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- Obama Has Failed His Words -- By: Jonah Goldberg December 23, 2009
  On his own terms, President Obama is a failure.During the presidential campaign, he fought hammer and tongs with Hillary Clinton over the best way to govern. Clinton, casting herself as a battle-scarred political veteran, argued that diligence, dedicated detail work, and working the system were essential for success.Obama, donning the mantle of a redeemer de […]
- It's Not Over -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru December 24, 2009
  Democrats are doing a victory lap. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says that with Senate passage of the Reid bill, “Health-care reform is now a matter of when.” The press is doing its best to convey the impression that Republicans are throwing in the towel -- follow the link in the last sentence to see a good example of such reporting. Pundits have moved […]
- Unhealthy Arrogance -- By: Thomas Sowell December 29, 2009
  The only thing healthy about Congress’s health-insurance legislation is the healthy skepticism about it shown by most of the public, as revealed by polls. What is most unhealthy about this legislation is the raw arrogance in the way it was conceived and passed. Supporters of government health insurance call its passage “historic.” Past attempts to pass such […]
- BYRON YORK: Who’s responsible for the Senate’s middle-of-the-night vote?… December 21, 2009
  BYRON YORK: Who’s responsible for the Senate’s middle-of-the-night vote?
- 100 Reasons Why Climate Change is Natural December 21, 2009
  The UK's Daily Express just published "Climate Change Is Natural: 100 Reasons Why." Here's a sampling: 70) Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote: "The...
- Repealing Obamacare December 20, 2009
  C.K. MacLeod writes at Hot Air: Dismantling, impeding, nullifying, and, in the end, fully repealing this bill does not require 60 Republicans or 60 conservatives: Greater legal, legislative, and historical minds than mine must already be studying the precedents and gaming the scenarios, but we can observe here that, if passing popular legislation in the Sena […]
- Are the Wheels Coming Off? December 15, 2009
  In Washington, it's being rumored that there is no health care "reform" bill for which Harry Reid can get 60 votes. Meanwhile, in Nevada, Reid is trailing every Republican challenger by an almost identical margin. The Democrats are dying on this issue: the current Rasmussen survey shows opponents of the Democrats' plan--whatever it may be […]
- Slipshod Social Democracy -- By: Rich Lowry December 15, 2009
  EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com, or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.Harry Reid can rightly claim to be making history.If he passes health-care reform, he’ll depend on a series of historic “firsts.” It’d be […]
- JAMES TARANTO: “Whose job was it to make ObamaCare popular? The politicians who backed ObamaCare, o… December 15, 2009
  JAMES TARANTO: “Whose job was it to make ObamaCare popular? The politicians who backed ObamaCare, of course. If 61% of Americans oppose the Senate bill, it is because the senators who support it have failed to make their case. It’s hard to see how someone who thinks they had a good case to make can excuse this failure, much less present it as an achievement […]
- Socialism in Stages -- By: Dan Oliver Jr. December 15, 2009
  America debated three strategies during the Cold War. The Right wanted “roll back” -- dreams of Patton driving his tank into Red Square. The Left wanted détente -- which is French for “surrender.” The country loosely followed containment, a program outlined by George Kennan in 1946, which argued that the political contradictions of the Soviet state would eve […]