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2/2005 - 5/2005


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George Will: Senate slapstick
Democrats have agreed to stop filibustering the confirmation of three judges they have hitherto identified as extraordinarily dangerous to fundamental American liberties...
05/31/2005


Another bad baseball deal
05/31/2005


Teaching students to be 'competent jurors' on evolution
05/31/2005


On 'Legislating Morality': The Anti-Conservative Fallacy
Something liberals, libertarians and conservatives can all agree on...
05/31/2005


Girl, uninterrupted
Danica Patrick shattered several records Sunday at the storied Indianapolis 500. Even more lasting will be the point she made...
05/31/2005


Nuclear Holes to Be Filled
The loopholes are serious and many...
05/31/2005


Terrorism's executioner
For Israel, use of force is justified...
05/31/2005


Out to Lunch
The obvious solution to the school-lunch "crisis": Family choice...
05/31/2005


What really happened on the Hill?
President gets exactly what he wanted for his nominees...
05/31/2005


The Living Poem to Capitalism
Understanding Wegmans world...
05/31/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Drawing the line on the border
One of the problems with demanding that the feds enforce immigration law is that you will immediately be branded a mean guy or gal...
05/31/2005


Defending the Constitution
Democrats undermine checks and balances...
05/27/2005


Memorial Flags
There are so many flags out there among those stones. So many...
05/27/2005


The Commanders
America's military leaders are make great sacrifices for their troops...
05/27/2005


Be Bold, Berlin
05/27/2005


Better judge than juror
When jury duty calls in L.A...
05/27/2005


Outsourcing Teaching
How to reform the American industry most in need of improvement...
05/27/2005


Frist: Hold to principle
The nuclear option -- or the constitutional option, as Mr. Frist prefers to call it -- is as viable today as it ever was...
05/27/2005


America's fate in hands of illegal aliens?
New WND book shows immgration issue could determine future of U.S...
05/27/2005


A lazy ratings system - one way to ruin a good movie
05/27/2005


Alternative-Fuel Nonsense
Forcing the U.S. to import less oil would only hurt Americans...
05/27/2005


Ending interagency feuds
Chertoff-Negroponte alliance key to security...
05/26/2005


Global waves from a Europe adrift?
05/26/2005


Cal Thomas: Minority Rule
05/26/2005


Don't farm out our heritage
05/26/2005


General Rent Seeker
A commitment to improved environmental stewardship is commendable but hardly dramatic...
05/26/2005


Survivors deserve day in court
Saudi Arabia failed to protect Americans...
05/26/2005


George Will: Just say 'non'?
05/26/2005


America's Goliath task of explaining itself
05/26/2005


'Idol' gives R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Idol's success relies on something much more solid: The respect it shows the audience...
05/26/2005


First the carrot, then the stick
First lady shows her mettle in the Middle East...
05/26/2005


A Senate Regency
God save U.S. from self-appointed saviors...
05/25/2005


Incredibly shrinking Tony Blair
Conservatives eye next election...
05/25/2005


The facts fall on hard times
Truth in politics becomes elusive and illusory...
05/25/2005


Pat Buchanan: Bringing the Arab Street to power
05/25/2005


Why Stop...
The scientific rule of thumb is to keep an open mind...
05/25/2005


Cal Thomas: Stem cell debate needs moral 'home base'
05/24/2005


Senate traditions evolving
05/24/2005


Latin Oil Romance
Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia are placing high hopes for prosperity on petroleum wealth...
05/24/2005


Environmental Progress, Despite the Greens
05/24/2005


Stem-cell research and today's vote
05/24/2005


George Will: A taste of things to come in High Court wine ruling?
In-state wine makers profit from the use of public power to disadvantage competitors...
05/24/2005


Don't fault the messenger
An embarrassed post-September 11 government bureaucracy would rather crush truth-tellers than admit its foibles...
05/24/2005


Central American Trade
05/24/2005


Race, Immigration and the Problem of Hard Labor
05/24/2005


Moderate Muslims blaze new path
Most groups fail to condemn Islamist fanatics...
05/24/2005


A filibuster isn't a filibuster until it hurts
05/24/2005


Blood in the water
Bill O'Reilly: What is it about President Bush that causes such anger in the press that it is salivating for a story that will hurt him?
05/23/2005


PA hate speech and Mideast peace
The continued failure of Mr. Abbas to act decisively against anti-Semitic incitement could have catastrophic consequences...
05/23/2005


Keith Thompson: Leaving the Left
Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom...
05/23/2005


Uzbekistan's Not-So-Great Game
Uzbekistan now stands at the leading edge of history...
05/23/2005


Shouting fire
Paul M. Rodriguez: For us in the press, our job is made simpler when we hold up the mirror without bias upon all of those we cover....
05/23/2005


Laura Bush Opens Another Door
05/23/2005


Where Now for the Tories?
The Conservatives should be relentless in pushing the argument...
05/23/2005


Maj. Franz J. Gayl: National paralysis
05/23/2005


Assimilating, L.A. Style
When Antonio Villaraigosa takes office in July as the new mayor of Los Angeles, he'll have much to live up to...
05/23/2005


Ralph Peters: Myths of globalization
05/23/2005


Cutting the Cord
Congress takes up a rich alternative to the usual stem-cell focus...
05/23/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Don't kid around in the classroom
05/20/2005


Buchanan's Moral Confusion
The intellectual unraveling of Pat Buchanan is a sad sight...
05/20/2005


The Mad Fatter
Does being fat make you demented?...
05/20/2005


Tax Cuts for the Poor
Maybe they're not a bad idea...
05/20/2005


A Feminist for Gender Apartheid
Muslim countries regularly violate women's rights...
05/20/2005


Gimme Shelter
The main question about a real estate bubble is, why should you care?...
05/20/2005


Can Islam flourish in America if it doesn't adapt to America?
05/20/2005


The Vulture Tax
Penalizing the American Dream...
05/20/2005


Another UN Slap at Taiwan
Not only can't Free China participate in a UN meeting, its reporters can't even cover it...
05/20/2005


Cal Thomas: Abbas is coming to Washington. Will Prez finally get tough with him?
05/19/2005


More ground forces
05/19/2005


Arnold Kling:Are Newt and Hillary on to Something? Sort Of...
05/19/2005


Blowing smoke
The anti-smoking lobby made considerable legislative headway in its efforts to bar patrons from lighting up in bars and restaurants...
05/19/2005


Invasion of the America Snatchers
Jonah Goldberg: Democrats are Europeans...
05/19/2005


No Republican compromise
05/19/2005


Time To Hold Wal-Mart Accountable
Wal-Mart found yet another group of people to offend...
05/19/2005


