December 22nd
FEATURE OP-ED
-Here are Dana Perino’s 5 Favorite Things in 2009.
Other Op-Eds
-Gawker: “If your senator didn’t get paid for supporting health reform, you’re a sucker.”
-John Stossel points out that the senate health bill wasn’t good enough to stand on it’s own. If it was, it wouldn’t take earmarks to pass it.
-The National Review points out that health care reform is not a done deal. Here are 5 reasons it may not pass.
-Along the same lines, the Wall Street Journal calls the senate health legislation “A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve.”
-Der Spiegel calls group assembled in Copenhagen “club of losers”
December 21st
FEATURE OP-ED
-Here are the best politi-quotes of 2009.
Other Op-Eds
-Janet Daley of the UK Telegraph points out how “global thinking” doesn’t necessarily solve the world’s problems. In many cases it makes things worse.
-Mark Steyn’s thoughts on buying votes.
-He also shares his thoughts about how government run health care will be nearly impossible to undo.
-Doug Giles points out that most americans would have a problem with Kevin Jennings’ curriculum even if it centered around heterosexuality.
December 18th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Regarding Copenhagen, Texas Governor Rick Perry argues that “looking good on the world stage” has trumped good policy and sound science. He also points out that policies set by the EPA could result in thousands of Texans losing their jobs.
Other Op-Eds
-Margo Howard, daughter of legendary advice columnist Ann Landers, weights in on the NY Post’s decision to hire Elliot Spitzer’s hooker, Ashley Dupree, as an advice columnist.
-Lance T. Izumi: Public Schools Mask Poor Performance, Students Suffer.
-John Stossel: How Green Hysteria Got Me a Golf Cart
-Cal Thomas discusses giving gifts that give back.
December 17th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Neal Boortz responds to this quote from Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders:
“The day will come, although I recognize it’s not today, when the U.S. Congress will have to vote to stand up to … all those who profit every single year off of human sickness.”
Other Op-Eds
-Mark Mckinnon of The Daily Beast assesses which GOP contenders could give Obama problems in 2012.
-George Will: “When the Charm Rubs Off”
-Along the same lines, Kevin Mcullough discusses why independents are abandoning Obama.
-Rep. Tom Price of Georgia argues that the stimulus has failed.
-Jacob Sullum dissects the rhetorical devices that allow President Obama to garner support for failing policies.
December 16th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Sounds like Marco Rubio is gaining serious momentum in Florida.
Other Op-Eds
-Cal Thomas explains how, as a society, we no longer feel shame for our misdeeds, instead characterizing our moral shortcomings as “teachable moments.”
-The National Review editors argue that terrorist detainees should be left at Gitmo.
-Ed Feulner: Spare Us Another “Stimulus”
-Here’s a great editorial from the Washington Times that explains a major health care hesitation on the part of many Democrats, the issue of drug reimportation.
-As the New York Post points out, despite what he says about not wanting to help Wall St. “fat cats”, President Obama has been in bed with these types for years.
December 15th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Travis Kavulla says that Team Baucus did a masterful job of ensuring that the Melodee Hanes sex scandal / conflict of interest story didn’t become a PR nightmare for the bumbling Senator from Montana.
Other Op-Eds
-Here’s a great piece from the New York Times about how tax cuts can accomplish what spending cannot.
-David Frum says that the theme of this decade is “unpaid bills.”
-Rev. Bill Shuler of Capitol Life Church in Arlington, VA gives us 10 lessons we can learn from the Tiger Woods saga.
-In an effort to maintain the appearance of not raising taxes on “most people” but also funding his wish list, Obama’s economic team is scrambling to find new ways to tax the rich.
December 14th
FEATURE OP-ED
-A Night with Saddam: On the 6th anniversary of Hussein’s capture, Mark Green, then a U.S. Special Operations flight surgeon in charge of medical plans and casualty care for the task force charged with capturing Saddam Hussein, discusses the murderous dictator’s capture and interesting conversations they shared.
Other Op-Eds
-The editors of the National Review discuss why a Medicare “buy-in” is really the “Mother of all public options.”
-In fact Senators Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson have already expressed concern.
-Phil Kerpen of Americans for Prosperity wrote a funny article about all of the crazies he encountered in Copehnhagen.
