A sneaky Medicare levy on dividends and capital gains.
FEB 24, 2010
The White House’s new health-care proposal promises the “largest middle class tax cut for health care in history,” which is a creative way of describing a vast taxpayer-subsidized insurance entitlement. Naturally, the fine print goes on to describe one of the largest tax increases for [...]

Though the White House won’t want to admit it, Bush lawyers were protecting the executive’s power to fight a vigorous war on terror.
FEB 24, 2010
By JOHN YOO

Barack Obama may not realize it, but I may have just helped save his presidency. How? By winning a drawn-out fight to protect his powers as commander in chief [...]

The campaign finance crowd has more ideas for limiting speech.
FEB 24, 2010
It didn’t take long for Congress to try an end-run around the Supreme Court’s landmark January decision in Citizens United v. FEC. With a campaign finance bill due to be introduced this week, Democrats are proposing to repeal the First Amendment, at least for [...]

Dems can’t win, so they might as well wreck health care.
Feb 23, 2010
By JAMES TARANTO
A recent National Journal interview with Charlie Cook, one of America’s pre-eminent political prognosticators, has been getting a lot of attention. Cook is harshly critical of the Obama administration, but what’s raised the most eyebrows is his prediction that Republicans are [...]

The Democrats in the Senate and Democrats in the House don’t trust each other.
Feb 23. 2010

By JOHN FUND
President Obama’s revised health-care plan is an ambitious attempt to bridge the divisions between two warring camps of Democrats who do not trust each other — Democrats in the Senate and Democrats in the House.
Both factions have passed [...]

Feb 24, 2010
By DAMIAN PALETTA
Key senators are expected to scrap President Barack Obama’s proposal to prohibit commercial banks from certain risky trading activities, people familiar with the matter said, a setback for the administration’s bid to limit the size and scope of the largest U.S. banks.
The proposal, dubbed the “Volcker rule” after former Federal Reserve [...]

February 24, 2010

 
by David Harsanyi

What are we to make of the Republican Party’s future now that libertarian Rep. Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll at the well-attended Conservative Political Action Conference last week?
Is the GOP about to transform into the party of the gold standard?
Let’s, for a moment, forget Paul (and how I wish [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Wednesday, February 24, 2010
“I have been over into the future, and it works.”
Lincoln Steffens, the muckraking journalist, offered that review of the Soviet Union on his return from a fact-finding mission there. For decades, conservatives invoked that line as proof that a generation of progressives were Soviet fellow-travelers. Conservatives [...]

By Tony Blankley (Archive) · Wednesday, February 24, 2010
If you want to see broken government, consider the fall of the constitutional Roman Republic and the rise of Julius Caesar: “Fortune turned against us and brought confusion to all we did. Greed destroyed honor, honesty and every other virtue, and taught men to be arrogant [...]

By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The welfare state and your life savings are two cars heading down a one-lane road in opposite directions. One must yield, or there will be a crash.
For Americans who believe in the old-fashioned virtues of hard work, self reliance and respect for private property, the solution [...]