Africa Can't Be a World Apart
05/19/2005


Let's get a grip on congressional travel
05/19/2005


Confirm Justice Brown
05/18/2005


Alaska thanks you
Your gas tax dollars are funding a procession of lavish road and bridge projects thousands of miles away...
05/18/2005


Nick Schulz: Innovate
Bill Gates understands something the U.N. doesn't...
05/18/2005


The Uzbekistan conundrum
05/18/2005


Give Me Your Tired ... and Abused?
Should a victim of domestic violence in another country be granted asylum in the United States...
05/18/2005


Keith Olbermann: The resignation of Scott McClellan
05/18/2005


Who profited from $addam?
05/19/2005


James S. Robbins: Look Who's Talking
Everyone doesn't always need to know what captured terrorists are saying...
05/18/2005


Newsweek's double standard
05/18/2005


How filibusters drain quality
05/18/2005


Stephen Bainbridge: Free the Grapes?
A Supreme Court case settles everything and nothing...
05/18/2005


Cal Thomas: Hillary and Newt-Making music together
05/17/2005


Deadly Mistake
Newsweek's erroneous report and apology demonstrates journalistic cluelessness...
05/17/2005


Harry Reid, below the belt
05/17/2005


Thomas Sowell: The Senate's 'Dirty Harry'
05/17/2005


Quid Pro Life
The Left´s got a scam going. It won´t work...
05/17/2005


Byrd's the word
05/17/2005


Norway to Treat a Lady
The requirement to have 40 percent women on corporate boards will weaken corporate governance in Norway...
05/17/2005


Bush, Blair and the Plan for War
05/17/2005


If Wishes Were Horses, This Would Be the Kentucky Derby
Dozens of presentations outline grandiose, wholly unachievable goals for the improvement of public health around the world...
05/17/2005


Welfare Reform's Unfinished Business
Medicaid has to be reined in...
05/17/2005


Judicial battle just got nastier
05/17/2005


The layered panic in the streets
05/16/2005


Let's Be Candid About Cameras
05/16/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Don't kid around in the classroom
05/16/2005


Is Tehran toying with Europe?
05/16/2005


Time to secure our borders, Mr. President
05/16/2005


From the Liberty Bell to D.C.
05/16/2005


Oil for food and congressional oversight
05/16/2005


George Will: Pension time bomb
05/16/2005


Spinning the Fortas filibuster
05/13/2005


Pyongyang's Communist enabler
05/13/2005


Mideast politics in the Americas
05/13/2005


The caring 'Hammer'
DeLay Foundation supports foster children...
05/13/2005


The Minutemen's success
Politicians need to heed public's support...
05/13/2005


Playing the raza card
It's not racism to resent illegal immigrationss...
05/13/2005


George Will: Paul Wolfowitz: A realist — really
05/12/2005


Cal Thomas: The blog that ate real journalism
05/12/2005


Let the political wars begin
Party strategy will keep Democrats in the minority...
05/12/2005


Bogus discrimination claims
The NYT and black coaches in the NBA...
05/12/2005


Voices from a distant war
The lessons of man's inhumanity and injustice...
05/12/2005


Media's 'silent spring'
Good news on budget ignored...
05/12/2005


Putting Tehran on notice
U.S. should back democratic change in Iran...
05/11/2005


An awkward GOP spring
Republicans have regained their fighting spirit...
05/11/2005


Defending free trade
To keep peace in Central America..
05/11/2005


When politics bites back
Blair savaged by voters, Bush nicked by Congress...
05/11/2005


Democrats and the filibuster
05/11/2005


Muzzling illegal-alien foes
05/11/2005


Cal Thomas: Unsafe after all
The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged what many of us frequent fliers already suspected...
05/10/2005


Carrots and sticks for Russia
05/10/2005


A dog's life (and times)
05/10/2005


Re-examining slavery
It makes for a wonderfully refreshing read...
05/10/2005


Ground-war dominance
In World War II and Korea, American fighter pilots compiled impressive "kill ratios"...
05/10/2005


A shared struggle
British conservatives are best U.S. allies...
05/10/2005


George Will: Social Security As Welfare
05/09/2005


Bill O'Reilly: The politics of cowardice
05/09/2005


Are Blogs Busting Loose?
Now blogs aren't quite as new and people are now talking about making money...
05/09/2005


Taiwan's Fifth Column
A self-promoting politician plays into Beijing's bloody hands...
05/09/2005


How the West Can Win Iran
Is a nuclear, pro-western Iran better than a nuke-free, hostile one?...
05/09/2005


Recruitment Killer
Army semantics and sophistry over women in combat are dangerous...
05/09/2005


The War on Capitalism
Marxist or Markets? How the market economy is demonized in Germany...
05/09/2005


Lighten up on smokers
FDA regulation of tobacco is redundant...
05/06/2005


Nuclear diplomacy with Iran
05/06/2005


The danger of complacency
05/06/2005


A victory for common sense
The House passed the $82 billion bill...
05/06/2005


A dubious budget blueprint
The Republican Congress recently passed its 2006 budget resolution...
05/06/2005


Playing the irony card
Republican irony rarely befits conservative ends...
05/05/2005


Empowering Afghan women
05/05/2005


Bush must push Putin on Communism
05/05/2005


The Christian complex
05/05/2005


Needed: An Iran exit strategy
05/05/2005


Debating Darwinism
05/05/2005


Pat Buchanan: Bye-bye Bush Doctrine ... it's back to deterrence
05/04/2005


French malaise over treaty
05/04/2005


Disarming Hezbollah, freeing Lebanon
05/04/2005


Frist vs. the obstructionists
For decades now, members of both political parties in the Senate have used procedural tactics to prevent up-or-down votes...
05/04/2005


A 'ho-hum' campaign
Almost zero signs of political activity on the streets of London...
05/04/2005


Political power vs. popular will
Often when clashes occur between Republicans and Democrats, it sounds like an argument between two kids in class...
05/04/2005


The embattled Arab Bank
05/04/2005


Cal Thomas: Modified interrogation tactics: Good news for the enemy
05/03/2005


The death tax should die
05/03/2005


State of the Scare
American Lung Association's State of the Air report continues to exaggerate air pollution levels and health risks...
05/03/2005


Hamas vs. the United States
How easily could Middle Eastern terrorists strike America?...
05/03/2005


Reform, engage the U.N.
Behind the battle over John Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. sit two enormous issues...
05/03/2005


Global Warming: The Smoking Gun?
Is mankind the perpetrator, Mother Nature is an accomplice, or vice versa...
05/03/2005


On Borrowed Time
Terrorists use libraries. Law enforcement should be vigilant in the stacks...
05/03/2005


The Ideological War Over Intellectual Property
Intellectual property has been cast as the villain in a modern day struggle between darkness and light...
05/03/2005