-Liz Peek explains how the U.S. is being handicapped in its efforts to grow economically by an unfavorable currency exchange, a slew of anti-business measures enacted recently, and an EPA gone mad.
December 11th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Is John Thune the GOP’s answer to Obama?
Other Op-Eds
-Charles Krauthammer discusses the environmental shakedown: “taxing hard-working citizens of the democracies in order to fill the treasuries of Third World kleptocracies.” Nobody says it better.
-Ed Gillespie points out that those who are most likely to vote in 2010 are most at odds with the administration’s health care agenda.
-David Frum discusses why the GOP needs Neocons.
-Erick Erickson considers whether now is really the best time to consider legislation that would help college football determine it’s national champion.
December 10th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Erick Erickson discusses the very necessary Republican civil war.
Other Op-Eds
-Here it is–the controversial Washington Post Op-Ed in which Sarah Palin points out that “policy should be based on sound science, not politics.” It’s a great piece.
-S.E. Cupp explains why we can’t let Tiger off with a “sex addiction” defense.
-Ellis Henican argues that famous men cheat…because they can.
-Matt Patterson argues that women will not fare well under Obamacare.
-Walter Williams discusses what he calls “climate rope-a-dope.”
-Gawker says that instead of luxuriating in his Nobel win, Obama is opting for the “drive-through” Nobel experience.
-Deadspin: A Brief History of Campus Recruiting “Hostesses”
December 9th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Pat Buchanan injects common sense into discussions about the economy by asking why we are bringing upwards of 125,000 immigrants per month into the U.S. who compete with our people for jobs.
Other Op-Eds
-Press Secretary Robert Gibbs who is justifiably concerned about the president’s sinking approval rating, lashed out at Gallup saying that their graphs look like a “6-year-old with crayons” did them. Gallup responds here.
-As much as the Democrats don’t want to believe it, the Republicans do have a health care plan. It includes tort reform, buying across state lines, HSA’s–all actions that would lower premiums and taxes.
-Mike Huckabee speaks out: Why I Commuted Maurice Clemmons’ Sentence
December 8th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Chicago Tribune: White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers needs to testify.
Other Op-Eds
-American Spectator: Reagan’s December Declaration: GOP “Not A Fraternal Order”
-National Review Editors on the Republican “Purity” Test: “Ronald Reagan is said to have told his staff that someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an ally, not a 20 percent traitor. Now some conservative activists want to add a corollary to Reagan’s dictum: A 70 percent ally is someone who should be drummed out of the Republican party.”
-Judy Bachrach: Did Amanda Knox do it?
-Neal Boortz has an interesting take on the concept of “giving back.”
December 7th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Michael Medved responds to Mike Huckabee’s defense in the Maurice Clemmon’s case, noting that Huckabee “considered interfering with the outcomes of trials and processes of justice several times a day. (He granted more than three times the petitions of the previous three governors combined.)”
Other Op-Eds
-George Will argues that the ultimate consequence of the climate summit will be bigger government.
-Rich Lowry of the National Review says that economic priority #1 should be to foster entrepreneurship.
-Dana Milbank points out that President Obama isn’t liberal enough for the left. Many pundits believe that this is the main problem he is facing politically. Conservatives don’t like him for obvious reasons; but neither do liberals who are displeased with the lack of momentum on single-payer health care and additional troop deployments to Afghanistan.
Think about Reagan who was wildly popular with the right and not necessarily hated by many Democrats due to the prosperity that accompanied his presidency.
Moderate policies + a floundering economy = disapproval.
December 4th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) presents the Republican jobs plan.
Other Op-Eds
-I’m loving these mini op-eds that Sarah Palin is posting on her facebook page. They make a lot more sense that some of the stuff you’ll find in the New York Times or Washington Post. Here she discusses cap and tax and calls on President Obama to investigate Climategate.
-Krauthamer: “We shall fight in the air, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills — for 18 months. Then we start packing for home.”
-Neal Boortz: Who was invited to the job summit?
-Michael F. Cannon explains how passage of the current Senate health care bill will raise taxes.
December 3rd
FEATURE OP-ED
-Victor Davis Hanson: Voting ‘Present’ on Iran
Other Op-Eds
-Here are letters between Mike Huckabee’s legal counsel and a prosecuter asking that he reconsider his review process that some (okay, most of us) would say indicate that Mike Huckabee didn’t take pardon and clemency requests seriously.
