Aug 30, 2010 Good news: Chávez doesn’t like him. Should Hugo Chávez be allowed to choose the next U.S. ambassador to Venezuela? He seems to think so, as he is protesting President Obama’s nominee for the post. Larry Palmer is a career diplomat with experience over two decades in the likes of the Dominican Republic, [...]

Aug 30, 2010 Back to the same old North Korean games. The first time Jimmy Carter travelled to North Korea, in 1994 to negotiate a nuclear deal, we wrote that “every demarche from Pyongyang will be entertained by other governments in light of the fear that North Korea wields a nuclear threat.” Fast forward 16 [...]

Aug 30, 2010 My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn’t been extended to 99 weeks. By ROBERT BARRO Congressman John Boehner recently suggested that President Obama replace his top economic advisers. I think he may have a point. The economic “recovery” has been [...]

Aug 29, 2010 By SUZANNE SATALINE Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort. Officials in Lauderdale County, Ala., this spring opted to transfer their 91-year-old Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital and [...]

Jillian Bandes Faith, Hope, and Honor at Glenn Beck’s 8-28 Rally Aug 30, 2010 Glenn Beck’s 8/28 rally delivered a swift kick in the rear to anyone who claims he or the conservative grassroots movement is irrelevant or idle. “Welcome to Restoring Honor. You are standing on the banks of greatness, the banks of American [...]

Lurita Doan Does Anyone Read In This Town? Aug 30, 2010 Dismal, second quarter GDP figures, show only 1.6 percent growth, further proof of the failure of the Obama Administration’s economic and job creation policies. Earlier this month, reports showing unemployment is at 9.3% and sales of single-family homes have dropped to a fifteen year [...]

Bruce Bialosky The Future of Our Health Care System Aug 30, 2010 Michael D. Tanner of the Cato Institute has just written a pamphlet entitled Bad Medicine. It’s a comprehensive analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). When you read it, you quickly begin to wonder where the health care system in [...]

Star Parker More Government to Protect Us From Ourselves Aug 30, 2010 Putting more and more wolves in charge of guarding the henhouse might characterize the big problems we’ve now created for ourselves. Government is growing. The private economy is shrinking. Those wielding political power see fewer and fewer problems they believe private citizens can [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, August 30, 2010 As I sit here, I have no idea how things will play out for Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters, although I find it highly unlikely that either of them will end up in a congressional trial, no matter how much the defendants claim they wish to [...]

Aug 29, 2010 By Leo Rennert Readers of the  New York Times expect to find a variety of views in the Sunday “Week in Review” section, which is as it should be.  But they also are entitled to accurate bios of outside authors whose writings appear in the paper.  Nor should the Times countenance patently factual distortions and errors in such writings.  Unfortunately, the Times [...]