Dr. GM
GM's pension fund needed an infusion from the largest corporate debt offering in history...
05/02/2005


Happy birthday, Mike Wallace
Word for word, the best American broadcaster in history has to be Mike Wallace...
05/02/2005


Poetry and politics
Congress is spending a lot of hot air on the question: To filibuster or not to filibuster...
05/02/2005


Devaluing lives
While the media focused on religious groups and pro-lifers...
05/02/2005


Save the children
Lavelle's killing has drawn all manner of faces out of the woodwork...
05/02/2005


With eyes wide shut to terror
An American television news organization can close its eyes and accept videotape procured by Al-Jazeera in concert with terrorists who kill and maim American soldiers...
05/02/2005


Political attention deficit disorder
Mental energy is currently being expended trying either to destroy or protect John Bolton and Tom DeLay...
04/29/2005


Why Democrats Should Vote for Bush
Party loyalty takes a back seat to the safety of your family and this nation...
04/29/2005


Terrorism on the Western Campus
When universities refuse to teach students the difference between what is true and what is false this constitutes an abdication of intellectual and moral responsibility which renders democracy utterly vulnerable to barbarism...
04/29/2005


The Church of Anti-Semitism
The United Church of Christ appears set to hop on the bandwagon of mainline Protestant initiatives to divest from Israel....
04/29/2005


The Strange Dishonest Campaign Against Academic Freedom
04/29/2005


Give Them a Real Filibuster!
The Republican leaders in the Senate do not have to make the false choice between endless toleration of Democratic filibusters that enfeeble their majority and the so-called "nuclear option"...
04/29/2005


Tactics vs. ideology
On Sunday night, Iraqi insurgents bombed the Al Riadhy ice cream parlor in Baghdad...
04/28/2005


Congressional fellow travelers
It is no excuse to say "everybody does it" if what everybody is doing is unlawful...
04/28/2005


Annan and the truth - sort of
When it comes to acknowledging some of the corruption and malfeasance that has characterized his tenure as U.N. secretary-general...
04/28/2005


A Marine and his accuser
If a preliminary hearing for 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano that began Tuesday at Camp Lejeune recommends a court-martial...
04/28/2005


Misreporting the Duelfer report, again
The mainstream media is playing another misbegotten round of "gotcha" with President Bush on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction...
04/28/2005


Supping at the children's table
Why Democrats suffer from a 'parents gap'...
04/28/2005


All aboard Amtrak reform
Senate panel met to consider President Bush's reform plan for the troubled company...
04/27/2005


To tell the truth
Filibusters against nearly a dozen nominees for the appellate courts...
04/27/2005


Appeasing Beijing
Relations between the United States and France have improved...
04/27/2005


Political attention deficit disorder
When the public fails to keep politicians in check...
04/27/2005


Best and worst of times
Is Bush heeding ominous world events?
04/27/2005


Embracing faith and tolerance
New pope wants to re-evangelize secular Europe...
04/27/2005


Isolation is an outdated strategy
Isolating Cuba, politically and economically...
04/26/2005


A failed 'Revolution'
The Republican Revolution ten years later...
04/26/2005


The new National Security Council
The Bush administration's decision to reorganize the National Security Council (NSC)...
04/26/2005


The Democrats' intimidation tactics
The conservative Christians are right to be upset over the way that Democratic pols and their allies...
04/26/2005


Spin cycles
There's a practical reason for having an independent press in a healthy democracy...
04/26/2005


Auto workers and Ivy Leaguers
The United Auto Workers would seem to be a strange place for aspiring literary theorists...
04/26/2005


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From Green Zone to Free Zone
Consider creating in Baghdad a miniature Dubai...
04/25/2005


Washington Finally Gets It on Radical Islam
D.C. understands to fight terror, you must promote moderate Islam...
04/25/2005


New hope in Lebanon
Lebanon has a new government – and, with it, renewed hope...
04/25/2005


Bon Appetit!
A grossly exaggerated and fabricated scare campaign unravels...
04/25/2005


The Not-So-Great Divorce
Multiculturalism and liberalism look toward splitting up...
04/25/2005


New Labour Looks Back
"Forward not back" is the Labour Party's election battle cry – so why is it looking to the party's past in search of identity?...
04/25/2005


Check This Out
Libraries should be a key target of the Patriot Act...
04/25/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Will new pope have an epiphany?
04/22/2005


Kofi's Other Blind Spot
The heroin trade funds terrorism, destabilizes regions and kills millions–and the UN has no plan to combat it...
04/22/2005


Blowing the Whistle on Jackpot Justice
Who the whistleblowers are supposed to be protecting...
04/22/2005


Being Green, Making Green
Income and environmental quality...
04/22/2005


The Scourge of Earth Day
How environmentalism wreaks havoc on the environment...
04/22/2005


The Independence Chimera
Reducing foreign oil dependence won't protect us...
04/22/2005


Winning the War
But don't forget the rules of this strange conflict!...
04/22/2005


Whoppers and the End of an Epidemic
It isn't just that they were fudging the numbers, it is the scope of the fudging that is so breathtaking...
04/22/2005


George Will: Have a nice day, or else
04/21/2005


Cal Thomas: Religious 'intolerance'cuts both ways
04/21/2005


Cutting their Support
Fighting terrorism effectively...
04/21/2005


Calming the Japan-China rift
Worsening tensions could make for a strategic rivalry reminiscent of early 20th century Europe...
04/21/2005


Bourgass Politics
The state of the British elections...
04/21/2005


Where is the balance sheet?
The government produces financial information so incomplete and inaccurate it would embarrass even an Enron accountant...
04/21/2005


Perplexing Protectionist Politicians
They just don't get it...
04/21/2005


Uncertainties
The relentlessly pessimistic mood on Wall Street has cast a dark shadow across the country, the political landscape and global markets as well...
04/21/2005


Energetic Ignorance
There's no public-policy topic more prone to intellectual abuse than energy...
04/20/2005


Immigration Rights, Immigration Privileges
Is the end of democracy at hand when we detain potential suicide bombers?...
04/20/2005


The China Mess
What are we thinking?...
04/20/2005


Your Money for Your Life
Why does the United States spend so much more than other countries on health care?...
04/20/2005


Pope Benedict XVI: Enemy of Jihad
The new head of the Roman Catholic Church is ready to defend the West from radical Islam...
04/20/2005


Top Down and Bottom Up
When it comes to wi-fi, can't we all just get along?...
04/20/2005


Worrisome economic wobbles
Last week's stock market meltdown is only the latest indication of the economy's fragile condition...
04/20/2005


The Revolution Continues
It's a different world than we've known....
04/20/2005


Cardinal Ratzinger has diagnosed relativism’s evils, and offers an alternative
04/19/2005


