http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559604576175881248268272.html#printMode Why America Will Stay on Top Eminent historian Paul Johnson on Sarah Palin, the tea party, and ‘baddies’ from Napoleon to Gadhafi. By BRIAN M. CARNEY London In his best-selling history of the 20th century, “Modern Times,” British historian Paul Johnson describes “a significant turning-point in American history: the first time the Great Republic, […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703300904576178540892961486.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTSecond Fox News suspends the contracts of two high-profile contributors. By SCOTT CONROY BIZARRE…IF THEY ARE PUTATIVE CANDIDATES….SO ARE HUCKABEE, BOLTON AND PALIN…..WHO HAVE NOT BEEN AXED BY FOX…..RSK Fox News announced yesterday that it was suspending the contracts of two high-profile contributors — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/564748/201103021843/Eric-Holders-People.htm By JAMES TARANTO “This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way,” declared Attorney General Eric Holder in a House oversight hearing yesterday. But Politico reports on an exchange during the hearing that suggests otherwise. Rep. John Culberson, a Texas Republican, was questioning Holder about the New Black Panther Party […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704615504576172771412494708.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion By SETH LIPSKY What she tells them is they can “join millions of other union members in a commonsense movement” to help fight “for budgets that share the burden in a truly fair way and for commonsense reforms that take power away from vested interests like union bosses and big business lobby groups, and […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704150604576166362512952294.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop The Decline of U.S. Naval Power Sixty ships were commonly underway in America’s seaward approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on the oceans. By MARK HELPRIN Last week, pirates attacked and executed four Americans in the Indian Ocean. We and the Europeans have endured literally thousands […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704615504576172333428911782.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion A United Nations Court For Gadhafi? Mr. Obama’s embrace of the International Criminal Court is typical of his buck-passing approach to world affairs. By JOHN BOLTON President Obama has trumpeted Saturday’s U.N. Security Council decision to refer Moammar Gadhafi to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution. Although Gadhafi deserves punishment, the ICC will […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704150604576166452052715900.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTSecond How to Live Freer in New Hampshire With all eyes on Wisconsin this past week, overlooked has been the conservative policy changes that are moving ahead in New Hampshire. By STEPHEN MOORE With all eyes on Wisconsin this past week, overlooked has been the conservative policy changes that are moving ahead in New Hampshire. […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703933404576169720332268988.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Kim Jong Il’s Nuclear Resolve By JACK DAVID AND MELANIE KIRKPATRICK THIS IS THE RESULT OF LEAVING WARS UNFINISHED….AMERICA LOST 53,000 TROOPS IN A WAR THAT LEFT THE KOREA DIVIDED AND THE NOTORIOUS KIMS IN CHARGE OF THE NORTH…..ANOTHER FOUL LEGACY OF THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION….RSK “North Korea will never give up nuclear weapons.” So […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703373404576148040816771586.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama By EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI The Great Myth of Palestinian Statehood Arabs’ revolutionary awakening belies Western conventional wisdom in the Middle East. Since Sept. 11, 2001, American neoconservatives have forcefully argued that the combination of economic stagnation, rapid demographic growth, lack of upward social mobility, and political repression in most Arab countries was a breeding ground […]
Ryan’s Charge Up Entitlement Hill The GOP’s fiscal leader explains why House Republicans will vote to reform Medicare and why the public is ready to listen.By PAUL A. GIGOT http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704546704576151082208100302.html?KEYWORDS=PAUL+GIGOTPaul Ryan doesn’t look like the menacing sort. He’s amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses […]
