We Gotta Get Out of That Place

With Egypt's melodramatic implosion, many Americans are asking, "€œWhat has this got to do with us?"€ The short answer: everything. We propped up Mubarak because he's good ...

Google as Fat Elvis

Every company"€”no matter how trendy or cool, no matter how many Goth girls on rollerskates they employ, no matter how many simpering genius autistics in silver pants they have ...

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A Christian Business in the Left’s Crosshairs

Here’s a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don’t comport with yours. ...

Sputnik Moment—or GM Moment?

What America was to the world in 1950, General Motors was to the nation. It was the largest and most successful company with the largest number of employees. It paid the highest ...

And the Debt Bomb Ticks On

With his approval rating moving up to 50 percent and higher in some polls, the pundits are all agreed. President Obama has turned the corner. He is now the winter-book favorite in ...

Hu Jintao and Barack Obama

How the Chinese Must See Us

“O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us,” wrote the poet Robert Burns. As Hu Jintao wings his way home, America’s hectoring ...

College is a Waste of Time

A new book called Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses just proved what I"€™ve been screaming since I graduated: The college experience has become a total ...

Genomics: China’s New Killer App

This week’s state visit by Hu Jintao, China’s “president”"€”I prefer to say “head apparatchik,” since “president” implies an ...

On Guarding the Public’s Right to Ignorance and Meeting With Julian Assange

We must hang together, gentlemen…else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. "€”Benjamin Franklin When a journalist disappears in Russia or is murdered in Iraqi ...

When the Punishment Fits the Crime

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time"€” To let the punishment fit the crime"€” The punishment fit the crime. Was that a New Year's resolution of Prisons Minister ...

Requiem for a Patriot

“Conservative Tycoon ... Dies at 95,” said the New York Times headline on New Year’s Eve about the death of Roger Milliken. Clearly, the headline writer did not ...

Girly Nation

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, on hearing that a football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings had been canceled due to snow: There is a magic to ...

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England: A Nation of Whiners in Search of Obscurity

Now is the winter of our discontent Made ever more wretched by this lack of sun. Caught in a blighted, anarchic winter's grip, Britain is beset by swine flu, influenza B, H2N3, ...

“€œCreating”€ Jobs With Stimulus Money

The $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009, has been largely forgotten, despite the fact that ...

Internet Access is Not a “Civil Right”

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our “access” to x, y or z, what they’re really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As ...

Psychos and Zombies: Mutant Spawn of the Great Recession

Last Tuesday night, a fat, rumpled, unemployed 56-year-old man named Clay Duke invaded a Florida school-board meeting and put on a clumsy show of violent political theater before ...


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