Cal Thomas: Washington's field of dreams
04/19/2005


Is That All There Is?
Generation X has arrived, made its presence felt, looked around, and is wondering, "Is that all there is?"...
04/19/2005


Purging religious influence
The free exercise of religion carries a price in Colorado — the risk of disqualification from jury service...
04/19/2005


California's Extreme Makeover
If California truly is the bellwether for the rest of the country, get ready for more government intrusiveness in your life.
04/19/2005


College admissions voodoo
The cold fact is that objective admissions standards are seldom decisive at most colleges...
04/19/2005


New Campaign-Finance-Reform Follies
527s? That's so over. Now, the big money is going somewhere else...
04/19/2005


Tempering Mideast expectations
On the Middle East's road to freedom and self-determination, there will be more slips and fewer catches...
04/19/2005


Divesting from Terror
Harvard students show the way...
04/19/2005


George Will: Beyond belief
04/18/2005


Bill O'Reilly: See Jane run
04/18/2005


Judge Not
The American people treat their court system a little bit like an IQ test...
04/18/2005


Dollars of Terror
How terrorists are buying us from within...
04/18/2005


That Occupation Feeling
U.S.-embassy behavior in Iraq makes for an awkward relationship with Iraqis...
04/18/2005


Health in the Balance
We're not going to have any such system which is perfect...
04/18/2005


Flat-out case
The biggest reason to support the flat tax is: It would be good for the economy....
04/15/2005


Dual option
04/15/2005


Can Iran be thwarted?
The world community has one more diplomatic opportunity, particularly after Iran's presidential elections in June, to move forward to prevent nuclear terrorism with devastating consequences for global security concerns....
04/15/2005


Risky WTO trade-offs
The health of the U.S. economy and the integrity of its democratic system must be protected from foreign intrigue and pressure...
04/14/2005


George Will: Eugenics by abortion: Is perfection an entitlement?
04/14/2005


Cal Thomas:Israel's big gamble
04/14/2005


A Drug-Free America?
Regulating ourselves into sickness...
04/14/2005


Withholding an Opportunity Society: Why We Need Personal Tax Savings Accounts
04/14/2005


Medicare v. Social Security: Who's on First?
Medicare may be failing faster, but both can be saved...
04/14/2005


The injustice of 'tax justice'
some groups claim to favor "tax justice" but really want to increase taxes on productive people and transfer resources to the state...
04/14/2005


Renew Patriot
04/14/2005


Beauty and the beasts
04/13/2005


Religioso, Ma Non Troppo
Are we in the midst of a religious revival that will change the face of America, and the world?...
04/13/2005


China's Trojan Seahorse
In supporting China's shipping industry, Taiwan may be digging its own grave...
04/13/2005


Idealism at the Water's Edge
Constructing a libertarian foreign policy...
04/13/2005


A Tremendously Costly Law
Sarbanes-Oxley, three years after its unfortunate passage...
04/13/2005


The Paper God
Our next greatest vulnerability is the need to appear to be in the know...
04/12/2005


Congressional Champions
A human-rights caucus within the Human Rights Caucus...
04/12/2005


Tsunami the next time
U.S. and Asian military planners need to do a better job preparing for the next tsunami...
04/12/2005


Do We Own Our Ailments?
04/12/2005


Medical R&D miracle
04/12/2005


Doing Intel Right
The right people can overcome structural flaws...
04/12/2005


The Dream Deferred?
How important is the pursuit of property?...
04/12/2005


Right Man, Right Vision
John Bolton will be a staunch advocate of American principles at the U.N...
04/12/2005


George Will: Tormenting Educrats
04/11/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Saying goodbye to the Pope
04/11/2005


Russia is Next
Why events in Kyrgyzstan show Russia is ripe for democratic reform...
04/11/2005


Saddam Burgers?
What's going on with socially responsible investing?...
04/11/2005


"The Jury of the Country"
The Supreme Court's lost legacy...
04/11/2005


The Forcible Removal of Israelis From Gaza
Has a democracy ever perpetrated a similar act?...
04/11/2005


Understanding the Wal-Mart Effect
A boon for Boone: making communities happier, better...
04/11/2005


Greatness Is By Nature Enigmatic
It is understandable that there would be serious confusion in properly evaluating a man such a Karol Wojtyla...
04/08/2005


Harvesting Illegals
A new emergency Senate "agriculture" bill would grant blanket amnesty to millions of foreign lawbreakers...
04/08/2005


Behind the Oil "Shock"
The dollar has a lot to do with a $54 barrel (but not a $105 barrel)...
04/08/2005


Rot at the top
Problems will not be solved by finding the U.N. a new secretary-general, but it would be a good start...
04/08/2005


'Be Careful What You Wish For'
Is Alan greenspan wrong?...
04/08/2005


Senior Security
Personal accounts would expand the labor force and boost economic growth...
04/08/2005


Politics of life and death
When someone in a vegetative state is kept alive by artificial means, it is a matter courts should leave to each family to decide...
04/08/2005


Cal Thomas: The weakest spot
04/07/2005


The Mythical Health Care Man-Month
The more entities that must co-ordinate in a business process, the less efficient will be that process...
04/07/2005


Intelligence Failures
Virtues and sins of commission...
04/07/2005


Is the World Using Up Its Resources?
04/07/2005


Seoul Searching
South Korea should refrain from whipping up anti-market hysteria...
04/07/2005


George Will: A City That Bets on Water
04/06/2005


Cal Thomas: Landmarks for the ages
04/06/2005


Going for Broke
Seeking martyrdom in an indifferent world...
04/06/2005


What Color for Minsk?
The EU needs to do more to help spread democracy to Belarus...
04/06/2005


The Jews' Pope
John Paul II's personal affection for the Jewish people overturned centuries of anti-Semitism...
04/06/2005


Airport security stupidity
The assumption every passenger and every bag have an equal likelihood of being a security threat. That's stupid...
04/06/2005


A Medical Catch-22
Europe's patients are ignorant about medicine and are being kept that way...
04/06/2005


Does Israel Have a Right to Exist?
The agenda behind the question...
04/06/2005


Dealing with Kim
With no signs of progress in solving the North Korea nuclear crisis, Rice urged the North to return to six-party talks...
04/06/2005


Trade Away Donaldson
One of President Bush's biggest mistakes...
04/06/2005


George Will: The Old Ballgame Still Has Its Grip
04/05/2005


Cal Thomas: Pope strengthened Church, weakened communism
04/05/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Death, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
04/05/2005


Living and Dying In These Modern Times
04/05/2005


Feel Unsafe, Feel Very Unsafe
TSA isn't screening the screeners...
04/05/2005


Keeping It Private
Private ownership is better than public ownership...
04/05/2005


Promises, Promises
The Social Security system is loaded with a confusing mishmash of IOUs...
04/05/2005


