005 Why bipartisan foreign policy is a myth 11/03/2005 Impartial justice? Priceless Judges and campaign money are a toxic mix... 11/03/2005 15 minutes of senatorial shame Seizing control of the Senate on Tuesday was the Democrats' attempt to seize control of the news cycle from President Bush... 11/03/2005 An Ugly Little Reality Will the Rube Goldberg bombing scheme scare the coalition? The Palestine Hotel bombing in context... 11/02/2005 The Depression of the Elites Members and hangers-on of yesterday's power structures are mulling their reduced prospects, but ordinary people seem to be doing pretty well... 11/02/2005 Here We Go Again A little over a generation ago we tried some of the same energy tricks being proposed today... 11/02/2005 Martyr Mapes The CBS producer did nothing wrong. Believe her story, not your lying eyes... 11/02/2005 These Are the Modern-Day Trailblazers Iraqi women, fighting for their future, in a new country, where they can... 11/02/2005 Joe Wilson's 60 Minutes Another media outlet falls to the Plame storyline without so much as a whimper... 11/02/2005 Tough days ahead for Bush, but how will history rate him? 11/02/2005 Entice 'boomer workers' to stay on the job 11/02/2005 What will happen if the flu comes to a bird near you? 11/02/2005 Principled conservatism Lessons of the Miers nomination... 11/02/2005 Cal Thomas: Dump the special prosecutor 11/01/2005 George Will: Let the Great Debate begin 11/01/2005 The Eyes Have It: Florida's Hurricane Lessons Patrick Cox reports from South Florida on Wilma's aftermath and its troubling consequences... 11/01/2005 Blair Gets Real on Climate Change Technology is the answer... 11/01/2005 Union of the Snake Voting for the right to choose... 11/01/2005 The Boon of Big Oil Profits Lawmakers must understand that cheaper fuel is on the horizon... 11/01/2005 The Left's Cruelest Month October was supposed to be the month that marked the meltdown of the Bush administration... 11/01/2005 A parent's pride tangles with objections to the Iraq war 11/01/2005 To speak out is no crime 11/01/2005 A vulnerable natural-gas supply Washington cannot ignore the problem... 11/01/2005 |
Bill O'Reilly: Harriet, we hardly knew you 10/31/2005 After Mehlis 10/31/2005 Supreme Court TV? 10/31/2005 The history lesson from Rosa Parks 10/31/2005 Cal Thomas: Miers' withdrawal and Bush's opportunity 10/28/2005 The Bourgeois Party And Its Base s your house worth too much? Why else are they laboring so hard to reduce housing values? 10/28/2005 Crossing the Rubicon The die is cast — or why it ought to be... 10/28/2005 The Secret Files of the Anti-Hypocrite Squad A mirror to the Left... 10/28/2005 Losers' Poker Cards? Football? Fantasy? Americans will bet on anything these days... 10/28/2005 For postquake Pakistanis, a greater need 10/28/2005 When loyalty usurps moral judgment 10/28/2005 Lessons from Miers' collapse shadow the next nominee 10/28/2005 Mixed-up history Rice gets it wrong... 10/28/2005 Cal Thomas: The Harriet Miers doctrine of self-determination 10/27/2005 George Will: Master of Minimalism 10/27/2005 Who Pays for Health Insurance? Both the Left and the Right are abusing the health care issue... 10/27/2005 One Flu from the Cuckoo's Nest A Trotskyite take on the coming health crisis... 10/27/2005 Friendly Advice A necessary letter to Harriet Miers... 10/27/2005 Legislating Religious Correctness Religious vilification laws converge with the Islamist vision of a blasphemy-free society... 10/27/2005 Impose 'smart' sanctions on Syria 10/27/2005 2,000 dead in Iraq a time for grief and realism 10/27/2005 Sunnis join hands for elections Sunni leaders are shaking off their failure to defeat the new constitution in a nationwide referendum and are gearing up to win political influence in the Dec. 15 National Assembly elections... 10/27/2005 Keep the faith, and they will come When municipal, state and federal governments faltered in their early response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of churches and synagogues stepped up to help... 10/27/2005 The Video Future Approacheth Technology is passing Congress by... 10/26/2005 Decade Development Goals Here are eight worthy - and achievable - goals to make the world a better place... 