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October 28, 2009   by Howie Rich “Competition is as American as apple pie.” That’s the premise behind a new ad from MoveOn.org, the left-leaning grassroots group that’s pushing President Barack Obama’s socialized medicine plan. If it sounds familiar to supporters of free market reform, it should. Competition is as American as apple pie, but [...]

October 28, 2009   by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann Harry Reid had two problems. How would he get the health care bill out of the Senate Finance Committee without revealing the glaring potential fissures in his party over the public option on health care? And, how could he lend a veneer of bipartisanship to [...]

October 28, 2009   by Michael Tanner It used to be said that there is no such thing as a free lunch. But when it comes to health care reform, President Obama appears to be offering up a free breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime snack. At the core of the president’s proposal is the idea [...]

By Paul Greenberg · Wednesday, October 28, 2009 One of the brighter spots in the Obama administration is the country’s new secretary of education, Arne Duncan, who may actually be interested in education — as opposed to educational administration, bureaucracy, grantsmanship and all the other substitutes that have taken the place of actual learning in [...]

By Jonah Goldberg · Wednesday, October 28, 2009 The government cannot have my dog. Don’t tell that to the authors of the new book “Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living.” They calculate that dog owning is much worse than SUV driving for the planet. So when you see a car [...]

By Michael Gerson · Wednesday, October 28, 2009 WASHINGTON — There have been various attempts over the decades to bury moral philosophy — to dismiss convictions about right and wrong as cultural prejudices, or secretions of the brain, or matters so personal they shouldn’t even affect our private lives. But moral questions always return, as [...]

Oct 27, 2009 War On Terror: Sen. John Kerry, who was so wrong about Iraq, now says our commander in Afghanistan is “reaching too far, too fast” and that a “good enough” policy should suffice. It won’t. Offering his advice on how to micromanage the war against the Taliban, Kerry said Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President [...]

October 28, 2009     Combined Joint Task Force – 82 PAO    Cooperative Medical Engagement   By Senior Airman Marc Lane     U.S. and Italian medical personnel apply lotion to an Afghan child’s face during a cooperative medical engagement near Camp Stone, Herat, October 7, 2009.     HERAT - ANA soldiers as well as Afghan [...]

The only route to good decisions based on reason Oct 28, 2009 By David Keeling Examples of the lack of geographic awareness displayed by politicians, business leaders, and even beauty queens, are legion. Who can forget presidential candidate John McCain’s 2008 gaffe on “Good Morning America” when he referred to the Iraq-Pakistan border (he meant [...]