Amnesty by any other name
Hundreds of "Minuteman" volunteers are fanning out this week across the Arizona-Mexico border...
04/05/2005


Woman breastfeeds newborn tiger cubs
04/05/2005


The Coming War on Blogs
How MSM might successfully change regulations to hinder their blogger competitors...
03/25/2005


Baseball strikes out
major league baseball needs another Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the commissioner who cleaned things up after the Black Sox Scandal of 1919...
03/25/2005


Insuring Against the Inevitable
Is Social Security a form of insurance?...
03/25/2005


Savvy reform rationale
It is time to get Social Security out of politics and on an economically sound basis...
03/25/2005


A Terrible Presumption
We should take care not to make the intellect our god...
03/25/2005


George Will: Nevada's Big Test
03/24/2005


Cal Thomas: The Capital Spenders
03/24/2005


Minimum wage, maximum folly
It's voting-age adults to whom politicians are beholden...
03/24/2005


Drinking and Legislating
How we're making our highways and roads more dangerous than they were before...
03/24/2005


More Current-Account Confusion
Instead of wringing our hands, we should cheer the trade deficit...
03/24/2005


Keep In on the Down-Load
What MGM v. Grokster might mean for producers and pirates...
03/24/2005


Powder Keg
Horrifying salt!...
03/24/2005


Charles Krauthammer: Between Travesty and Tragedy
03/23/2005


A New Captain for the Titanic?
Budgetary problems may be the new NASA chief's best friend...
03/23/2005


Clear Foolishness
EPA's new regulations will induce more than 650 premature deaths during the next decade...
03/23/2005


Focusing on closer threats
Hugo Chavez, "leader" of Venezuela, is a clear and present danger to our national security within our own hemisphere...
03/23/2005


The Telecom Revolution Americans Deserve
Making our own choices, without the clumsy interventions of politicians, judges and bureaucrats...
03/23/2005


Cal Thomas: Schiavo case matters in symbol and substance
03/22/2005


Cold Warrior
George Kennan's reputation and his actual thinking...
03/22/2005


What Steroids and Schiavo Have in Common
03/22/2005


Can Hamas and Hezbollah be Democratic?
Why a pack of terrorists is unlikely to evolve into the Harvard Debate Club...
03/22/2005


Is Bush Trying to Destroy the UN and World Bank?
03/22/2005


Pushing Infanticide
From Holland to New Jersey...
03/22/2005


George Will: Why filibusters should be allowed
03/21/2005


Bill O'Reilly: To protect and serve
03/21/2005


The Myth of Massive Health Care Waste
03/21/2005


The Jews, the Serbs, and the Truth
03/21/2005


The Socialist International Paradox
Loving the Third World while keeping it down...
03/21/2005


Napolitano's Choice Veto
Arizona's governor should reconsider the record on school choice...
03/21/2005


Are We Ready for Robots?
As advances in robot design continue, we'll be confronted with the same conundrum we face in biotechnology...
03/21/2005


The Scientists Revolt (Because Their Bosses Are Revolting)
The new restrictions could ruin one of the world's premier medical research institutions...
03/18/2005


The Russia-Syria Connection
How Russia's arming of a Ba'athist tyranny undermines democracy in the Middle East...
03/18/2005


W-2s in Social Security limbo
Part of the annual 9 million hopelessly inaccurate W-2 reports are filed by companies hiring illegal aliens...
03/18/2005


Art in Space
Space is a great unknown and art has a role in revealing what we don't know...
03/18/2005


Combating the Islamist Threat
Why the West's ignorant politicians can be more dangerous than terrorists...
03/18/2005


Better Off Alone
Same-sex ed computes...
03/18/2005


Science stars over D.C.
An important element in the vigorous growth of the U.S. economy is the growth from scientific and technological innovation...
03/18/2005


Cal Thomas: Poor reflections in the media mirror
03/17/2005


The New Investor Class and Its Critics
Theory either misunderstand it or confuse its strengths for weaknesses...
03/17/2005


High on Hype
Congress "takes on" steroids...
03/17/2005


Reservist families' financial jeopardy
Supporting our servicemembers who've answered our nation's call to duty is a family value both parties can embrace...
03/17/2005


Emerging Markets are the Real Losers in Argentina's Triumph
03/17/2005


Death by Political Correctness
The consequences of ignoring the obvious...
03/17/2005


Freeze! I Just Had My Nails Done!
Feminist tragedy strikes Atlanta...
03/17/2005


Felonious Funk
Are we Felony Nation? Or have we become a Nation of Felons?...
03/16/2005


Credit Worthy There are "special interests" on both sides of the bankruptcy bill...
03/16/2005


Second Leg of the Ownership Society in Jeopardy?
Why do architects in Congress want to rebuild America's highly successful home-buying system?...
03/16/2005


Soft Power, Soft Despotism
Sino-American relations and human history...
03/16/2005


The Free Lunch May Be Over
One eye on the bond market...
03/16/2005


George Will: A Committee on Steroids
03/15/2005


Cal Thomas: The Evangelical Third Coming
03/15/2005


Nuclear Musical Chairs
Who will be the last standing?...
03/15/2005


How the World Health Organization Makes Terrorism Respectable
03/15/2005


Pakistan, Iran and the Bomb
03/15/2005


Tax-Cut Vote Likely
Markets assume a high probability that the 2008 expiration date will be extended...
03/15/2005


Save People, Not the System
Public health care on the verge of financial collapse...
03/15/2005


Trapped
The banks are losing customers and are at greater risk of being indicted for not following complicated and unclear regulations...
03/15/2005


George Will: Brutal negatives
03/14/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Adieu, Dan
03/14/2005


Doctoring the Market
03/14/2005


John Bolton: The Right Man, In The Right Place, At The Right Time
03/14/2005


Doctoring the Market
Competitive innovation prevents a market from getting captured by the incumbents...
03/14/2005


$55 Oil Won't Last
More production and less speculation will mean lower barrel prices ahead...
03/14/2005


Our Battery-Powered Economy
Why it makes sense to be optimistic about the American economy...
03/14/2005


Wetlands law mired in a bog
03/14/2005


George Will: Almost everything designated a 'civil rights' problem isn't
03/11/2005


Syria, Leaving with a Bang?
03/11/2005


Why We Are In Iraq
And why some Americans want us to lose the war...
03/11/2005


Social Security in Your Mailbox
What will the personal-account statement look like?...
03/11/2005


Roadblock rules
We need the facts about the death of Italian security agent Nicola Calipari, but we also need a fact-based perspective...
03/11/2005


On the Edge of Innovation
The pace of innovation does not have to be dependent on federal government dollars...
03/11/2005


Jihad on the American Mind
The Saudis spend fortunes teaching American university students to hate...
03/11/2005