-Is Google trying to cover up Climategate?
-George Will: This Will Not End Well. “Having vowed to “finish the job,” Obama revealed Tuesday that he thinks the job in Afghanistan is to get out of Afghanistan. This is an unserious policy.”
-Karl Rove believes Obama can win in Afghanistan.
December 2nd
FEATURE OP-ED
-Neal Boortz argues that Huge Chavez is on his way to nationalizing Venezuelan banks.
Other Op-Eds
-Doug Heye, Thomas Jefferson Street blog: Tiger Woods Should Get the Truth Out Before It’s Too Late.
-Sarah Palin urges President Obama to win the war rather than setting timetables.
-Random thoughts by Thomas Sowell. My personal favorite: “Many colleges claim that they develop “leaders.” All too often, that means turning out graduates who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. There are already too many people like that, and they are a menace to everyone else’s freedom.”
-Phyllis Schlafly discusses the ratio of women to men (60-40) attending college and what this means for our future.
-Who is the top GOP vote-getter of all time? The answer will surprise you.
December 1st
FEATURE OP-ED
-In an open letter to Tiger Woods, Larry Kudlow encourages him to come clean as quickly as possible (especially if he’s done nothing wrong) in order to preserve his squeaky clean image.
Other Op-Eds
-The National Review points out that this isn’t the first time that Mike Huckabee’s clemency grants have led to tragic consequences.
-Canadian essayist David Solway tells America to give Sarah Palin a chance.
-Star Parker explains why “The Blind Side” should trouble as well as inspire.
-Neal Boortz explains that there is no “right” to health care mentioned in our constitution.
-The “death tax” is set to expire soon…unless the Obama administration does something about it.
November 30th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Mark Steyn: The Dog Ate My Tree Rings
Other Op-Eds
-Thomas Sowell argues that we will never really understand politics until we understand that our politicians aren’t really there to help solve our problems.
-What percentage of “hate crimes” are committed against muslims in this country?
-Here’s why we shouldn’t legalize pot.
-Michael Barone: Global Warming Consensus: Garbage In, Garbage Out
November 25th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Michael W. Schwartz, a litigation partner with the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, explains how the U.S. the U.S. could potentially lose the case against KSM and his co-defendants.
Other Op-eds
-Liberal advice columnist and daugther of Ann Landers, Margo Howard, believes we should boycott the 9/11 trials–news stations shouldn’t cover them and we shouldn’t watch if they do.
-Bradley Blakeman says that our bills should be written in plain English so that those of us who are not lawyers can understand them.
-Here is a list of Michelle Malkin’s “turkeys of the year.”
-Der Spiegel: Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the German Stage.
-Bob Barr explains how Atlanta’s efforts to “go green” have resulted in a serious loss of privacy.
November 24th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Chuck Norris says he’s thankful for our fading freedoms.
Other Op-Eds
-Here are 5 reasons people voted for Obama…and why they probably won’t do it again.
-Pat Buchanan says the Prez is a pushover. Here’s why.
-Biographer Joan Biskupic describes the social dynamic of the supreme court, focusing on Justice Scalia in particular.
-Neal Boortz shares the formula now being used by the left to create a class of dependents who continue voting for Democrats so as not to lose their entitlements.
-S.E. Kupp says it time for America’s Catholics to stand up and decide what they stand for.
November 23rd
FEATURE OP-ED
-Amateur Hour at the White House: Leslie Gelb says that Obama should shake up his foreign policy team.
Other Op-Eds
-Politico: Jim DeMint is a tea party crowd favorite.
-Mark Steyn: America’s Enemies Smell Weakness.
-Kyle Smith says that the left is focusing on Sarah Palin to keep the focus off real issues…like growing unemployment, no plan in Afghanistan, Obamacare…those sorts of issues.
-Andrew Miga sizes up the next generation of Kennedys.
-Liz Peek asks if mammograms will fall victim to Obamacare?
November 20th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Charles Krauthammer believes that by trying KSM in New York, we are giving him a voice. “KSM has gratuitously been presented with the greatest propaganda platform imaginable — a civilian trial in the media capital of the world — from which to proclaim the glory of jihad and the criminality of infidel America.”
