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Jewish World Review
Jeff Jacoby
Archives03/13/24: to 'feel better' about Ukraine (according to John Kerry) 03/06/24: What Mitch McConnell didn't say 02/26/24: Seiji Ozawa's love for America 02/23/24: The critics were right about 'Old Tippecanoe' 02/21/24: The seventh-grader and the First Amendment 02/12/24: I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party 02/08/24: Big Brother to motorists: No smiling 02/05/24: The day my father signed up for unemployment benefits 02/01/24: America's elites live in a world of their own 01/29/24: The swastika stands for evil and mass murder. So does the hammer and sickle 01/24/24: A discount for the right skin color 01/22/24: A pandemic mea culpa from Francis Collins 01/19/24: The greatest endorsement editorial of all time 01/15/24: CAIR lets the mask slip --- again 01/08/24: The Endangered Species Act has done little for endangered species 12/18/23: No time to go wobbly on Ukraine 12/15/23: The Boston Tea Party was a crime 12/11/23: What Hamas can learn from Hanukkah 11/23/23: 'Stand your butt up' 11/20/23: Palestinians can win the peace once Israel has won the war 11/13/23: Pull the plug on the White House daily press briefings 11/09/23: Bye, Bye, Bezo$! Amazon is headed to DeSantisLand 11/08/23: To kill 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 11/06/23: A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus 10/30/23: Why they rip down the 'Kidnapped from Israel' fliers 10/25/23: MLK embraced Israel. Does BLM embrace Hamas? 10/24/23: Amazon is huge, but it's no monopoly 10/23/23: An ultimatum for Qatar: Extradite the Hamas leader or face US wrath 10/16/23: Redeeming captives is a high Israeli priority. Destroying Hamas must be a higher one 10/10/23: I used to defend Columbus as 'magnificent.' I don't anymore. 10/05/23: The real reason an 'America First' mindset dominates the Republican base 10/02/23: Rupert Murdoch was good 09/28/23: The UN blackball of Taiwan must stop --- before it's too late 09/26/23: 'Art is anything you can get away with' 09/24/23: Live long and prosper 09/21/23: As the deficit soars, Biden boasts that he has cut the deficit 09/13/23: Why conservatives should embrace 'Lift Every Voice' 09/08/23: Time for them to go 09/07/23: Only Sweden had the right COVID-19 response 09/05/23: Of course it's racist to criticize Kamala Harris!? 08/31/23: Are the abortion extremists Republican or Dem? Yes 08/28/23: Victory, not detente, is the right American strategy toward Beijing 08/23/23: Corporate America is on notice: Discriminating by race is illegal 08/11/23: Kamala Harris's $400 urban legend 08/07/23: As capital punishment fades, progressives take aim at life without parole 08/04/23: Actually, Justice Alito, Congress can regulate the Supreme Court 08/03/23: NAACP blames out-of-control crime on left-wing policies 07/31/23: Americans flock to the states CNBC doesn't like 07/26/23: Make the immigration civics test mandatory --- for everyone 07/20/23: A free society protects your right to burn a holy book 07/17/23: John Kerry never changes 07/17/23: What Gavin Newsom's proposed 28th Amendment gets right 07/12/23: The High Court is 'normal', Joe. But you? 07/03/23: What Frederick Douglass really said in his great Independence Day speech 06/29/23: Of course Xi Jinping is a dictator 06/26/23: The scandal at the Harvard morgue is not a reason for more government 06/22/23: Justice Thomas' affirmative action hypocrisy? 06/21/23: Hopeless candidates make elections better 06/16/23: Unabomber's death calls to mind a tale of two brothers 06/12/23: The indictment against Trump arrives as the political winds are shifting 06/05/23: Middlebury College flunks a history test 05/30/23: Does Williams College care about anti-Christian vandalism? 05/24/23: Look! Up in the sky! It's an ad! 05/22/23: Did the Varsity Blues prosecutions really belong in federal court? 05/17/23: When Sumner was caned 05/15/23: Tucker Carlson's relaunch plan is bigger than Twitter 05/10/23: Congress shouldn't be a geriatric ward 05/09/23: Republicans passed a debt-limit bill. What are Dems waiting for? 05/03/23: Barbie and the column that never ran 04/31/23: Your credit score is excellent, so prepare to be penalized 04/26/23: No less than a miracle: Israel turns 75 04/24/23: What Justice Thomas could learn from the Talmud 04/19/23: NPR, in high dudgeon, stalks off Twitter 04/05/23: Ending Saddam Hussein's reign of terror was the right call 04/04/23: The saddest newspaper metaphor I've ever seen 03/30/23: Woke is easy to define. It's harder to fight 03/29/23: A veteran editor pleads for newsrooms to embody 'more humility and less hubris.' Will anyone listen? 03/27/23: Should replacing Kamala Harris really be unthinkable? 03/21/23: A scandal at Stanford 03/14/23: Mental competency tests for aging politicians? Don't count on it 03/06/23: How Queen Esther became American 03/03/23: Let Nikki be Nikki 03/01/23: Somewhere in Heaven, Booker T. Washington weeps 02/20/23: As Social Security races toward a cliff, both parties refuse to act 02/15/23: There's only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution 02/13/23: Prisoners who donate a lifesaving organ ought to be rewarded 02/08/23: The State of the Union should be a memo, not a speech 02/06/23: The deeply flawed campaign for racial reparations 02/01/23: Biden finally pulls the plug 01/30/23: We know rent control never works --- but here we go yet, again! 01/27/23: Even more troubling about the classification double-standard 01/25/23: Dems agitating for kids to vote 01/23/23: In-state tuition isn't an immigration issue 01/11/23: When 'whataboutism' is appropriate 01/11/23: Why should we pay for legislators? 01/09/23: Audiobooks are glorious 01/03/23: Real ID was a real mistake and Congress should scrap it at last 12/28/22: The message in Zelensky’s fatigues 12/27/22: The Ebenezer Scrooge nobody knows 12/20/22: Developing nations need wealth, not climate reparations 12/15/22: Congress can attack inflation --- if it chooses to 12/13/22: Where is the leader of the free world? 12/07/22: The GOP says yes to earmarks 12/06/22: No, Justice Barrett did not recuse herself 11/28/22: What makes a good citizen? 11/21/22: Why Bono loves capitalism 11/10/22: The election's biggest winner? Incumbency 11/03/22: 'Jim Crow 2.0′ was the lie of the year 11/01/22: Presidents don't serve for life. Justices shouldn't, either 10/26/22: Room on the Harvard board for an old-fashioned lib with an unwavering commitment to free speech and academic freedom? 10/26/22: The Supreme Court can remind officials how to take a joke 10/25/22: Someone's having a baby! 10/06/22: No, Hurricane Ian will not 'fuel the economy' 10/03/22: Putin's phony vote 09/16/22: Even now, slavery is a worldwide scourge 09/16/22: Busing migrants from the border is a blessing, not a punishment 09/13/22: Queen Elizabeth and Huckleberry Finn 09/12/22: Congress sued to block Trump's illegal spending. Now it should sue to block Biden's 09/08/22: Americans 'approve' of unions, but they don't want to belong to one 09/06/22: Gorbachev failed. That's why he was showered with honors 09/01/22: Sweet lands of liberty 08/29/22: From sharing a dorm room to going on a date, disagreeing on politics has become a deal-breaker 08/26/22: Pardon Trump? 08/23/22: No visa for Iran's thug-in-chief 08/15/22: Republicans' 'banana republic' charge is bananas 08/11/22: Why taxpayers shouldn't pay for primary elections 08/04/22: Public life needs more good losers 08/03/22: They never forgot thee, O Jerusalem 08/02/22: What hypocrisy isn't 07/29/22: Millionaires tax is unwise and unworthy 07/27/22: Who needs Title IX now? 07/25/22: Alive and well and living on death row 07/19/22: Just how liberal is Harvard? 07/18/22: Attacks on pregnancy centers, like attacks on abortion clinics, should be intolerable 07/14/22: Informers on campus 07/12/22: Carl Sagan and the freedom to doubt 07/06/22: A newspaper's job isn't to tell people how to vote 06/30/22: So, overturning Roe makes the Supreme Court 'illegitimate'? 06/28/22: Overruling precedents is part of the Supreme Court's job 06/27/22: Do Christian lives matter? 06/23/22: Even desperate Dems now agree: Biden is too old for his job 06/21/22: Tom Hanks is a great pretender 06/07/22: I'm right, and you're an evil monster 06/02/22: 'Great replacement' theories, as old as America, have always been nonsense 05/26/22: Georgia voters expose the 'Jim Crow' smear as a lie 05/23/22: For Putin, a self-own for the history books 05/19/22: Is George Washington fit only for contempt? 05/16/22: Who's afraid of liberal media bias? 05/12/22: The trade deficit is up again. No worries 05/10/22: 'They Lied!' is a lie 05/05/22: Mississippi's mainstream abortion law 05/05/22: 'I'm not concerned about a recession' 05/02/22: Canceling student debt will make things worse 04/25/22: It's a mistake to ban Holocaust denial 04/21/22: The blessing of 'rote' memory 04/19/22: 'Putin's price hike' is just the latest Biden inflation myth 04/15/22: The Passover story is an American story 04/11/22: The UN Human Rights Council makes a mockery of human rights 04/05/22: What if Ginni Thomas were a leftist? 04/04/22: Bruce Willis' nightmare: What can be crueler for an actor -- or a writer -- than losing the ability to use and understand words? 