Will George Bush's Legacy Be a Democratic Majority?
Will President Bush's small-d democratization efforts help build a majority for the large-D Democratic party?...
03/11/2005


A Look Back
Turning points since September 11...
03/11/2005


Cal Thomas: The advance of freedom
03/10/2005


The Science Behind Common Sense
Can things be true even if we can't prove them?...
03/10/2005


The Mind of Bashar Al-Assad
The Syrian dictator plays a dangerous game...
03/10/2005


Irrational Exuberance?
It's March and pessimists are already behind...
03/10/2005


The Asbestos Answer
Ensuring sick people get the money they deserve...
03/10/2005


My Social Security
Investment alternatives...
03/10/2005


High noon for judges
Are the people to elect their own representatives to decide issues or are unelected judges to take over an ever-increasing power to rule?...
03/10/2005


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Misdemeanor Nation vs. Felony Nation
In the world where the enfranchisement of felons seems like a good idea, no crime is ever really that bad...
03/09/2005


A Battle Over Likes, Not Numbers
The simple truth is that one side likes freedom and responsibility while the other likes collectivism and intervention...
03/09/2005


China, the US and the 'Four Nevers'
A US military delegation arrived in Taiwan Saturday...
03/09/2005


When and Why America Is At Its Best
What's at the heart of Yankee free enterprise?...
03/09/2005


The Last Days of the Mullahs
Tehran's tyrants nervously eye their approaching rendezvous with the ash heap of history...
03/09/2005


Putin's Totalitarian Path
Is there still hope for democracy in Russia?...
03/09/2005


Justice Kennedy's Mind
Where the Constitution resides...
03/09/2005


Cal Thomas: The Cucumber curriculum
03/08/2005


Bill O'Reilly: The terror tactics of the ACLU
03/08/2005


Set America free
It is neither in the United States' strategic, national security nor economic interests to continue relying on imported oil...
03/08/2005


In Our Name, Not In Our Image
Iraqi Arabs voted not for liberals but for Islamists...
03/08/2005


The Foreign Face of Iraqi Terrorism
Saudi Arabia's imperialist jihad in Baghdad...
03/08/2005


A New Approach for the Budget
Our government continues to use a bureaucratic system based on a 1930s economy, and a 1950s infrastructure...
03/08/2005


Reform Talk Needs Action
Moving along the road to peace?...
03/08/2005


Resuscitating FDA
We need reform of our system of drug development and its regulation...
03/08/2005


Al-Qaeda's Illegal Immigration Threat
Terrorists are aware of our open border; when will politicians catch on?...
03/07/2005


The New Age Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's decision barring execution of juvenile murderers as cruel and unusual punishment is not only fundamentally flawed but also deeply troubling...
03/07/2005


Washed Away By the Preference Cascade?
Implications for communication technology and American foreign policy...
03/07/2005


Privatize This
The USPS needs urgent and wide-ranging reform...
03/07/2005


Maple Leaf Ragged
Why it is a really dumb idea for Canada to pull out from Ballistic Missile Defense...
03/07/2005


Charles Krauthammer: The Road to Damascus
03/04/2005


The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened to Journalism
Blogs are forcing the journalistic priesthood out of the temple...
03/04/2005


Potemkin Nonproliferation
Helping Iran's nuclear-weapons efforts...
Good Collateral Damage
Not all collateral damage is necessarily bad...
03/04/2005


Thou Shalt Make No Sense
Commandments and confused jurisprudence...
03/04/2005


Exhausting the Options
Italy's approach to air pollution is all wrong...
03/04/2005


It Takes Two
Political and economic freedom go hand in hand...
03/04/2005


Shut the Window, It's Getting Drafty A proposed solution to military readiness problems has some serious military drawbacks...
03/03/2005


The Saudi Buck Stops Here
Exposing the financers of terror turns into a legal battle to protect our First Amendment rights...
03/03/2005


The Myth of Absolute Safety
The FDA shouldn't be excessively cautious in its drug-approval process...
03/03/2005


Is Poverty Unnatural?
A prime example of idiotarian thought...
03/03/2005


Anticipating Surprises
The greatest national-security challenge...
03/03/2005


Cal Thomas: The Supreme Judge and the Supreme Court
03/02/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Busting Buster
03/02/2005


An Important Emerging Economic Paradigm
It is possible that economists of the past few generations may have committed one of the greatest blunders in intellectual history...
03/02/2005


The New Fidel
Is Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez joining the Axis of Evil?...
03/02/2005


The Beauty of the Flat Tax
It's fair and it works...
03/02/2005


Be wary of the EU constitution
03/02/2005


Just What the Doctor Ordered?
If hospitals ran more along market lines, there would be a lot more emphasis on making patients and visitors happy...
03/02/2005


First Lebanon, Now Syria
Syrian dissidents, encouraged by spreading Mideastern democracy, demand their rights...
03/02/2005


Women of the World
Thank the U.S...
03/02/2005


Can the Supreme Court curb blight?
The Supreme Court has opened the door to ever-more-creative definitions of blight...
03/02/2005


Cal Thomas: The march of freedom
03/01/2005


We Need More Speech Codes
Perhaps a liberal society requires illiberal education...
03/01/2005


Dual citizenship folly
Dual citizenship does not imminently threaten the fabric of the United States...
03/01/2005


The Indirect Approach
Syria's cunning plan in Lebanon.
03/01/2005


Europe's Economy in the Eye of a Storm
One has to pity the European economy...
03/01/2005


Against the Political Bears
The investor class is alive and well — and growing...
03/01/2005


Eminent Domain, Imminent Theft
What's at stake in Kelo...
03/01/2005


Bill O'Reilly: Destiny in America
02/28/2005


Father Knows Best?
Why you want your government out of your healthcare...
02/28/2005


"Impartial" to Genocide
How Kofi Annan turned the UN's back on the slaughter in Rwanda...
02/28/2005


Reforming the U.N.
A necessity, a long time in coming...
02/28/2005


Anti-Semitism Revisited
Why the cycles of Jew-hatred continue...
02/28/2005


CIA Too Cautious in Terrorist Hunt
02/28/2005


Deregulate Telecommunications
We need to do so now more than ever...
02/28/2005


Is the Marine Corps PC?
02/28/2005


Cal Thomas: Border control
02/25/2005


Syria: The Axis of Evil's Junior Partner
02/25/2005


Iran's ayatollahs challenged
Encouraging the Iranian people to liberate themselves could result in two democracies...
02/25/2005


Liberty Liberty "Revamped"
Russia's former voice for freedom might now become Putin's tool to suppress it...
02/25/2005


Is Iraq Paving the Way for More Terror?
02/25/2005


Financing Osama
Starving terrorists of money debilitates their survival. So when are we gonna do it?...
02/25/2005


