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Unlock Keystone
Keystone XL is an ambitious project that would send Canadian crude from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, where the United States’ expansive refining capacity would transform it into gasoline, diesel, and other valuable petroleum commodities. The pipeline itself would be over 1,000 miles long and 36 inches in diameter,...
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Gore’s Traveling Salvation Show
Al Gore is at South by Southwest. You can tell by the length of the line. The former vice president is so popular here that hopeful attendees are stretched around two sides of Austin’s cavernous convention center. A docent inspects the ranks, explaining to those at the back that the hall is already full. But the...
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The Dogma of Multiculturalism
Among the many irrational ideas about racial and ethnic groups that have polarized societies over the centuries and around the world, few have been more irrational and counterproductive than the current dogma of multiculturalism. Intellectuals who imagine that they are helping racial or ethnic groups that lag behind...
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Bloomberg’s Soda Folly
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on large-size sugary drinks at certain establishments, colloquially known as the soda ban, is a lesson in how to make your cause look ridiculous. Bloomberg hoped the ban would spark a nationwide crackdown on sugary beverages. Instead, it became the subject of widespread...
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Keep the Pressure on Democrats
Representative Tom McClintock (R., Calif.) has a modest proposal for the House GOP leadership: Keep Democrats constantly astride the horns of a dilemma. “We have seen several major pieces of legislation reported to the House floor, such as the Violence Against Women Act [VAWA], that divide Republicans while they...
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Common Core as Trojan Horse
Last week, I reported on the federal government’s massive new student-tracking database, which was created as part of the nationalized Common Core standards scheme. The bad news: GOP “leadership” continues to ignore or, worse, enable this Nanny State racket. (Hello, Jeb Bush.)Keep reading this post . . .
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‘Leading by Example’ and the Keystone Pipeline
While many have long seen America as the global bad boy, everybody likes Canada. If Uncle Sam tucks his pack of Marlboros under his T-shirt sleeve and plays by his own rules, the Canadian moose — or whatever their Uncle Sam equivalent is — always wears his blue blazer and school tie and does his chores without being...
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Hoping for the Real Deal in Francis
My favorite talk-show host is John Batchelor, whose often expressed, playful worry is that he isn’t being cynical enough. The wisest (or is it the most cynical?) among us recognize that a degree of caution is always advisable when dealing with fellow human beings, and that the world has never lacked for frauds,...
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Codify the Drone War
In choice of both topic and foil, Rand Paul’s now-legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow: Does the president have the constitutional authority to send a drone-launched Hellfire missile through your kitchen — you, a good citizen of Topeka to whom POTUS...
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The First American Pope
Rome — The swift election of Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, S.J., as bishop of Rome is replete with good news — and not a little irony. To reverse the postmodern batting order, let’s begin with the good news. A true man of God. The wheelchair-bound beggar at the corner of Via della Conciliazione and Via dell’Erba...
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Cardinals Shouldn’t Listen to Journalists
As the College of Cardinals met in conclave this week to elect a new pope, they got plenty of advice from American journalists. The Catholic Church, the journalists said, should open up the priesthood to women and allow priests to marry. It should abandon its ban on contraception and endorse same-sex marriage. It...
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Schumer’s Transfer Tyranny
Yesterday, S. 374, or the “Protecting Responsible Gun Sellers Act of 2013” as it has been inexplicably termed, passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by ten votes to eight. If it were to become law, S. 374 would usher in what advocates refer to as a system of “universal background checks.” It would do a lot...
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A Welcome Francis
We have a pope! It wasn’t only the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics who tuned into this historic moment — it seemed that most everyone who had access to radio, TV, or the Internet was watching. From the editor’s seat at a century-old Franciscan publication, I found it a bit of a surprise to hear a Jesuit cardinal,...
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Michigan Unions vs. Teachers
Angela Steffke, a special-education teacher at Kennedy High School, knows exactly what her students are fighting to overcome. The pretty, delicate blonde says she couldn’t read until she was eleven, and that she wears a hearing aid to this day. Her experience inspired her to make a difference in the classroom —...
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The Democrats’ Budget
Senate Democrats on Wednesday officially unveiled a budget resolution for the first time in nearly four years. It presents a stark contrast to the latest offering by House Republicans, which achieves balance within a decade without raising taxes. The Democratic proposal never balances, and calls for a $1 trillion...