03/29/22: The return of 'Public Enemy No. 1' 03/21/22: The Iran nuclear deal may be imploding. Good. 03/07/22: Where STEM professors resist indoctrination 03/01/22: Giving incumbents the boot gives your country a boost 02/21/22: The 'Little Magician' who transformed American politics 02/15/22: If commerce and tourism had the power to undo Havana's repression, they would have done so by now 02/08/22: Big Labor's revival that wasn't 02/07/22: It's not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong 02/01/22: More education choices, fewer education fights 01/30/22: There's a term for senators like Kyrsten Sinema 01/25/22: Scrap the presidential debates 01/21/22: Biden is failing because he abandoned his mandate 01/17/22: About that eviction crisis 01/14/22: Hundreds of private groups were allowed to raise their banners on a public flagpole. But when a religious group asked, the answer was 'NO!' 01/12/22: Why are killers getting government cash? 01/10/22: The filibuster has been bad, but repealing it would be worse 01/05/22: Elizabeth Warren's one-trick inflation pony 01/03/22: Nobody knows anything 12/29/21: Yes, I expected better of Elizabeth Warren 12/28/21: As Russia gears up to invade Ukraine, the West faces a choice 12/27/21: Voting is for citizens 12/22/21: The myth of the underpaid government employee 12/21/21: Rethinking the Boston Tea Party 12/20/21: Restore the original immigration policy: An open door 12/16/21: Roe's 'viability' standard has been overtaken by science 12/15/21: The point of Smollett's hoax 12/13/21: No genocide Olympics 11/18/21: The inflation hawks have been right all along 11/10/21: When the CIA gets it wrong 11/08/21: F-bombing the president 11/05/21: The rise of the 'school board voters' 11/02/21: Of pencils and miracles 11/01/21: If China attacks, it must know Taiwan won't fight alone 10/28/21: Thomas Jefferson, honored and dishonored 10/26/21: A free press doesn't take government handouts 10/21/21: It isn't tax cuts that are driving federal deficits 10/14/21: With COVID-19, every disagreement became a culture-war flashpoint 10/12/21: Columbus gets an encore 10/10/21: Legalizing assisted suicide would send a devastating message 10/07/21: Who will defend Iraq's courageous peacemakers? 10/06/21: Support for the death penalty --- sorta 09/28/21: 'The United States is not at war.' Oh, really? 09/27/21: As Washington debates the debt limit, the hypocrisy is at flood tide 09/16/21: The sins we commit with words 09/06/21: Twenty years on, Islamic life in the United States is flourishing 09/03/21: Sirhan should die behind bars 09/01/21: What would Bin Laden say? 08/30/21: Should the unvaccinated pay the price for their folly? 08/26/21: Why this entire country, happily, is back in a lockdown time warp 08/24/21: Afghanistan and the 'forever war' myth 08/23/21: Love across the color line 08/19/21: The virtue-signaling stock exchange 08/17/21: The unbroken history of socialist failure 08/16/21: The census is too nosy 08/10/21: The wrestler who loved her country 08/09/21: The eviction moratorium and the rule of lawlessness 08/05/21: The grievance industry vs. the Boston Marathon 08/04/21: A hatemonger at the Olympics 08/03/21: Are Americans still charitable? 08/02/21: The very racist history of gun control 07/20/21: REVEALED: Harry Truman conned us all 07/26/21: No ministry of culture, please, we're American 07/15/21: Curb your Holocaust analogies, already! 07/13/21: Inflation and broken windows 07/07/21: Lincoln was the best. Buchanan was the worst. What about the others? 07/02/21: Online Lottery games would be a bad bet 06/28/21: It isn't Big Brother's job to turn Americans into voters 06/25/21: Again Supreme Court defends religious believers. Again it's unanimous 06/21/21: Women don't register for the draft, and men shouldn't either 06/18/21: Biden stays out of our face. Isn't it great? 06/15/21: The political myth that demography is destiny 06/08/21: The Down syndrome bigotry of world renowned biologist 05/31/21: No, Prince Harry, the First Amendment isn't bonkers 05/25/21: Which party gains if Roe goes down? 05/16/21: In nature and in government, sunsets are beautiful 05/13/21: A Dem in the White House? Cue the FDR analogiess 05/10/21: Is America racist? Kamala Harris and Tim Scott say no 05/05/21: Not a 'coup': When democracy actually works 05/04/21: Serena Williams' pain (and mine) 04/27/21: Is the president really prepared for America to walk away and let Kabul fall to the jihadists? 04/26/21: Thirty seconds over Mars 04/21/21: Heroes of the people 04/20/21: The IRS, Ann Landers --- and me 04/19/21: Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere 04/14/21: Cheapening the memory of Jim Crow 04/13/21: 435 representatives aren't nearly enough. Let's make it 1,500 04/12/21: Elizabeth Warren's snotty tweet 04/08/21: The problem with Holocaust education 04/06/21: Obama the oppressor? 04/05/21: No! It’s too soon for the 2024 campaign 03/30/21: Death is the right penalty for Boston Marathon bomber 03/22/21: Move the Beijing Olympics --- or shun them 03/19/21: The COVID baby boom that wasn't 03/16/21: Frederick Douglass takes on cancel culture 03/15/21: Heed the science and abolish daylight saving time 03/08/21: Race-based admissions are wrong, and it's time the Supreme Court said so 02/22/21: The way to ensure that America won't have to fight to defend the democratic island against mainland China? 02/18/21: Don't get hooked on executive orders 02/16/21: The racial decency -- and irony -- of Rutherford Hayes 02/11/21: The cruelty of a higher minimum wage 01/28/21: Billionaires and multimillionaires don't need a government pension 01/27/21: The politics of an Auschwitz survivor's son 01/27/21: Abortion in America is legal, not popular 01/26/21: A short history of presidential grief 01/22/21: Inaugurate a human rights policy, President Biden 01/19/21: Why New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts 01/18/21: Freedom of association and the Big Tech purge 01/15/21: The birth of civil disobedience 01/12/21: 'This mobocratic spirit' 01/08/20: To defend objectivity and restore liberalism 01/05/20: Wrong, wrong wrong 01/04/20: More than politics divides us; national identity unites us 12/31/20: What was GREAT about 2020 12/29/20: 'Mostly Peaceful': from 2020's Words of the Year 12/23/20: Our lordly congressional public servants 12/22/20: Watch your #@&*$! language 12/14/20: Why Beethoven still endures 12/14/20: Borris and Natasha at America's top tech schools 12/11/20: Biden promised not to pardon Trump. Maybe he should do so anyway 12/08/20: 84 years of not suffering fools 12/07/20: Congress goes after forced labor, and big business objects 12/01/20: The nation's common tongue: Though hundreds of languages are spoken in this country, English stands alone 11/30/20: Jettisoning the Iran agreement didn't lead to more war. It led to more peace 11/24/20: Give thanks for the Pilgrims and private property 11/23/20: A student debt bailout would be unjust 11/19/20: 'Whatever helps Dems the most' 11/17/20: Harris' election isn't a bombshell 11/11/20: Tax-and-spend myths and facts 11/10/20: A defeat for discrimination --- but libs are salking 11/09/20: Ignore the hotheads: America just voted for less drama and strife 11/04/20: There's more to life than politics 11/03/20: Girl Scouts cave to the Twitter mob 11/02/20: Job 1 for the next president: Bind up the wounds of a polarized nation 10/29/20: Biden is right to be leery of court-packing 10/27/20: Another prominent lib decries leftist censorship 10/20/20: Biden's tax hikes will get you, too 10/19/20: Outrage over Gal Gadot portraying Cleopatra gets the history wrong --- and flies in the face of what acting is meant to accomplish 10/15/20: The most important election (since the last election) 10/08/20: In 2020, will Left Coast voters let government revert to making judgments based on skin color? 10/05/20: How not to squander your vote 09/27/20: Expect liberal rulings from the 'most conservative' Supreme Courts 09/25/20: Scrap life terms for Supreme Court justices 09/17/20: Our guest speaker today, class, is a Jew-hating terrorist 09/15/20: Disney thanks the dictators 09/14/20: A plea for humility from America's first superstar 09/07/20: The politicos you love to hate are people too 08/31/20: The Christian flag and the Boston flagpole 08/26/20: 'Jalopy,' 'blizzard,' and other words I love 08/24/20: Why I'm not going postal: The pandemic propels a wave of support for mail-in voting, but I intend to vote in person 08/20/20: 'Peace through strength' is a more durable foundation than 'land for peace' 08/18/20: Sexism and the female running mate 08/10/20: Here come the dumbest presidential debates in history 08/06/20: A defeat for 'cancel culture' 08/04/20: Bring back the filibuster! 07/29/20: Is English grammar racist? 07/27/20: Fear of speech is replacing freedom of speech 07/24/20: Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit 07/13/20: As night descends on Hong Kong, the UN raises no objection 07/10/20: The enduring value of the Electoral College 07/03/20: 'A finger of the Almighty hand': Reclaiming Independence Day 06/30/20: 'Cancel culture' grows increasingly cruel 06/29/20: From Saudi Arabia, a welcome call for tolerance and moderation 06/25/20: Abolish the Cops. Abolish the Prisons. What Next? 06/25/20: It's not by accident or oversight that the nation's capital isn't a state: the Founding Fathers designed it that way 06/22/20: It's not by accident or oversight that the nation's capital isn't a state: the Founding Fathers designed it that way 06/18/20: Don't reform police unions. Abolish them 06/15/20: Statue-toppling, right and wrong 06/08/20: The week the looters came 05/14/20: The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago 05/05/20: Keep politicians' names off relief checks. And everything else 05/01/20: Stop kicking the North Korean can down the road 04/23/20: Would Biden want Warren for VP? Don't count on it 04/09/20: Did the West overreact? What we'll know soon 04/06/20: This too shall pass (over) 04/02/20: Excluding Taiwan from the WHO is a political and medical outrage 03/30/20: A civil liberties pandemic 03/26/20: Coronavirus has forced Biden far from his comfort zone --- and it shows 03/23/20: The Equal Rights Amendment died in 1979. Let it rest in peace 03/19/20: When demand soars, prices should too 03/17/20: I'm skeptical about climate alarmism, but I take coronavirus fears seriously 03/12/20: 'Moderate' Joe Biden has moved way to the left 03/03/20: The shallow symbolism of fossil fuel divestment 02/17/20: The president who was not a pol: Could Zachary Taylor, 'Old Rough and Ready,' have prevented America's deadliest war? 02/14/20: Should it be illegal to sit out an election? 