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NEWS ARCHIVE - OPINION AND ODDITIES
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The state at war with the nation 05/31/2006 Malcolm X-Men Forty years ago, the notion of mutations among humans was mere speculation, confined to sci-fi... 05/31/2006 The Last Day of the World How disunity can destroy the West... 05/31/2006 Putsch Not Why isn't everyone freaking out about last Friday? 05/31/2006 Standing With Israel The evangelical Christian support for the Jews... 05/31/2006 An Election Harbinger A Republicans vs. Democrats vs. Conservatives vs. Liberals free-for-all in San Diego... 05/31/2006 Hillary Clinton: Dead Candidate Walking? 05/31/2006 Facing the Population Bust The World Congress of Families tells Europe to rethink its culture or continue depopulating... 05/31/2006 Kerry's Catch-22 John Kerry doesn't seem to know how to extricate himself from an untenable tactical situation... 05/31/2006 Move On The U.S. should move its embassy to Jerusalem...now... 05/31/2006 'Ghost' helps acquit murder suspect 05/31/2006 3rd intifada coming - thanks to Bush 05/30/2006 Having a gay time in school California kids might soon be studying Gay 101... 05/30/2006 Lessons from the immigration war The war now being waged in Congress is mostly about which philosophy will prevail in the Republican Party... 05/30/2006 For McCain, a Surplus of Irony 05/30/2006 CAIR for Governor? Two Florida gubernatorial candidates' history with the anti-anti-terrorist group... 05/30/2006 Path to What? The joke that is citizenship... 05/30/2006 You Dirty Rats! EU says animal cancer tests on aspartame are flawed... 05/30/2006 Child Abuse - Mullah Style Iranian clerics assault children... 05/30/2006 Shamnesty Rides Again Amnesty International looks more and more like an American anti-war group instead of a watchdog for the world... 05/26/2006 Bridge to Nowhere, Meet Research to Nowhere Gulf War syndrome research just got a $75 million "allocation to nowhere..." 05/26/2006 Immigration and the Nation-State "Tom Tancredo is my enemy, because he wants to deport my neighbors." Nathan Smith on "Universalism vs. Nationalism..." 05/26/2006 Looking Back at Iraq A war to be proud of... 05/26/2006 Not Just a Day Off Remembering our fallen on Memorial Day... 05/26/2006 At G-8 summit, US and Russia may trade barbs Unless tensions are eased, the G-8 meeting could be in trouble... 05/26/2006 Enron's end game Guilty verdicts for Lay and Skilling are good news for investors... 05/26/2006 Why no Bush support? When Mr. Bush talks tough on border security and enforcement, conservatives don't believe him, and they have the facts to back them up... 05/26/2006 Fixing FEMA Strengthen the agency, but don't move it... 05/26/2006 The $90,000 question Who's defending poor congressman Jefferson? 05/26/2006 A vote for English If you are to be welcomed to the enjoyment of American liberty, then America has a few expectations of you... 05/25/2006 Apple-Polisher Shows P.O.W. Real Courage Telling academia exactly what it wants to hear... 05/25/2006 A grateful nation "Baghdad ER"... 05/25/2006 The Ugly Underside of the Nanny State The Senate has set the stage to plunder America's Social Security system and give the spoils to illegal immigrants... 05/25/2006 French Scandal Fricassee This time, Chirac is in over his head... 05/25/2006 WWFD? What kind of immigration policy would the Founders have had? 05/25/2006 The Media's Know-Nothings Has the Bush administration done nothing to curb greenhouse gases? 05/25/2006 A Convergence of Terror Is Israel Prime Minister Olmert throwing in the towel? 05/25/2006 Zombie Killers A.K.A., "Queering the Social"... 05/25/2006 Congressional Prisoner's Dilemma Can a "grand bargain" rescue the country from entitlement insolvency? 05/24/2006 Hormonally Challenged Has there been any silver lining to hormone replacement therapy research studies? 05/24/2006 "Come Closer, Let's Talk" Yes, by all means, the U.S. should have dialogue with Iran. Here's what it looks like... 05/24/2006 Irreconcilable Similarities Lapdog unhelpfulness... 05/24/2006 Gas prices and Iraq shroud predictions of next US president 05/24/2006 Judging Iraq on its own terms 05/24/2006 ID theft made easy Government lax about protecting sensitive data... 05/24/2006 The Senate's take on amnesty Barring any last-minute filibuster attempts, the Senate is expected to pass its "comprehensive" immigration reform bill this week. As such, now is as good a time as any to remind not just readers but also senators what they are actually voting for... 05/24/2006 A modest proposal North to Hudson's Bay... 05/24/2006 The death of the nation-state 05/23/2006 The death of political ideology 05/23/2006 While Europe Slept How Radical Islam is destroying the West from within... 05/23/2006 Getting Back on Top How gas prices can pump up Bush's poll numbers... 05/23/2006 Human-Rights Schizophrenia Human Rights Watch shows a disturbing disparity in its treatment of Israel and China... 05/23/2006 MI-5: American Style Having a domestic intelligence agency in the United States makes sense... 05/23/2006 A Reply to Jimmy Carter 05/23/2006 The Bravest President This guy is good... 05/23/2006 Guarding the border 05/22/2006 Lessons for libs Peter Beinart is an advocate of liberal - not "progressive" - nostalgia... 05/22/2006 No Habla Español English only... 05/22/2006 Terrorists Within A former top Homeland Security official warns that our enemies are here at home as well as on foreign battlefields... 05/22/2006 The Worst Vice Presidential Candidate in History? Perhaps the best thing done so far was to reject this vampire at the polls; he's sucked enough blood out of the American people... 05/22/2006 U.N. Hatchet Job Pampering suspected terrorists... 05/22/2006 Take the Pledge Democrats should promise not to abuse the impeachment power... 05/22/2006 Euro Trash Is recycling worth the trouble? How much time does it take you? 05/22/2006 Untangling the Web: Man Plus Machine 05/22/2006 Is the GOP ascendancy over? 05/19/2006 It's Iraq, Stupid Bush's plight... 05/19/2006 Walkin' Through New Orleans The sunken city reemerges, slowly... 05/19/2006 "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" It looks like Paul will soon be "Free As A Bird," but is his whole life now "Helter Skelter"? 05/19/2006 Drop Title IX Suits American boys' education should be our concern now... 05/19/2006 Anti-Anti-Americanism Dealing with the crazy world after Iraq... 05/19/2006 Hirsi Ali is Your Problem Now, America 05/19/2006 Tax Cuts = More Spending? If this is so, what does it mean for supporters of tax cuts? 05/19/2006 Neil Young Gets Old The singer-songwriter in winter... 05/19/2006 Jesus Christ as Poached Egg What is it about The Da Vinci Code that has Christian leaders so worked up? 05/18/2006 Read My Lips: No New Amnesty The Bush Plan: give amnesty only to those who have broken our laws the longest... 05/18/2006 The President's immigration address 05/18/2006 Who isn't a "values voter"? 05/18/2006 Castro's True Wealth Forbes' estimate is only the tip of the tyrant's fortune... 05/18/2006 Energy-Price Idiocy Politics trumps policy at the gas pump... 05/18/2006 Dealing With the Devil How should Bush reply to Ahmadinejad's rant? 05/18/2006 Bush on Immigration: Repackaging the Trojan Horse 05/18/2006 Time to Vaccinate a Panic Does thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines, cause childhood autism? 05/18/2006 Bush's Immigration Speech Hit All the Right Notes Enforcement and political savvy in the president's border policy... 05/17/2006 What If Mexicans Were Crack? Some similar arguments... 05/17/2006 The Parent Trap Has raising children become more costly and less rewarding? 05/17/2006 Cruising for a "Hollow Military" Underfunding the military could transform our nation into a paper tiger... 05/17/2006 Republicans Out of Gas Keeps getting worse... 