The Most Dangerous City in the World By Tony Blankley
In a world growing more dangerous by the week in this dark spring of 2009, Washington may be the most dangerous city in the world.
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March 25, 2009
March 25, 2009
Looking for the Line By Susan Estrich
Nothing gets people's attention faster than picketing them at home -- which is not necessarily a reason to do it.
March 24, 2009
Economy and Health Care Are Married By Froma Harrop
The Duke basketball coach and most other Americans believe that President Obama is unwisely diverting his attention from the sick economy.
March 22, 2009
Congress, Overtax Thyself By Debra J. Saunders
There is no group more dangerous than one with some power, no scruples and leaders who think that they are really smart and that everyone else is really, really stupid.
March 21, 2009
A Hidden Agenda Behind the 90 Percent Tax? By Lawrence Kudlow
Taking advantage of the populist revolt against Wall Street and AIG bailouts, the House Democrats have passed a vengeance tax on TARPed financial firms that amounts to a 90 percent marginal tax rate on bonuses.
March 21, 2009
Card Check: Good for Unions, Bad for America By Michael Barone
The Obama administration's budget is full of proposals that threaten to weaken our staggering economy.
March 20, 2009
The Republican Vacuum By Susan Estrich
Imagine how different things might be right now if there were a Republican Party. I mean a party like the one led by Ronald Reagan, George Bush or Newt Gingrich; a party with a program, a single set of talking points, and the technological and communications advantages to get their message across. That kind of Republican Party. The kind that doesn't exist right now.
March 20, 2009
Statehouse Rock: 36 Governorships on the Chopping Block in 2010 By Larry Sabato
Last week the Crystal Ball conducted a historical overview of gubernatorial midterm elections in the past sixty years. Now we'll continue our initial analysis of the statehouse battles to come by assessing the situation in each of the 36 states hosting a contest for Governor in 2010. Let's start with the 20 Democratic statehouses on the ballot.
March 19, 2009
Tree Sitter Is Not in Berkeley Anymore By Debra J. Saunders
When Tristan Anderson, now 38, was living illegally in the trees at the University of California, Berkeley, to protest the administration's ultimately successful bid to cut them down to build a sports training center, life was good.
March 19, 2009
Push Back Against AIG's 'Brightest' By Joe Conason
Having long flattered themselves as "masters of the universe," the creative financiers of Wall Street and London are today exposed as grifters rather than geniuses. Their proud claim that society cannot prosper without them -- voiced so often whenever anyone raised subjects such as taxation or regulation -- would now provoke bitter laughter instead of credulous nodding.
March 19, 2009
'Then It's Securities Fraud' By Froma Harrop
Anyone who has watched "Law & Order" over the years, as I have, knows that the ending must feel right. The circumstances of the crime may be complex and the legal issues muddy, but in the end, most viewers are left feeling that some justice has been served.
March 18, 2009
Ron Silver By Susan Estrich
He was positively infuriating. I e-mailed his then-girlfriend, as the crowd was applauding him at Madison Square Garden in 2004, that I hoped she wasn't dating the (expletive deleted) anymore. She was.
March 18, 2009
Getting Too Ugly Too Soon By Tony Blankley
In the past few weeks, the language of national political debate has turned too ugly too soon. The temperature is rising, and I have felt it in the rising of my own political blood.
March 18, 2009
The AIG Outrage By Lawrence Kudlow
This whole AIG fiasco -- where the entire political class is suddenly screaming over bonuses paid to derivative traders in AIG’s financial-products division -- is just a complete farce. What it really shows is how the government has completely bungled the AIG takeover.
March 17, 2009
Comparing Approval Ratings From Different Polling Firms An Analysis By Scott Rasmussen
A number of polling firms routinely measure the president’s job approval ratings. Generally, they all show a similar trend even when the specific numbers are different.
March 17, 2009
Obama on the Economy: Both Sides Now By Debra J. Saunders
How the tables have turned. In September 2008, when GOP presidential nominee John McCain said "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," unemployment was 6.1 percent, the credit crunch had yet to reach the point that prompted President George W. Bush to propose a bailout, and Team Obama proclaimed that an out-of-touch McCain "just doesn't get it" on the economy.
March 17, 2009
GOP's Sliding Scale for Self-Discipline By Froma Harrop
In his essay "Why the GOP Can't Win With Minorities," conservative scholar Shelby Steele almost nails the half-question in the title. An African-American, Steele contrasts the "moral activism" of liberals with conservative calls for personal discipline.
March 15, 2009
The Drug War Body Count By Debra J. Saunders
"The war on drugs is a failure," Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Cesar Gaviria and Ernesto Zedillo -- the former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico -- wrote in the Wall Street Journal last month. "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalization … simply haven't worked," they wrote.
March 14, 2009
A Shotgun-Marriage Proposal By Lawrence Kudlow
Is it really necessary for taxpayers to spend another dime on the TARP? We’ve already committed $700 billion, half of which was spent under Pres. Bush and half of which is coming under Pres. Obama. And now, as we wait with baited breath for Treasury-man Tim Geithner’s detailed plan to purchase bank toxic assets, the TARP could rise by another $1 trillion or more.
March 14, 2009
Criticism Shows Obama Is Losing Focus By Michael Barone
We've been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from pro-Obama corners -- from celebrity investor Warren Buffett, from moderate conservative columnist David Brooks, from one of the Democratic Party's deepest thinkers, William Galston -- all along the same lines.