10/26/2005 The Liberation of Art Technology has liberated artists to pursue musical ambitions that only highly subsidized orchestras could afford... 10/26/2005 Maintaining the Divide Posse Comitatus should stay as is... 10/26/2005 Naming Names Holding back does no one any favors... 10/26/2005 Unconventional Marines These guys will be special... 10/26/2005 The Democratic Frontrunner If history is any guide, Hillary Clinton could be headed for a fall in 2008... 10/26/2005 Warning Signs Frank Luntz says Republicans could be in danger in 2006... 10/26/2005 Our sports-watching affliction 10/26/2005 Kilgore, Kaine and illegals Perhaps no issue better illustrates the difference between Republican Jerry Kilgore and Democrat Tim Kaine than their approaches to the illegal-immigration question... 10/26/2005 Spelunking in the Solar System Going below ground, and getting beyond Earth... 10/25/2005 2006: A Race Odyssey The parallels between 1994 and 2006 keep piling up... 10/25/2005 The Education of Gesture For some time now, and increasingly, our schooling, our politics, and our cultural life have played to the adolescent in us... 10/25/2005 Finally, A Decision on the Barrett Report After years of fighting, a court orders its release... 10/25/2005 Spare Us The press and the leak case... 10/25/2005 Due Date Greenspan's era comes to an end and the inflation question begins to be answered... 10/25/2005 Weeding out bad teachers 10/25/2005 In Washington's scandal shuffle, perjury really isn't the point 10/25/2005 New chairman faces gathering fiscal storm Change at the Fed... 10/25/2005 Chernobyl exposed Fear, not radiation, greatest threat... 10/25/2005 The Fed announcement President Bush made an outstanding choice by naming chief White House economist Ben Bernanke to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board... 10/25/2005 George Will: Supreme cynicism 10/24/2005 Bill O'Reilly: De-pressed 10/24/2005 The Most Influential Person You Never Heard Of Arthur Seldon, RIP... 10/24/2005 Raise a Glass to Adult Stem Cells Adult stem cells are now rebuilding livers... 10/24/2005 A Cover-up Without a Crime? The origin of the argument over the CIA leak case... 10/24/2005 Phoney Baloney Miller and Cooper talk the talk, while walking over source confidentiality... 10/24/2005 End Run A Korean company tries to short circuit bans on cloning and stem-cells... 10/24/2005 Traveling home to a new Syria 10/24/2005 Bridge to irresponsibility Congress needs to get serious about spending... 10/24/2005 Earthquake diplomacy in South Asia The earthquake that shook the Himalayas in South Asia may also prompt a shift in Pakistani-Indian relations... 10/24/2005 George Will: GM rolling out of its welfare state 10/21/2005 The Sports Fan's Guide to Foreign Policy Doug Kern explains that we will succeed in Iraq only if the neocons and paleocons are both right... 10/21/2005 Are Americans Becoming Europeans? I worry that we are beginning to see the initial signs of just such a turn for the worse... 10/21/2005 An Item for the Next Iraqi Ballot: Oil Trust In practice, if not in theory, wealth and democracy reinforce one another... 10/21/2005 Is He One of Us? Wondering about Bush... 10/21/2005 Too Stealth The Miers nomination might be the most catastrophic political miscalculation of the Bush presidency... 10/21/2005 Rule America? Liberal elites ruined Britain as a hyperpower. Could America meet the same fate? 10/21/2005 Extreme makeover for a nuclear factory 10/21/2005 Hope, trepidation follow Iraqi balloting What people are saying about the vote... 10/21/2005 Hands off the Internet The international bureaucrats and influence-seekers who want to hand the Internet over to the United Nations just got a major boost from the European Union... 10/21/2005 Cal Thomas: GOP Congress seeing the light? 10/20/2005 The price of optimism 10/20/2005 The Boys and the Brand Al Qaeda has a serious marketing problem: how can it protect itself from rivals who want to cash in on the brand? 