Other Op-Eds
-Eugene Robinson disagrees. He believes that NYC is well-equipped to handle the KSM trial and that a trial on our turf “show the preachers of hatred and their followers that we’re not afraid of them or their poisonous ideas.” Not sure I agree.
-Mark Steyn challenges David Frum on his theory that Sarah Palin got where she is by sending “powerful sexual messages.” Good Lord…take a cold shower.
-Michael Barone points out that Obama Bowed, but the world refused to bow back.
-Investigative journalist James O’Keefe comments on the most controversial ACORN video thus far.
November 19th
FEATURE OP-Ed
-In a fantastic “Ideas” piece, Mitt Romney explains the cost of Obama’s on-the-job training.
Other Op-Eds
-The National Review editors wrote a column asking the President to stop bowing and apologizing. You were elected to stand up for America.
-Hilarious: Bob Maistros lays out the new rules of presidential etiquette.
-Here’s a fascinating column by Cal Thomas about Sarah Palin and the future of conservatism. He argues that conservatives need to stop playing the “victim” card and “rise from the muck of feeling excluded, disrespected, ignored and mocked.”
-RedState’s Erick Erickson interviewed Sarah Palin.
-Here’s an article by Mary Cate Cary of US News & World Report about what the GOP can do to attract women.
I don’t agree with this article; but I absolutely believe it’s worth posting as part of an ongoing discussion about female voters. I think that the best thing Republicans can do is promote strong, intelligent, conservative women who refuse to be pushed around (Jeri Thompson and Kay Bailey Hutchison are a couple that come to mind).
November 18th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Yet another reason why trying KSM in a NYC civilian court is a bad idea: Ken Klukowski, an attorney and ACLU analyst, gives us 6 arguments he would make in defense of KSM. Absolutely terrifying.
Other Op-Eds
-McCain PR black belt, Nicolle Wallace fires back at Sarah Palin.
-Neal Boortz responds to the fifth-grader who won’t stand during the Pledge of Allegiance because of his belief that gays and lesbians do not enjoy “liberty and justice for all.”
This kid may have a promising future as an intern with the ACLU…
-An Irish columnist describes America as a nation “in fear of being seen as anti-Muslim.”
-Sarah Palin tells Rush that the GOP should push Reagan-style tax cuts immediately.
-Michael Barone explains the importance of what he calls the “Jacksonian Belt”
-Read this column written by a woman whose breast cancer was caught by a routine mammogram at age 44.
November 17th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Neal Boortz argues that the most suprising element of the current health care legislation is that the Democrats who are pushing it really don’t care that much about our health.
Other Op-Eds
-Like many of us, Bradley Blakeman is sick of President Obama apologizing for America’s superiority.
-David Frum is a bit disillusioned by the Charlie Crist mutiny going on in Florida.
-Chuck Norris describes a recent trip to West Point that culminated in a French cadet telling Norris that when Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French army surrendered just to be on the safe side.
-John Yoo of the Wall St. Journal says that the KSM trial will be an intelligence bonanza for Al Qaeda.
-Paul Harris discusses the new wave of political firebrands that are striking fear into liberal America.
-Pat Buchanan says that trying KSM on American soil could very well cost Obama his presidency.
November 16th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Politico says that “battleship Crist has sprung a leak.”
Other Op-Eds
-Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey believes that trying the 9/11 mastermind in NYC is unsafe and abandons the thought that we’re involved in a war.
-Ken Blackwell: China and Forced Abortions.
-Judith Romano: 5 steps to social change.
November 13th
FEATURE OP-ED
Who better to comment on the Ft. Hood shootings than Charles Krauthammer–a psychiatrist trained at Harvard Medical School and the former Chief Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. In this editorial piece, he criticizes the media’s attempt to blame Hasan’s actions on some type of mental illness, rather than using the facts (his screaming “Allahu Akbar”, the Jihadist battle cry) to reach the obvious conclusion that he is a terrorist, plain and simple.
Other Op-Eds
-Funny: Here’s how Neal Boortz’s listeners responded to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley blaming the Ft. Hood shooting on America’s love of guns.
-Dan Balz of The Washington Post suggests that Tim Pawlenty is making the same mistakes that Romney made last year. I completely disagree. He did have a slight hiccup on Morning Joe when asked if he was glad Olympia Snowe is a Republican; but quickly clarified his statement and called his initial response “inartful.” Not his most eloquent moment; but not a game-changer either.