05/17/2006 Calling Bluffs Iran's brazen defiance will lead to tragic miscalculations... 05/17/2006 Thieves steal an entire rollercoaster 05/17/2006 Legless climber conquers Everest 05/17/2006 Mexico's Dead Capital In one week, three news items helped clarify the intertwined issues of illegal immigration and poverty south of the Rio Grande... 05/16/2006 Whose God may we mock? 05/16/2006 Morale slippage in Iraq 05/16/2006 Gay 'rights' - who is harassing whom? If there is any special-interest group aggressively pushing its agenda on society, it's the radical homosexual lobby... 05/16/2006 Borders & the Bible It's not the gospel according to Hillary... 05/16/2006 The Sky is Falling Again Are you making phone calls that you would be ashamed of if the government knew about them? 05/16/2006 The Family vs. the State If you think that libertarianism is incompatible with 'family values' conservatism, then think again... 05/16/2006 The Dollar/Oil-Price Connection The greenback has a role in today's high pump prices... 05/16/2006 Student invents eyeball mouse Users can click and open a website by just looking at the screen and moving their eyeballs... 05/16/2006 Letter arrives 56 years late 05/16/2006 A new low for higher education 05/15/2006 Politics without passion Politics still has exhilarating moment... 05/15/2006 Noam Chomsky's Love Affair with Nazis An axis of evil with Hezbollah... 05/15/2006 The Crash of Big-Government Conservatism There is time for them to change... 05/15/2006 Let Bolton Be Bolton The State Department's covert war against the man trying to reform the UN... 05/15/2006 Soda Pop Myopia Once again science fails to get in the way of politics... 05/15/2006 Rush Limbaugh and Liberalism's Fatal Flaw One of the Left's great agonies and frustrations of the past fifteen years has been its abortive quest to field a counterpart to Rush Limbaugh... 05/15/2006 The Other British Invasion The BBC comes to America... 05/15/2006 Online radio station for dogs DogRadioThailand.com features barking DJs playing vocal and instrumental music... 05/15/2006 'Comrade Wolf' and the mullahs 05/12/2006 Londonistan How Britain surrendered to Islamic terror and extremism... 05/12/2006 Mothers Don't Go on Strike Some jobs defy quantification... 05/12/2006 The General and the Agency Another history lesson leftists never learned... 05/12/2006 Hamas Hate-Comics for Kids The terror group's animated take on "evil Zionists..." 05/12/2006 The Real Enemy In American politics today, McCarthyism is an epithet. I am not sure why the Democrats want to turn Pelosism into its synonym... 05/12/2006 Take Off the 9/11 Tinfoil Hats 05/12/2006 Financing terror No reason to fund Hamas... 05/12/2006 In Our Backyard If only McCain and Kennedy lived on ranches in southern Arizona... 05/11/2006 Conservatives Need 12-Step Program To Manhood It's pretty pathetic when a Kennedy is too drunk to drive into the Potomac... 05/11/2006 McCain's actions undercut the Constitution Were McCain to take the Presidential oath, what would he mean? 05/11/2006 My kind of guy(s) Where can one find real men these days? 05/11/2006 Mexican Women Beg: "Close the Border" Illegal deadbeat dads abandon their wives and children to sow wild oats in America. Where are the feminists? 05/11/2006 Human-Rights Redux The Human Rights Council follows in the footsteps of the discredited Human Rights Commission... 05/11/2006 The Methodists' Mullah-Protection Plan The Religious Left launches a preemptive strike against the Bush administration... 05/11/2006 Losing While Winning Did the length of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial hurt the homeland? 05/11/2006 Thieves paint stolen dog They painted it in the black, red and gold of the German flag... 05/11/2006 Never Again? Is it 1938 all over again? 05/10/2006 Illegal Advantage Lawbreakers vault to the front of the college-admissions line... 05/10/2006 An Annual Hatefest Florida Altantic University plays host, once again, to the worst of extremists... 05/10/2006 Absorption Nation America's ability to absorb immigrants has changed: it's higher today than at any time in history... 05/10/2006 The U.N. sex-for-food scandal U.N. peacekeepers in the war-torn, refugee-rich Liberia have been accused of selling food for sex from girls as young as 8... 05/10/2006 Hitting Rewind Some scientists are in hot pursuit of ethically acceptable alternatives that do not involve the destruction of embryos... 05/10/2006 Rising Declinists: Is US Influence Waning? The American people are wading through another one of those decennial doldrums, when we question our place and purpose in the world... 05/10/2006 HRC Opportunity Society How Hillary could become president... 05/10/2006 Why are we baiting Putin? If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire... 05/09/2006 Was Moussaoui right? "America you lost...I won!" 05/09/2006 Pick Up Your Own Crap The crazy denunciations and demands of populist forces must be put down by conservatives... 05/09/2006 Saddam's Terrorist Blueprints Why the tyrant's sponsorship of terror doesn't make the papers... 05/09/2006 The Courage of "United 93" A remarkable tribute to 9/11's fallen heroes... 05/09/2006 Dems' Abortion Problem The absolutist pro-choice position on abortion is a political loser... 05/09/2006 May Day for Al-Arian Sami's fans scratch their heads as he is led away in chains... 05/09/2006 Fire blamed on pet fish 05/09/2006 Oil and immigrants Why don't liberals just demand the country be handed over to the people who run Disneyland? 05/08/2006 Civic Duty: Go See 'United 93' 05/08/2006 Shocking News from NPR: No Oil Company Gouging 05/08/2006 Risky Business But our work in Iraq is plenty rewarding too... 05/08/2006 Algebra and Its Enemies The abstractions that helped build civilization, and the detractions of innumerate pundits... 05/08/2006 Kofi Annan's Test The letter that the U.N. Secretary General should send to Iran... 05/08/2006 Cruisin' For a Bruisin' Men, marriage, and a summer extravagance... 05/08/2006 Getting FEMA wrong Senate bill would take us backwards... 05/08/2006 Olmert's Hard Road Still looking for the magic solution in Israel... 05/08/2006 May Day protest organized by communists The message of the event was intended to be a communist and socialist anti-U.S. message... 05/05/2006 Terror-Free Oil Which gas station will you fill up at? 05/05/2006 The Bolivarian Alternative An oil and commodity crisis 'unlike any we have seen'... 05/05/2006 Incendiary Ignorance Washington is aflame with gas-price idiocy... 05/05/2006 Why Isn't Socialism Dead? Socialism may well spring back to life with a force shocking to those who have declared socialism to be no longer viable... 05/05/2006 Islamic Imperialism The war for world mastery that is far from over... 05/05/2006 Excessive Envy? What, if anything, should be done about CEO compensation? 05/05/2006 The Da Vinci Protocols Jews should worry about Dan Brown's success... 05/05/2006 Legal vs. illegal: The language battle 05/04/2006 Sympathy for the Devil How the jury blinked in the Moussaoui case... 05/04/2006 Condescensional wisdom 05/04/2006 Making Crime Pay Criminals should have to help pay for the costs of their imprisonment... 05/04/2006 Greens vs. Illegals Democrats maneuver for 2008... 05/04/2006 Tuition soars due to knowledge shortfall Why not hold Congressional hearings about the misuse of education? 05/04/2006 Indiscriminate Discrimination Immigrants-legal, illegal, or "temporary"-should not be beneficiaries of affirmative action... 05/04/2006 More Land, Less Peace A plan that calls for an Israeli withdrawal from most (90% or more) of the West Bank... 05/04/2006 From Russia With Arms Relations are freezing over once again... 05/04/2006 Why the jump at the pump $2.90 a gallon in April could be the cheapest price we'll see for the rest of the year... 05/03/2006 George W. Milhous Bush? Is Dubya the new Nixon? 