01/30/20: Trump should cancel the State of the Union 01/23/20: As Harry and Meghan 'step back,' Queen Elizabeth steps up 01/20/20: The war to liberate Iraq was just, even if it's no longer popular to say so 01/14/20: Make presidential debates worth watching 01/09/20: No matter what the candidates say, America isn't leaving the Middle East anytime soon 01/06/20: Politicians are only human 12/31/19: What was so great about the 2010s 12/24/19: To make Congress better, make it (a lot) bigger 12/19/19: Lindsey Graham and the impeachment pearl-clutchers 12/17/19: Actually, class warriors, skyrocketing inequality may be a myth 12/12/19: The welfare state 'Brezhnev Doctrine' 11/20/19: Warren plays the 'sexism' card 11/18/19: Are hate crimes up or down? Hint: Don't be fooled 11/07/19: Leave adoption out of the culture wars 11/04/19: 'Kill yourself,' she texted, and he killed himself. Does that make her a killer? 10/08/19: Blessed are the retractors 09/24/19: Where's the clamor over our disastrous national debt? 09/20/19: Which party, again, has no 'bedrock principles'? 09/17/19: The case against fracking is based on ideology, not science 09/13/19: Why Hong Kong's protesters fly the Stars and Stripes 09/03/19: Newsrooms won't be saved by Bernie Sanders' socialist nostrums 08/29/19: Abolishing birthright citizenship would be 'frankly ridiculous' --- and profoundly un-American 08/08/19: No, expanded background checks wouldn't prevent mass shootings 08/05/19: Our world has serious problems. Having more babies can help solve them 08/02/19: When murders increase, so does support for the death penalty 07/16/19: George Washington was right about 'baneful' two-party politics 07/08/19: 'Proclaim Liberty': How the Hebrew Bible molded revolutionary America 07/03/19: Dems are having a socialist moment, but it won't last 06/24/19: Would-be presidents can't wait to rule by fiat 06/19/19: De-link driver's licenses from the immigration wars 06/17/19: Hong Kong is being strangled, and the free world just watches 06/06/19: Non-diversity and the spelling bee 06/04/19: With the market making parental leave routine, who needs Congress? 05/23/19: A bigger NATO has been a better NATO 05/23/19: Nancy Pelosi, profile in courage? Hardly 05/20/19: Wouk and remembrance 05/09/19: Will Trump cling to power even if he loses? 05/08/19: When Muslim terrorists killed his daughter, his long crusade for justice began 04/25/19: The banishing of Kate Smith isn't 'sensitive' --- it's ridiculous 04/23/19: Mueller's report means impeachment won't happen 04/18/19: Those imprisoned for breaking laws should have no say in making laws 04/17/19: Passover and the secret of Jewish longevity 04/15/19: Don't dump the filibuster --- restore it to its former glory 04/02/19: Reparations for slavery are unworkable --- and unjust 03/26/19: Column-writing in the Internet age is much better. And much worse 03/22/19: The governor's bleeding-heart death-row betrayal is heartless 03/19/19: Lower the voting age? Let's raise it instead 03/14/19: Why the 'excellent' Electoral College is well worth keeping 02/22/19: Voter ID laws aren't worth fighting over 02/11/19: To soak the rich, keep tax rates low 02/08/19: The government shutdown was expected to damage the economy. It didn't 02/01/19: The secular upside to a religious America 01/21/19: As King foresaw, racism in America has been largely overcome 01/15/19: The PC commissars vs. Bryan Cranston 01/10/19: Is the bike-lane fever breaking? 01/04/19: Your guess is as good as theirs 01/02/19: Miracle of miracles --- The Internet didn't implode! A year after net neutrality's repeal, it's alive and well --- and faster 12/25/18: Apollo 8's perfect Christmas message 12/21/18: A war memorial is in the form of a cross. Is that a problem? 12/07/18: Break this political duopoly before it's too late 11/22/18: We gather together to give Thanksgiving its meaning 11/19/18: The kosher-industrial complex 11/16/18: Three cheers for congressional gridlock 10/30/18: A massacre in Pittsburgh and the 'hardening' of Jewish America 10/25/18: Outraged --- but only when it's convenient 10/22/18: Enlightened despots are never enlightened 10/18/18: Elizabeth Warren, typical white person 09/06/18: An idea that must be stopped: Gender quotas for corporate boards 09/06/18: The White House handshake that made everything worse 09/03/18: In easing up on mileage rules, the Trump administration gets it right 08/30/18: Why is a great Senate office building named for a modern racist? 08/23/18: Chelsea Clinton's twisted argument about abortion and economic growth 08/16/18: These employees eat at work. City Hall wants to punish them 08/09/18: At Smith College, the racist incident that wasn't 07/23/18: Why Dems should hope Roe is overruled 07/19/18: The transgender posse vs. Scarlett Johansson 07/09/18: 70 years ago, Humphrey changed the Democratic Party 06/04/18: If politics worked the way the Food Network works 05/28/18: Make more babies, America 05/23/18: Want to fire your congressman? There's a fund for that 05/17/18: The world needs a policeman, and there is no alternative to America 05/14/18: The Palestinians' real 'nakba' (Arabic for 'catastrophe') 04/27/18: Trump is off to a great start as Deregulator-in-Chief 04/23/18: Our @&*!^$^# public discourse 04/16/18: Her 'Little Pink House' was her castle --- until the government said it wasn't 04/09/18: The concocted uproar over 'privatizing' the VA 04/05/18: The citizenship question isn't the only one the Census should scrap 03/29/18: Registering to vote should be your choice, not the state's 03/22/18: The death penalty, humane and painless 03/20/18: Hillary tumbles down the 'marriage gap'Hillary tumbles down the 'marriage gap' 03/12/18: China's corporate tools 03/08/18: The 'scandal-free' Obama administration? An urban legend 02/20/18: The hack who repented: How a sleazy pol went to the White House and became a reformer 02/15/18: The Tea Party, RIP 01/23/18: In an age of e-commerce, the 'Quill rule' is more vital than ever 01/18/18: That GOP 'tax scam' is putting money in millions of workers' pockets 01/16/18: Oprah for president --- or for queen? 01/12/18: As a matter of fact, minimum wage laws hurt the poor 01/02/18: Voter suppression? Alabama election exposed a myth 12/28/17: Trump's Russia policies are proving surprisingly tough 12/26/17: Nikki Haley, the Trump administration's breakout star 12/21/17: The doctor won't see you now. Where it's a way of life 12/18/17: This is your brain on social media 12/07/17: The blessings of climate change 12/04/17: What the Constitution says about cakes and compelled speech 11/24/17: Scrap the Obamacare mandate 11/24/17: The Mayflower Compact and the seeds of American democracy 10/30/17: Life is annoying. Don't make it worse 10/12/17: If you can pay for aspirin, you can pay for birth control 10/05/17: Abusive gerrymandering can be stopped, but not by judges 10/02/17: 'Lies' in political campaigns should be refuted, not prosecuted 09/21/17: As Kurds vote for independence, Americans should cheer 09/18/17: Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana 09/11/17: A chance for Congress to get its mojo back 09/04/17: Why do presidents have unfettered power to pardon? 08/23/17: A free-speech rally, minus the free speech 08/22/17: Freedom of association is for businesses, too 08/17/17: Prevent Korean War II with a regime-change strategy for Pyongyang 07/31/17: Research isn't tainted just because industry picks up the tab 07/24/17: 'Let Obamacare fail,' says Trump. It already has 07/17/17: A nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown 07/13/17: What Rick Perry really said about supply and demand 07/10/17:: From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump 06/19/17:: When good things come from bad people 06/12/17:: Sorry, class warriors, unions aren't coming back 05/29/17:: One of the best ideas in human history 05/22/17:: Be wary of a Trump feeding frenzy 05/15/17:: A health-care debate to die for 05/11/17:: A back-of-the-bus human rights policy 05/08/17:: Freedom of speech, even in therapy 05/04/17:: Trump's tariff will hurt Americans 05/01/17:: Obama's third term 04/27/17:: Automatic forgiveness makes the world more dangerous 04/06/17:: Don't nuke the filibuster --- restore it 04/03/17:: Thirty years of 'varsity academics' 03/31/17:: When presidents break big promises 03/27/17:: Deliver us from Scripture-citers 03/23/17:: Gorsuch says judges aren't 'secret legislators'. Actually, they legislate all the time 03/20/17:: Ditch Obamacare, and don't stop there 03/16/17:: Climate models fail so often because climate science is so incomplete 03/13/17:: In the land where Jews are welcome, anti-Semitism is on the rise 03/01/17:: Scrap the NEA, and America's arts scene will thrive 02/20/17:: An echo of Trump in the last of the Whigs 02/16/17:: School choice keeps the peace 02/13/17:: Trump is right: Settlements don't impede peace 02/06/17:: Is that sermon political? 01/30/17:: Make SCOTUS nominees answer the tough questions 01/26/17:: Trump's 'Buy American' call is economic folly 01/19/17:: The fabulous wealth of the 'Oxfam 8' 01/12/17:: Racist opinions are hateful. That shouldn't make them crimes 01/09/17:: Barack Obama's legacy of failure 01/02/17:: What experts predict, reality will contradict 12/29/16:: The right to discriminate is vital to human liberty 12/27/16:: As socialism shattered the country, the useful idiots applauded 12/21/16:: Trump's envoy to Israel is ready to slay some sacred cows 11/28/16:: Less Frank Costanza, more Mike Pence 11/24/16:: Is Thanksgiving constitutional? 11/21/16:: Eminent injustice in cranberry country 11/16/16:: In defense of the Electoral College 11/14/16:: Conservatives vs. Trump: For Reaganites, life in the GOP is going to get harder 11/10/16:: Shocking, yes. Looming dictatorship? Hardly 11/08/16:: Another campaign ends, and my wishes didn't come true 10/21/16:: The candidates' high court priority --- and the Constitution's 10/16/16:: How the religious right embraced Donald Trump and lost its moral authority 10/10/16:: Congress unleashes the Furies, but never at itself 09/28/16:: Obama has shed his vanity. Just ask him 09/15/16:: What if Hillary collapsed after winning the election? 