Thanks, Mitt!

In the wake of Huckabee’s crushing success in Kansas, Mitt Romney may be questioning his willingness to suspend his campaign in the name of wartime solidarity. The great Romney-led rebellion was just beginning, fueled ...

George W. Bush, Protectionist

  “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big Three “to make sure the economy ...

Do They Still “€œHate Our Freedom”€?

Wait a second—might the terrorists in Mumbai have had actual political objectives? Are you suggesting that they don’t just hate freedom and wealth? Who has ever heard of such a thing? <object ...

Hope for the Republican Party”€”From a Liberal

Kyle Robbins’ first e-mail made me smile: “Can’t say I really saw this interaction coming,” he wrote. That makes two of us, Kyle. Last month, I spent a few days with students in the Media Fellows ...

Endstation Moscow

The terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 mark a very significant turning point in American history. The attacks took place near the beginning of a new American presidency, and the repercussions have defined that ...

No Exit

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday, and in congressional testimony later in the week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured all that thanks to his accurate foresight and deft use of the Fed’s policy toolkit, he ...

Our Expiring Economy

Tent cities springing up all over America are filling with the homeless unemployed from the worst economy since the 1930s. While Americans live in tents, the Obama government has embarked on a $1 billion crash program to ...

Concern at Home and Abroad

It was precisely Feb. 5, 2009, when I broke my self-imposed rule. It was not a very old rule, but it was serious. I had told myself that I would not criticize the new president of the United States, Barack Obama—at ...

Do You Really Want a “€œConversation About Race”€?

Lecturing a conscript conclave of Justice Department bureaucrats, Attorney General Eric Holder last week called America a “nation of cowards” for not spending more time talking about race. Reading his speech, ...

Smearing Scheuer

If you want to see the true heart and soul of the neoconservative style, go on over to Commentary—where else?—and direct your attention to one Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior editor, who is calling for former CIA ...

Sanger Once Again

Having just fished in troubled waters, by jumping into Marcus Epstein's debate with his critics over Planned Parenthood and its agendas, I feel obliged to state my views in a more nuanced way than I did yesterday as an ...

911 Truths

If 9/11 "€œTruthers"€ are wacky for believing the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government, what about the conspiracy theorists who tried to convince Americans that 9/11 was orchestrated by Saddam Hussein? ...

A Gratifying Response

Well, the responses have begun to come in to our newly-launched site, and we are deeply gratified at the number of positive comments we have received"€”not ALL of them from Taki's friends in the Vendee. It's apparent that ...

Back in Britain

Does absence make the heart grow fonder? I’m not so sure. I’ve been away from London for one year, and was dreading the return. The grey sky, the Dickensian streets, the fat-bellied lager louts, the knife culture, ...

Darwin, Alone, Is Not Enough

Ben Stein’s movie Expelled has generated lots of commentary, most of it negative.  Many have claimed that it is obscurantist and hostile to science, a veritable first shot in a wider war against knowledge.  ...

Leaving the Bagel Behind

Having been a sportsman throughout my youth, I learned early on never to second guess athletes. One day you can’t miss a backhand even if you try, as they say—and the next you’re flailing like a dowager. Fans ...

Landslide

Whilst I still think it unlikely—though not improbable—that McCain will win title to the presidency next Tuesday, it would seem that the burgeoning hubris emanating from the Obama camp is beginning to grate a ...

Gaza: A Prison Riot

The Middle East now faces a disaster that goes far wider than Gaza. Above it all stands the disaster of Iraq. The real significance of the Gaza debacle is that America and Britain have lost all influence in the Middle East ...

National Cliff Notes

Last year, I noted that National Review had pretended not to notice Pat Buchanan’s bestselling book State of Emergency. Back then, National Review was at least pretending to support immigration restriction, so they ...

Does the Future Belong to China?

In his 1937 “Great Contemporaries,” Winston Churchill wrote, “Whatever else may be thought about (Hitler’s) exploits, they are among the most remarkable in the whole history of the world.” ...

We Only Mock What We Love

Imus is an unpleasant fellow—one could never take him to a gentleman’s club, for example—but he didn’t say anything black radio jockeys don’t say every day about us whites. And it was meant, after all, to be a ...

Ron Paul: The Apple of His Supporters”€™ Eyes

In the comments to my post “All Your Thoughts Are Belong To Us,” “MS” (an appropriate pseudonym) remarked, “I"€™ll never understand why liberals like Apple so much.  As if it's the ...


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