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As GOP Looks for Leaders and Ideas, It Should Consider “Opportunity Conservatism”
K-Lo in The Corner linked the other day to a year-0ld National Review article about a potential next-generation GOP leader, Ted Cruz, the former Solicitor General of Texas. Turns out he’s Princeton Class of 1992,…
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More from Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Mohammed’s Image
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls for a campaign of solidarity with the makers of South Park, who were the targets of veiled death threats after daring to invoke the name of…
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May 20 is “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”
The suits at Comedy Central have aided and abetted terrorism by censoring an episode of South Park to remove all references to Mohammed. They followed in the courageous footsteps of the Yale University Press, which,…
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“Hide the Decline”: The Remake
I started noodling with a blog post about the viral video “Hide the Decline” when it first came out late last year in the wake of the Climategate disclosures. The video, produced in a low-rent…
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New Jersey Is “A Failed Experiment”
Who is this trash-talking, Jersey-bashing heretic attacking my beloved adopted state? Well, he’s the new Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. And I find myself liking him more every time I hear him speak.
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Shameless Self-Promotion: Episcopal Edition
I just realized I haven’t bragged about this yet. It turns out I’m an award-winning writer. .
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Obama Will Not Stop Iran’s Nuke Program — But Surely Israel Will Try
William Kristol argues persuasively that “President Barack Obama [has] made it clear that he’s resigned to a nuclear Iran.” Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, Obama told George Stephanopoulos: If the question is do we…
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Left vs. Right: Who Has the Best Echo Chamber?
I’m highly skeptical of most assertions that either liberals or conservatives have a monopoly on any form of virtue or vice. You know what I’m talking about — surf around partisan websites of either persuasion…
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“America’s Teetering Tower of Unkeepable Promises”
George Will, on the enormity of what just occurred: On Sunday, as will happen every day for two decades, another 10,000 baby boomers became eligible for Social Security and Medicare. And Congress moved closer to…
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Steyn Nails It: Happy Dependence Day
“The governmentalization of health care will accelerate, private insurers will no longer be free to be “insurers” in any meaningful sense of that term (ie, evaluators of risk), and once that’s clear we’ll be on…
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Health Care: A Uniquely Partisan New Entitlement
If Obamacare passes — and as the endgame plays out today, that feels like the way to bet — it will pass without a single Republican vote in either house of Congress. Historic legislation indeed:…
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Slap a Warning Label on the CBO Scoring
Beware the government bearing numbers.
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The Fierce Urgency of “Demon Pass”
Megan McArdle (emphasis added): But there is one thing of which I am nearly perfectly certain: If we pass this thing, no American politician, left or right, is going to cut any of these programs,…
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My International Consulting Practice
Melisa Antic is building a business based on helping English-speaking expats relocate and settle in to living in Belgrade.
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Dear Census-Taker: I’m a Conservative, Liberal, Subversive, Patriotic American
It’s Census time, and there’s a nefarious conservative plot afoot to undermine the gummint by subverting the racial purity of the decennial enumeration. The idea is to answer the racial question by ignoring the familiar…
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Nice to See an Oscar for a Largely Pro-U.S. War Movie
College buddy Tom Streithorst is out with an article in the UK’s Prospect Magazine titled “Why The Hurt Locker shouldn’t have won,” based on Tom’s extensive experience as a journalist embedded with U.S. forces in…
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House Offers Best Hope for Stopping Obamacare
While much of the discussion about health care has focused on the lack of 60 Democratic votes in the Senate, the House may pose an even bigger obstacle. For legislative process geeks, John Podhoretz explains…
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Brave Muslim Cleric Issues Fatwa Against Terrorism
Three hearty cheers for Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistan-born Muslim scholar in London, who has issued a fatwa declaring that suicide bombing and other acts of terrorism are prohibited by Islam. Pointing out that terrorists…
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Newsweek Declares Victory in Iraq
Something that looks mighty like democracy is emerging in Iraq.
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Lissenup, GOP: “Democrat” Is a Noun.
The Adjective is “Democratic”If you need a handy analogy to understand why references such as “Democrat leaders” or “the Democrat Party” are offensive, consider the difference between the phrases, “He’s a Jewish boy” and “He’s a Jew boy.”