From the Editors at National Review, Progressive Illiberalism The prevailing view in Democratic circles is that Americans enjoy constitutional and legal rights when acting alone but not when acting jointly — i.e., not when it matters most to public affairs.
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Kirsten Power writes in the USA Today, Liberals’ Dark Ages Excerpts: Don’t bother trying to make sense of what beliefs are permitted and which ones will get you strung up in the town square. Our ideological overlords have created a
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Daniel Greenfield writes The Guns of Obamerica in his blog The Sultan Knish, 1/20/2013. Excerpts: 67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate
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There is a real problem with the border in Arizona. And there is a real problem with the Mosque near Ground Zero. But these are distractions from the greater issue of an economy out of control and a government that
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Obama’s campaign was blessed by the financial collapse only a few months before the election. When it struck, few of the voters could absorb or analyze the cause, and with a compliant press it was natural to blame the party
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The question that belies the new administration’s infinite number of programs is whether each additional initiative adds followers or deletes them. Will the gain of union support for the attempt at the card check legislation be more than offset by
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Paul Krugman referred to the period between 1930 and 1980 as the Great Compression, referring to a flattening of the incomes from the very rich and the very poor of the Gilded Age and the growing income inequality from the
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The Republican Party is most assuredly going through an identity struggle, and the pundits obfuscate the issues by speaking in only the most general terms. The controversy within the party is whether it should become more conservative, faulting moderation for
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The coming political fight after the inauguration will be among the Democrats. The Republicans will still be wounded severely. For an out of favor and out of power force the Republicans would be wise to pick their battles wisely; they
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Corruption in business and politics is nothing new but it seems the Democrats have a real problem in their midst. It is a common refrain to insist that both parties are corrupt but basic empirical evidence indicates otherwise. Baltimore Mayor
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