05/03/2006 Toasting Hu The Business-Left China Appeasement Lobby... 05/03/2006 What a Bunch of Winners Kofi Annan's $500,000 conflict of interest... 05/03/2006 Leftists Don't Feel Limbaugh's Pain How liberals finally discovered a drug "crime" that is not "victimless..." 05/03/2006 No Money, No Problems From immigration to climate change, here's the solution to all our problems... 05/03/2006 Bad bugs, few drugs 05/03/2006 Cry for Italy As if Italy's economic woes weren't bad enough, Prodi's new government will be virtually impotent in carrying out necessary reforms... 05/03/2006 "Too Soon"? United 93 provides a reality check... 05/03/2006 A strike against America Illegal aliens have broken our laws and broken into our country... 05/02/2006 Republicans running on empty So it has come to this... 05/02/2006 The Economics of the Oil 'Crisis' No need for dangerous solutions... 05/02/2006 Secessionists for Illegals "La Voz de Aztlan" salutes lawbreaking and now seeks to recapture territory that it claims was "stolen" by white America... 05/02/2006 Memorial Lapse The controversy over the best way to honor the heroes of Flight 93... 05/02/2006 Qadhafi's Hate Speech The Libyan leader is an Islamist after all... 05/02/2006 Calling a Tail a Leg If you call "Nuestro Himno" a version of the national anthem, how many versions are there? 05/02/2006 Man spends 50 years in tree after row with his wife 05/02/2006 The Bush decision Iraq, gas prices, and immigration... 05/01/2006 This Marine just won't back down As usual, Jim Webb is spoiling for a fight. As usual, he has found one... 05/01/2006 A Day Without an Illegal Immigrant An imaginary exercise... 05/01/2006 Pine Box Politics Will your kids pay too much to lay you to rest? It's time to bury restrictions on Internet casket sales... 05/01/2006 May Day in New New Mexico The illegal-alien marchers are morally identical to burglars demanding that the homeowner rearrange the furniture... 05/01/2006 Goodbye, Saigon - Goodbye, Baghdad? Thirty-one years ago this weekend the United States departed, some say fled, South Vietnam... 05/01/2006 Fill 'Er Up with Demagoguery Who is gouging whom? 05/01/2006 Churchgoers Most Supportive of the War Persons of faith understand the need for sacrifice... 05/01/2006 Of imperial presidents and congressional cowards Does President Bush have, or not have, the authority to take us to war with Iran? 04/28/2006 Hezbollah, Illegal Immigration, and the Next 9/11 Genocidal terrorist suicide bombers? They're coming to America... 04/28/2006 Subsidizing the Enemy Paying an Islamist school in London to teach hate... 04/28/2006 Big Awl & gasbags 04/28/2006 Feathering Their Casas How much do Mexico's corrupt officials get paid? 04/28/2006 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Peace The world would best show its respect for the sovereign choice of electing Hamas by demonstrating that choices have consequences... 04/28/2006 Hillary's Halliburton The financial conflict of interest that should inspire plenty of questions in '08... 04/28/2006 Too Soon to Forget What would we do in the same situation? 04/28/2006 Teen squirts milk through his eyes An Indian teenager takes in milk through his nose and squirts it out of his eyes... 04/28/2006 Cal Thomas: Flight 93: Do we still care? 04/27/2006 George Will: Replacing 'Duke' not so easy 04/27/2006 A Solution at the Stroke of a Pen Some problems are hard (Iran). But there is one problem that is easy to solve. The specter of future entitlement shortfalls could be eliminated with the stroke of a pen... 04/27/2006 The "Lobby" Fetishists Tony Judt gets it badly wrong—00again... 04/27/2006 Military Bloggers of the World Unite! These folks are the last line of defense against the mainstream media's poor coverage of the war in Iraq. (And we salute them.) 04/27/2006 One in Four? Rape myths do injustice, too... 04/27/2006 In Big Easy, a race for mayoral competence 04/27/2006 39 million reasons why $3 gas may change America 04/27/2006 Lessons for Beijing America will stand by Taiwan... 04/27/2006 On the march against genocide But where are the glitteries in Darfur? 04/27/2006 Coral Bleaching: What (or Who) Dunnit? Expect a plateful of charges about dangers to our oceans and, in particular, coral reefs. Take it all with a pinch of sea salt... 04/26/2006 Princely Warriors Why does that most antiquated of institutions, the British royal family, manages to survive in spite of all its problems? 04/26/2006 Are We Criminalizing Agency Costs? Should You Care? Can you tell the difference between criminality and risk taking? The Prof on how to understand Enron and other corporate governance prosecutions... 04/26/2006 What a Champ! The United Nations embraces "Screaming Mary," the face of the 1979 Iranian hostage-takers... 04/26/2006 Friedman in the Pulpit Does he practice what he preaches? 04/26/2006 Creeping toward oil as a social good 04/26/2006 Nuclear lessons for today The legacy of Chernobyl stresses the importance of security and nonproliferation... 04/26/2006 What? CEOs accountable? Those on trial are pleading innocence by claiming ignorance... 04/26/2006 Border security first With Congress stalled on immigration, Sen. Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican, has proposed attaching $2 billion in needed border-security funds to spending on Iraq and Katrina... 04/26/2006 Al Qaeda, Saddam New information on the links... 04/26/2006 Of Pulitzers and treason Whether this war was a mistake or not, no one has a right to sabotage the war effort... 04/25/2006 The Cackle Heard in Tehran An oil conspiracy so vast... 04/25/2006 Party for Socialism and Liberation This organization preaches the "validity of Marxism and Leninism," while attacking "U.S. imperialism..." 04/25/2006 Big Brother Will See You Now Public health gets too personal... 04/25/2006 A traitor in the midst 04/25/2006 Time's Green Agitprop Before global warming, we were once warned of a coming ice age... 04/25/2006 Radioactive Lies All information about things nuclear, when proffered by a criminal, one-party regime, is bathed in a heavy water of lies... 04/25/2006 Banning Patriotism The one thing America's educators won't tolerate in their classrooms... 04/25/2006 Pandering at the Pump Republicans give the market the Finger... 04/25/2006 Police Arrest Nude Man Stuck in Chimney 04/25/2006 Bill O'Reilly: Gas pains 04/24/2006 Water warriors 04/24/2006 The Immigration Wars Radical labor and antiwar groups find a common enemy... 04/24/2006 A Bird Flu Manhattan Project? Pandemic flu prevention is a long way off... 04/24/2006 The UN's "Borderless" World Where immigration is treated as an international human rights issue... 04/24/2006 With a Majority Like This... Whatever happened to the conservative party? 04/24/2006 "Social Security Reform Is Dead"... ...long live Social Security reform... 04/24/2006 The Psychomyopic Democrats 04/24/2006 Doctors find 12 nails in man's skull The man complained to doctors of a headache... 04/24/2006 Overqualified Immigrant If the immigration reform passes, I'm dropping law and taking up landscaping. I'm not kidding... 04/21/2006 How great powers become great 04/21/2006 Let 'em Eat Sand Oil independence might also have the virtue of being easier and less costly than going to the moon... 04/21/2006 One hot House race Rick O'Donnell looks 25 but is 35 — old enough to know better... 04/21/2006 Starting anew We are all works in progress, navigating our way through the journey of life... 04/21/2006 Earth Day Going from Red to Green Co-opting the commies over conservation... 04/21/2006 Conveniently Missing the Truth Al Gore's green battiness... 04/21/2006 When There Was No Jewish Lobby Six million died without a voice... 04/21/2006 New Orleans Needs a Rudy Violent crime is still the Big Easy’s biggest problem... 04/21/2006 Iran's War on the West Have the mullahs really stopped aiding anti-American terrorism? 