Nature’s toll invariably recedes wherever wealth and technology advances. Aug 30, 2011 WSJ By BRET STEPHENS It was a dark and stormy night. . . . Sometime before dawn, a 50-foot elm snapped in my parents’ backyard, missing the wood-framed house by about eight feet. Later in the day, when we thought the worst of [...]

Meanwhile in London, everything seemingly is spinning back under control. Aug 29, 2011 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO (Note: We’ll be traveling tomorrow, back Wednesday assuming all goes as planned.) LONDON–We’ll never forget where we were when the Great Virginia Earthquake of 2011 struck. We were riding in a taxi in Cambridge. As this was the [...]

Aug 30, 2011 Chuck Norris Loyal readers know that I have been calling attention to a range of Second Amendment issues in the past week. In last week’s column here, I wrote about the scandals and illegitimate regulations emanating from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In another outlet, I documented the threat [...]

Aug 30, 2011 Pat Buchanan “Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”   “Lenin was certainly right,” John Maynard Keynes continued [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Many in the media are saying how unusual it is for our economy to be so sluggish for so long, after we have officially emerged from a recession. In a sense, they are right. But, in another sense, they are profoundly wrong. The American economy usually [...]

By William Murchison (Archive) · Tuesday, August 30, 2011 What fun — a new way to do presidential politics. Namely, ask the candidates about their religious views, and find out, saith New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, “if a candidate places fealty to the Bible, the Book of Mormon (the text, not the Broadway [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Tuesday, August 30, 2011 As the 2012 presidential race gears up, leftist Christophobes are showing some signs of hysteria — or political opportunism; it’s sometimes difficult to tell. The New York Times’ executive editor, Bill Keller, in a piece in The New York Times Magazine, argues that presidential candidates should [...]

By Dennis Prager (Archive) · Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Next month, the UN-sponsored hate-Israel festival known as Durban III takes place. Under the heading “anti-racism,” the great bulk of the conference, like Durban I and Durban II, consists of condemning Israel for racism and equating it to an apartheid state. Of the world’s many great [...]

By Lawrence Kudlow (Archive) · Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Get ready for a bunch of demand-side economists to tell you that the post-Hurricane Irene rebuilding phase is actually a good thing for future economic growth. But don’t believe it. Who has it right? Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc., delivered my favorite quote [...]

August 30, 2011 By Karin McQuillan A job is not something you defer thinking about, when you don’t have one, Mr. President.  Now that you’re back from vacation, I’m not looking forward to your jobs speech.  I lie awake at night worrying about my two cousins and a friend of thirty years — one lost [...]