John P. Wiles

Jonah Goldberg: Health-Care Hell

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

The time for talk is over.

So proclaimed the most talkative president in modern memory. I can’t remember when Barack Obama said that. Maybe it was during the first “final showdown” on health care. Or maybe it…

David Limbaugh: Heads Liberals Win, Tails We Lose

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

The left habitually distorts and exaggerates to demonize and discredit its opponents but squeals like a stuck pig when conservatives use colorful language to call the left out. Unfortunately, some on the right…

Michael Gerson: The Crumbling Pillars of the Culture War

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — Just 20 years ago, pro-life and anti-homosexual rights views seemed to overlap entirely. They appeared to be expressions of the same traditionalist moral framework, destined to succeed or fai

Mona Charen: The Democrats Won’t Talk About This Provision

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future . … We have to pass the bill so that you…

David Harsanyi: Internet Tax a Bad Idea

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

Tyranny is afoot. And this evil arrives in the guise of secondhand books and cheap Chinese trinkets. So beware.
Actually, if anyone ever needed an obvious illustration of how government overreach can damage an…

Suzanne Fields: Two Votes for Life

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

On the night gold dust fell on the stars in Hollywood, millions of men and women were putting their lives on the line in Iraq merely by casting a vote. Hollywood nervously measured the size of the television…

Charles Krauthammer: In Praise of the Rotation of Power

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — As the Afghanistan War intensifies — Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops — it has come to be seen as Obama’s war.
Not so. It’s become America’s…

Jillian Bandes: Earmarks-Be-Gone: Reform by House Republicans

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

It’s rare, but sometimes petty politics can mean progress.

That was certainly the case this week with the earmark war between Republican and Democrats in the House. After Democrats initiated a moratorium on earmarks…

Oliver North: Win, Lose or Draw

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

(En route to) KABUL — Other than spending lots of time covering soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen, Marines and special operators who routinely get shot at, I’m not a gambling man. Those I know who frequent the…

Pat Buchanan: The Disemboweling of America

Roger Schlesinger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

Though Bush 41 and Bush 43 often disagreed, one issue did unite them both with Bill Clinton: protectionism.
Globalists all, they rejected any federal measure to protect America’s industrial base, economic…