09/08/16:: Three prescriptions for a shorter campaign 09/06/16:: Israel doesn't need American foreign aid 09/01/16:: Campaigns so long they make children cry 08/30/16:: Does the death penalty deter? 08/25/16:: Have more kids; save the world 08/18/16:: Let us now praise famous nonpoliticians 08/08/16:: Reward organ donors, and thousands of lives will be saved 08/01/16:: Getting Everything You Want 07/29/16:: Parties change. Not always for the better 07/25/16:: A hater's guide to Hillary 07/21/16:: Failure of Turkey's coup was no victory for democracy 07/18/16:: Real debates illuminate issues. Presidential 'debates' debase them 07/14/16:: Making college 'free' will only make it worse 07/05/16:: Elie Wiesel's love of America 07/04/16:: The Leave campaign of 1776 reverberates to this day 06/30/16:: Cigarettes are hazardous, but some lawmakers are worse 06/27/16:: More firepower than the Marines: Federal civilian agencies are amassing guns and ammo 06/20/16:: Does it matter how many women sit on corporate boards? 06/14/16:: Payday loans are a poor option. No payday loans would be worse 06/08/16:: A civil rights hero? Muhammad Ali was anything but 06/06/16:: Should you need the government's permission to work? 06/02/16:: In Hillary, Americans don't trust 06/01/16: : Up and down -- but mostly up -- the income ladder 05/16/16: : A terrible weapon that achieved much good 05/13/16: : Killing us softly with overregulation 05/02/16: : The end of Holocaust remembrance 04/26/16: : Let patients pay the piper, and the price of health care will fall 04/18/16: : The Obama doctrine has made the world more dangerous 04/11/16: : If you don't rent to criminals, are you a racist? 04/04/16: : Authoritarian-in-chief Imagine Donald Trump with the immense power of the presidency 03/31/16: : Our embassy in Israel belongs in Israel's capital 03/28/16: : Why there are Muslim ghettos in Belgium, but not in the US 03/21/16: : Gender is etched in our DNA, but race is all in our heads 03/16/16: : Vote early, vote foolish 03/11/16: : A lesson for Trump in Bulger's rejected appeal 03/02/16: : Why this Reagan conservative voted for Bernie 02/29/16: : If the Supreme Court had term limits, confirmations wouldn't be so bloody 02/15/16: : The president without a party 02/11/16: : New Hampshire Republicans stain their credibility 02/08/16: : For Americans, global freedom is a mission that crosses party lines 02/04/16: : Does Hillary's resume make her the 'best-qualified' candidate? 02/01/16: : The extraordinary generosity of ordinary Americans 01/25/16: : Obama regrets polarized rancor. He should 01/11/16: : State of the Union spectacle would appall Thomas Jefferson 01/08/16: : The weakest economic recovery in modern times 12/31/15: : 2015 was an awful year? Look again 12/28/15: Obama's Cuba policy makes life worse for Cubans 12/23/15: Shock and awe over Agrabah 12/17/15: 'Mismatched' black students pay the price of affirmative action 12/10/15: Guns and the 'No-Fly' grandstanders 12/07/15: Christie's coveted, meaningless prize 12/03/15: Three cheers for cultural appropriation 11/16/15: Obama lied: 'I'm the president of the United States --- I'm not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed.' 11/12/15: Another TSA debacle. Is anyone surprised? 11/09/15: Take the journalists off the debate stage 11/04/15: The brutal horror of China's one-child policy 11/02/15: US intelligence is no match for Iranian deception 10/29/15: So what if Ben Carson is a creationist? 10/26/15: Would Rabin have pulled the plug on a 'peace process' that failed? 10/22/15: Make redistricting better by making it color-blind 10/19/15: No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia is not a socialist utopia 10/15/15: The power to regulate is the power to destroy 10/12/15: Many presidents have known the grief of burying a child 10/05/15: Free your eyes from the shackles of the shutter 10/02/15: Delusional 'president' of non-existent state wins cheers instead of jeers at United Nations 09/30/15: When the General Assembly votes, the US should abstain 09/25/15: Cheapening evil 09/21/15: Opinion polling's heyday has come and gone 09/14/15: The Iran deal bait-and-switch 09/10/15: A 'Palestinian' hero acts, and Hebron gets a lesson in humanity 09/07/15: Strike down the Supreme Court's 'buffer zone' 08/31/15: Something worse than the IRS awaits greedy televangelists 08/27/15: Donald Trump, eminent-domain abuser 08/20/15: 'Sesame Street' moves to HBO, and everyone wins 08/17/15: American politics needs more civility, not less 08/13/15: Jindal puts the emphasis on assimilation 08/03/15: China has its own horrors to atone for 07/27/15: Iran can buy a lot of terror with $100 billion 07/23/15: Planned Parenthood videos should appall even pro-choice advocates 07/20/15: A Nobel prize for an ignoble deal? 07/17/15: Life without parole is no substitute for death 07/02/15: How judges corrode the rule of law 06/29/15: It'll take more than tanks to keep Putin from the Baltics 06/26/15: A moral world requires moral violence 06/22/15: From beyond the fringe, it's Donald Trump 06/19/15: Life without libraries? Unthinkable 06/11/15: American millennials rethink abortion, for good reasons 06/08/15: The case for Israel is rooted in more than security 06/01/15: It's socialism, not deodorant, that starves the poor 05/27/15: Let millionaire ex-presidents pay for themselves 05/22/15: Iraq and the White House time machine 05/20/15: Patriot Act's most controversial section fades to black 05/18/15: A fitting sentence for the Boston Marathon terrorist 05/11/15: When US troops left too soon 05/04/15: Thuggish censors in the marketplace of ideas 04/30/15: Strawberry field hands forever? 04/27/15: Politicians, 'profiteers,' and public health 04/23/15: Death or life for Tsarnaev? 04/20/15: Does Tehran mean what it says? Oh, yes 03/27/15: Obama's hypocritical attack on Netanyahu 03/27/15: The House of Tudor didn't get the last word 03/23/15: It's Election 'Day' for a reason 03/19/15: Back to firing squads? Thank death-penalty foes 03/12/15: Take Daylight Saving Time. Please 03/05/15: Putin has built a Russia of hate 03/02/15: The squabble over Bibi's speech 02/26/15: Look who's making an issue of Obama's religion 02/19/15: Could 'Grover the Good' win the White House today? 02/09/15: 'I see parchment burning, but the letters are soaring free' 02/05/15: Give Ukraine the military aid it needs for its defense 02/02/15: No, 2014 wasn't the 'warmest year in history' 01/29/15: We will take the lashes for Saudi blogger 01/26/15: On immigration, it's GOP v. GOP 01/22/15: Gun rights should cross state lines 01/15/15: The antisemitic derangement 01/12/15: Supreme Court justices shouldn't attend State of the Union 1/05/15: White racism has all but disappeared from US politics 12/29/14: Be less romantic about the past 12/22/14: A happy Christmas for the Castro regime 12/15/14: China's economy isn't No. 1 --- but if it were, so what? 12/08/14: The good that results from US 'boots on the ground' 12/02/14: As two-parent families decline, income inequality grows 11/24/14: The Jewish state's newest hero wasn't Jewish 11/20/14: Buy your health insurance out of state 11/13/14: Gas is cheaper. Where are the grandstanding politicians? 11/10/14: The wall came tumbling down 11/03/14: No wonder voters like a candidate who knows how to castrate hogs 10/30/14: A Clinton vs. Bush race --- Again? Democracies and dynasties don't mix 10/27/14: Same-sex weddings, and the right not to perform them 10/03/14: 'Who will rest and who will wander' 09/23/14: Why beheading? 09/11/14: Drink to your health 09/09/14: Run for president or reelection to the Senate: LBJ rule to stop GOP frontrunner? 09/04/14: A 'right' to be a jerk? 08/28/14: Your strategy was wrong, Mr. President 08/25/14: James Foley video is grim, but we owe it to him to bear witness 08/21/14: Hillary's Delphic politics 08/11/14: How about a year-round tax holiday? 07/28/14: Nixon: Painfully shy, but craving great purpose 07/17/14: How to alter the Constitution you so dislike 07/10/14: If Hillary runs, it won't be as a Clinton Democrat 06/30/14: Embattled GOPer scored voting-rights victory for minorities 06/23/14: Wedding gift registries tell guests it's not the thought that counts 06/19/14: Marriage and the 'wrong side of history' 06/17/14: Bizarre, outdated laws must go 06/12/14: A truly ‘unprecedented’ Palestinian response to Israeli construction would be neighborly 06/03/14: Tax the roads, not the fuel 05/27/14: The vaunted 'competence' of Barack Obama 05/23/14: How political insiders control the ballot 05/19/14: Pfizer and the flight from punitive taxes 05/16/14: 'Fossil free' isn't folly free 05/12/14: US legal bubble can't pop soon enough 05/05/14: The prison door keeps revolving 05/01/14: Sterling's words were vulgar and bigoted, but private 04/28/14: Amid Holocaust remembrance, antisemitism adapts and thrives 04/21/14: Goldwater lost in a landslide --- and won the GOP future 04/14/14: Islam, 'honor' violence, and the silence of the progressives 03/31/14: How unborn babies become 'clinical waste' 03/28/14: Dems' ObamaCare albatross 03/24/14: Public-sector pensions are eating taxpayers alive 03/20/14: This is no time to go wobbly on Ukraine 03/17/14: The punchline is the president's dignity 03/13/14: Eminent disaster 03/10/14: 'Six Californias' instead of one? 02/27/14: Where is our shame? 02/17/14: The man who didn't want to be president 02/13/14: No, death isn't 'too good' for Tsarnaev 02/10/14: Political values aren't coded in skin color 02/03/14: 'Leading from behind' to a new world disorder 01/30/14: Income gap? Not many are obsessed 01/27/14: The Court, the buffer zone, and the marketplace of ideas 01/06/14: Buffering out the right to hear 01/02/14: Four New Year's resolutions for the press 12/30/13: The Castro tyranny turns another year older 12/23/13: Another slip down the slope from gay marriage 12/19/13: Impeach Obama? Not a chance 12/16/13: John Kerry's wrongheaded priority 12/02/13: 'Tis better to give, but some give more 11/04/13: Does the First Amendment stop at 35 feet? 11/04/13: Which ObamaCare shoe will drop next? 10/29/13: The Saudis' UN snub was a message meant for Obama 10/21/13: Would Democrats embrace a JFK today? 