04/21/2006 Lie Down With Strippers, Wake Up With Pleas What even a 5-year-old should know... 04/20/2006 Still Paying for Carter's Mistakes Screwing America's interests around the world since 1976... 04/20/2006 Minimum Behavior Does raising the minimum wage make dropping out of school more attractive? 04/20/2006 My Genes Made Me Do It The difference between "anything goes" and Christian inclusiveness... 04/20/2006 Bad Behavior in Britain If this is how our friends treat us... 04/20/2006 The book burners There are many people who like to hurl epithets at those with whom they disagree... 04/20/2006 The French Disease Chirac and Villepin find another excuse to capitulate... 04/20/2006 Not Soon Enough We have to face the ruthlessness of our enemy... 04/20/2006 McCain swings right The senator's flip-flopping in bid for presidency... 04/20/2006 Baby wins crawling championship A ten-month old baby has won a national crawling championship... 04/20/2006 No tears for terrorists Moussaoui's lawyers are playing the victim card on behalf of a murder-minded thug who just can't wait to die for Allah... 04/19/2006 The US and China: Strategic Disconnect The "disconnect" between trade and security, and between economists and strategists may persist for a long time... 04/19/2006 United 93: A Must See United 93 is to the War on Terror what The Passion of the Christ is to Good Friday... 04/19/2006 'An Inconvenient Truth' I warned you that Al Gore soon would be rearing his lying head again on the subject of global warming... 04/19/2006 Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin'? Of whistleblower and leakers... 04/19/2006 Joe Wilson: Clueless Liar The Baghdad Bob of the American Left... 04/19/2006 Give Peaceniks a Chance? How hard should the military try to free peace activists taken hostage? 04/19/2006 Perky Puts Me to Sleep Who cares about Katie Couric's new gig? 04/19/2006 Hen turns into a cockerel After eight months of laying eggs she suddenly sprouted a scarlet comb and started crowing at dawn... 04/19/2006 Retired summer soldiers 04/18/2006 Three Reasons Not to Bomb Iran—Yet 04/18/2006 All Americans must see 'United 93' If anything should be controversial, it is Hollywood going AWOL while its country fights the scourge of our time... 04/18/2006 Miserable Failure The war is an unwinnable exercise in imperialistic hubris... 04/18/2006 Return of America first? Three in five Americans now believe the Iraq war was and is not worth the cost in blood and money... 04/18/2006 The world according to Ted After 43 years in the Senate, does he know when to call it a day? 04/18/2006 Crisis in Europe Eurabia is no fairytale... 04/18/2006 An incurious Rumsfeld-bashing media Anti-Bush forces are trying to build a momentum approaching critical mass to oust Rumsfeld... 04/18/2006 Cosmic Mash-Ups Astrophysicists are wowing audiences by bringing real data to life in a film called "Cosmic Collisions..." 04/18/2006 Our Man Rumsfeld Why Bush is right to protect his Defense Secretary in the face of this tempest... 04/18/2006 Teddy bear immigration I am not a Scottish-Welsh-German American. I am an American... 04/17/2006 The Judas factor I fully expect one of Judas's descendants to get a lawyer and demand restitution for all Judas has suffered over the years... 04/17/2006 The generals' revolt This is not a Cindy Sheehan moment... 04/17/2006 Attacking the First Amendment, GOP disgraces conservatism 04/17/2006 Second Banana Who will Hillary Clinton's no-doubt-male running mate be, and what persona will he adopt? 04/17/2006 Policy on Iran nukes seems to be off-target If you're like the president of Iran and believe in the coming of the "Twelfth Imam," your happy holiday may be just around the corner... 04/17/2006 Partners in Evil Kofi Annan's romance with an Islamo-fascist regime... 04/17/2006 Of Mice and Men Does a new study about mice and pollution tell us anything about normal people? 04/17/2006 Immigration Deja Voodoo What you don't hear in the raging immigration debate... 04/17/2006 Lightweights: The Iranian Nuclear Threat Iran is making threats on which it cannot deliver. Literally... 04/17/2006 Decoding Immigration Doublespeak War is peace, Freedom is slavery, and union-organized demonstrations for illegal aliens are "patriotic pro-immigration rallies..." 04/14/2006 A Trade Opportunity for China and America If Presidents Bush and Hu Jintao can together seize this opportunity, all humanity will benefit from their statesmanshi... 04/14/2006 He is risen! We should drop the Good Friday name along with the name of the holiday that follows on Sunday... 04/14/2006 Illegal aliens' pink elephants Illegal aliens commit a lot of violent crime... 04/14/2006 Financial intelligence Hitting terrorists where it hurts... 04/14/2006 Immigration talking points Some words falling on deaf ears... 04/14/2006 Imagine an e-z tax season, over in minutes A flat tax would end the cycle of political favors in Washington... 04/14/2006 Brown is the New Black This is the only country on Earth that thinks it's not sporting to consider our own interests in choosing immigrants... 04/13/2006 If Washington wants to see the future of America's welfare state, study Detroit 04/13/2006 Effete, elite, dilettante dabblers vs. the pitiable Paul What's wrong with "The Da Vinci Code"? 04/13/2006 The Struggle for 'Open Europe' The French, it seems, have finally found a cause for which they are willing to go to war... 04/13/2006 Iran Crosses the Nuclear Red Line The countdown's for real... 04/13/2006 Dead-end Debates Critics need to move on... 04/13/2006 Why Hillary Looks Stoppable The polls show a one-two punch could prevent a second Clinton presidency... 04/13/2006 Oops, She Did It Again Motherly mishaps... 04/13/2006 Sistani's Squeeze Forming a unity government in Iraq has required a quiet war against Muqtada al Sadr... 04/13/2006 In Search of Chivalry Did it sink with the Titanic? 04/13/2006 The day the rule of law died What is it people don't understand about the word 'illegal'? 04/12/2006 Intellectual Thuggery The calculated dishonesty of the campaign against academic freedom... 04/12/2006 Don't Give Up 'Tis better to err on the side of life... 04/12/2006 Facing Down Iran Our lives depend on it... 04/12/2006 Fix Mexico Getting at the root cause of our immigration problem... 04/12/2006 Passover and the Ignored Liberation Jews were freed from bondage only 58 years ago... 04/12/2006 Why politicians lie, and why we believe them 04/12/2006 COX-2 Comeback? Research that could fight cancer is still stymied by fear... 04/12/2006 Bush's 'leaks' Political season has arrived... 04/12/2006 "Our Taxes Are Too High," Americans Say Are they? Let's investigate... 04/12/2006 Is war with Iran inevitable? Perhaps, in Churchill's words, it is time for jaw-jaw, not war-war... 04/11/2006 The gospel of unbelief It happens twice a year, at Christmas and Easter... 04/11/2006 Liberal Sellout Dems are in the grip of a grievance-based ethnic politics... 04/11/2006 A justifiable disclosure Few things are more difficult to take than being falsely accused of misconduct... 04/11/2006 What Would Mexico Do with Protesting Illegals? Deport them on the spot... 04/11/2006 Whether Right or Left: Always Wrong It's proxy season. Maybe we'll get a bipartisan constituency for limiting the shareholder proposal rule once and for all... 04/11/2006 All in the Family Making money off children, learning about big government... 04/11/2006 The End Is Not Near Good news on climate change you won't see from the IPCC... 04/11/2006 Good Economy, Bad News? Why near-full employment bedevils idealogues, Left and Right... 04/11/2006 Tom DeLay's future A new movement for the Republican Party? 04/11/2006 Choose booze or not 04/10/2006 McCain's media unmasking 04/10/2006 Immigration logjams and incompetence 04/10/2006 If Medicare Were a Country Health care reform must include means or reducing government spending on health care... 04/10/2006 Central Perk Putting Katie Couric on the CBS throne is like replacing one Dan Rather with another... 