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Good point of contrast by Jonah Goldberg — Obama’s new “New Deal” has something the first one didn’t: global competition. If memory serves, the Dow rose something like 230% in the 1950s alone. American trade benefitted enormously from the fact that America’s competitors lay in ruins [from the Second World War]. We could pay down [...]

Are these Democratic Capital Hill folks fools, or do they just think we, the American public, are? Despite her previous denials declassified records show that Nancy Pelosi was briefed 40 times on enhanced interrogation techniques. Meanwhile Sen. Jay Rockefeller has now contradicted his own denial in his own report. Ms. Pelosi’s denials are also difficult [...]

Gosh, I guess even Comedy Central realized that calling President Truman a “war criminal” is beyond the pale. Stewart issued an apology, kind of. I’ll agree with Michael Goldfarb — his accusation against Truman wasn’t exactly spontaneous. However, Stewart was accurate that day in that emotional people say stupid things because their ego won’t let [...]

It was just a matter of time, and was predicted by many and unsurprising at that: The Obama administration, via the Environmental Protection Agency, has by fiat declared carbon dioxide a pollutant, dictating (through unelected EPA bureaucrats, mind you) that CO2 “threaten[s] the public health and welfare of current and future generations.” Wow. Who’s arrogant [...]

As much as big business fears the government there’s one thing they fear far more: competition. Read the whole thing by Jonah Goldberg: Libertarian philosopher Roderick Long puts it well: “There’s a popular historical legend that goes like this: Once upon a time (for this is how stories of this kind should begin), back in [...]