10/17/13: The problem is the debt, not the debt ceiling 10/10/13: Compromise with Republicans, don't demonize them 10/07//13: A cup of civility: The lesson in the Starbucks non-backlash 09/26/13: What the Pope actually said 09/16/13: From the Iraqi pullout to the disaster in Syria 09/09/13: Darwin's conundrum: Where does compassion come from? 08/29/13: When 'never again' turns into 'yet again' 08/26/13: Does a police officer's race matter? 08/22/13: How to fix presidential debates 08/15/13: Commander-in-Chief denying Purple Heart to those desrving it 08/12/13: Government is dangerous. Handle with care 07/29/13: There oughta be a law? Don't be so sure 07/15/13: A quintessentially American hall of fame 07/11/13: Supreme Court life tenure needs a rethink 07/04/13: Words to transform the world 07/01/13: Civil-rights generation prisoner to its fears 06/08/13: Demography doesn't threaten the Jewish state 06/08/13: Washington booms --- thanks to other people's money 06/03/13: Is this any way to help the poor? 05/15/13: Secure borders? US already has them 05/09/13: Dzokhar Tsarnaev and the death penalty 04/25/13:There's nothing fair about the Marketplace Fairness Act for Internet sales 04/22/13: On North Korea, Kerry muddles the message 04/18/13: Things will be the same again 04/15/13: King's 'Letter' and the law 04/11/13: The essence of Thatcherism 03/25/13: Rare is the politician who takes a stand he knows may doom him politically 03/21/13: On balance, was the Iraq war worth it? 03/18/13: A Pope in Judaism? 03/14/13: Useful idiots, then and now 03/11/13: Education liberation 03/07/13: Americans speak every language, but only English unites us 03/04/13: Europe's Hezbollah cowardice 02/28/13: Still obsessed with Citizens United 02/18/13: After the 'toughest' gun law, gun crime rose 02/14/13: Abolition, word by word: The long battle of ideas that defeated slavery 02/11/13: Our commuters could learn something from Tokyo's 02/04/13: A popular secretary of state, not a great one 01/31/13: Freedom? In Japan, conservatives don't mention it 01/14/13: Bad guys' lawyers 01/03/13: People are truly good at heart? Sadly, no 12/31/12: Kerry's 'realism' slips into callousness 12/27/12: Those endless, onerous presidential campaigns 12/24/12: A party that doesn't think with its skin 12/20/12: Good laws will never abolish all evil 12/17/12: The baby bust generation 12/13/12: Freedom from union compulsion 12/06/12: Grant's greatest regret 11/29/12: What Medicare needs is a consumer-driven market 11/26/12: Yes, slash farm subsidies --- but don't stop there 11/22/12: A vast moral difference 11/19/12: Incumbents forever 10/29/12: Voting is a right, not a duty 10/25/12: The real George McGovern 10/22/12: Can a conscientious liberal back Obama? 10/18/12: What would Hippocrates do? 10/15/12: The moral giant and the leftist creep 10/08/12: What's the real race issue here? 09/27/12: Obama, the great divider 09/24/12: The ghosts of Jimmy Carter 08/23/12: Stingy liberals 08/20/12: Unlikely bedfellows on immigration reform 08/16/12: After the Olympics: Where's the humility? 08/09/12: The rich pay their fair share in taxes --- and then some 07/26/12: Public discourse, without the 'hard zinger' 07/23/12: How the marriage gap favors Obama 07/19/12: A slow reader's lament 07/16/12: Life terms for teen killers: neither cruel nor unusual 07/12/12: Minimum-wage laws are costly for the unemployed 07/09/12: Broaden the immigration debate --- and abolish the quotas 07/04/12: Celebrating, royal-free 07/02/12: No danger in a nuclear Iran? Seriously? 06/28/12: America the non-racist 06/21/12: Forget the research; our minds are made up 06/18/12: The #%@*&! problem 06/11/12: The end nears for a 50-year mistake 06/04/12: Facebook's expatriate and the Senate's demagogues 05/29/12: When 'minority' is a trick of definition 05/24/12: The peace process battered Israel's reputation 05/21/12: Two is enough 05/10/12: 'Never again' is now in North Korea 05/07/12: 'The defining issue of our time'? Hardly 04/30/12: The government's college money pit 04/26/12: Congressman's war on the Constitution 04/23/12: Obama is a unifier? Hardly 04/19/12: 'Victims' who persecute 04/05/12: An uncivil income tax system 03/29/12: With sunny authenticity, Reagan wooed the young 03/26/12: Romney, Republicans, and the young 03/22/12: A safer society with guns 03/19/12: On mandate, Romney plays both sides 03/15/12: On trial at Rutgers: Hate crime or thought crime? 03/12/12: Taxi medallions shackle cabbies 03/05/12: Santorum's 'snub' was no gaffe 03/01/12: Outraged by Mormon proxy baptism? Not this Jew 02/16/12: Quakers, conscience, and contraception 02/13/12: A second look at 'The Third Jihad' 02/09/12: A moment of clarity --- thanks to the Race for the Cure 02/06/12: Is a long primary fight good for the GOP? 02/02/12: 'Right-to-work' means freedom and choice 01/26/12: Shut up, they explained 01/19/12: Burning with despair 01/11/12: In New Hampshire, 'acceptable' is pronounced 'winner' 01/09/12: A 'referendum' on Romney 01/05/12: Pull the parachute 01/02/12: The Supreme Court's judgment isn't absolute 12/27/11: 'Dysfunctional' government is a feature, not a bug 12/26/11: The affirmative-action myth 12/19/11: An 'end point' for race-based admissions 12/12/11: E-mail isn't killing the Post Office 12/08/11: For Arab Christians, a wintry 'spring' 12/05/11: Frank's sneering insults won't be missed 12/01/11: In Oregon, a profile in incoherence 11/23/11: Making Americans 11/21/11: Memo to Washington: Kick the spending habit 11/16/11: Is America past its prime? 11/14/11: A deep breath for free speech 11/10/11: A nuclear Iran would be the gravest threat 11/07/11: Medallion madness 11/03/11: Occupiers, Tea Partiers, and the Tenth Commandment 10/31/11: Losing the peace in Iraq? 10/27/11: Romney's threat to China 10/19/11: Too steep a price for Shalit's release 10/13/11: In Egypt, a new sort of pogrom 10/10/11: The left, the race card, and Herman Cain 10/06/11: David Horowitz's search for meaning in mortality 09/28/11: Professor Warren's ire 09/26/11: Climate skeptics don't 'deny science' 09/22/11: A Palestinian state? Don't count on it 09/19/11: For Elizabeth Warren, a story from 1984 09/15/11: Liberty's resilience, even after 9/11 09/11/11: The war on terror is a war of ideas 09/07/11: Uncle Sam's IOUs can't save Social Security 09/05/11: A Ponzi scheme? That's not the point 09/01/11: Anti-religious diatribes come in different forms 08/29/11: Disaster isn't a stimulus package 08/25/11: The Sage of Omaha speaks, but his actions speak louder 08/22/11: When 'inconsequential' means 'better' 08/18/11: Making Washington inconsequential 08/15/11: 'Tea Partiers sound an urgent alarm 08/08/11: 'Energy independence' is a pipe dream 08/04/11: Smearing the Tea Party 07/25/11: Migraines, Michele, and me 07/21/11: Population boon 07/18/11: How many lawmakers does it take to . . . 07/11/11: Let convicts choose: Prison or the lash? 07/04/11: Philosophy, faith, and the Fourth of July 06/27/11: Good intentions, bad health policy 06/23/11: The world's best policeman 06/20/11: Who cares about American history? 06/07/11: No blind eye to the 'worst of the worst' 06/02/11: Cooler heads contend with climate panic 05/30/11: Much ado about Bibi and Barack 05/26/11: A ban on circumcision? 05/23/11: Gingrich and 'the party of food stamps' 05/19/11: Romney stands steadfast for a bad idea 05/16/11: Obama's inexcusable indecision on Syria 05/05/11: The debt-ceiling scaremongers 05/3/11: Bin Laden was right about one thing 05/02/11: Hitler is dead. Hitlerism lives on 04/25/11: Why the 2012 hopefuls don't inspire 04/18/11: There's no fairness in taxing e-sales 04/14/11: The myth of 'Herbert Hoover economics' 04/11/11: The indispensable freedom of association 03/30/11: Shaking the house that Assad built 03/28/11: Gingrich vs. Gingrich 03/21/11: This time, don't betray the rebels 03/16/11: Massacre of the innocents 03/14/11: What NPR needs is a little tough love 03/10/11: A RomneyCare fix for Romney 03/03/11: Union rights that aren't 02/21/11: Lara Logan and Egyptian liberation 02/16/11: Retire the racial bean-counters 02/14/11: Why are the zealots obsessed with smoking? 02/09/11: No room at the table for the Muslim Brothers 02/07/11: Made in the U.S.A. 02/02/11: Egypt and the 'freedom agenda' 01/31/11: The case for mercenaries in Somalia 01/27/11: Abortion's awful euphemisms 01/24/11: Obama, the Great Deregulator? 01/17/11: Voices of patience and wisdom 01/13/11: Arbitration's intolerable bind 01/10/11: The widening fight against public-sector unions 12/27/10: A House poorly divided 12/20/10: Mitt Romney does the health-care straddle 12/15/10: Yes, genocide is an American concern 12/13/10: Why do the liberals rage? 12/06/10: Is capital punishment racist? 12/02/10: North Korea runs unchecked 11/24/10: No subsidy for NPR 11/22/10: TSA: One step behind the terrorists 11/17/10: Warning labels and the nanny-state 11/15/10: Created by God to be good 11/08/10: The GOP gets a second chance 11/04/10: Europe says no to deficit-spending 'stimulus' 11/01/10: The 'big dog' of campaign spending 10/28/10: Condescension and comeuppance 10/20/10: Fannie, Freddie, Frank, and fiction 10/18/10: The undeniable Jewish state 10/14/10: ObamaCare blowback 10/11/10: The most conservative court? Hardly 10/06/10: Congress beats the trade-war drum 09/22/10: The waste of recycling 09/20/10: Get excited about recycling? Not me 09/15/10: Lessons of the Koran's non-burning 09/08/10: The man out to topple Barney Frank 09/07/10: Victims on the road to peace 09/01/10: 'Clunkers' was a classic government folly 08/30/10: Let the private sector fund stem-cell research 08/26/10: Lifting the embargo would entrench Cuba's rulers 08/23/10: Lighten up, Mr. President 08/19/10: The disengagement disaster, five years on 08/16/10: Born in the U.S.A. 08/04/10: Anti-Semites and double standards 08/02/10: Electoral College bypassers should be careful what they wish for 07/28/10: Keelhauling Kerry 07/26/10: A free press takes no subsidies 07/21/10: Does the press deserve a bailout? 