04/10/2006 Trumping the Race Card Cynthia McKinney should have her day in court... 04/10/2006 The Biologist of Memory Eric Kandel's neural pathway from Nazi Austria to the Nobel Prize... 04/10/2006 Real Or Fake? Thanks to digital technology, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the most photographed in history... 04/10/2006 There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 04/10/2006 Real Anti-Immigrant Bigotry The real racists are not the Gringos, hombre... 04/10/2006 Egalite, Liberte, 401(k) Now is the time to burn a car for better dental benefits... 04/07/2006 '9/11 Changed Everything' Twentieth-century rules will not win a 21st-century war... 04/07/2006 Productivity: The Labor of Love Is China's army of unemployed labor a threat to our wages and living standards? 04/07/2006 Party of police haters Cynthia McKinney adamantly refuses to apologize for her treatment of the officer she hit... 04/07/2006 Reform puzzle in Congress Campaign and lobbying reform is like a sudoku puzzle. It's about calculations - political ones... 04/07/2006 Standing Firm Iraq's emerging generation of leaders need U.S. support... 04/07/2006 Immigration economics... Lax visa policies and unenforced immigration laws do have disastrous security consequences... 04/07/2006 Your Own Lying Eyes Why aren't reporters embedded with new Iraqi forces? 04/07/2006 The Left's Libby Lie For the left, "Fitzmas" came yesterday... 04/07/2006 Mother-in-law for sale A man is so sick of his mother-in-law he is selling her on eBay... 04/07/2006 Liberal War On Terrorism Heats Up: Delay Finally Captured If only liberals were half as angry at the people who flew planes into our skyscrapers as they are with DeLay... 04/06/2006 A 'Straight Talk' Test For 2006 Maybe Illinois Republicans have found their John McCain... 04/06/2006 The Tom Delay resignation Democrats are hardly in a position to tell Republicans to get the speck out of their eyes... 04/06/2006 The Mexican solution Mexico deals harshly with illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, naturalized citizens and foreign investors... 04/06/2006 Won't You Please Help Me? The life and death of the Beatles... 04/06/2006 America's Oil Weapon Simplistic claims denouncing our oil 'addiction' add little that's positive to the public discussions on energy... 04/06/2006 The McKinney caper Washington is immersed in one of its mini-scandals, all because one congresswoman thinks the world revolves around her... 04/06/2006 Global Growth Inflates... ...as the GOP deflates... 04/06/2006 Bird woman of China A Chinese woman is living in a cage in the middle of a park with 300 birds... 04/06/2006 The Bush malaise "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions..." 04/05/2006 March of the Lemmings French whine in the streets — it's one of nature's miracles! 04/05/2006 Get Over Your Squared Selves TV news takes itself too seriously... 04/05/2006 Tom DeLay — a man of consequence Godspeed on his journey... 04/05/2006 Rescuing the Red Cross The charity is on the hot seat for its Katrina performance, but it's taking the criticisms seriously... 04/05/2006 In British politics, intrigue emerges as king Over the past decade, the 'politics of sleaze' has moved to the center stage of British public life... 04/05/2006 "War," What is it Good For? Should the U.S. replace the term "war" in the "global war on terrorism?" 04/05/2006 Chavez and Tehran Allying himself with countries that share his dislike of the U.S. is nothing new for the oil-rich Mr. Chavez... 04/05/2006 We Deserve Better Than Roe The National Center for Men fires blanks but hits on something... 04/05/2006 Cal Thomas: ABC News standards ... and practices 04/04/2006 Poor Trend We're importing Latin America's poor... 04/04/2006 Help Wanted Risk your life for peanuts? New York and other cities are finding few takers... 04/04/2006 Africa mustn't stop with Charles Taylor 04/04/2006 Women and 'gendercide' Worldwide, at least 113 million women are 'missing...' 04/04/2006 Paris in the spring A day to stroll amid the 'action'... 04/04/2006 Protect the border Assaults and tunnels highlight the need... 04/04/2006 A trial lawyer's dream D.C. Council member Kathy Patterson is poised today to introduce legislation that calls for changing the D.C. Home Rule Charter... 04/04/2006 Favorable Medicare access Saturday marked the end of the three-month transition of the Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage to private insurer formularies... 04/04/2006 George Will: Let cooler heads prevail: The media heat up over global warming 04/03/2006 Bill O'Reilly: French whine 04/03/2006 Al Qaeda's Master Plan In Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan, Al Qaeda appears to have moved into the neighborhood. And its presence is growing... 04/03/2006 Watching Khartoum Arab leaders meet and expose the profound bankruptcy of the state system in which they navigate... 04/03/2006 The Other Side of the Story More good news from Iraq... 04/03/2006 Senate's Upside-Logic Cake The need to unite behind enforcement... 04/03/2006 After the deluge, creativity in the Gulf 04/03/2006 His blood, your life Gift of life can turn deadly if blood supply is contaminated... 04/03/2006 The rising tide of anti-Semitism French Islamists target Jews... 04/03/2006 The cooling world Newsweek's 1975 warning of 'Ice Age'... 04/03/2006 Something to Worry About Yes, let's cut our living standards by ten times... 03/31/2006 Glovology The baseball player's leather "badge" and its long, slow breakout from "vestigial technology..." 03/31/2006 When Cynicism Meets Fanaticism Critiquing the critique of the war in Iraq... 03/31/2006 When Cynicism Meets Fanaticism Critiquing the critique of the war in Iraq... 03/31/2006 What it took from the hearts of many people to free Jill Carroll 03/31/2006 The immigration debate: reform vs. enforcement Americans might be more willing to pick tomatoes if the jobs paid decent wages... 03/31/2006 From Iraq, a happy ending America celebrates release of hostage... 03/31/2006 'Road warriors' Third in a series of occasional editorials on wounded servicemen returning from Iraq... 03/31/2006 Mexico North? Immigration debate ignores reality... 03/31/2006 Cal Thomas: The French job funk 03/30/2006 George Will: Guard the borders—and face facts, too 03/30/2006 Insiders on the Hill The problem of insider trading on Capitol Hill is a bipartisan one and a legislative fix deserves bipartisan support... 03/30/2006 Remembering Saddam's Slow War The latest accusation that the United States "rushed to war" with Saddam's Iraq conveniently ignores 12 years of combat, terror and crime... 03/30/2006 We're Thinking About Tomorrow Illegal immigration hits home... 03/30/2006 The Costs of Amnesty Who's got the bill? 03/30/2006 Bush must now focus on the West Bank 03/30/3006 A crumbling coalition for free trade Businesses need to develop new approaches... 03/30/2006 The post-Sharon era Although the Kadima Party founded by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won Tuesday's election, it prevailed by a smaller margin than had been expected... 03/30/2006 Swastikas on Lustgarten Square mages from an evil past shock the Berliners... 03/30/2006 Show Me the Money Google and the SEC are helping to level the playing field for the retail investor... 03/29/2006 The Golden Troop Mean Cutting and running would be irresponsible and immoral. As for adding troops, that's wrong-headed as well... 03/29/2006 Self-Made Media Ordinary people continue doing things that used to be beyond the reach of ordinary people, thanks to technology... 03/29/2006 Borders Blurred We're having the wrong debate... 03/29/2006 College Confidential Rethinking "shocking and unjustifiable"... 