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Month: May 2010

  • ObamaCare, How Do We Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

    Note to Congress: Avoid passing bizarrely complicated, economy-transforming legislation that you have not read, especially in the face of overwhelming public opposition. Americans now favor repeal by a margin of almost 2-to-1.

  • Will the Oil Disaster be “Obama’s Katrina”?

    In The Corner, Yuval Levin has a sensible take on the tendency to blame the government for anything that goes wrong. We who live in the 21st century West have the least messy, least dangerous, least uncertain lives of any human beings in history. We should be very grateful for that, but we should not […]

  • Rand Paul: Giving Libertarianism a Bad Name

    Taranto aptly called it “a rookie mistake” when newly nominated Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul told an interviewer that he was troubled by the fact that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which Paul otherwise supported –  crossed the line of regulating behavior by private businesses.  However intellectually coherent Paul’s position might be in […]

  • My Hero, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, on Islamic Death Threats

    In the midst of the controversy over "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" it’s important to keep in mind the nature of the man being mocked. The Prophet spread his message at the point of the sword, and apostasy was only one of many transgressions for which the penalty was death.

  • “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” May Be Better as a Concept than as Something Actually to Do

    I have one quibble with the contest at Reason — they seem to have cropped out a couple of essential dots. If you enlarge the image, print it out and connect the dots, you’ll find that dots No. 31 and 32 are missing. Since they’re at the bottom of the image, they presumably would establish Mohammed’s beard — without which he looks more like Sonic the Hedgehog.

  • Surprise! “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” Draws Threats

    The theory behind "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" is that the jihadis can’t kill all of us. Let’s hope there are no casualties at all.

  • Faisal Shahzad: The Terrorist Next Door

    Shahzad was living the American Dream. Somehow this well-educated, solidly middle-class family man was so affected by a poisonous ideology that he drove a car bomb to Times Square and tried to kill random people — who might well have included attractive young families like his own.

  • Ajami Offers Wisdom on Islam and the Middle East

    "We can be proud of what we have done in Iraq. America has midwifed a binational state — that means Arab and Kurd — and we have midwifed a democratic entity in the heart of the Middle East…. I think history will be immensely kind to what he [President Bush] did in Iraq."

  • Brush With Greatness: Elena Elenadana Kagan

    I’d like to be able to say that I knew she was destined for great things, but I had no such insight. I will say that years ago, when I read she had been named Dean of Harvard Law School, that I was impressed but not particularly surprised.

  • The Coming Collapse of Employer-Based Health Coverage

    I celebrated when it became clear the public "option" would not be part of the final health care bill. But even in the legislation that was passed, the incentives for companies to wash their hands and walk away from health care will be overwhelming.