07/19/10: Look who's defending states' rights 07/15/10: Fouled by the taxman 07/04/10: Were the Founders hypocrites? 06/30/10: Declining on the bench 06/28/10: The union-only protection racket 06/23/10: The good Communist --- not 06/17/10: In love with socialized medicine 06/14/10: Musings, random and otherwise 06/09/10: Oil fuels better lives 06/07/10: A mosque at Ground Zero? Moderate Muslims say no 05/31/10: Give peace a chance with government-free schools 05/26/10: Rand Paul and the right to be odious 05/21/10: Not another 'hollow charade' 05/17/10: Is the ADL finally grasping the necessity of school vouchers? 05/13/10: Who decides what 'marriage' means? 05/10/10: Law and disorder 05/05/10: What's wrong with price gouging? 05/03/10: Signing on the line is a public act 04/28/10: The medium isn't the message 04/26/10: Freedom takes more than technology 04/19/10: Look who's carrying on 04/14/10: A Boston Tea Party 04/12/10: Support for Israel runs on party lines 03/29/10: Women in science: The news isn't bad 03/24/10: No place for race 03/15/10: 100 million 'missing' girls 03/10/10: Iraq's new birth of freedom 03/08/10: Uniform standards are not a good fit 03/04/10: Gore's overheated doomsday rhetoric 02/15/10: A ride in Big Brother's Audi 02/10/10: Engagement won't unclench the mullahs' fist 02/01/10: Candidates, campaigns, and New Coke 01/28/10: Public-sector pay, private-sector backlash 01/25/10: 'The freedom to think for ourselves' 01/18/10: Blame Obama for the bluest state's blues 01/14/10: Harry Reid's racial imbroglio 01/11/10: The protectionist delusion 01/06/10: Medicare and the Mayo Clinic 01/04/10: Let's keep the death tax dead 01/01/10: The 2000s: A descent into incivility 12/31/09: The wake-up call from Flight 253 12/28/09: Musings, random and otherwise 12/23/09: Not all tidings are of great joy 12/16/09: Economics 101: How little they really know 12/14/09: Tiger, the serial philanderer and race 11/19/09: The right is wrong on illegal immigration 11/19/09: Live from New York, a terror trial we'll regret 11/16/09: Obama and 'The Great I Am' 11/12/09: 'Don't call people bigots just because you disagree with them' 11/09/09: How to build a better House 11/05/09: The public's best option: Less government, more choice 11/02/09: Hyperbole and the health-care debate 10/29/09: The war against affordable books 10/22/09: The year the dominoes fell 10/19/09: Something stinks, but it isn't the voters 10/15/09: Peace vs. the peace process 10/12/09: A bluntly political act 10/01/09: The myth of the underpaid public employee 09/27/09: Silence the idiot box 09/24/09: Mandatory insurance: Yes, it's a tax 09/17/09: The man who hated hunger 09/14/09: What 'right' to health care? 09/09/09: Afghanistan, Obama, and the loyal opposition 09/07/09: Bad news: Illegal immigration is down 09/02/09: On soaking the rich 08/31/09: 'Kennedy' once meant 'tax-cutter' 08/26/09: Clunker Q&A 08/24/09: Do the right thing, Senator Kennedy. Resign 08/19/09: Chadors in the Cabinet can't cloak Iran's misogyny 08/10/09: Musings, random and otherwise 08/06/09: With imprisonment up, crime is down 08/03/09: Held hostage in North Korea 07/30/09: Health care: We don't need the Lexus 07/27/09: Abortion and the echo of eugenics 07/22/09: Black president demanding segregation in Jerusalem 07/15/09: Kabuki and Sonia Sotomayor 07/13/09: Read it before you vote, congressman 07/08/09: Minimum-wage folly 07/06/09: A deadly organ-donor system 07/01/09: No climate debate? Yes, there is 06/24/09: The 'democracy president' not 06/22/09: '1984'+ 60 06/18/09: Obama, Iran, and the Tiananmen playbook 06/10/09: The 'racist' brand 06/08/09: In Cairo, Obama pandered 06/04/09: China's 'socialist road' to misery 05/20/09: A two-state peace isn't the Arab goal 05/18/09: Aren't all violent crimes hate crimes? 05/14/09: The party of Powell 05/11/09: Lady Justice's blindfold 05/04/09: Courage, and the absence of courage 04/29/09: The efficiency paradox 04/28/09: $8 gas and the green agenda 04/23/09: A tortured debate over the 'torture memos' 04/20/09: JFK Democrats no more 04/08/09: Which son are you, Caleb? 04/06/09: In Israel, finally, a voice of realism 03/30/09: The coming nuclear renaissance 03/26/09: Embryos and ethics 03/16/09: Bush's 'folly' is ending in victory 03/23/09: Intelligence is no guarantee of goodness 03/16/09: Embryos and ethics 03/09/09: Intelligence is no guarantee of goodness 03/09/09: Whatever happened to global warming? 03/02/09: Musings, random and otherwise 02/26/09: More race talk is the last thing we need 02/16/09: The enemies of Jim Crow 02/11/09: Choosing octuplets 02/09/09: No arts czar, please, we're American 02/02/09: Money for nothing won't grow the economy 01/29/09: An over-optimistic stimulus plan 01/26/09: Roe and Doe, 36 years 01/22/09: Farewell to 43 01/19/09: Questions for Obama's science guy 01/15/09: Superstitions and skin color 01/08/09: Yes, it's anti-Semitism 01/05/09: Congress: New year, new pay hike 01/02/09:Has Israel learned its lesson? 12/29/08: Don't believe everything you read 12/26/08: Obama and peeved progressives 12/15/08: Better than a bailout 12/11/08: A permanent case of the swelled head 12/10/08: Skepticism on climate change 12/08/08: How Obama can fix education 12/05/08: UN's obsession is grotesque and Orwellian 11/21/08: The great Bush deregulation myth 11/17/08: Palin's political potential 11/13/08: Playing the race card on gay marriage 10/30/08: The 'dictator' label 10/20/08: Healthcare shouldn't be linked to employment 10/16/08: When guilt by association is fair game 10/13/08: A vote for voting on Election Day 10/10/08: Obama's 180 on genocide 10/02/08: A US welcome mat for Ahmadinejad 09/29/08: Barney Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial fiasco 09/26/08: Watching Oprah from behind the veil 09/22/08: The drilling bill that bans drilling 09/18/08: Congrats, Dems, the smears and sneers are helping Palin 09/15/08: Seeing through Obamanomics 09/11/08: Let government mind your own business 09/04/08: A stark choice on abortion 09/02/08: McCain's maverick pick 08/28/08: Mr. Smith in Washington? Sell! 08/21/08: The myth of the white minority 08/18/08: When hindsight isn't 20-20 08/14/08: Back in the USSR 08/11/08: Honor killing comes to the US 08/07/08: What, them worry? 07/28/08: Missing from that Berlin speech 07/24/08: Cheer up these are the good old days 07/17/08: The brilliance of the Electoral College 07/14/08: Dems, the military, and McCain 07/10/08: Dancing on the grave of Jesse Helms 07/03/08: Israel still paying for its defeat 06/30/08: A silver bullet for Obama? 06/26/08: Answering Alex's mom 06/23/08: A world without children 06/19/08: The coming population bust 06/16/08: A blind eye to Mugabe's reign of terror 06/06/08: No profits, no oil 05/29/08: What about the Bush doctrine? 05/27/08: The other Obama is fair game, too 05/22/08: Misunderstanding marriage 05/18/08: Musings, random and otherwise 05/15/08: McCain's Supreme wrongheadedness 05/12/08: A triumph of life and hope 05/01/08: Leave the plastic alone 04/28/08: Obama's mainstream friends 04/22/08: The dire situation in Zimbabwe 04/17/08: A son's familiar journey 04/14/08: Pregnant, yes but not a man 04/07/08: Choosing to eliminate unwanted daughters 04/03/08: Facing the truth about jihadist violence 03/31/08: When Zola wrote J'accuse! 03/27/08: Drive-by defamation 03/24/08: David Mamet, revised 03/20/08: Should people of faith empathize with Obama? 03/17/08: Patton and the 2008 vote 03/13/08: Slaughter, jubilation, and the peace process 03/10/08: How government makes things worse 03/06/08: Immigrants in prison? Not likely 03/03/08: The Pyongyang overture 02/28/08: The architect of modern conservatism 02/18/08: Obama, Che, and JFK 02/14/08: Immigrant, soldier, citizen 02/11/08: The irrelevance of Obama's color 02/07/08: The mystery in the voting booth 02/04/08: A conservative's case for McCain 01/31/08: Congress helps itself. Again. 01/28/08: The dominant Clinton 01/24/08: Ain't no free lunch 01/21/08: What would Reagan say? 01/17/08: Death of the Bush Doctrine 01/14/08: Top medical journal's outlandish political exaggeration 01/10/08: Let Hillary be Hillary 01/07/08: BR-R-R! Where did global warming go? 12/27/07: No ordinary candidate 12/24/07: The Islamist war on women 12/20/07: Life and death in New Jersey 12/10/07: A reassuring Iran report? Hardly 12/06/07: Politicians do religion and where they don't 12/03/07: The sky isn't falling 11/29/07: The fate of the Know-Nothings 11/26/07: Let's hear it for good news from Iraq 11/15/07: Is Israel a Jewish state? 11/05/07: A hero in Castro's gulag 10/30/07: Will newspapers survive? 10/25/07: The scope of presidential power 10/18/07: Big Brother at school 10/15/07: The Mitt-and-Rudy smackdown 10/11/07: Getting away with art 10/02/07: Getting away with art 09/24/07: The big lie about the Great Silencer 09/20/07: Afraid to tell-off Moveon 09/12/07: Light and darkness and a disembodied brain 09/10/07: 9/11 + 6 09/06/07: Destruction in black America is self-inflicted 09/04/07: Is Craig really a hypocrite? 08/30/07: Good news, but not for everyone 08/27/07: Casinos and the American way 08/23/07: Truth and the Armenian genocide 08/20/07: Global warming: Case not closed 08/16/07: Hot words on global warming 08/13/07: Zimbabwe's horrors 08/09/07: Scrap the scalping laws 07/26/07: Why are we rewarding Iran? 07/25/07: A teacher with faith and reason 07/09/07: Why we fly the flag 06/25/07: Science, stem cells, and ideology 06/21/07: The fights on the Right 06/18/07: Ludicrous lawsuits 06/14/07: Demonizing illegal immigrants 06/11/07: Six Days to remember accurately 06/04/07: Giving voice to the dissidents 05/25/07: Look in the mirror, Jimmy Carter 05/21/07: One party's fringe is the other's mainstream 05/17/07: With justice for some 05/14/07: A world of good news 05/10/07: Israel's deadly stupor 05/03/07: Lawful incest may be on the way 04/30/07: What drives the Dems? 04/26/07: New questions for the Islamic Society 04/23/07: A time for tears and silence, not politics 04/19/07: Do we really need religion? 