Actuarially Unsound
To evaluate Social Security reform objectively and accurately, you have to throw out the actuarial analysis...
02/24/2005


The Old Middle East Comes to Gaza
Evicting Jews would seem to be a blow to the optimists...
02/24/2005


A Cop at the Carnival
Stuck between crime and politics...
02/24/2005


The Washington Doctrine
"democratic realism," or the solemn American obligation...
02/24/2005


Whose Side Is Russia On?
Russia pledges its support to the Mullahs...
02/24/2005


Europe's Way Forward
02/24/2005


The Middle East at a "Tipping Point"
02/24/2005


The Sport of Purple America
More habit than passion: Hockey and the American imagination...
02/23/2005


Desert Bigotry
An obstacle to the future of Iraq...
02/23/2005


A third intifada?
An avalanche threatens to close the road on a rerun of the Mideast peace process...
02/23/2005


Scaring the Cap Out of You
President Bush needs to avoid a massive hidden tax on small business...
02/23/2005


Put Social Security in the Budget
A safety strategy for the GOP...
02/23/2005


The Japan Cards
A very high stakes game of nuclear poker is unfolding...
02/23/2005


Cal Thomas: We have been warned, now what?
02/22/2005


Constitutionally Indisposed
What is the Bush administration thinking about the pending EU constitution?...
02/22/2005


Who is a Pragmatist?
Are liberals the ideologues and conservatives the pragmatists?...
02/22/2005


Has Illegal Immigration Ruined Los Angeles Public Schools?
02/22/2005


New Life for Lebanon
Secular nationalism should be the basis of a new, independent state...
02/22/2005


Sod Off, Swampy!
Keeping the world safe for capitalism...
02/22/2005


Mad cap idea
Possible increase in the payroll-tax cap is a move into dangerous political space...
02/22/2005


Origins of the Post-Democratic Democrats
How did one of history's original democratic political parties become so indifferent to the cause of democracy?...
02/22/2005


Lost in the spin cycle
We're seeing much more "spin" in the national news media than ever before...
02/21/2005


Cap Trap
President Bush thinks about raising taxes...
02/21/2005


More Tax Please, We're Swedish
What happens when all of a country's political parties want tax hikes?...
02/21/2005


Paying attention . . . closely
02/21/2005


How to Euro-Speak
A phrasebook for the presidential tourist...
02/21/2005


The Quadrangle of Evil: What to do about 'Friendly Syria'?
02/21/2005


Bias against Poland
Please, members of Congress, do something about an arrant case of discrimination against a loyal American friend...
02/21/2005


Unsung Victories
The effects of American policy throughout the Middle East are gradually being felt...
02/21/2005


The unfinished portrait
Widening the lens of history, we lost definition and hailed the result as ... diversity...
02/21/2005


'The Duty of the Opposition Is...'
What makes a creditable opposition party?...
02/18/2005


The Bear Is Back
Russia's Middle Eastern adventures...
02/18/2005


Enter the Dragon: Nuclear Power's Newest Player
What's going on with pebble-bed modular reactors?...
02/18/2005


Upside Breakout on the Horizon?
It's more likely than not...
02/18/2005


Economic Kiwi Fruit
US policy makers may want to learn from reforms in other nations...
02/18/2005


Cal Thomas: AIDS mutation: Changing behavior is key
02/17/2005


Medicating the FDA
We must make sure the cure isn't worse than the disease...
02/17/2005


Dull, But Worthy
You may have a future in the exciting world of unglamorous investing...
02/17/2005


The Triumph of Economic Technology
Three 20th century advances that changed the world...
02/17/2005


Allowing Families vs. Family Allowances
Looking at jobs and fertility...
02/17/2005


Podesta's Backwards Tax-Reform Plan
A basket of naïve and contradictory proposals...
02/17/2005


Where the New Mutual Fund Rules Necessary of Superficial?
It's not too late for the SEC to start over by ditching the new rules...
02/17/2005


The Difference Between Islamic Terrorists and Others
02/16/2005


Election Day in Iraq Was a Sacred Day
02/16/2005


Sliming the troops
With folks like powerful CNN executive Eason Jordan in charge it's no wonder our troops so often feel smeared and slimed...
02/16/2005


Real Social Security Reform
02/16/2005


What to Do With Iran
Solving the problem of the nuclear mullahs...
02/16/2005


America Against the World?
'It's hard to overstate just how out of step the United States is with the rest of the world.' Is it?...
02/16/2005


Simply Templeton
Two financial futures for Social Security...
02/16/2005


Kyoto's Promise v. Climate Reality
How much pain for how much gain?
02/16/2005


Cal Thomas: Stemming stem cell research
02/15/2005


Jihadism in Retreat
Patriotic Iraqis fight Islam's genocidal totalitarians...
02/15/2005


The Problem of Chickendoves
A funny thing happened on the way to the peace vigil...
02/15/2005


Stealth Cloning
Washington state tries legalizing cloning on the sly...
02/15/2005


Rules in flux
Regulators must recraft laws to promote rather than prohibit telecommunication competition...
02/15/2005


Can Soft Power Really Save the World?
European security revisited...
02/15/2005


Aid and Comfort to Our Heroes
America loves a man in uniform...
02/15/2005


Iran: the next Nicaragua?
Pressure should be brought to bear on Iran's mullahs to prove their legitimacy through free elections...
02/15/2005


A Contract with Iraq
Americans have a right to ask for the new government in Iraq for a minimal standard of realism...
02/15/2005


The Bush Investment Shift
The June 2003 tax cuts are functioning precisely as promised...
02/15/2005


One, Two, Many Broken Windows
02/15/2005


Cal Thomas: Take care of yourself
02/14/2005


The Feminist War on Valentine's Day
02/14/2005


Health Insurance and Bankruptcy
The conventional wisdom is that the problem with health insurance in this country is that not enough people have it...
02/14/2005


The Results Are In
But we don't know who won the election in Iraq...
"Men in Black" is a Must-Read Mark Levin's new book shows how the Supreme Court is destroying America...
02/14/2005


They've Got Nukes.
So Is the Proliferation Security Initiative Working?...
02/14/2005


Crabgrass for the Bluegrass State
Gov. Fletcher's flawed tax-reform plan...
02/14/2005


Valentine's Day Enrages Jihadists
The terrorists are not intimidated by death, but they are terrorized by love...
02/14/2005


The Greeks Had a Word for It: Hegemony vs. Empire
The vital differences between hegemony and empire and why it matters today...
02/14/2005


The Hijacking of Valentine's Day
"V-Day": — replacing love with vulgarity to build an equal world...
02/14/2005


