Fail
Guttmacher Fails to Debunk Chilean Maternal-Mortality Study by Michael J. New. A recent study which demonstrates that abortion restrictions in Chile have not hurt maternal-mortality outcomes has received a considerable amount of attention. As I wrote previously, this study is [...]
Four Lies
The Four Lies About the Economy That Obama Needs Voters to Believe by Larry Elder. President Barack Obama’s re-election turns on his ability to convince voters that 1) Obama inherited a “Great Recession,” 2) every “independent” economist supported the “stimulus,” [...]
Fair Wage
The Recall Heard Around the World by Ann Coulter. I watched the Wisconsin returns on MSNBC Tuesday night, and it came right down to the wire between “the Democrats were outspent 7-to-1″ and “Republicans are stripping union rights!” As we [...]
Fat Police
The Fat Police by Geoffrey Norman. The mayor of New York does not believe that a willing buyer in search of a 32-ounce soft drink and a willing seller of the same should be allowed to make the deal. This, [...]
Mascots
Team of Mascots by Todd S. Purdum. Four years ago, Barack Obama said he wanted a Lincoln-esque “team of rivals” in his Cabinet. Thanks to his own temperament, the modern White House, and the 24-hour news cycle, what the president [...]
Biggest Loss
Forget Wisconsin. The Unions’ Biggest Loss Was in California by Andrew J. Rotherham. Bad news for teachers and other public-sector employees: America is more than ready to cut your pensions and benefits. While most politicos had been focusing this week [...]
Contradiction
E.J. Dionne and the Contradiction of Progressive Catholicism by Patrick J. Deneen. For over seven years, I have had a mailbox just above E.J. Dionne’s in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. E.J. and I have always shared cordial [...]
Link
Creative Cheating: The Link Between Creativity and Dishonesty by Sam McNerney. By the time French police arrested him in 1969, Frank Abagnale had posed as a lawyer, doctor, U.S. Bureau of Prisons agent, teaching assistant at Brigham Young University, pilot [...]
Catastrophe
The Euro’s ‘Guilty Men’ are Now Steering Europe to Catastrophe by Peter Oborne. More than six months have passed since Frances Weaver and I published our pamphlet, Guilty Men, identifying those financiers, politicians and propagandists who advocated the creation of [...]
Paradox
The Netanyahu Paradox by David Margolick. A nuclear Iran threatens. The Palestinian conflict smolders. Meanwhile, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has largely vanquished his domestic foes—the Israeli media, the political opposition—in a battle backed by two U.S. billionaires and reportedly [...]
Freedom
Early Religious Freedom in America by Justin Dyer. The Founders’ nuanced views of religion and politics prevent us from reading modern concerns about the separation of church and state into their words. More at PD.