In 2006, long before there was an Obama administra tion determined to impose a command-and-control federal health-care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The...
November 19, 2209 12:00 AMPeter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago, but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America's therapeutic culture to...
March 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Today's health-policy "summit" comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being "broken." Such talk occurs only when the left's...
February 25, 2010 12:00 AM
The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona sena tor, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his problem. Voters thought his entertaining dimensions might be...
February 18, 2010 12:00 AM
Only two things are infinite -- the expanding universe and Democrats' hostility to the District of Columbia's school-choice program. Killing this small program, which benefits 1,300 mostly poor and minority children...
February 15, 2010 12:00 AM
On day one of his vow to take "meaningful steps to rein in our debt," Barack Obama asked Congress to freeze portions of discretionary domestic spending. This would follow an astonishing permanent expansion:...
February 06, 2010 12:00 AMAlthough Democrats think their health-care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead -- a constitutional challenge to the legislation's core. Democrats who assume it is...
January 16, 2010 12:00 AMIn 1957, Queen Elizabeth, attending a Maryland-North Carolina football game, asked Maryland's governor, "Where do you get all those enormous players?" He replied, "Your majesty, that's a very embarrassing question."...
January 07, 2010 12:00 AM
Late in life, the mother of the Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., began attending Mass at a southern California church, the congregation of which soon became Spanish-speaking. Services were conducted entirely in that language,...
December 26, 2009 12:00 AM'Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit less furnished than a hotel room. He likes it that way. Today,...
December 21, 2009 12:00 AMRushing to lock the nation into expensive health-care and climate-change commitments, Democrats are in an understandable frenzy because public enthusiasm for both crusades has been inversely proportional to the time...
December 19, 2009 12:00 AMThey all laughed at Fulton and his steam boat, Hershey and his chocolate bar . . . -- George Gershwin And at Rep. Ron Paul, the '08 presiden tial candidate who had the zany idea -- as many laughing people thought...
December 10, 2009 12:00 AMWith 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth’s last chance, the carbon footprint of the global-warming summit will be the only impressive consequence of the climate change...
December 06, 2009 1:13 AMA traveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." Barack Obama, who asked to be president, nevertheless deserves sympathy for having to start...
December 03, 2009 12:00 AMAnother huge value-de stroying hurricane is about to slam America, destroying billions of dollars of value. Another Katrina? No, another Christmas. This voluntary December calamity is explained in a darkly amusing...
November 27, 2009 12:00 AMWHEN Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000, he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages congratulating his wife for something. "Michele," he said, "do you have...
October 26, 2009 12:00 AMDemure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Con stitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct descendent of Benjamin...
October 15, 2009 12:00 AMLAST Thursday, the president's "engagement" with Iran began. This Wednesday, the US war in Afghanistan will enter its ninth year. And US foreign policy is entering a White Queen phase. In "Through the Looking Glass...
October 05, 2009 12:00 AM"Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty To Task Of Reaching a Solution" -- The New York Times, Sept. 23 IN this headline on a Times story about difficulties confronting people alarmed about global warming, note...
October 03, 2009 12:00 AMWHILE in Pittsburgh, a sense of seemliness should prevent Presi dent Barack Obama from again exhorting the G-20, as he did April 2 in London, to be strong in resisting domestic pressures for protectionism. This month,...
September 23, 2009 12:00 AM
It was 1957 when a distraught mother turned to a young priest, the Rev. William O'Brien at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and asked him to help her troubled son, who had been arrested in a gang-war stabbing of a 15 year-old...
September 15, 2009 12:00 AMAs good as Venus and Serena Williams are individually, they may be even better together. The sisters claimed their 10th Grand Slam doubles title yesterday with a dominating 6-2, 6-2 win over the top-seeded pair of...
September 15, 2009 12:00 AM'YESTERDAY," reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, "I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a [mine's] pressure plate and lost both legs." Then "another Marine with a bullet...
September 01, 2009 2:31 AMSAN DIEGO THE most ominous domes tic event of the 1970s was the collapse of self-gov ernment in New York City, which before being put into receivership by the state was liberalism's laboratory. Since then, California...
August 31, 2009 2:21 AMWASHINGTON -- At the Democrats' 1960 convention in Los Angeles that nominated John Kennedy, his 28-year-old brother, Ted, was standing with the Wyoming delegation when it sealed the victory. He was then a sibling for...
August 27, 2009 2:17 AMUNFORTUNATELY, China's president had to dash home to suppress ethnic riots. Had he stayed in Italy at the recent G-8 summit, he could have continued the Herculean task of disabusing Barack Obama of his amazingly...
July 25, 2009 1:42 AMHOW does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses power to repay unions for helping to put it in power. It has given the UAW majority ownership of Chrysler. It has sent $135 billion...
July 16, 2009 12:00 AMECONOMIC policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need for a . . ....
July 13, 2009 1:18 AMTHE death of Robert McNamara at 93 was less a faint reverberation of a receding era than a reminder that mentalities are the defining attributes of eras, and certain American mentalities recur with, it sometimes seems...
July 08, 2009 4:08 AMTHE Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the US president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating "green jobs" in "alternative energy" even though Spain's...
June 25, 2009 2:29 AM
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