-Kyle Wingfield of the Atlanta Journal Constitution argues that young, middle class american will get “soaked” by Obama’s health care policy.
-Matthew Continetti suggests that Palin’s numbers among independents may be strong enough for her to make a comeback.
-Michelle Malkin says that ACORN is doing what it does best, playing the victim.
November 12th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Out. Of. Touch. Mark Steyn points out that Jim Carey, who has made over $20 million making faces in front of a camera, believes that capitalism is a construct of personal greed and ambition.
Other Op-Eds
-Downward spiral: James Pethokoukis of Reuters lists 12 reasons why the unemployment rate will reach the 12% mark. And yet all we hear about is making government bigger (via health care, cap-and-trade, etc.). Could one of our beloved elected representatives please submit legislation to cut our freaking taxes? Ridiculous.
-Christine Todd Whitman doesn’t appreciate Michael Steele’s promise to go after Republicans (RINO’S) who support Obama’s agenda.
-What type of backroom deals were struck in the formation of the current health care bill?
-Louis Woodhill says that the term “stimulus” can be defined as the process of turning a recession into a “genuione depression.
November 11th
FEATURE OP-ED
-”The Stiletto” says in regards to the Ft. Hood shooting, that the most likely scenario is that Major Hasan was both insane and a jihadist.
Other Op-Eds
-As Californians become increasingly disgruntled about mismanagement in their state, the Republican race for Barbara Boxer’s seat is looking more and more like a repeat of NY-23–a competition over who is the real Republican.
-Neal Boortz believes that John Allen Muhammad should’ve been taken down in the same manner in which he took out others.
-Foreign papers say that Obama skipped out on fall of Berlin wall anniversary because it wasn’t all about him.
-Ed Koch plays the common sense card and says that Major Hasan was a terrorist.
-John Stossel: The US Department of Presumptuous Meddlers.
November 10th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Mark Steyn asks who’s nuttier: Major Hasan or the Secretary of Homeland Security who says that the principal threat we face now is an outbreak of Islamophobia?
Other Op-Eds
-Ft. Hood shooter said to have “pre-traumatic stress disorder”. What a joke.
-IF the house health care bill passes (which it probably won’t) here is a list of who will win and who will lose. Hint: there are more losers than winners.
-How many times have we heard that opposition to gay marriage is a losing issue? Kathryn Jean Lopez points out that the voters seem to disagree.
-Mallory Factor says, “Wake up America! Your standard of living is in jeopardy.”
-Time Magazine’s Joe Klein says GOP is an extremist, southern party.
November 9th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Mike Adams discusses the problems that a society full of weak, negotiating fathers will inevitably encounter.
Other Op-Eds
-Meghan McCain discusses the “Goldilocks Syndrome” among female politicians. Asks if any will ever be “just right” to lead.
-James V. DeLong says that Sarah Palin would be a great addition to a 2012 presidential ticket.
-Politico suggests there is a growing schism between the GOP and it’s female office holders.
-Weren’t we promised that the stimulus would prevent the unemployment rate from hitting the 10%+ mark?
-The Wall St. Journal calls Pelosi and co. the Lords of Entitlement.
-Tim Pawlenty criticizes Obama over lack of focus on job creation.
-E.D. Hill tells President Obama to “quit dithering” in Afghanistan.
November 6th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Ft. Hood Shooter: Michelle Malkin has excerpts from some of his blog posts.
Other Op-Eds
-National Review says, “No public money for abortion.”
-Mark Joseph argues that the GOP should rename itself the Reagan Party and allow more liberal members to break off and start a 3rd party of their own.
-Michael Smerconish talks to Dede Scozzafava about the future of the GOP.
-Erick Erickson is counting the votes: Here’s where we stand on health care.
-Lloyd Green argues that Doug Hoffman should’ve focused more on local issues in the NY-23 race.
-Pat Buchanan seems to disagree–says that Hoffman becamea game-changer in less than a month.
November 5th
FEATURE OP-ED
-Red State guest poster says the GOP’s big tent is closed for rennovations–rebuilding the party of Reagan.
Other Op-Eds
-Larry Kudlow says that the election was a rejection of waste