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A Francis for Our Time
In choosing his papal name, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, invokes the complex example of one of the Church’s most illustrious and beloved saints, Francis of Assisi. Saint Francis, who preferred poverty, or simplicity, to the comfort he was born into in central Italy in the late twelfth century,...
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A New World Order
The disintegration of the Western Alliance was a predictable response to the end of the Cold War and the disappearance of a threat to the security of the entire democratic world. For most of the 20th century, first an imperialist and then a rabidly nationalist and racist Germany, and then Soviet Russia and...
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A False Dichotomy
The desire of intellectuals for some grand theory that will explain complex patterns by a solitary and simple factor has produced many ideas that do not stand up under scrutiny, but which have nevertheless had widespread acceptance — and sometimes catastrophic consequences — in countries around the world. The theory...
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Plain mean, &c.
This business of canceling White House tours — it’s just mean. There is a great deal in government that can be trimmed. To cancel White House tours? To keep schoolkids out of what, in a way, is their national home? Mean. Stunt-like. Point-scoring. Small. Mean. It’s mean in more than one sense: “offensive, selfish,...
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The New Affirmative Action
Sometime in the first years of the new millennium, “global warming” evolved into “climate change.” Amid growing controversies over the planet’s past temperatures, Al Gore and other activists understood that human-induced “climate change” could explain almost any weather extremity — droughts or floods, temperatures...
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St. Patrick’s Day with Edmund Burke
Perhaps because St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, I’ve found myself re-reading Edmund Burke and Conor Cruise O’Brien — and drinking Irish whiskey. I first became acquainted with these three sources of stimulation back in 1978. That was also my first brush with terrorism. I was a young foreign correspondent sent to...
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Persecution and the Pope
Pope Francis I should be a strong defender of persecuted religious believers of all faiths. The world is in dire need of such leadership. Religious persecution is the gravest human-rights abuse of our day, both in its global reach and the numbers affected and in its implications for regional stability and world...
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Perez’s Problems
If you thought Chuck Hagel’s confirmation battle was rough, just wait for the blood on the floor if Thomas Perez is appointed to be secretary of labor. Perez currently heads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which oversees voting rights, and sources say he is “poised” to become President Obama’s pick...
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The Left’s Last Hurrah in Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, the Left is at it again. An election for the state supreme court threatens to become a last-gasp effort to overturn Governor Scott Walker’s historic collective-bargaining reforms. Two years ago, liberals poured millions of dollars into another supreme-court election, in which Madison lawyer Joanne...
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Republicans for Gay Marriage?
Jan van Lohuizen, a former George W. Bush pollster with a Ph.D. from Rice, is on a mission to show that opposition to same-sex marriage is a political and demographic dead end, propped up by a shrinking core of the old, the undereducated, and the highly churched. Bitter clingers, if you will, to the idea of...
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Ryan Returns
No sooner had Paul Ryan formally unveiled his latest version of the House Republican budget Tuesday morning than Democrats and media critics started tearing it to shreds. It was a “fraudulent” document, advocating “class warfare on behalf of the rich” and “social engineering with a side of deficit reduction,” whose...
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Ryan’s New Vision
Paul Ryan and House Republicans are in a familiar quandary: They know that it is necessary, both economically and politically, for them to introduce a budget with reforms sufficient to place the national debt on a path toward stabilization. They also know that such a budget has only the most theoretical chance of...
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The Right Step from Ryan
In the kingdom of the blind, according to Erasmus, the one-eyed man is king. And in a land of big spenders, the budget proposed yesterday by Representative Paul Ryan is a model of fiscal rectitude. Let’s be honest about one thing: The budget introduced yesterday has about as much chance of becoming law as Nancy...
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Bean Counters vs. History
Once we recognize that large differences in achievement among races, nations, and civilizations have been the rule, not the exception, throughout recorded history, there is at least some hope of rational thought — and perhaps even some constructive efforts to help everyone advance. Even such a British patriot as...
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Perez the Partisan
The Beltway is buzzing over President Obama’s likely nomination of Thomas E. Perez as the next head of the U.S. Department of Labor. But when Americans find out whom Perez has lobbied for most aggressively over the course of his extremist left-wing “social justice” career, they’ll be wondering which country Obama’s...
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