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How do you make a struggling economy even worse? Enact a tax on the production of energy and disguise it with an Orwellian name like “carbon cap and trade”: [Barack Obama:] “Few challenges facing America — and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change,” he says in the video. “The science is [...]

Strange bedfellows. Here’s an endorsement of a proposed free-trade agreement with Columbia, from none other than The New York Times. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I’ll go ahead an give the NYT a second credit in that it didn’t pull the obvious stunt of waiting until Barack Obama became president and [...]

Funny, but I recall the legions of Obamamessiah backers claiming that an Obama-Clinton ticket would undermine his image of bringing “change” to Washington; “New Politics” and all that recycled junk. Low and behold, “Thirty-one of the 47 people so far named to transition or staff posts have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but [...]

It’s not the title of a new romantic comedy, rather, it’s our dangerous policy of neither holding nor deporting dangerous illegal aliens: Federal immigration officials allowed scores of violent criminals — some ordered deported decades ago — to walk away from Harris County Jail despite the inmates’ admission to local authorities that they were in [...]

Prof. Lilla urges conservative intellectuals to “own up to their elite status and defend the need for elites.” The need for elites? Most of us nonelites are a little down on elites right now after the role they played in the current mortgage crisis and its resulting meltdown of the financial markets and global economy. [...]