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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 [...]
By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Thursday, December 31, 2009
It was just as frightening, and in its own way even more infuriating, than the almost successful attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day. I’m talking about the wholly unacceptable comment/excuse offered by this country’s secretary of supposed Homeland [...]
By Lawrence Kudlow (Archive) · Thursday, December 31, 2009
Despite the historic expansion of the federal government’s involvement in, intervention in and control of the economy — including Bailout Nation; takeovers of banks, car companies, insurance firms, Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM, Chrysler and GMAC; large-scale tax threats; overregulation; an attempted takeover of the health care [...]
By Michael Barone (Archive) · Thursday, December 31, 2009
It looks like a happy new year for you — if you’re a public employee.
That’s the takeaway from a recent Rasmussen poll that shows that 46 percent of government employees say the economy is getting better, while just 31 percent say it’s getting worse. In contrast, [...]
By George Will (Archive) · Thursday, December 31, 2009
WASHINGTON — Already 99.9 (and about 58 more 9s) percent of the universe — it is expanding lickety-split — is beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Into what is it expanding? Hard to say. We can say there is lots of stuff in space: Hold up a penny at [...]
