March 08, 2010   by Carol Platt Liebau Karl Marx insisted that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. It seems that at least some of California’s teachers are determined to prove him right. Last week, teachers in the San Francisco area planned to take their students out of school in order [...]

March 08, 2010   by Jillian Bandes Like so many things in the Democratic Congress, Dawn Johnsen keeps showing up again and again. This is the woman who said that ‘legal abortion remains safer than childhood,’ and that a ban on the procedure was comparable to a ban on slavery.  Back in September, the Indiana [...]

March 08, 2010   by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann All aspects of President Obama’s Chicago-style tactics are on display as he cajoles, bullies and bribes the House to pass his health care proposals despite the overwhelming public rejection with which they have been met. To some, he offers bribes. Rep. Jim Matheson, endangered species [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, March 8, 2010 It’s easy to see why liberals are convinced that they’re superior to conservatives. For one thing, in nearly all cases, professors in the liberal arts and members of the mainstream media are left-wingers. But you don’t have to be very intelligent or even the slightest bit [...]

By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Monday, March 8, 2010 Massachusetts and Rhode Island were two of the 16 finalists named this week in the Obama administration’s “Race to the Top” competition for a share of $4.3 billion in education “stimulus” funds. Those that made the cut have agreed to embrace policies favored by the administration, [...]

Mar 8, 2010 By John Donaldson, MD Congressional plans for financing the proposed health care legislation include provisions to tax health insurance of non-union citizens and medical devices vital to the delivery of medicines. We never hear that health care is already heavily taxed, but that these taxes are hidden from the consumer and have [...]

  By Jackson Diehl Monday, March 8, 2010   I recently asked several senior administration officials, separately, to name a foreign leader with whom Barack Obama has forged a strong personal relationship during his first year in office. A lot of hemming and hawing ensued. One official mentioned French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is scheduled [...]

  By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, March 8, 2010   The “generation gap” endures as a staple of American political and social analysis. The notion that the special circumstances and experiences of each succeeding cohort imbue it with different perceptions, beliefs and values seems intuitively reasonable and appealing. It’s also flattering. In a mass-market culture, [...]

March 07, 2010   by Salena Zito WASHINGTON – Shock waves over Evan Bayh’s retirement from the U.S. Senate still are felt along the 600 miles between the nation’s capital and Indiana.  Blaming the Washington Beltway’s toxic politics, Bayh declared: “I love working for the people of Indiana … but I do not love Congress.” [...]

March 07, 2010   by Kevin McCullough If you wish to see an enjoyable evening with friends become quite animated, then overly hostile, and end in exacting bitterness, ask those in attendance to choose between the following. As an individual citizen, is it more American to believe that you have a personal responsibility to be [...]