On North Korea: Don't Blame Bush
02/11/2005


Why Democracy?
Ten reasons to support democracy in the Middle East...
02/11/2005


Capitulating to Terror
The Sharm summit was a cover for appeasing the Arab-European-UN bloc...
02/11/2005


Taking Racial Politics to a New Low
Pandering in the wake of tragedy...
02/11/2005


Condi's Bad Start
Rice retains a State Department bureaucrat who thinks the Saudis still deserve the red carpet treatment...
02/11/2005


One handshake forward
The image of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas reaching across the table to clasp hands with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaks volumes...
02/11/2005


Rice Pudding
Playing sweet isn't very appetizing...
02/11/2005


Beginning of the End for Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
02/11/2005


Outsourcing Attacks Not Over
In fact, they seem to be increasing... 02/11/2005



Cal Thomas: Take care of yourself
02/10/2005


The Iranian Threat
Supreme leader Ayatollah 'Ali Khamenei...
02/10/2005


US and Europe, Closer Together
02/10/2005


Getting It Right
Watergate's lessons for a media lacking credibility...
02/10/2005


The Bill That Wouldn't Die
Like a bad horror movie, the Climate Stewardship Act rises again...
02/10/2005


The Real Reason for Social Security Reform If we don't overhaul the program, your income taxes will skyrocket...
02/10/2005


Shoot the Stupid Consumer
Clearly, a lot of my fellow consumers are falling for the mail-un-rebate game...
02/10/2005


'Straw men' delay debate
It is time to earnestly begin the debate about strengthening Social Security for the future...
02/10/2005


Hail Sovereignty
Is the EU getting too big for its breaches?...
02/10/2005


Immigration Two-Step
A real step for immigration reform...
02/09/2005


Andean Storm Troopers
Indio-fascists in South America's Andean region are making rapid ground in their quest to establish a racist, anti-democratic Inca state...
02/09/2005


Toxic Botsuits
Tales of litigation gone awry...
02/09/2005


Go-Go Iraq
Democracy works...
02/09/2005


About faces
New faces in the news give reason for both fresh hope and apprehension...
02/09/2005


Alpha Companies, Beta Products... and Solving the Innovator's Dilemma
Why are companies increasingly viewing the beta release as the final commercial release?...
02/09/2005


For Real?
"Historic breakthrough" or Mideast mirage?...
02/09/2050


Ice-breaking opportunity
Germans are reluctantly coming to the conclusion they may have been wrong to oppose the Iraq war...
02/09/2005


Cal Thomas: Shedding light in dark places
02/08/2005


The Fighting Islamists of Notre Dame
The nation's foremost peace studies institute is not exactly about peace...
02/08/2005


Tipping the Balance In Favor of Terrorists
Should foreign terrorists captured abroad be entitled to the constitutional rights available to defendants in U.S. courts?...
02/08/2005


The Impatient Caucus
Have we forgotten that winning a war takes time?...
02/08/2005


Exporting Immigrants, and Chaos
Massive illegal immigration from Mexico demands a stiffer American resolve...
02/08/2005


Overstating the Shiite Monolith
02/08/2005


After Blair
President Bush might not like the man waiting in the wings...
02/08/2005


Why the Islamists Really Hate Us
1400 years of rage at Muslim repression has to be channeled somewhere...
02/08/2005


George F. Will: Bush is also setting his sights on the tax code
02/07/2005


Private Matters and 'Public Health'
What the government should and shouldn't do about obesity...
02/07/2005


Business Before Safety
When airlines' profits come first...
02/07/2005


Chasing the Long Tail
What Chris Anderson's powerful meme means in the context of blogs...
02/07/2005


Ward Churchill's No Indian
His alleged tribe says he's not one of theirs...
02/07/2005


Not-So-Free Press
Who'll investigate the Tillack case? How about Sy Hersh?...
02/07/2005


Jobs Stronger Than You Might Think
The establishment survey is not the best employment indicator...
02/07/2005


Table the Timetable
Melana Vickers considers the contemporary history of fixed withdrawal dates...
02/07/2005


Saddam Hussein and Abu Nidal, Terrorist Allies
02/04/2005


Dummies for Islam
02/04/2005


The United States as an Indebted Empire
How the US risks conceding leverage...
02/04/2005


Ward Churchill Isn't the Only One Who Hates America
Lots of socialist academics echo Ward's sentiments for fun and (great) profit...
02/04/2005


The Compensation Conundrum
"Providence moves slowly, but the devil always hurries." 02/04/2005


And the Oscar Goes to: Political Correctness
I'd like to thank the Academy -- for another nauseating year of politically inspired nominations...
02/04/2005


Ballistic Fingerprinting's a Dud
Another failed gun-control strategy...
02/04/2005


Cal Thomas: Transcript of interview with President Bush
02/03/2005


Enforcing our Borders, State by State
Arizona has kicked illegal immigrants off welfare...
02/03/2005


America the Incredible
02/03/2005


Twin Cultures of Death
The UN's pledge, "never again," is a mockery as long as there is no penalty for modern day genocide...
02/03/2005


Take the Krugman 6.5% Challenge
It's dirty work (not really), but someone has to do it...
02/03/2005


Arab Wall Street Rides the Bull
02/03/2005


Iraq's Founding Fathers, and Ours
Iraqis can rejoice in its democratic founding...
02/03/2005


Get Behind the Wheel of a Dictator!
The strange but true history of car names...
02/03/2005


"No" to "Democracy"
Zimbabwe's implosion...
02/03/2005


George F. Will: Iraq vote allows thoughts of success
02/02/2005


Climate Cartoon: Simplify and Exaggerate
02/02/2005


Is Bangladesh the Next Afghanistan?
India's neighbor on the Bay of Bengal could be the next haven for terror...
02/02/2005


Honor Thy Father -- Or Else
Why do EU governments turn a blind eye to murder?...
02/02/2005


Personal Social Security Accounts Will Happen
Here's why...
02/02/2005


How Evil Capitalists Can Save the World... and Just Might
02/02/2005


Keeping Score on Tax Reform
It's coming. Here's what you need to know...
02/02/2005


Cal Thomas: Extreme makeover of Iraq could lead to the reshaping of many other dictatorial nations in the region
02/01/2005


Why 'Bloody Sunday' Didn't Happen
02/01/2005


The Other Elections
The Iraqi elections bring much hope; one can't say the same about the recent elections in Gaza...
02/01/2005


Department of Terrifying the Homeland?
Michael Chertoff, nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, has his work cut out for him...
02/01/2005


Saudi Venom in American Mosques
Saudi-sponsored publications continue their policy of Hate-America First...
02/01/2005


NAACP Resists IRS Investigation
Group Calls Probe Politically Motivated...
02/01/2005


There They Go Again
Times coverage of GDP is completely misleading...
02/01/2005


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