03/29/2006 With patience, the US can help democracy take root in Iraq Bush has made mistakes, but he can't be faulted for believing freedom is for all... 03/29/2006 Iran's plan to weaken the dollar will fail Tehran lacks the freedom and transparency needed for a successful oil exchange... 03/29/2006 Single-sex schools can work Boys, girls learn differently... 03/29/2006 Freeing free speech In an unanimous decision Monday, the FEC voted to save most Internet speech from campaign-finance regulations. This is welcome news, if also expected... 03/29/2006 Mexican illegals vs. American voters Senators prepare to pick the losing side... 03/29/2006 Europe in Denial EU pols are acting just like the demonstrators in the streets of Paris. They are trying to protect "freedoms" that are virtual, not real... 03/28/2006 Iraqinomics The seldom told story of economic success in postwar-Iraq gives us clues to how Muslim countries can grow... 03/28/2006 The Nature of Things: War-o-pedia Continues When it comes to Wikipedia v. Britannica, things aren't always as they seem... 03/28/2006 Illegals vs. Enforcement The protesters in the street get it. Does Congress? 03/28/2006 Indiana Is Open for Business Mitch "the Blade" Daniels is putting the state on the free-market cutting edge... 03/28/2006 Amid a tedious Israeli election: irony 03/28/2006 Look to Michigan for how unemployment could affect 2008 03/28/2006 War lessons learned Analyzing the invasion of Iraq... 03/28/2006 The Fed's comfort zone Raising short-term interest rates by a quarter point is the correct policy action in today's environment... 03/28/2006 Bill O'Reilly: The most dangerous states for American kids 03/27/2006 George Will: Dems getting boost from GOP 03/27/2006 Why Chavez's Days May Be Numbered Beyond left or right, the consensus is now openness and democracy; and here Chavez finds himself on the wrong side of the fence... 03/27/2006 Descent into Dhimmitude Once one has let oneself be treated like a dhimmi, it becomes hard to protest... 03/27/2006 Columbia & Libya 03/27/2006 Poll Warning Voters wanted Hamas? 03/27/2006 Universal preschool, universal benefits 03/27/2006 The Mideast tightrope Pressure mounts as Israel nears vote... 03/27/2006 Making babies in Berlin Germany's birth decline... 03/27/2006 Rebuild Liberia A nation with much to offer... 03/27/2006 The Metaphysics of Spring Keeping track of the days by seeing life emerge, instead of watching it merely go by... 03/24/2006 Conglomerate Cannibalism The Tom Cruise-South Park incident tells us something very interesting about the enduring popularity among corporate CEOs of the conglomerate business model... 03/24/2006 V is for Read the Book Instead The Wachowski Brothers have insulted a great work... 03/24/2006 Europe's Economic Fantasy Does it make sense to extend the euro to the former transition countries, when the existing members are having so much trouble getting it to work? 03/24/2006 Right from the Beginning Right invasion, wrong explanation... 03/24/2006 Guns and Butter Buffoonery Washington has a spending problem, not a revenue shortage... 03/24/2006 Whose Internet is it, anyway? 03/24/2006 'Service' in the skies Airlines trying to make a buck off passenger discomfort... 03/24/2006 Vertigo over iTunes The French government's actions this week could end up causing technology giant Apple to pull its popular iPod from French shelves... 03/24/2006 Masking Terror A weak reaction to tyranny... 03/24/2006 Cal Thomas: Blair and Bush get it 03/23/2006 George Will: 'Uniform' foolishness 03/23/2006 Triumph of the Individual Today is the fourteenth anniversary of the death of F.A. Hayek—the greatest social scientist of the 20th century... 03/23/2006 The New "Beverage Guidance System" 03/23/2006 ETA Always Knocks Twice There's no such thing as a trustworthy terrorist... 03/23/2006 Burying Funeral Protests What does the law say? 03/23/2006 Vive la France! Vive le 'joblessness'? 03/23/2006 ADHD pills may get new labels; will attitudes follow? 03/23/2006 Good Samaritan Bulldozing stereotypes about homelessness... 03/23/2006 Killing for Recognition When Francis Fukuyama argued that only liberal democracy could sufficiently control the thymic urge in people, he was mostly right... 03/22/2006 China From Red to Green Having successfully incorporated market forces into other areas of its booming economy, it's time to extend the same approach to the environment... 03/22/2006 Newspapers in Trouble? It's not too late for imaginative newspapers to save themselves. What would a new-era newspaper look like?... 03/22/2006 Out of the Ghetto Demand is falling for minority-oriented businesses... 03/22/2006 "Let Me Go" Pope John Paul II at death... 03/22/2006 Opening the tap for a thirsty planet 03/22/2006 Fostering global friendship is part of new US security strategy Bush's focus on multilateralism will help the US strengthen its international ties... 03/22/2006 'D' is for dumb Uproar over TV programming for toddlers, infants is overwrought... 03/22/2006 The Hope of Spring GOP must shed winter gloom... 03/22/2006 Avian flu and the U.S. The secretaries of Health and Human Services, Agriculture and Interior declare unanimously that avian flu is headed for the United States... 03/22/2006 Cal Thomas: Spending obscenities 03/21/2006 George Will: Bleakness in Baghdad 03/21/2006 Judge Dred? Justice Ginsburg's views on the use of foreign law in American court decisions are flawed... 03/21/2006 The Sun Also Rises Japan's defense posture is now changing very quickly. Melana Vickers reports from Tokyo. 03/21/2006 Defenseless Decision Why were guns taken from law-abiding citizens in New Orleans? 03/21/2006 Let Catholic Charities Be Catholic When political agendas prevail over the best interests of children, sloppy moral reasoning is sure to follow... 03/21/2006 Getting real about democracy in Eurasia 03/21/2006 Protests in Paris Before you scoff at the French, consider the U.S. connection... 03/21/2006 Midterms and the presidency National-security dynamics are poised to play a major role in senatorial elections... 03/21/2006 Influential India India is a key geopolitical ally for the United States in the post-Cold War strategic dynamic in Asia and in the war on terror... 03/21/2006 Bill O'Reilly: The most dangerous states for American kids 03/20/2006 George Will: Bleakness in Baghdad 03/20/2006 More Making Great Decisions Up by three with four seconds left, opponent has the ball, what do you do? 03/20/2006 A Crisis of Process Problems of process inside the federal government are threatening not only our national well-being, but also our national security... 03/20/2006 The Other Side of the Story There's good news from Iraq... 03/20/2006 Embryonic Problems The South Korean cloning scandal offers a good opportunity to rethink stem-cell research... 03/20/2006 Fresh thinking on Iraq 03/20/2006 A mature response to terror Tuesday's Israeli raid which captured six terrorists at a prison in Jericho and the Western reaction to it signify a new, more serious response to terrorism in the post-September 11, post-Oslo era... 03/20/2006 Rediscovering the Renaissance We should not overlook great works... 03/20/2006 Krugman vs. Munkhammar, Round One Why do Americans pay so much for health care? Depends on whom you ask... 03/10/2006 You Get What You Pay For? Let's hope that by 2015 we're bragging about U.S. health care spending, rather than worrying about it... 03/10/2006 Is the Nation-State Dying? News of the "nation-state" demise may be a bit premature... 03/10/2006 Sanctimony and Silence For all the bluster, mum's the word on the main question as the ports debacle ends... 03/10/2006 An Economic Virus Nationalism is spreading like the plague in economic circles... 03/10/2006 America's and Africa's duty in Darfur 03/10/2006 Old hand draws new viewers CBS gains more viewers than trendier networks... 03/10/2006 Schumer's shenanigans As the Dubai ports fiasco unravels, it's worth examining the performance of key players in the last few weeks' debate... 