04/16/07: Doubting doomsday 04/02/07: The smell of irresolution 03/29/07: Messages to my son 03/26/07: Finally an ally in the struggle against establishment Islam 03/22/07: GOP “family values” 03/20/07: What if we deport them all? 03/15/07: Illegal immigrants are here to stay 03/05/07: Judge rules public schools have right to teach charges whatever they deem appropriate parents and morality be damned 03/01/07: Ex-presidents' big payday 02/26/07: Love, marriage, and the baby carriage 02/19/07: Support the troops by thwarting the mission? 02/15/07: Has any population ever been less suited for statehood than the Palestinians? 02/12/07: Setting the driving public free 02/08/07: Chicken Little and the global warming debate 02/05/07: The message in the Boston bomb scare 02/01/07: Segregation on Capitol Hill 01/29/07: The tax-code quirk and the health care mess 01/25/07: Only the GOP is the anti-jihad party? 01/22/07: Are women giving up on marriage? 01/18/07: Musings, random and otherwise 01/15/07: Mitt be nimble 01/11/07: The Boston mosque's Saudi connection 01/08/07: Arguments Left and Right 01/04/07: An act of moral hygiene 01/02/07: Castro's true legacy is a trail of blood 12/28/06: We'd elect a black president? That's not news 12/26/06: Climate of fear 12/21/06: Words that can kill 12/18/06: The Constitution's guardrails 12/14/06: The atheists' bleak alternative 12/11/06: Oh, brother 12/07/06: Conversations with the enemy 12/04/06: Fighting to win in Iraq 11/20/06: Anti-military bigotry by the Bay 11/16/06: Democracy and same-sex marriage 11/13/06: The Republican debacle 11/02/06: Scenes from the jihad 10/30/06: Time to retire the race card 10/26/06: The population pessimists 10/23/06: If we had known then . . . 10/19/06: Censoring ideas 10/17/06: A lifesaving killer returns 10/13/06: Kennedy's borking 10/09/06: Undeserved forgiveness 10/05/06: Public praise is fair game 10/02/06: Dumbing down democracy 09/28/06: A war we have to win 09/25/06: A whiff of the devil 09/21/06: The missing Muslim outcry 09/15/06: Clinton got it right on welfare reform 09/11/06: A new low in Bush-hatred 09/07/06: Khatami's propaganda tour 09/05/06: Musings, random and otherwise 08/31/06: Sacrificing truth on the altar of diversity 08/23/06: What Israeli security could teach us 08/17/06: When Mike met Mahmoud 08/07/06: When anti-Semitism is a big story and when it isn't 08/03/06: A million bad reasons to vote 07/31/06: Hezbollah is our enemy, too 07/27/06: Historical amnesia at the NAACP 07/24/06: The chicken hawk slur 07/20/06: The crumbling legacy of Tip O'Neill 07/17/06: The enemy is Iran 07/13/06: Putin silences the airwaves 07/06/06: About our dictator 06/29/06: A press storm over secrets 06/26/06: Life in an Islamist US 06/22/06: Speak English: Misreading a sign of the times 06/19/06: FEMA's follies 06/15/06: Signs of success in Iraq 06/08/06: Demagogues and the marriage debate 06/05/06: The Divine’s silence and the Pope's 06/01/06: The crumbling GOP base 05/30/06: Hysteria at the ACLU 05/26/06: Empowerment through English 05/25/06: Some of Israel's most ardent supporters have had enough 05/22/06: The real cause of the immigration crisis 05/18/06: Muslim reformer facing lawsuit — from co-religionists 05/15/06: As Father Coughlin spins in his grave 05/11/06: Musings, random and otherwise 05/08/06: The rules according to Kennedy 05/04/06: An encounter with Lech Walesa 05/01/06: Totalitarian chic 04/28/06: When parents' values conflict with public schools 04/12/06: Legal, permanent and alone 04/10/06: Justice for Moussaoui 04/06/06: Hold that opinion 04/03/06: Letter to a mentsh-in-training 03/30/06: A nation like ours 03/27/06: America takes side of Israel 03/24/06: The obligation of unwanted fatherhood 03/23/06: The humanitarian case for war in Iraq 03/20/06: Scalia loosens up 03/16/06: Adoption, kids, and the gay agenda 03/13/06: Politics, marriage, and women's votes 03/09/06: Notes from Harry Browne 03/02/06: Freedom for the thought we hate 02/27/06: Anatomy of Summers's fall 02/20/06: When fear cows the media 02/16/06: The flames of hate in Alabama 02/13/06: YOU BET I WANT FRIES WITH THAT! 02/09/06: The throw-away-the-key fallacy 02/06/06: Today censors may be coming for some Mohammed cartoons; tomorrow it is your words and ideas they will silence 01/30/06: The Hamas victory is good news 01/26/06: Don't go wobbly on Iran 01/19/06: Musings, random and otherwise 01/12/06: Katrina and consequences 01/09/06: Bringing faith into contempt 12/29/05: 9,240 VICTIMS, AND COUNTING 12/29/05: Slurs fly from the left 12/22/05: Goodwill to foe as well as friend 12/19/05: Obsessive anti-Semitism 12/15/05: Defying terror to vote for the future 12/12/05: Protecting life by taking it away 12/08/05: Misplaced sympathy for killers 12/05/05: Abortion's paradoxical politics 11/21/05: Adjusting the Patriot Act 11/17/05: Truman bounced back so will Bush 11/14/05: Of Powerball and profiteers 11/10/05: Privacy by decree 11/07/05: A war of values, not religion 11/03/05: The good news from Iraq is not fit to print 10/24/05: Sex is now a matter of health and the law, while morality is reserved for tobacco 10/20/05: Pakistan's dirty laundering 10/17/05: Norway's Nobel agenda 10/13/05: Social Security still needs fixing 10/10/05: Elian and the party line 10/06/05: The people's voice on gay marriage 10/03/05: The timeless truth of creation 09/29/05: Big government deja vu 09/27/05: Common sense on terrorism 09/26/05: Iraq’s good news chronicle 09/22/05: The paradox of fuel efficiency 09/19/05: Make them answer 09/15/05: Katrina's colorblind relief 09/12/05: Barking about gasoline 09/08/05: Supreme Court term limits 09/06/05: The looting instinct 09/02/05: Gaza's final evacuees 08/29/05: Hypocrisy on adult consent 08/26/05: Is Iraq Vietnam? Ask the troops 08/22/05: Lott's a slow learner 08/12/05: On condemning terrorism 08/08/05: The A-bomb was a lifesaver 08/05/05: The Republican pork barrel 08/01/05: Nazi echoes in the Gaza disengagement? 07/29/05: When Justices refuse to retire 07/27/05: Failures of intelligence 07/25/05: An antidemocratic plot 07/22/05: How to offend a fantastic ally 07/18/05: Poland's new fascination with Jews 07/01/05: Musings, random and otherwise 06/29/05: The overused Nazi insult 06/27/05: Eminent injustice in New London 06/24/05: The power of Presidential solidarity 06/20/05: De-link health care from employment 06/17/05: GM's healthcare dilemma 06/13/05: Separating school and state 06/10/05: The slavery shakedown 06/06/05: Mitt Romney, cover candidate 06/03/05: The Right's balance 05/30/05: Death of a Marine 05/27/05: The case for judicial term limits 05/25/05: Minorities, racism, and the UMASS flap 05/20/05: Why Islam is disrespected 05/13/05: Bush's Moscow misstep 04/18/05: Where did our sweet boy go? 04/15/05: Does Israel want Arab democracy? 04/11/05: Patriot Act no threat to libraries 04/08/05: The Pope who turned Antisemitism aside 04/04/05: One nation under law 04/01/05: Sharon's retreat is a victory for terrorists 03/28/05: The wrong Rx 03/25/05: Terri Schiavo: Less certainty, more prayer 03/21/05: Why not torture terrorists? 03/18/05: Treat these detainees like dogs 03/14/05: The marriage newspeak 03/11/05: The Arab Spring 03/07/05: A phony consensus on youthful killers 03/04/05: An inglorious suicide 02/28/05: The pirates of eminent domain 02/21/05: Terminate the gerrymander 02/18/05: A Prophet without honor in his country 02/14/05: Driving up the cost of college 02/11/05: Driving up the cost of college 02/07/05: Religious hatred, Saudi-style 02/04/05: Dean For DNC Chairman? YEEAARRGGHH! 01/31/05: Remaining silent is torture in itself 01/24/05: An eighth of every paycheck 01/20/05: Same man, different president 01/17/05: How to spend a surplus 01/17/05: A bigger, more democratic Congress 01/10/05: The problem with Mahmoud Abbas 01/07/05: Angry with the Divine 01/03/05: When love matters more than blood 12/31/04: Overwhelmingly, political hate speech today comes from the Left 12/27/04: In the footsteps of FDR, Truman, JFK 12/24/04: Musing, random and otherwise 12/17/04: Iraq through Iraqis' eyes 12/10/04: Medical marijuana: The real stakes 12/06/04: Annan is a symptom of the UN's sickness 12/03/04: Intellectual diversity? Not on campus 11/19/04: The thanks we owe Ashcroft 11/08/04: The marriage consensus 11/04/04: Big loss for the Bush haters 11/01/04: A question of character 10/29/04: The radical and the reactionary 10/27/04: Kerry's religious references 10/25/04: The ignorant American voter 10/22/04: Old enough to kill. old enough to die? 10/15/04: One question not asked 10/04/04: The abusers of eminent domaine 09/27/04: Why the 9/11 fund was a mistake 09/24/04: Saudi Arabia's religious hatred 09/22/04: Election Day, RIP? 09/20/04: How to steal an election 09/13/04: Heard the one about Kerry's sense of humor? 09/10/04: Where is the Muslim outrage? 09/07/04: Schwarzenegger's homage to America 09/02/04: The right kind of diversity 08/30/04: Why Koch is on Bush's bandwagon 08/27/04: It's Kerry's antiwar record they resent 08/25/04: Some of Kerry's biggest fans are in the press 08/13/04: When diversity is only skin-deep 08/09/04: In Vietnam today 08/06/04: The gerrymandering scandal 08/03/04: Buzzwords and cheap shots 08/02/04: Good news from Iraq is underreported 07/26/04: Bush-haters do Kerry no favors 07/23/04: An illusion of security 07/19/04: Chappaquiddick's unanswered questions 07/19/04: Lessons of a school budget crisis 07/16/04: A contest between big spenders 07/12/04: A new look at Bush's 16 words 07/09/04: Edwards's glaring weakness 07/06/04: Iraq's Independence Day 07/02/04: The unstoppable Bill Buckley 06/28/04: Romney's profile in courage 06/25/04: Anti-Semitism and the UN 06/21/04: What's going right in Iraq 06/18/04: Let enterprise boldly go into space 06/14/04: Mutilations and Muslim law 06/07/04: The liberal terminology of abortion 06/04/04: The real Dem in the presidential race 06/01/04: Vouchers and the promise of equality 05/25/04: Ted Kennedy's anti-American slander 05/24/04: Overblown fears about the Patriot Act 05/21/04: Sky-high gas prices? Not really 05/17/04: The end of the gay marriage debate? 