“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”
 
– John Adams
 
 
 
 
 
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The President’s good turn on Iraq.
February 28, 2009
It was never very likely that President Obama would come out and praise George W. Bush for the latter’s handling of the Iraq war, and in his speech yesterday to the Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., he didn’t. Then again, we didn’t quite expect to find ourselves praising [...]

A historian urges us to take a deep breath before we answer.
Febraury 28, 2009
By THOMAS FLEMING
Several polls of historians have named George W. Bush the worst president in American history. This baffles me. I’ve been writing about presidents for a long time. What I know, and what I presume these gentleman know, doesn’t connect.

AP

Is [...]

Canadians are with us in Afghanistan. We should be with them on free trade.
February 27, 2009
By Mary Anistaisa O’Grady
“If we as the major countries of this hemisphere cut an ally off at the knees we will pay a tremendous price for it.”
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been fielding questions for more than 30 minutes [...]

What’s gone wrong in Eastern Europe.
February 28, 2009
To the global recession, add an emerging market meltdown. This time Southeast Asia and Latin America are ceding the dishonors to Eastern Europe. The old Soviet bloc shot up this decade. But then the credit crunch hit and capital fled, and it has spiraled down fast.
Three countries have [...]

‘Gentry’ and ‘populist’ factions square off on energy and the environment.
February 27, 2009
By JOEL KOTKIN
This is the Democratic Party’s moment, its power now greater than any time since the mid-1960s. But do not expect smooth sailing. The party is a fractious group divided by competing interests, factions and constituencies that could explode into a civil [...]

We’ve been down the spending road, and the result is a state budget in terrible shape.
February 28, 2009
By SCOTT WALKER
Milwaukee
Recently, a firestorm ignited in Wisconsin when I, as Milwaukee County executive, refused to submit a wish list to Gov. Jim Doyle for items in the federal “stimulus” package.
Gov. Doyle — like other politicians — had [...]

February 27, 2009

Friedrich A. Hayek in “The Constitution of Liberty” (1960), on the myth that progressive tax rates are necessary to fund large increases in government spending, lest an intolerable burden be placed on the poor:
Not only is the revenue derived from the high rates levied on large incomes, particularly in the highest brackets, [...]

February 28, 2009

 
by Bill O’Reilly

The TV ratings for February have been tabulated, and in the world of cable news there is weeping on the left. Fox News Channel, which is generally tougher on the president, hammered the two networks that most favor President Obama — CNN and MSNBC. In fact, Fox News was the third-highest [...]