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New tariffs will punish U.S. energy producers.
DECEMBER 31, 2009
U.S. steel makers are cheering an International Trade Commission vote Wednesday to impose new duties on imports from China. U.S. consumers will want to hold their applause.
The case was filed in April by domestic steel manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union, which argued that they had been [...]
Returning Gitmo’s detainees to Yemen defies common sense.
DECEMBER 31, 2009
President Obama has belatedly declared that the near miss above Detroit constituted “a catastrophic breach of security” and ordered a review of America’s intelligence efforts. We’re glad to hear it, but let’s hope the Commander in Chief also rethinks his own approach to counterterrorism.
Recent events have [...]
No despot fears the president, and no demonstrator in Tehran expects him to ride to the rescue.
DECEMBER 30, 2009
By FOUAD AJAMI
With year one drawing to a close, the truth of the Obama presidency is laid bare: retrenchment abroad, and redistribution and the intrusive regulatory state at home. This is the genuine calling of Barack Obama, [...]
America isn’t dead. It’s just dead in the water.
Dec 30, 2009
By Daniel Henninger
Why pretend? We have arrived at a point where nearly everyone’s conversation of more than five minutes about what is going on in the nation or the world ends up in the ditch.
The opinion polls are deep into the no-holiday spirit, competing to [...]
By R. Emmett Tyrrell (Archive) · Thursday, December 31, 2009
WASHINGTON — A couple of weeks ago on Oprah Winfrey’s “White House Christmas Special,” our first postmodern president, Barack Obama, gave himself a “good, solid B-plus” for his performance over the past 11 months. Then he added that if his health care reform passes, he [...]
By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Thursday, December 31, 2009
No one I know makes New Year’s resolutions anymore. In part this may be because the resolutions often deal with our weaknesses — lose weight, quit smoking — so that when we fail, we resolve to stop resolving rather than be reminded of our inability to [...]
By Michael Reagan (Archive) · Thursday, December 31, 2009
Well, it is that time of year when most of us have unwrapped all of our gifts, eaten too much ham and pumpkin pie, and started to think about making a New Year’s Resolution. We’ve been spending time reflecting and pondering on what aspects of our [...]
By Ann Coulter (Archive) · Thursday, December 31, 2009
In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands.
Terrorists who plan to bomb planes during the [...]
