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Syria: Deteriorating Options
The Obama administration, after months of prevarications on Syria, has signaled a willingness to do more than bluster during press conferences and send humanitarian supplies. Supportive rhetoric and blankets are clearly not enough, and military options are under review. But U.S. options in Syria have narrowed from...
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Khalid Muntasir: A Tiny Green Shoot
To understand the magnitude of what Egyptian columnist Khalid Muntasir has done, it helps to get a taste of what most Egyptian and Arab media are like. In Egypt, expressions of vicious anti-Semitism are not just acceptable, they are commonplace. Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader and now president of...
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The Fact-Free Gun-Control Crusade
Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun-control laws have in fact reduced murders? Think about all the states and communities within states, as well as foreign countries, that either have tight gun-control laws or...
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Sragow’s Leftist Rants
Last week, a student at the University of Southern California released 15 minutes of excerpts from videos he had made of his political-science professor, Darry Sragow. Here is some of what the USC professor said to his students:Keep reading this post . . .
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Jackie Robinson’s Achievement
Before he triumphed over prejudice, Jackie Robinson triumphed over himself. The signal achievements of the pioneering baseball star, whose story is recounted in the top-grossing biopic 42, were perseverance and self-control. In the face of hatred from fans and opposing players, he showed no anger. In response to...
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Falling Gold Is a Good Thing
In the last two days gold has plunged so deep that it’s being called the worst drop — at least in percentage terms — in 30 years. That brings us back to the early Reagan period, when falling gold was regarded as a good thing. Back then, lower gold showed inflation coming down after the horrible 1970s. It also showed...
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Why Republicans Should Never Raise Taxes
Republican elected officials should never raise taxes. Never. Ever.Keep reading this post . . .
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Understanding Gosnell
‘They were filled with expectation . . . the expectation that there was Something More than the atrocious evil that had befallen them . . . Something More than the darkness . . . Something More than despair.” So said Father Peter John Cameron, a Dominican priest and editor of Magnificat, a daily devotional, to the...
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The Media After Gosnell
If there were an award for Most Constructive Shaming of the News Media, the clear winner would be Kirsten Powers, the brave Fox News pundit and Daily Beast columnist. Last Thursday, she called out the mainstream media for failing to adequately report on the ongoing trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia...
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North Korea: A Prison without Bars
North Korea’s Kim dynasty considers religion a hindrance to the nation’s socialist evolution. For 50 years, its secret police has waged a brutal campaign to eradicate religious belief. It has nearly succeeded. But the numbers of Christian believers are now slowly rising (maybe even in the low hundreds of thousands)...
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With Cuccinelli, Door to Door
Fairfax, Va. — Ken Cuccinelli couldn’t watch the video clip of President Obama going 2 for 22 in shooting free throws. As a basketball fan, he says, he found it too painful. “I sort of felt for him,” Cuccinelli recalls. “There are just some things about being president that are difficult.” “I don’t care whether...
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The Abortion Distortion
The legal battle in three separate federal trials that have followed President Bush’s signing of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act in November 2003 illustrates how the abortion-rights lobby perverts the law, co-opts the medical profession, and debases the very language we speak. By controlling and distorting the...
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Built to Spill?
These days, you’re not a story until you have a parody Twitter account. By that measure, the Arkansas oil spill caused by the rupture of ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline has made it. Behold the modestly followed feed of “@ExxonCares,” a fake PR operation doing fake damage control. It’s often funny enough — even if, by...
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Tax Cuts Aren't Everything
April 15 is Tax Day in America. But it seems like every day is Tax Day on the right. Activists, policymakers, and wonks devote an incredible amount of thought and energy to fighting tax-hike efforts and to devising ways to reform the current tax code. During the GOP presidential primaries, not one Republican...
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A Gang of Six Plots a Revolt
Representative Steve King, a 63-year-old Iowa Republican, is restless and irritated, and it shows. He’s here, stewing in a hearing room in the Rayburn building, because he and his friends in the House’s tea-party bloc feel disconnected from the debate on comprehensive immigration reform. “A number of us have sat...
