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Charles Murray: The Europe Syndrome and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
Published Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 6:03 pm
America’s elites must once again fall in love with what makes the United States different. The advent of the Obama administration brings this question before the nation: Do we want the United States to be like Europe? President Obama and his leading intellectual heroes are the American equivalent of Europe’s social democrats. There’s nothing sinister [...]
Continue reading...TED Video: Mike Rowe: Celebrating work — all kinds of work
Published Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Reflections on 9/11, six years later
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:38 am
September 11 was not the first and won’t be the last terrorist assault on our citizens and culture. And the subsequent factionalism and left/right bickering over the proper course to defeat the jihadists — whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, the courts, at the Hague, or the United Nations — did not originate solely after 9/11. But [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: Looking for love in all the wrong places
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:34 am
This year I marked the anniversary of Sept. 11 by driving through Massachusetts. It wasn’t exactly planned that way, just the way things panned out. So, heading toward Boston, I tuned to Bay State radio talk-show colossus Howie Carr and heard him reading out portions from the official address to the 9/11 commemoration ceremony by [...]
Continue reading...William Saletan: Rigging a study to make conservatives look stupid
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:33 am
The conservative case against this study is easy to make. Sure, we’re fonder of old ways than you are. That’s in our definition. Some of our people are obtuse; so are some of yours. If you studied the rest of us in real life, you’d find that while we second-guess the status quo less than [...]
Continue reading...Owen West: America’s soldiers are committed to the war. But they’re not going to lie about its progress.
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:24 am
Monday’s MoveOn.org advertisement, which depicted Gen. Petraeus as a traitor, has been dismissed by Sen. Reid as an inconsequential distraction. But according to the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan research group, the ad reflects the growing distrust of a Democratic Party that may be taking cues from its leadership. Last month 76% of Republicans expressed [...]
Continue reading...Norman Podhoretz: Six years after 9/11, it’s notable how little the politics of the left have changed
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:21 am
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on us that took place on this very day six years ago, several younger commentators proclaimed the birth of an entirely new era in American history. What Dec. 7, 1941, had done to the old isolationism, they announced, Sept. 11, 2001, had done to the Vietnam syndrome. It [...]
Continue reading...Jeff Jacoby: Destruction in black America is self-inflicted
Published Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 10:41 am
DEBATING capital punishment at an Ivy League university a few years ago, I was confronted with the claim that since death sentences are more often meted out in cases where the victim is white, the death penalty must be racially biased. It’s a spurious argument, I replied. Whites commit fewer than half of all murders [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Why Study War?
Published Monday, August 20, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You’ll provoke not a counterargument—let alone an assent—but a blank stare: Who or what was Tet? Doing interviews about the recent hit movie 300, I encountered similar bewilderment from listeners and hosts. Not only did most of them not know who the [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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