05/14/04: The images we see and those we don't 05/03/04 The enemy of women 04/29/04 The Kerry medals mystery 04/28/04 Do soldiers' coffins belong on page 1? 04/26/04 America-hatred among the Arabs 04/23/04: Kerry's U.N. fetish 04/19/04 Faith in the depths of hell 04/16/04: What the convention is worth 04/11/04: Everyone got it wrong before 9/11 04/02/04: What has gone right in Iraq 03/22/04: Kerry, Cuba and the truth 03/19/04: On flattering minorities 03/12/04: Time for regime change in Tehran 03/08/04: Same-sex marriage vs. civil rights 03/05/04: A North Korean in Canada 03/04/04: Kerry's sweep bodes well for Bush 03/01/04: Kerry's lack of political courage 02/17/04: A hypocritical marriage debate 02/13/04: John Kerry's shifting stands 02/09/04: An Auschwitz in Korea 02/06/04: The most bloated budget ever 02/02/04: Into the sewer 01/30/04: A just war, with or without WMD 01/26/04: A little less freedom of speech 01/22/04: Quizzing the candidates (cont'd) 01/20/04: Quizzing the candidates 01/16/04: Is lawful polygamy next? 01/12/04: The decline of assimilation 01/09/04: Fleeing free trade 01/05/04: Another January, another Congressional pay raise 12/29/03: Hate speech ... from the Left 12/26/03: The triumph of Chanukah 12/22/03: Clark's credibility gap 12/18/03: Justice and Saddam Hussein 12/15/03: The respect donors deserve 12/12/03: The party of big spenders 12/08/03: Lieberman vs. Lieberman on religion 12/04/03: Bigotry and the Muslim world 11/27/03: Giving thanks for capitalism 11/24/03: Marriage ruling echoes Roe v. Wade 11/21/03: Down the slippery slope 11/17/03: The timeless meaning of marriage 11/14/03: In Reagan's footsteps 11/10/03: The race-baiter in the campaign 11/06/03: A 'botched' occupation? 10/24/03: Bigotry and the Muslim world 10/17/03: Put Nobel laureates to the test of time 10/10/03: The headlines omitted the real WMD news 10/07/03: A bum 'bigotry' rap on Rush 09/29/03: When murderers die, innocents live 09/23/03: Why Arnold offends them 09/19/03: Taiwan deserves a UN seat 09/12/03: The war on US didn't begin on 9/11 09/09/03: Needed in Iraq: a tougher US hand 09/03/03: Harvard's tainted money 08/29/03: More prisoners, less crime 08/08/03: The man the race industry hates 08/04/03: 'Roadmap'? What 'Roadmap'? 07/21/03: The Republican spending orgy 07/18/03: The frenzy-of-the-month club 07/14/03: The death of American racism 07/09/03: Same-sex marriage vs. society's ideal 07/07/03: The lull before the storm 06/30/03: The benefits of race-based admissions 06/20/03: An uprising to cheer 06/11/03: Musings, random and otherwise 06/09/03: A growing rift with Europe 05/27/03: Preferences, racial and otherwise 05/23/03: The bottom line for teachers unions 05/12/03: Castro's cheerleaders 05/08/03: In 'enlightened' New England, it hurts to give 05/06/03: Help the living before the dead 04/25/03: The search for the 'smoking gun' 04/21/03: Trading truth for access? 04/14/03: Kerry's abortion litmus test 04/11/03: Meanwhile, in Cuba, the tyranny goes on 04/07/03: Explaining the war to a six-year-old 03/31/03: Empowering a terroristocracy in the name of 'peace'? 03/27/03: America the liberator 03/10/03: THE UNITED NATIONS, RIP 03/10/03: Changing the definition of marriage 03/07/03: Liberate Iraq -- even with unclean hands 03/03/03: Why talk radio tilts right 02/21/03: A boost for Saddam 02/10/03: On outing Kerry 02/06/03: The neverending voyage 02/03/03: This hasn't been a 'rush to war' 01/31/03: Killing the terror regimes 01/29/03: How not to win the war 01/24/03: The UN's moral irrelevance 01/22/03: Musings, random and otherwise 01/17/03: The Sharpton hypocrisy 01/13/03: The fig leaf of 'diversity' 01/10/03: Israeli restraint makes terrorism more likely 01/02/03: The double standard on political hate speech 12/30/02: Good for the spirit, good for the body 12/23/02: The college president who owes a greater duty to a fugitive serial killer than the public or to the law 12/20/02: The death penalty by the numbers 12/16/02: Yes, Virginia, there is (still) a liberal media bias 12/03/02: On the brink of regime change --- in Iran 11/27/02: Light's victory over darkness 11/25/02: A 'Republican' lesson from a Democratic convention 11/22/02: The slippery senator 11/18/02: The campus 'diversity' fraud 11/14/02: MURDER AT A KIBBUTZ 11/01/02: Saddam's shop of horrors 10/24/02: Musings, random and otherwise 10/17/02: Jimma's ignoble prize 10/14/02: New Jersey's bigot laureate 10/11/02: Today it is libs who are most likely to demand the silencing of speech they disapprove of 10/04/02: Learning English from Day 1 09/30/02: The world will follow us to war 09/27/02: The face of antisemitism 09/20/02: Starving time in Zimbabwe 09/14/02: Against moral confusion / 9-12-2002 09/03/02: With 'eternal friends' like these 08/30/02: Enriching survivors was a costly mistake 08/26/02: John Kerry's absent passion 08/23/02: Bonnie, get your gun 08/19/02: A screenwriter's remorse 07/29/02: The real abortion extremists 07/26/02: Another round of Kemp-Roth 07/19/02: Jews among Arabs, Arabs among Jews 07/15/02: Musings, random and otherwise 07/12/02: The new civil rights champions 07/03/02: Riding the rails 07/01/02: The prerequisite to peace 06/24/02: Frisking AlGore 06/17/02: Offense, not defense, is the key to homeland security 06/14/02: Looking at the horror 06/07/02: The cost of a death-penalty moratorium 06/03/02: Executing 'children,' and other death-penalty myths 05/29/02: A real threat? 05/24/02: The message in Arafat's headdress 05/20/02: (Mis)playing the popularity card 05/10/02: Outspoken, Muslim -- and moderate 05/10/02: The heroes in Castro's jails 05/06/02: The disappearing history term paper 05/03/02: Musings, random and otherwise 04/29/02: The canary in Europe's mine 04/15/02: Powell's crazy mission 04/12/02: The slavery reparations hustle 04/08/02: Peace at any price = war 03/26/02: Decency matters most, Caleb 03/22/02: The U.S. embargo and Cuba's future 03/19/02: The keepers of Cuba's conscience 03/15/02: A walk in Havana 02/26/02: Buchanan's lament 02/12/02: What 'peace' means to Arafat 02/08/02: STEVEN EMERSON AND THE NPR BLACKLIST 02/05/02: Antismoking: Who pays? 02/01/02: Turn the Saudis 01/25/02: Making MLK cry 01/21/02: Ted to tax cut: Drop dead 01/18/02: Musings random and otherwise 01/14/02: An ultimatum to Saudi Arabia 01/11/02: Friendship, Saudi-style 01/07/02: Shakedown at Harvard 01/04/02: More guns, more safety 01/02/02: Smears and slanders from the Left 12/28/01: Congress gives to others -- and itself 12/24/01: The littlest peacemakers 12/20/01: How to condemn terror 12/18/01: Greenland once was 12/14/01: Parents who never said ''no'' 12/11/01: Wit and (economic) wisdom 12/07/01: THE PALESTINIANS' MYTH 12/04/01: The war against Israel goes on 11/30/01: Tribunals, motorcycles -- and freedom 11/19/01: Friendship and the House of Saud 11/12/01: The Justice Department's unjust monopoly 11/09/01: Muslim, but not extremist 11/02/01: Too good for Oprah 10/29/01: Journalism and the 'neutrality fetish' 10/26/01: Derail these subsidies 10/22/01: Good and evil in the New York Times 10/15/01: Rush Limbaugh's ear 10/08/01: With allies like these 10/01/01: An unpardonable act 09/28/01: THE CENSORS ARE COMING! THE CENSORS ARE COMING! 09/25/01: Speaking out against terror 09/21/01: What the terrorists saw 09/17/01: Calling evil by its name 09/13/01: Our enemies mean what they say 09/04/01: The real bigots 08/31/01: Shrugging at genocide 08/28/01: Big Brother's privacy -- or ours? 08/24/01: The mufti's message of hate 08/21/01: Remembering the 'Wall of Shame' 08/16/01: If I were the editor ... 08/14/01: If I were the Transportation Czar ... 08/10/01: Import quotas 'steel' from us all 08/07/01: Is gay "marriage" a threat? 08/03/01: A colorblind nominee 07/27/01: Eminent-domain tortures 07/24/01: On protecting the flag ... and drivers ... and immigrants 07/20/01: Dying for better mileage 07/17/01: Why Americans would rather drive 07/13/01: Do these cabbies look like bigots? 07/10/01: 'Defeated in the bedroom' 07/06/01: Who's white? Who's Hispanic? Who cares? 07/02/01: Big(oted) man on campus 06/29/01: Still appeasing China's dictators 06/21/01: Cuban liberty: A test for Bush 06/19/01: The feeble 'arguments' against capital punishment 06/12/01: What energy crisis? 06/08/01: A jewel in the crown of self-government 05/31/01: The settlement myth 05/25/01: An award JFK would have liked 05/22/01: No Internet taxes? No problem 05/18/01: Heather has five mommies (and a daddy) 05/15/01: An execution, not a lynching 05/11/01: Losing the common tongue 05/08/01: Olympics 2008: Say no to Beijing 05/04/01: Do welfare mothers a kindness: Make them work 05/01/01: Another man's child 04/24/01: Sharon should have said no 04/02/01: The Inhumane Society 03/30/01: To have a friend, Caleb, be a friend 03/27/01: Is Chief Wahoo racist? 03/22/01: Ending the Clinton appeasement 03/20/01: They're coming for you 03/16/01: Kennedy v. Kennedy 03/13/01: We should see McVeigh die 03/09/01: The Taliban's wrecking job 03/07/01: The No. 1 reason to cut taxes 03/02/01: A Harvard candidate's silence on free speech 02/27/01: A lesson from Birmingham jail 02/20/01: How Jimmy Carter got his good name back 02/15/01: Cashing in on the presidency 02/09/01: The debt for slavery -- and for freedom 02/06/01: The reparations calculation 02/01/01: The freedom not to say 'amen' 01/29/01: Chavez's 'hypocrisy': Take a closer look 01/26/01: Good-bye, good riddance 01/23/01: When everything changed (mostly for the better) 01/19/01: The real zealots 01/16/01: Pardon Clinton? 01/11/01: The fanaticism of Linda Chavez 01/09/01: When Jerusalem was divided 01/05/01 THEY NEVER FORGOT THEE, O JERUSALEM 12/29/00 Liberal hate speech, 2000 12/15/00Does the Constitution expect poor children be condemned to lousy government schools? 12/08/00 Powell is wrong man to run State Department 12/05/00 The 'MCAS' teens give each other 12/01/00 Turning his back on the Vietnamese -- again 11/23/00 Why were the Pilgrims thankful? 11/21/00 The fruit of this 'peace process' is war 11/13/00 Unleashing the lawyers 11/17/00 Gore's mark on history 40 reasons to say NO to Gore
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