10/20/2005 How to Lose Friends and Influence Nobody Fortress America will not necessarily be a safer place. Ziba Norman on the Visa Waiver Program... 10/20/2005 Girly Gobbledygook Most women who lead don't need Oprah cover stories... 10/20/2005 Heads in the Sand Americans need to wake up and smell the crisis in Iran. Iranians need us to... 10/20/2005 Society of Doom? Despite what you may have heard, there's nothing bad about the Federalist Society... 10/20/2005 Earthquakes to tsunamis: How do worldwide disasters compare? 10/20/2005 Seeing USA alters history Seeing USA alters history... 10/20/2005 Rice in Asia Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice obtained a commitment from Kyrgyzstan's new government to allow the United States to continue operating its military base there... 10/20/2005 Democracy as a weapon Steadfast in the war against terror... 10/20/2005 eBay Nation and the Golden Goose Congress could do a lot to help here, by exempting Internet businesses from intrusive state and local regulation... 10/19/2005 Securing the Porkland Any homeland security dollar misspent or wasted is a dollar that is not spent to protect our nation. Bacon, anyone? 10/19/2005 Inflation: The Fed vs. Energy Prices Are higher energy prices prompting inflation? Is the Fed? 10/19/2005 The Light and Dark Sides of the War on Terrorism What we're dealing with... 10/19/2005 Show Me the Risk! A drug's a gamble? But the decision in the hands of doctors and patients... 10/19/2005 Questions about a Questionnaire Harriet Miers's thoughts on Roe v. Wade may be clearer than people suspected... 10/19/2005 GM goes off cruise control 10/19/2005 Rebuild New Orleans with visitors in mind 10/19/2005 Trial offers Iraqis way to come to terms with their history Trial offers Iraqis way to come to terms with their history... 10/19/2005 Mugabe is the epicenter Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's despot, has given new meaning to the axiom absolute power corrupts absolutely... 10/19/2005 California dreaming Special election with no urgency... 10/19/2005 The Significance of Memeorandum Overcoming the danger of your own, private echo chamber that's impervious to new ideas... 10/18/2005 Old School Terrorism in Lebanon A recent car bomb campaign in Lebanon is European in flavor. Michael Totten reports from Beirut... 10/18/2005 Blowing in the Wind Greens and their pols have a deal for you -- higher prices for no energy... 10/18/2005 Is Laffey the Best Medicine? Meet the Pat Toomey of 2006... 10/18/2005 Dealing in Dynasties Cronyism, nepotism, and the current President Bush... 10/18/2005 Free Trade Free-Fall President Bush tries to open up markets without much help from Europe... 10/18/2005 "The Torture Question" Frontline looks at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay... 10/18/2005 The spoiling of war 10/18/2005 Iraq's constitution is useful mile marker — not finish line 10/18/2005 The response in South Asia The United States and the rest of the Western world has a pressing interest in helping nuclear-armed Pakistan and India... 10/18/2005 For a few dollars more In Washington, driving after a single glass of wine can land a person in jail to answer to driving under the influence... 10/18/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Express yourself 10/17/2005 Preparing for the Pandemic Public health experts and virologists are concerned about the potential of this strain of flu... 10/17/2005 Will the Real Global Economic Threat Please Stand Up? Economic weakness in Europe is the big risk, not strong growth in China... 10/17/2005 Go Ahead, Be Outraged! Terminating nuance when it comes to life and death... 10/17/2005 Vicky Gone Wild Your local mall: Parental guidance is suggested... 10/17/2005 The Empire Strikes Back Dartmouth's alumni association tries to keep the school's alumni in their place... 10/17/2005 Why the yuan won't dwarf the dollar 10/17/2005 The poorest lift the heaviest burdens 10/17/2005 Pain-fuel payoff Necessary pain to make future gains possible... 