The Fall of the House of Kennedy - Daniel Henninger (1/28/2010)
The central battle in our time is over political primacy. It is a competition between the public sector and the private sector over who defines the work and the institutions that make a nation thrive and grow. It is a Kennedy legacy.

Has Obama Lost White America? - Pat Buchanan (1/27/2010)
The lesson: End affirmative action and ethnic preferences; end bailouts of Wall Street bankers, set a moratorium on immigration until unemployment falls to 6 percent, form an industrial policy that creates jobs here, not in China.

Tough Love the Only Long-Term Cure for Haiti - Jonah Goldberg (1/26/2010)
Despite the heroic efforts of aid workers and the battered Haitian government, it looks as if Haiti's problems will persist well into the 21st century, long after the debris is cleared and the houses are rebuilt. They need a cultural shift.

Congress Went to Denmark, You Got the Bill - CBS News (1/26/2010)
One hundred sixty-five "delegates." Over a million bucks. For 15 Democratic and 6 Republican Congressmen, food and rooms for two nights cost $4,406 tax dollars each. That's $2,200 a day - more than most Americans spend on their monthly mortgage paymen

Place Blame Where It Belongs - Stephen Mauzy (1/25/2010)
If a Ponzi scheme is in the offing, I prefer the Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff variety. At least their schemes don't drag unwilling participants into the fray. So I refuse to blame them for duping the dopes; they were simply satisfying market deman

Where's Our Self-Reliance? - Raymond Neil (1/24/2010)
There are many ways for an educated, self-reliant citizen of this great country to take responsibility for their own families. The question is, do we allow government to provide all our wants and needs in exchange for our freedom? The choice is yours.

To Help Haiti, End Foreign Aid - Bret Stephens (1/24/2010)
For Haitians, just about every conceivable aid scheme beyond immediate humanitarian relief will lead to more poverty, more corruption and less institutional capacity.

A World of Happiness - Matt Spivey (1/23/2010)
After flitting in for the climate party, Oprah Winfrey arrived at the predictable conclusion that tax-and-freebie Denmark is oh, so much nicer than home. Oprah may secretly, or not so secretly, pine for a socialist utopia, I'm quite happy with America

A Free Speech Landmark - The Wall Street Journal (1/22/2010)
The landmark decision—which overturned two Supreme Court precedents—has already sent the censoring political class into orbit, caterwauling about special interests and ugly corporations. But the reality is that free speech is no one's spec

Why Ted Olson Is Wrong - Kevin McCullough (1/22/2010)
Marriage is a binding legal relationship between a man and a woman. Since that's what marriage is, if a homosexual wished to enter into such a union, all they would need is to find the suitable party with whom to enter into it.

What Has Brown Done for Us? - C. Edmund Wright (1/21/2010)
What has Brown done for us? He just administered a stunning "Tea Party Republican" thrashing to the "Kennedy Liberal Democrats" in Massachusetts -- with Obamacare front and center as the core issue at hand. That's what.

Justices Overturn Key Campaign Limits - The New York Times (1/21/2010)
Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

Congress's Error of Commission - George Will (1/20/2010)
Year one of the Obama administration was devoted to deliberately exacerbating the fiscal crisis. The gusher of spending, present and promised, is half of liberalism's plan to radically and permanently increase government's grasp on the nation'

Obama to Nationalize Student Lending with Pending Budget Bill - CNSNews.com (1/20/2010)
A bill currently before the Senate would empower the Obama administration to nationalize the student lending industry, eliminating the federally subsidized private loans millions of university students rely on to finance their educations.

The 'Responsibility' Tax - The Wall Street Journal (1/19/2010)
The White House has spent months imploring banks to lend more money, so will President Obama's new proposal to extract $117 billion from bank capital encourage new bank lending? Just asking.

Wall St. Weighs a Challenge to a Proposed Tax - The New York Times (1/18/2010)
Wall Street's main lobbying arm has hired a top Supreme Court litigator to study a possible legal battle against a bank tax proposed by the Obama administration, on the theory that it would be unconstitutional, according to industry officials.

A Black-on-Black Discussion of Black Racism - Lloyd Marcus (1/18/2010)
Though our ancestors came to America on slave ships, we blacks are extremely blessed to be born in the greatest nation on the planet. It is time we let go of the past.

Most Americans Say They Want a Smaller Government - CNSNews.com (1/18/2010)
A large majority of Americans say they want a smaller government that provides them with fewer services, according to a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News. But the Washington Post story about the poll makes no mention of this fact.

Don't Let Haiti Return to the Status Quo - Stephen Johnson (1/17/2010)
The moment is ripe to implement policies that will take Haiti beyond its position as a failed state and an ongoing recipient of international aid. Haiti's leaders need to promote a Haitian-led effort to rebuild their infrastructure and institutions.

Nantucket Wind Ride - The Wall Street Journal (1/16/2010)
Liberals claim to love alternative energy, except when it comes to building the technology to get alternative energy. This would be fine with us, given that wind power couldn't survive commercially without enormous taxpayer subsidies. But ...

Democratic Payoffs, Er, Stimulus - Mona Charen (1/15/2010)
Conservative voters, unlike many Democrats, do not regard government as a scramble for booty. When Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., exchanged his vote on health care for a sweet deal, only 17 percent of the voters in that conservative state approved.

The Risk of Catastrophic Victory - Peggy Noonan (1/14/2010)
Passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catastrophic victory. If it is voted through in time for the State of the Union Address, half the chamber will rise to their feet and cheer. They will be cheering their own demise.

Texas Debates the Way History Will Be Taught - AP (1/13/2010)
Students, parents and lawmakers lobbied Wednesday for more diversity in Texas' social studies curriculum, before the state board of education adopts new classroom standards that will determine how history is taught for the next decade.

Another God That Failed - Pat Buchanan (1/13/2010)
Query: If democracy, from Latin America to Africa to the Middle East, brings to power parties and politicians who, for reasons religious, racial or historic, detest the "white, rich Western world," why are we pushing democracy in these regions?

Medicare and the Mayo Clinic - The Wall Street Journal (1/12/2010)
President Obama last year praised the Mayo Clinic as a "classic example" of how a health-care provider can offer "better outcomes" at lower cost. Then what should Americans think about the famous medical center's decision to take fewer Medicare patien

How to Recognize and Fight a Terrorist on a Plane - Randy Plante (1/11/2010)
Until the Obama administration, Congress, and our government officials get serious with national security and the war on terrorism, then what we will lose is more of our freedomsand the lives of more American citizens.

Iran Expands Its Target List - Timothy J. Geraghty (1/10/2010)
The nagging question of the nuclear age has been what if a madman gets hold of an atomic bomb? That question is about to be answered as Iran's defiance puts it on a collision course with the West.

The Real War - Pat Buchanan (1/9/2010)
Unlike the war on crime, or the war on drugs, this is not a metaphorical war. There is no presumption of innocence, rather a presumption that Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab is a terrorist and did not act alone. Get on board with that or get dead.

The Biggest Losers - The Wall Street Journal (1/8/2010)
Where is Treasury's pay czar when we actually need him? You guessed it, Fannie and Freddie are exempt from the rules applied to the TARP banks. The government has given away the game that these firms are no longer in the business of making profits.

Resolved: Tell the Truth - Cal Thomas (1/7/2010)
Would that Congress might resolve to tell the truth. Most members probably know what truth is, but they cannot speak it for fear of offending groups that traffic in lies and fund their re-election campaigns. Lies usually raise more money than the truth.