Aug 20, 2010 A bonfire of liberal vanities, live on CNN. By JAMES TARANTO Richard Nixon was not a crook, Michael Dukakis was not unpatriotic, and Barack Obama is not a Muslim. Unlike Nixon and Dukakis, Obama didn’t actually issue an explicit defensive denial; instead, as we noted yesterday, the president said through a spokesman [...]

Bill O’Reilly The Best Place To Live Aug 21, 2010 And the winner is: Finland! According to Newsweek magazine, that is the best country on the face of the earth. Who knew? The United States is the 11th best place to live, just behind Denmark, which, of course, is close to the promised land of [...]

Rich Tucker Heavy Regulation? Or Job Growth? Aug 21, 2010 Bad news abounds. Claims for new jobless benefits jumped by half-a-million last week. The unemployment rate hovers near 10 percent, and isn’t expected to decline any time soon. President Barack Obama reacted in knee-jerk fashion, by calling for more federal intervention in the economy. “Small [...]

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann Ground Zero Mosque: The Real Issue Aug 21, 2010 The proposed mosque near to ground zero is not really a religious institution. It would be — as many mosques throughout the nation are — a terrorist recruitment, indoctrination and training center. It is not the worship of Islam that is [...]

By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Saturday, August 21, 2010 Many of us remember reading, or watching, the great Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet. In the scene of street brawling in the Italian city of Verona, Romeo comes between his dear friend Mercutio and Tybalt, one of the leaders of the teen gangs. Tybalt, we know, [...]

By Peggy Noonan (Archive) · Saturday, August 21, 2010 It’s high summer and we’re all out there seeing each other. We’re not hidden away in our homes and offices as we are in winter’s cold. We’re part of a crowd—on the street, in the park, on the boardwalk, on the top deck of the ferry [...]

By Argus Hamilton (Archive) · Saturday, August 21, 2010 White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ripped liberal Democrats who compare Barack Obama to George W. Bush. He said they should be drug-tested. You know how Democrats are, the first thing they want to know is whether you brought enough for everybody. Osama bin Laden’s cook and [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Saturday, August 21, 2010 Every so often, one of my readers who has apparently dipped once too often into the cooking sherry wonders why I don’t run for Congress. The short answer is that I don’t want to ever again wear a necktie. I also don’t wish to spend my [...]

By Roy Exum (Archive) · Saturday, August 21, 2010 A pair of US Air Force C-130 cargo planes landed at Russia’s Vnukovo International Airport last Saturday, followed by a charter flight from California. The cargo planes carried $4.5 million in emergency aid to help avert what could become a monumental disaster, far greater than our [...]

Posted 08/20/2010 07:02 PM ET Nuclear Terror: Democrats say bombing would only slow Tehran’s nuclear program. The U.S. tells Israel that Iran is far from having a nuke. Are we lying to ourselves about the dangerous realities of Iran’s nukes? Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., a member of the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees, says [...]