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Smearing Mitch McConnell
Last week, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who is up for reelection in 2014, was the target of what appears to be a coordinated liberal smear campaign. Such partisan teamwork is certainly not unprecedented or exclusive to the Left. However, the recent activity warrants some additional scrutiny of the various...
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The Chained CPI: A Bad Deal All Around
The Chain-Weighted Consumer Price Index (or chained CPI, for short), which President Obama included as part of his formal budget proposal, seems like a no-brainer for any White House–GOP grand bargain on the budget deficit. After all, the chained CPI is a better measure of inflation than the indices the federal...
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Rubber-Stamping Immigration Reform
‘Without legislative language,” Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy declared in a statement on March 20, “there is nothing for the Judiciary Committee to consider this week at our markup.” The subject of the statement was immigration legislation, and his irritation was understandable.Keep reading this...
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Baseball Mogul 2014
Many sports video games, especially for consoles like the Xbox or PlayStation, are action-oriented. In such bestselling series as MLB: The Show (baseball), Madden NFL (football), and NBA2K (basketball), players have to go onto the diamond, field, or court to do cyber-battle with the best professional athletes in the...
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No Job Too Small
‘No Job Too Big Or Too Small,” the sign reads. The sign belongs to a handyman company, and its employees will do anything from pulling up tree stumps to tearing down small buildings. If it requires labor but does not require a special license, they are your men. The motto is slightly redolent of the New Testament —...
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Gun Control, Compromised
The Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013, as proposed by Republican senators Pat Toomey and Mark Kirk and Democrats Joe Manchin and Charles Schumer, deals partly in symbolism. It “reaffirms,” for instance, an existing ban on government firearms registries, and establishes Washington’s...
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From Dehumanizing Word Games to Gosnell
In Philadelphia, at a human abattoir on Lancaster Avenue, is where it ends, not where it starts. It starts with the perversion of language. It starts when the icons of a dissipated culture reduce a baby to a “fetus.” From there, Yeats’s blood-dimmed tide rolls rapidly in. Before long, a baby is not a person but a...
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Before 42
The new film 42 celebrates Jackie Robinson’s courageous crossing of major-league baseball’s color line. The integration of the national pastime was one of the most important events in the history of the civil-rights movement. But Jackie Robinson was actually the third black player in the history of major-league...
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Obama’s Growth-Busting Budget
No matter how you slice the Obama budget pie, the inescapable fact is that the president wants to get rid of the roughly $1 trillion budget-cutting sequester and substitute in a $1 trillion-plus tax hike. In other words, more spending, more taxing. Growth-busting. The GOP should just say no. And let me provide some...
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Mrs. Thatcher's Losing Victory
A few hours after Margaret Thatcher’s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, “THE BITCH IS DEAD.” Amazingly, they managed to spell all four...
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The NRA of Automatic Weapons
Jeff Follodor was en route to West Point, Ky., for the biannual Knob Creek machine-gun shoot and military gun show when I spoke to him about the booming machine-gun business. As with semiautomatic weapons, machine-gun sales have spiked in recent years, and an enthusiastic culture of collectors and devotees now...
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Sessions vs. the Gang of Eight
Marco Rubio and the so-called Gang of Eight’s push for comprehensive immigration reform has drawn sharp criticism from conservative skeptics. Perhaps foremost among them is Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who has spent the last several weeks trying to galvanize his colleagues in an effort to warn of the potential...
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A Budget to Reject
The Obama administration has taken great pains to cultivate the impression in the media that the president’s 2014 budget plan is a genuine effort at compromise. According to the president’s team, if the GOP were to reject this offer, it would be a sure sign that Republicans were not interested in budget-cutting, or...
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Kasich Veering Left
Most political observers in Ohio believe Governor John Kasich wants to run for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. If that’s true, he’s approaching it in an odd way, alienating much of his conservative base by making controversial tax proposals and proposing to expand Medicaid — although he now appears...
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The Case for Supporting Assad
Analysts agree that “the erosion of the Syrian regime’s capabilities is accelerating,” that it continues to retreat step-by-step, making a rebel breakthrough and an Islamist victory increasingly likely. In response, I am changing my policy recommendation from neutrality to something that causes me, as a humanitarian...
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