03/10/2006 D.C., Lincoln and Douglass Where stand the reconstructionists? 03/10/2006 Cal Thomas: Resurrecting the line-item veto 03/09/2006 Bad for Investors, Bad for the Market I'm no fan of Eliot Spitzer. But even a stopped clock gets it right twice-a-day... 03/09/2006 The Kids Are More Than Alright Generation Y is determined to dog the notion that subsequent generations are getting worse... 03/09/2006 You Don't Know Jack Iraq and us... 03/09/2006 Not Only Ideas At the root of conservatism is friendship... 03/09/2006 Middle East neighbors living side by side and worlds apart In Gaza, many residents travel by donkey. In Tel Aviv, they sip lattes in malls... 03/09/2006 Grandparents helping in the classroom 03/09/2006 A matter of character Reeve, Parks have it, Bonds does not... 03/09/2006 Misread electorate Democrats on the wrong side of narrow divide... 03/09/2006 The CBO budget review President Bush's preliminary analysis of the 2007 budget, issued on Friday, failed to include several costly policies, so the CBO could not assess them... 03/09/2006 George Will: Professors of Pretense: Justice John Roberts gives elites a needed lesson in constitutional law 03/08/2006 Junk Taxes A growing movement to bring in the "Twinkie Sin Tax..." 03/08/2006 Autumn of the Humanities Teaching positions in the humanities have become platforms for people who are fundamentally interested in changing the world without understanding it... 03/08/2006 Extra! Extra! Read what you're not reading about Iraq... 03/08/2006 The Good Life It's not exactly hell on earth here in Bush's America... 03/08/2006 Let presidents drain federal red ink 03/08/2006 Time to repeal 'don't tell' Despite court ruling, schools should still fight bad policy... 03/08/2006 Rep. Conyers' questionable ethics Should Democrats retake control of the House in November, Rep. John Conyers would become chairman of the Judiciary Committee... 03/08/2006 Denial Media won't report radical Islamic events... 03/08/2006 Cal Thomas: Is McCain the One? 03/07/2006 Holy Roman Empire USA Jim Pinkerton on the cultural and political implications of the plan for a new Roman Catholic exurb... 03/07/2006 The End of His Story What comes after neoconservatism? Apparently nothing... 03/07/2006 Patients vs. Paternalism Well-informed patients should have a right to choose their drug therapies. Risk/benefit analysis will always be a part of those choices... 03/07/2006 Judging Saddam No easy thing, to try a mass-murderer... 03/07/2006 A Continuing Shame The United Nations and human rights... 03/07/2006 World Bank's war on corruption 03/07/2006 NFL angst National Football League owners and players remain locked in a dispute over the terms of a contract... 03/07/2006 Al Qaeda wants civil war But Iraqis embrace the democratic process... 03/07/2006 Bill O'Reilly: Theology and illegal aliens 03/06/2006 George Will: Looking back (and ahead) with Edwards 03/06/2006 New Visions for European Islam Visiting Old Europe, it is difficult to deny that the long-dreaded "clash of civilizations" between Muslims and non-Muslims has begun... 03/06/2006 Just Say No to The 'Bull Manure' Index What athletes at the extremes tell us about body mass index... 03/06/2006 Precedent Bound? We've stopped hearing about "justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas"—and that could be good... 03/06/2006 The Strip Club Al Qaeda and Hamas in Gaza... 03/06/2006 Why US shapes new global rules A lively debate in Washington has been over who sets the global rules: the established international organizations or the world's only superpower? 03/06/2006 Army dishonors war hero Last chance to get Tillman story right... 03/06/2006 Army dishonors war hero Last chance to get Tillman story right... 03/06/2006 Foreign investment in America The net inflow into the United States of long-term financial capital from abroad continued to soar last year, although it did drop sharply in December... 03/06/2006 A nuanced view of 'junkets' Understanding the importance of congressional travel... 03/06/2006 |
Year of the Dog Archaeological evidence indicates that humans have shared lives with dogs for at least 14,000 years. Sallie Baliunas on a long human obsession... 03/03/2006 The Lancet Pricks Itself The Lancet again has gone off the deep end... 03/03/2006 FDR's Revenge The 22nd Amendment is harming second-term Presidencies. It's time to ditch it... 03/03/2006 A Diplomatic Triumph Dubya in India... 03/03/2006 Unprincipled Statement 55 House Democrats have religious issues... 03/03/2006 Is CSR A-OK? Taking Corporate Social Responsibility seriously... 03/03/2006 Mardis Gras gratitude Recovery in the Katrina-devastated Gulf region is like watching a child grow. Stay home, and it's hard to see change. Leave and return, and the difference is noticeable... 03/03/2006 Bush, bin Laden visit Pakistan in tellingly different ways 03/03/2006 Specter's presumptions Throughout the immigration debate, supporters of "comprehensive" reform—a bill that addresses both security and amnesty—have missed an important point... 03/03/2006 No Katrina coverup This week's Associated Press reporting on the leaked Katrina briefing tapes contains a seemingly minor but actually quite significant factual error and subsequent hit job on President Bush... 03/03/2006 Cal Thomas: And the losers are ... the Jews 03/02/2006 George Will: Rhetoric of Unreality: Where Is Iraq After Nearly 3 Years of War? 03/02/2006 Rich Man's President? Look Harder The latest survey of family incomes suggests there was something to this "Compassionate Conservative" thing after all... 03/02/2006 The Caliphate's Rebirth? Islamists need not consolidate a great-power imperial core to exert influence and expand their reach... 03/02/2006 Grover Cared Taking disaster relief lessons from a compassionate conservative... 03/02/2006 Set Your "Setback" Aside Afghanistan's a good-looking work in progress... 03/02/2006 The risks of proactive US diplomacy US foreign service officers should encourage elections, not shape them... 03/02/2006 Not ready for college 03/02/2006 The ports 'promise letter' that wasn't The Bush administration's answer to questions about "intelligence gaps" in the ports deal is as thin as a sheet of paper... 03/02/2006 Reforming reform Unintended consequences of campaign laws... 03/02/2006 Put Your Money Where Your Theory Is Excessive respect for academic opinion has led to avoidable human misery... 03/01/2006 Hot Swedish Models! Economic ones, that is. Some are actually worth emulating... 03/01/2006 Making Great Decisions in Business and Life A little clear thinking about economics goes a long way... 03/01/2006 Tolerance, If Not Respect Living with the beliefs of others—even Danish cartoonists... 03/01/2006 The Lenten Bookshelf Forty days' reading... 03/01/2006 There Are No Cracks in the Broken Windows Ideological academics are trying to undermine a perfectly good idea... 03/01/2006 Those uppity states Fingers a-wagging, the nation's governors were in Washington this week to tell the White House and Congress how to do their jobs better... 03/01/2006 Black eye for the Red Cross Charitable institutions need to do their part... 03/01/2006 The redistricting case The Supreme Court is set to hear the Texas Democrats' challenge to the redrawn congressional district map enacted in 2003... 03/01/2006 |
