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Friday, July 30, 2010

Dare call it treason

By Ralph Peters
If we needed yet another example of Washington’s self-absorption, we sure got it with the WikiLeaks dump of classified...

Afghan war not lost cause

By Dale McFeatters
The House vote on an emergency spending bill shows that President Barack Obama faces weakening support among his own Democrats...

A perfect storm for Gulf Coast

By Kathleen Parker
WASHINGTON - When people think of New Orleans, most think of jazz, hurricane cocktails, Katrina - and now the oil spill in...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

And there’s no end to ill-advised policy

By Jay Ambrose
A Gallup poll reveals that only 11 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in Congress, and though it’s...

Absent accountability, Mass. schools fail

By Charles Chieppo and Jamie Gass
Amid the controversy over Massachusetts adopting national standards, few other education issues have gotten any attention....
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

A liberal dash of hypocrisy

By Jonah Goldberg
“The high standards and wise judgments of people like Walter Cronkite once acted as a national immune system, zapping...

Military can’t defend bigotry

By John Stossel
America is one of many countries that forbid openly gay people to serve in the military. Others are: Cuba, China, Egypt,...

Defeat Taliban, then talk

By Michael Gerson
WASHINGTON - The Wikileaks document download - illustrating Afghan corruption, Pakistani duplicity and Taliban toughness...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Obesity not for pols to cure

By J. Justin Wilson
Once again Mississippi is numero uno in America when it comes to obesity, with over 33 percent of residents officially obese....

Business is better at policing itself

By Michael Barone
Grass somehow manages to grow up through small cracks in the sidewalk. Similarly, the American private sector somehow seems...

Exit from Afghanistan facing delay

By Trudy Rubin
President Obama is caught on the horns of an Afghan deadline dilemma. In December the president pledged that “after 18 months, our troops will begin...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Climate legislation on ice

By Dale McFeatters
Senate Democrats have formally given up on attempts to enact comprehensive energy and climate-change legislation this summer. ...

Better sustain Bush tax cuts

By Deroy Murdock
If pumping money into people’s pockets stimulates the economy, then vacuuming money from their pockets should depress...

Biased media is hardly news

By Jonah Goldberg
The Journolist has started to leak like an overripe diaper. Just in case you’ve been living in a cave, or if you...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Some good news out of the oil spill

By Dale McFeatters
This development should go into the category of: Why wasn’t this done a whole lot earlier? Four of the oil giants drilling in the Gulf - Exxon Mobil,...

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It’s time we honored overachieving hacks

Howie Carr
by Howie Carr
So Sen. Stanley Rosenberg had to fly down to Louisville to accept an...


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