By Peggy Noonan (Archive) · Saturday, July 31, 2010 Back when the rather radical and ill-thought-through movement known as the John Birch Society—they thought, among other things, that Dwight Eisenhower was perhaps a communist—was still famous and controversial, conservative Ronald Reagan was running for office. A group of Birchers, surveying the field, said that of [...]

By Argus Hamilton (Archive) · Saturday, July 31, 2010 Oakland’s City Council voted to allow industrial size marijuana farms of one hundred thousand square feet. That’s half the size of a football field. If you think the Red Sox and Yankees play slowly wait’ll you see the length of a Raiders game this fall. Brett [...]

By Roy Exum (Archive) · Saturday, July 31, 2010 On August 5 the people of Tennessee will exercise one of our nation’s most important freedoms — the right to vote — and it is ironic that same day is when those who remember will celebrate the birthday of Roy Benavidez. The son of a Mexican [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Saturday, July 31, 2010 Now I know how liberals felt 40 years ago when they failed to make the cut on Richard Nixon’s notorious enemies list. Even after reading Townhall magazine’s list of the 100 Americans the Left Hates the Most, and checking it twice, I didn’t find my name [...]

Posted 07/30/2010 07:01 PM ET Economy: Disappointing GDP growth of 2.4% in the second quarter signals that our “recovery” isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. But then, how could it be when politicians have been trying to kill it for years? How do you keep an economy from digging itself out of a major [...]

Government Motors delivers a dud with electric car By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 6:41 p.m., Friday, July 30, 2010   President Obama was in Detroit on Friday to promote the Chevy Volt electric car, which is fantastically overpriced and offers underwhelming performance. This is the latest example of government burning billions on green ideas that don’t [...]

Big Brother technology defeated by garden-variety fraud By THE WASHINGTON TIMES – The Washington Times 6:41 p.m., Friday, July 30, 2010 Big-government solutions rarely fix serious problems. Instead, they create bigger ones. Since 2006, U.S. passports have been issued with an embedded radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracking chip ostensibly intended to reduce unauthorized entry into the [...]

  By Juan Forero Saturday, July 31, 2010   BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — After the posturing and hysterics, an emergency meeting and competing press briefings, South American leaders were unable to resolve a crisis that began when the Colombian government accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of aiding and abetting Colombian guerrillas. “A package of lies and [...]

  By Neil Irwin and Sonja Ryst Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 31, 2010   The recovery is fading, and a troubling new pattern is setting in: economic growth that is too slow to put Americans back to work. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, grew at a 2.4 percent annual [...]

By MICHAEL BARBARO   Published: July 30, 2010 An influential Jewish organization on Friday announced its opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero in Lower Manhattan, intensifying a fierce national debate about the limits of religious freedom and the meaning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The decision [...]