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 AMBetween 6 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Sunday, the nation began a constitu tional course-correction. The cur rent occupant's vanity and naivété -- a dangerous amalgam -- are causing the modern presidency to buckle beneath the...
July 26, 2011 12:00 AM
"If he popped up in the pinch he should of made a base hit and the reason he didn't was so-and-so. And if he cracked one for three bases he ought to had a home run, only the ball wasn't lively, or the wind brought it...
July 07, 2011 12:00 AM“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Emerson The louder they talked about the disadvantaged, the more money they made. And the more the financial system tottered. Who were they?...
July 03, 2011 12:00 AMIn the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson’s great-great grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas’ Supreme Court. The governor who nominated him also nominated the state...
June 26, 2011 12:00 AM
The US intervention in Libya's civil war, interven tion that began with a sur plus of confusion about capabilities and a shortage of candor about objectives, is now taking a toll on the rule of law. In a bipartisan...
May 31, 2011 12:00 AM
SACRAMENTO In 1967, five years after California be came the most populous state, novelist Wallace Stegner said California -- en ergetic, innovative, hedonistic -- was America, "only more so." Today, this state's budget...
May 23, 2011 12:00 AMIn 1960, after the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees in an electrifying seven-game World Series, the Yankees fired manager Casey Stengel, who had turned 70 in July. The Yankees said he was too old. He...
May 09, 2011 12:00 AMDuring 25 years in the Ma rine Corps, Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican, developed the skill of maintaining small-unit cohesion. He will need this skill in his new job. Half the Republican members of the...
April 21, 2011 12:00 AMKANSAS CITY, MO. THE lobby of the Federal Re serve Bank building here contains a money museum where a sign offers visitors "Free Money." It is an amusing anomaly, considering the views of the man in charge of the...
April 14, 2011 12:00 AMPHOENIX Suburban Glendale is less a commu nity with professional sports facilities than a sports enterprise with a com munity held hostage to previous improvident decisions. Now Glendale's government may multiply its...
April 11, 2011 12:00 AM
A Wit once said, "Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in med ical school and they call you Doctor." Pass this baseball quiz and they will call you Doctor of Baseball: 1) Which two...
March 31, 2011 12:00 AMFor many families, this is March mad ness -- the moment of high anxiety concerning higher education as many colleges announce their admittance decisions. It is the culmination of a protracted mating dance between...
March 28, 2011 12:00 AM
The missile strikes that inaugurated America's latest attempt at regime change were launched 29 days before the 50th anniversary of another such -- the Bay of Pigs of April 17, 1961. Then, the hubris of US planners was...
March 22, 2011 12:00 AM
NEWPORT, RI Scholars at the Naval War College here probably nodded in vigorous agree ment with a recent lecture delivered at another military institution 130 miles away. Speaking at West Point to leaders of tomorrow...
March 17, 2011 12:00 AM
In September 1941, Japan's leaders had a question for Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto: Could he cripple the US fleet in Hawaii? Yes, he said. Then he had a question for the leaders: But then what? Following an attack, he...
March 09, 2011 12:00 AM
If pessimism isn't creeping into Republi cans' thinking about their 2012 presi dential prospects, that is another rea son for pessimism. This is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible Americans, who...
March 07, 2011 12:00 AMIn 1994, when Rick Santorum was a sec ond-term Pennsylvania congressman seeking a US Senate seat, a columnist asked him how he was going to win. "Guns," he replied. Pennsylvania's legions of deer hunters don't use...
February 05, 2011 12:00 AM
"Since 1995 the average mathematics score for fourth-graders jumped 11 points. At this rate we catch up with Singapore in a little over 80 years . . . assuming they don't improve." -- Norman R. Augustine Retired...
January 29, 2011 12:00 AMAmerica is a creedal nation and the creed is, as Robert Penn Warren wrote, the "burr under the metaphysi cal saddle of America." It is a recurring source of national introspection, discontent, self-indictment and...
January 24, 2011 12:00 AM
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song, and in a recent speech that seemed like Larry Summers' swan song, the president's departed economic adviser warned that America is "at risk of a profound demoralization...
January 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Unlike most of the 111 that preceded it, the 112th Congress must begin the process of restoring the national regime and civic culture the Founders bequeathed. This will require reviving the rule of law, reasserting the...
January 17, 2011 12:00 AM"our flesh Surrounds us with its own decisions" -- Philip Larkin Wonder why you have already broken all your New Year's resolutions? Do not blame yourself -- heaven forbid. Enlist modern sophistication and blame...
January 08, 2011 12:00 AM
New Republican legisla tors should come down Capitol Hill to the Na tional Museum of American History, which displays a device that in 1849 was granted US patent 6469. It enabled a boat's "draught of water to be...
January 03, 2011 12:00 AMOnce when the French statesman Duc de Richelieu (1766-1822) was planning a military campaign, an officer placed a finger on a map, saying: "We shall cross the river at this point." Richelieu replied: "Excellent, sir,...
December 16, 2010 12:00 AM
On a midweek afternoon in February 2009, a month into the Obama presi dency, Republican Rep. Mike Pence arrived at Columbus in his east-central Indiana district for a town hall meeting, the sort of event that usually...
December 09, 2010 12:00 AMThe Framers of the Constitution gave the legislative branch an important role in making foreign policy. The Framers did so by, among other provisions, requiring the Senate's two-thirds consent to treaties. The Framers'...
December 06, 2010 12:00 AM
Fifty years ago William F. Buckley wrote a memorable complaint about the fact that Americans do not com plain enough. His point, like most of the points he made during his well-lived life, is, unfortunately, more...
November 22, 2010 12:00 AM
Unwilling to delay until tomorrow mistakes that could be made immediately, Democrats used 2010 to begin losing 2012. Trying to pre-emptively drain the election of its dangerous (to Democrats) meaning, all autumn...
November 04, 2010 12:00 AMDuring the Tuesday evening deluge, pay particular attention to these stories: * South Carolina Rep. John Spratt, second-ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, is seeking a 15th term. Missouri Rep. Ike...
October 31, 2010 12:00 AM
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