10/17/2005 United Nations uselessness Failing innocent people in Darfur... 10/17/2005 The lady no longer in waiting Angela Merkel knows what Germany must do... 10/17/2005 Fearing, the Worst Should we fear cloned dogs? 10/14/2005 Media Lied, People Died The grim fairy tales from New Orleans were harmless sensationalism. Because of them people suffered and apparently died... 10/14/2005 Conservative vs. Conservative: Inside the Battle Over Miers Groups that usually support the White House are fighting among themselves... 10/14/2005 Choice & Security What conservatives know about economic freedom... 10/14/2005 Quality, Not Quantity It's what Iraq's army needs most... 10/14/2005 Fast and Low It's how California unions like their politics... 10/14/2005 Promote Iraqi women's rights within an Islamic framework 10/14/2005 Teach, study, experiment Soldiers become teachers after the military... 10/14/2005 The emerging Iraqi army Recent successes, future expectations... 10/14/2005 A runaway panel 'Tax reform' body is anything but... 10/14/2005 George Will: UNESCO cultural protectionists' plan doesn't play well with U.S. ambassador 10/13/2005 'LordD have MerCIe Vpon Vs' From the Big Smoke to the Big Easy - the right way and wrong way to rebuild... 10/13/2005 New Japan Is Rising The contest for influence within Asia is likely to become even hotter... 10/13/2005 Frenchmen Fried? France discovers the Oil-for-Food scandal... 10/13/2005 October Surprise It's looking good in Iraq... 10/13/2005 The Bishops vs. America A report from the Church of England asks the United States to apologize for the Iraq War... 10/13/2005 In Iraq, a rush toward democracy could trigger civil war 10/13/2005 Flu fighters gaining little Flu fighters gaining little... 10/13/2005 Bashar Assad under seige Syrian Ba'athism starts to crumble... 10/13/2005 The GOP's image problem Don't deny the obvious... 10/13/2005 Cal Thomas: Faith, works and Harriet Miers 10/12/2005 The Singularity Approacheth? In a robot-driven car... 10/12/2005 Slippery Teflon Charges Won't Stick Like many product-safety scares these days, these charges are bogus... 10/12/2005 Profile This A turf war breaks out in New Jersey as the feds weigh in... 10/12/2005 A Prayer's Chance Religion in Iraq... 10/12/2005 The Sounds of Silence The White House isn't saying much about Harriet Miers... 10/1./2005 Energy independence requires a multifaceted approach 10/12/2005 The weight of life and death 10/12/2005 Monetary policy realities Four years into the economic expansion, the Fed acknowledges that it finds it necessary to continue pursuing a monetary policy that remains "accommodative." 10/12/2005 A formidable task in Iraq Will U.S. help ensure a good outcome? 10/12/2005 ElBaradei's prize With Nobel pick, judges show a sense of humor... 10/12/2005 Cal Thomas: What's next for President Bush? 10/11/2005 George Will: The Next American Quake 10/11/2005 Spain's Government-Sponsored Terrorism How taxpayer money flows to Spain's terror groups... 10/11/2005 The Right to Know-nothingism Law California's "right to know" law has become a farce... 10/11/2005 Hope in Hell Changing the way we deal with disasters... 10/11/2005 Rebuilding a Police Department A few suggestions for New Orleans... 10/11/2005 Chinese Checkers Chairman Greenspan tries to nudge the Chinese, muzzle trade protectionists, and admonish Bush--all in a stroke... 10/11/2005 Just pull the plug on the CBC already 10/11/2005 Bush's plan dies quietly, leaving lessons for next time Bush's plan dies quietly, leaving lessons for next time... 10/11/2005 Saving U.S. prerogatives Can the U.N. be reformed? 10/11/2005 Cyprus reaches out Why we support Turkey's EU bid... 10/11/2005 George Will: The GOP's Border Guard 10/10/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Who's looking out for the Christians? 10/10/2005 So Much For American Sovereignty Do we want the future of U.S. medical technology determined by Ottawa or Brasilia? 10/10/2005 Pork Gumbo A look at what Louisiana lawmakers are seeking with that $250 billion laundry list... 10/10/2005 Holding Our Fire--And Our Breath Why Harriet Miers merits support from conservatives... 