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STEYN: The G-20 doesn't offer plenty

Mark Steyn ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

During the Obama administration's foray to London this last week, officials provided a special telephone number to journalists interested in discussing foreign-policy issues in an "on-the-record briefing call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Adviser Jim Jones."

BOOK REVIEW: Gas shortfalls and Putin's pique

Joseph Goulden ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Marshall I. Goldman, long a Soviet specialist at Harvard, last year wrote “Petrostate — Putin, Power and the New Russia,” a sobering inside look at Gazprom, the Russian energy monopoly.

HENTOFF: The forgotten people

Nat Hentoff ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

After Sudan's Adolf Hitler, Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, expelled 13 international humanitarian organizations from Darfur, with the rest to follow within the year, four black African Muslim children - mourned by what is left of their families at the Shangil Tobaya refugee camp - died of malnutrition in late March. Their official death notices will not appear in American newspapers.

LAMBRO: Obama proposals cap growth

Donald Lambro ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

I recently predicted that President Obama's cap-and-trade energy taxes would be the first casualty of his ambitious legislative agenda.

KUHNER: In a self-destruct mode?

Jeffrey Kuhner ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

”Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” said historian Arnold J. Toynbee. President Obama is placing America on the path of civilizational suicide.

COURSON: Key money link at risk

John Courson ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

With so much attention focused on the housing market these days, it is surprising that an extremely critical, yet not well publicized, link in the mortgage-lending chain is in danger of becoming permanently broken.

STIER: House lights up FDA regulation

Jeff Stier ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Congress is now considering two rival approaches to altering tobacco regulations.

EDITORIAL: A direct challenge to Obama

( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

North Korea's launch Sunday of a long-range missile is a direct challenge to President Obama and his "soft power" foreign policy.

MURDOCK: Now 90 percent of GDP

Deroy Murdock ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Anyone who doubts that the Bush and Obama administrations collectively transformed America into a socialist state should consider this - for every dollar American citizens generated last year, the federal bailout consumed more than 90 cents in outlays, loans and commitments.

NORTH: Slashes at GM and civic duty

Oliver North ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Julius Caesar was murdered by Brutus and his friends in the Roman legislature on the Ides of March 44 B.C. Free enterprise died at the hands of Barack and his friends in the American legislature on March 30, 2009.

FERRARA: Rush's fans have rights, too

Peter Ferrara ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

While President Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prepares to attack conservative talk radio with some version of the Fairness Doctrine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in open court last week may have thrown a bombshell into those plans.

LUGAR/BORLAUG: A new green revolution

Richard G. Lugar and Norman Borlaug ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

The world is not producing enough food, and many poor families cannot afford to buy the food that is available. As a result, nearly a billion people, a sixth of the Earth's population, do not have enough to eat.

WHITFIELD: A resolution too far

Ed Whitfield ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

President Obama travels today to the Republic of Turkey. This historic visit presents the United States with an excellent chance to assert and strengthen our relationship with a strategic ally and a critical trade partner.

HAIDARI: Correcting perceptions

M. Ashraf Haidari ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

As we and our international partners strive to secure Afghanistan, three misperceptions about corruption, narcotics and popular support for international presence have gained currency in certain capitals of our nation-partners.

TOMLINSON: How to lose Congress

Kenneth Tomlinson ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Much of the Hudson River Valley, in all its magnificence, lies in New York's 20th Congressional District. So does Saratoga Springs and its renowned racetrack, as do a host of small towns that should make this district quintessential Republican territory.

MCFEATTERS: Steering away from the market

Dale McFeatters ( ) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Unless you wandered off the beaten path in the business pages, you probably missed the dispatch out of Detroit that President Obama's auto task force is participating in meetings that "have focused on educating the Treasury on the world of auto manufacturing."

SCHLAFLY: In search of the real Geithner

Phyllis Schlafly ( ) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner favor replacing the U.S. dollar with a global currency, or doesn't he? Or, as Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, pointedly asked on Sean Hannity's radio program, "Which Tim Geithner do we believe?"

LIMBAUGH: Whose writ runs here?

David Limbaugh ( ) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

As usual, President Obama is multitasking the dismantling of the American system on so many fronts that not all of the outrages can be properly monitored. So, while you should be mortified by his dictatorial power grab with General Motors Corp., please don't miss his recent nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as legal adviser for the State Department.

Decay at the very root

Walter E. Williams ( ) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Most of our nation's great problems, including our economic problems, have as their root decaying moral values. Whether we have the stomach to own up to it or not, we have become an immoral people left with little more than the pretense of morality. You say, "That's a pretty heavy charge, Mr. Williams. You had better be prepared to back it up with evidence!" I'll try with a few questions for you to answer.

CHAPMAN: A losing bet on Detroit

Steve Chapman ( ) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

If you had bought $1,000 worth of General Motors Corp. stock in 2000, your holdings would now be worth less than $40, for a loss of 96 percent. You could have made worse investments in that period - with Bernard Madoff, for one - but not many.