Cal Thomas: Swinging for the fences on abortion 02/28/2006 Russia and The End of History The question is not what Russia wants, but how patient it will be in getting it... 02/28/2006 Russia's Global Roulette Secretary Rice should warn Russia about its risky Middle East foreign policy... 02/28/2006 E-Commerce: The Counter-Revolution Physical location is dwindling as a proper parameter for levying taxes... 02/28/2006 Going Nativist? The next step for Dems... 02/28/2006 Open for Business We've had a disaster, but now we have an opportunity... 02/28/2006 Europe must find a home for its Muslims 02/28/2006 A leaner Fat Tuesday 02/28/2006 The Internet jihad A troubling video of an insurgent sniper in Iraq known only as "Juba" is spreading across the Internet, the latest indication of the frightening success of the Internet jihad... 02/28/2006 Sorting out the ports deal Bush flatfooted while Congress falls for knee-jerk reaction... 02/28/2006 Bill O'Reilly: Reporting on the ports 02/27/2006 George Will: Attack on free speech is real issue 02/27/2006 The Kyoto Bubble? A lot of people are getting very rich as a result of policy changes, but there is substantial risk that we are seeing an energy frenzy develop... 02/27/2006 Bipartisan Hysteria Is Not Security Securing U.S. ports at home should be our last line of defense. Not our first... 02/27/2006 A CIA Leak Trial Without the CIA Leak Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald says it just doesn't matter... 02/27/2006 Jihad, Jihad, Everywhere 02/27/2006 Finding a passage to India this time 02/27/2006 Port security hysteria cools, opening an opportunity 45-day review offers a chance at transparency, reason... 02/27/2006 A deal on the ports A deal over ports is being hatched in Washington. The question is whether the deal and the uproar of the past week will persuade President Bush to make immediate and necessary maritime-security upgrades... 02/27/2006 Fall on a Summers' day The Lilliputians on campus get their man... 02/27/2006 The Unhealthy World Bank Paul Wolfowitz needs to get back to basics... 02/24/2006 Eating Some Crow on Fat The last few weeks have been unkind to the hypotheses of the lifestyle medicine crowd... 02/24/2006 Hail to the Veep, Any Veep In defense of a powerful Vice Presidency... 02/24/2006 Port Hysteria The furor over Dubai Ports World is a distraction... 02/24/2006 Overboard Election-year tempest over Dubai... 02/24/2006 Breaching China's great firewall 02/24/2006 Back in the regime-change business Promoting democracy alone won't help the US contain Iran's extremism... 02/24/2006 As American as humble pie U.S. Olympic Team has done well in the medal count... 02/24/2006 Democrats and profiling Profiling by nationality, informed by a little history, is only just and prudent. We now have the Democratic imprimatur on it... 02/24/2006 Britain vs. UAE Does Bush know the difference? 02/24/2006 George Will: Smile if (and only if) you're conservative 02/23/2006 Cal Thomas: America idolized 02/23/2006 Sticks and Summers All in all, not a bad start on the week for the pietistic right and left... 02/23/2006 What's Bin Laden's Co-Pay Like? Al-Qaida offers medical benefits and paid vacations... 02/23/2006 An Unassuming Decision The Court's recent decision on religious freedom is excellent... 02/23/2006 Al Qaeda Blows It This is a lot worse than those Danish cartoons... 02/23/2006 When freedom's just another weapon 02/23/2006 A formula for economic growth Economic growth now is evidently advancing considerably faster than the Fed's forecast for the year and well above what Mr. Bernanke considers to be the economy's "sustainable potential..." 02/23/2006 Madison's conspiracy District elections hurt Dems' odds to capture House... 02/23/2006 The lucky, yet average, 8 It's the worst bet in America, but at least it looks like the right people won... 02/23/2006 Kennan's Comeback In the Middle East, probably by default, we will likely end up embracing a different sort of "neocon" worldview—"neo-containment..." 02/22/2006 Libertarian Paradise Or what I did on my winter vacation... 02/22/2006 Any Port in This Storm I have been utterly stupefied by revelations of what the popular radio talk show host Michael Savage has called "Portgate..." 02/22/2006 Company Policy This port deal won't happen... 02/22/2006 Port Insecurity? On the Dubai port deal... 02/22/2006 Fanatical Swedish Feminists The stuff about chopping men to bits might have been a bit much... 02/22/2006 Give cable TV some healthy rivals 02/22/2006 What high schoolers need: Cheat sheet on universities 02/22/2006 Browsing in China 02/22/2006 The 65 percent solution A new fad, called the "65 percent solution," is sweeping through school-reform circles... 02/22/2006 Cal Thomas: Any port in the terrorist storm 02/21/2006 New Economy, Old Math A modern economy needs modern statistical methods... 02/21/2006 Should We Despair the Lurch Left? Despite concerns, centrist economic policies are now very much the rule rather than the exception... 02/21/2006 Those Dirty Rats Worried about the Times' aspartame and cancer scare? Drink up, you'll live longer... 02/21/2006 Turn Your Head and Cough Are cough medicines useless at best and dangerous at worst? 02/21/2006 Hurricane Blame Look to Congress, too... 02/21/2006 Supreme Clean Water Day The big environmental cases on Justice Alito's first day of argument... 02/21/2006 Encourage ethics in the laboratory 02/21/2006 The Good Ol'(ympic) Days TV ratings are about as disappointing as Bode Miller's skiing... 02/21/2006 Turning the tide in Darfur Deteriorating conditions require Bush's leadership... 02/21/2006 Where stand the Democrats? In the House, with an incumbent-re-election rate of 98.2 percent in 2004 (99.2 percent outside of redistricted Texas), the conventional wisdom holds that Democrats face an uphill battle to recapture the majority... 02/21/2006 Bill O'Reilly: The Good, the Bad, and the pup tent 02/20/2006 George Will: The GOP's harbinger: Black candidates alter the landscape 02/20/2006 In the Interests of Stakeholders...and Steakholders All cattle-producing nations will still see occasional cases of mad cow. So what should be done? 02/20/2006 The Father Without a Son It was not the written document called the Constitution that protected us from tyranny; it was the shining example of a single man... 02/20/2006 "He Shall Direct Thy Paths to the Weapons of Mass Destruction." The former U.N. inspector behind the "Saddam Tapes" says God revealed WMD sites to him... 02/20/2006 Superfluous Sarbanes-Oxley This post-Enron corporate governance law is more than many businesses can handle... 02/20/2006 Presidents, Today Good advice... 02/20/2006 Forced to deal with Hamas, U.S. and allies walk tightrope 02/20/2006 Ehrlich and the Democratic Left Thanks to Maryland Democratic Party chief Terry Lierman, House of Delegates Speaker Michael Busch and Senate President Mike Miller, Gov. Robert Ehrlich will have no shortage of issues to run on this year... 02/20/2006 Respecting the Constitution For all the divisiveness about the president and the Constitution, it's good to have the document in the news again... 02/20/2006 Perversions Insured President George W. Bush just promised another $4.2 billion to New Orleans... 02/17/2006 How to Get Condi to Power The "Condistas" have failed to realize the tremendous obstacles in the way of a potential Rice candidacy... 02/17/2006 In the Interests of Stakeholders...and Steakholders All cattle-producing nations will still see occasional cases of mad cow. So what should be done? 02/17/2006 Why No Nukes for Iran? The rules of the game... 02/17/2006 Pro-Choice How about two distinct visions? 02/17/2006 Toppling Tehran isn't a tea party 02/17/2006 Internet love In an era when online dating has gotten respectable, I have a confession to make. I've fallen in love with the Internet... 02/17/2006 Prison problems boil anew, raising deeper questions As new photos of abuse emerge, where's the accountability? 02/17/2006 The high costs of action and inaction American policy-makers will have to weigh the costs of launching military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities... 02/17/2006 Cartoon network Why Islam is different... 02/17/2006 Cal Thomas: Al Gore's diminished capacity 02/16/2006 George Will: No checks, many imbalances 02/16/2006 Dutch Treat A clear frontrunner has emerged for the 2008 Republican primary: Ronald Wilson Reagan... 02/16/2006 For Their Own Good? 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