10/10/2005 Surveying in the land of 'What If?' 10/10/2005 Lax enforcement threatens nursing home residents 10/10/2005 Cindy Sheehan's cynical propaganda And Gitmo practices aid jihadists... 10/10/2005 Honor is earned, so honor is given Caring for America's heroes inside a VA hospice unit... 10/10/2005 European disUnion If the European Union is truly intent on challenging America's "unipolar" global power, it has a long way to go... 10/10/2005 So Much For American Sovereignty Do we want the future of U.S. medical technology determined by Ottawa or Brasilia? 10/07/2005 Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win Doug Kern says the future belongs to ID, and that there's nothing irreducibly complex about that... 10/07/2005 Descent of Man in Dover Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District is ultimately about science and ignorance... 10/07/2005 The Quiet Consensus on Iraq The more they argue, the more they sound the same... 10/07/2005 The Miseducation of Harry Belafonte Day light come and I want to set the record straight... 10/07/2005 Monorail! Seattle's great mass transit project becomes a "Simpsons" punchline... 10/07/2005 The coming GI drawdown in Iraq 10/07/2005 The challenge in Iraq: Departure without defeat Departure without defeat... 10/07/2005 Medical adventurers Recognition for some trailblazing doctors... 10/07/2005 Trafalgar squared Sure sign of Europe's identity crisis... 10/07/2005 Cal Thomas: The Duke of Earle 10/06/2005 Toppling the Arts-Intellectual Complex Working together, the elites of the media and the culture have mostly controlled "Big Art" -- the complex of museums, monuments, and galleries that help to shape the way we think about society, history, even politics... 10/06/2005 "Mere Water," Potential Life, or Both? Reflections on embryonic stem-cell research: the second article in a series... 10/06/2005 Laura Ingraham for SCOTUS! She's got more going for her than Harriet Miers... 10/06/2005 Ronnie Earle Should Not Be a Prosecutor The abuses of power in the Tom DeLay case should offend Democrats and Republicans alike... 10/06/2005 Elian's Elan "60 Minutes" tells us everything we already knew about Cuba's 11-year-old idol... 10/06/2005 Exchanging vows with Turkey 10/06/2005 Fit to be tied There's no ideal way to break an even score... 10/06/2005 In California, a fight to the finish Schwarzenegger must out-muscle the state's unions... 10/06/2005 U.S. companies and Islamic law American businesses need secular governance... 10/06/2005 Some 21st Century Ideas on Energy and Employment These are tools, and policies, that we didn't have in the 1970s, and they're likely to do considerable good today... 10/05/2005 Derivative Thinking Why are we so afraid of financial derivatives? 10/05/2005 Sic Transit Maria Landrieu Mass transit would not have helped Katrina's victims; only increased automobility would have... 10/05/2005 SCOTUS Rumble Discontentment is on both sides this time... 10/05/2005 The Global-Warming God Must it now be appeased? 10/05/2005 General Panic Meet Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Iran's anti-American Qods Force... 10/05/2005 Allied troops should stand firm in Iraq as democracy takes root You've got to hand it to Tony Blair, the British prime minister. He's got guts... 10/05/2005 Energy hogwash Policymakers have little credibility in urging conservation... 10/05/2005 High court politics Coping with conservative disappointment... 10/05/2005 Southeast Asia on Alert After Bali Blasts 10/04/2005 Clear Channel renews bid to ease ownership limits 10/04/2005 Grand Jury Re-Indicts DeLay on New Charge 10/04/2005 E.U. Opens Historic Talks On Membership for Turkey 10/04/2005 US troops launch big assault on al Qaeda in Iraq 10/04/2005 Japan to Cut 10 Percent of Government Jobs 10/04/2005 Crude Oil Prices Drop Below $65 a Barrel 10/04/2005 Media, media everywhere, and no time left to think? Average American consumes up to 9 hours of media a day!... 10/04/2005 |