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Of Laureates and Cowboys
by Victor Davis Hanson
In politics, having power and keeping it often mean fudging a little on ideology.
So conservatives sometimes convince the country to do very liberal things — think of Richard Nixon going to China, Ronald Reagan granting a blanket amnesty to illegal aliens, or George W. Bush running big [...]

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Filtering History
by Thomas Sowell
Many years ago, I was surprised to receive a letter from an old friend, saying that she had been told that I refused to see campus visitors from Africa.
At the time, I was so bogged down with work that I had agreed to see only one visitor to the Stanford [...]

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Defining the conservative versus liberal divide
by Star Parker
Now that President Obama is getting ready to make his second Supreme Court nomination, the usual banter is taking place about the court and judicial philosophy.
The Supreme Court, of course, profoundly influences the character of our country.
Although, for instance, many look back on the policies [...]

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John S. McCain, Will You Please Go Now?
by Michelle Malkin
I need a Dramamine to cover GOP Sen. John McCain’s re-election bid. With his desperate lurch to the right, he’s inducing more motion sickness than a Disney Land teacup. McCain’s campaign represents the same self-serving political cynicism that American voters have grown tired of [...]

George Carlin With Some Environmental Thoughts
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Tea Party: Why the Left Doesn’t Get It
by Larry Elder
“Hello, fellow racists.”
That’s how I greeted the gathering at the Tax Day Tea Party rally in Sacramento, Calif. Several people dropped their hoods and sheets in laughter. After a thorough search, I can report that I detected no secret handshake, security guards or [...]

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What’s Happening With Israel?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Current American relations with our once-staunch ally Israel are at their lowest ebb in the last 50 years.
The Obama administration seems as angry at the building of Jewish apartments in Jerusalem as it is intent on reaching out to Iran and Syria, Israel’s mortal enemies. President [...]

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All the President’s Goldman Sachs Men
by Michelle Malkin
While President Obama assails the culture of greed and recklessness practiced by the men of Goldman Sachs, his administration is infested with them. The White House can no more disown Government Sachs than Da Boss-in-chief can disown Chicago politics.
Obama is headed to Wall Street on Thursday [...]

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The Limits of Power
by Thomas Sowell
When I first began to study the history of slavery around the world, many years ago, one of the oddities that puzzled me was the practice of paying certain slaves, which existed in ancient Rome and in America’s antebellum South, among other places.
In both places, slave owners or [...]

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Tea Partiers Fight Obama’s Culture of Dependence
by Michael Barone
“Do you realize,” CNN’s Susan Roesgen asked a man at the April 15, 2009, tea party in Chicago, “that you’re eligible for a $400 credit?” When the man refused to drop his “drop socialism” sign, she went on, “Did you know that the state of [...]