By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” –Milton Friedman, who was an economist but made sense nevertheless. The succession of American secretaries of the Treasury from Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Geithner is [...]

By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 WASHINGTON — While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ attempt to get the U.N. to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state has elicited widespread sympathy. After all, what choice did he have? According to the accepted narrative, Middle East peace is made [...]

By Suzanne Fields (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 It’s the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah is followed by Yom Kippur. We listen to that strange instrument called the shofar, made of a ram’s horn, with long plaintive and short bleating notes resounding in synagogues around the world. The mix of dissonance and energy calls [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was grounded in meaningless platitudes, such as “hope and change.” His 2012 re-election effort is grounded in meaningful platitudes centered in the destructive politics of class warfare. Despite his best efforts to paint his abominable economic record in a favorable light, [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 President Obama’s failure to fully achieve the liberal agenda and remain popular in the process is fueling dangerous radicalization in the oddest of places: the media establishment, which considers itself the guardian of the political center. I should say “the so-called center,” because one of those [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 The Obama administration’s crony green subsidy scandal is erupting like a solar flare in Washington. But do you know what your kids are learning in their environmental education classes about this red-hot taxpayer eco-scam? Chances are: not much. Instead, the U.S. Department of Energy and the [...]

By Mona Charen (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 The Southern Poverty Law Center is appalled by the results of a new study finding that states are not teaching the history of the civil rights era. The SPLC, which commissioned the study of state curricula, concludes that students in at least 35 states are missing [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 You know President Obama thinks he is in trouble with his liberal base when he lapses into what used to be called “jive talk” before an audience of Congressional Black Caucus members. Dropping his “g’s”, the president admonished the group to “stop complainin’.” “Who’s he talking [...]

September 30, 2011 Jerry Shenk On July 15, 1979, during an energy crisis and at a time when Americans had stopped listening to him, President Jimmy Carter used national television prime time to make a speech to the American people. Though the speech was originally meant to address energy policy, it evolved, through “the most [...]

September 30, 2011 Rick Moran Perhaps those focus groups being used by the Obama reelection campaign have mentioned to his campaign team that blaming others for your own failures does not sit well with most voters. CBS News: Vice President Joe Biden said in a live interview with Miami public radio station WLRN Thursday that [...]