Republicans and Democrats Are Two Different Animals
Michael Barone: Michael Barone    3:54 pm
My Creators Syndicate column looks at our two political parties…

Gaza could have been a model of the future Palestinian state.
Christopher Hitchens: Slate Magazine - Fighting Words    12:07 pm
The deaths of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza, and of Israelis (Muslim and Christian Arab, and Druse and Bedouin, as well as Jewish, don't forget, in Ashdod and Sderot), are hardly ennobled by the sordid realization that the timing of the carnage has been determined by three sets of electoral calculation.[more ...]…

Op-Ed Columnist - Why Israel Fights - NYTimes.com
William Kristol: The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia    1:40 am
The Israeli assault on Hamas in Gaza is going to be a replay, we’re told, of the attempt to subdue Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006…

Op-Ed Columnist: Why Israel Fights
William Kristol: NYT > Opinion    12:42 am
An Israeli success in Gaza would be a victory in the war on terror '” and in the broader struggle for the future of the Middle East…

Putting Propaganda In Its Place
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    9:37 pm
A friend sent a must-see video — I’m not sure whether it was plucked off a blog, or straight off the Fox News web site, so thank you to whoever first put this in circulation…

Inadvertent Consequences of Rights Expanded
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/4 12:00 am
Like pebbles tossed into ponds, important Supreme Court rulings radiate ripples of consequences…

Listen to the leadership, obey orders, comply with regulations and keep secrets.
Rob Long: Rob Long    1/4 12:00 am
There was a long, long wait at the customs office at the port when I got to Shanghai.  Evidently, not too many people arrive in the People's Republic via container ship. So as the mess got sorted out -- which (surprise!) took $100 in cash -- I had time to wander around the customs office.  There was an information kiosk with a touchscreen display, and as I tapped my way through the vario…

Almost Killing Hitler
George F. Will: Newsweek Columnists - George F. Will    1/3 12:52 pm
The July 20, 1944, attempt was one of perhaps 15 by the German Resistance, which was neither negligible nor contemptible…

Does Ban Ki-Moon Think It' s His Job to Help Destroy Israel?
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    1/3 4:15 am
Or is he simply a fool, dutifully reciting excerpts from the UN’s Moral Equivalency Manual and Guide to Validating Tyrants and Terrorists of the Middle East…

Steyn: Clashing Civilizations
Mark Steyn: National Review Online    1/3 12:00 am
What if its about something more primal than land borders and economic aid?…

Hanson: The Gaza Rules
Victor Davis Hanson: National Review Online    1/3 12:00 am
This weird war mimics the politically correct, zero-tolerance policies of our public schools, where both the bully and his victim are suspended once physical violence occurs…

Senate Has No Right Not to Seat Roland Burris, Despite Blagojevich
Michael Barone: Michael Barone    1/2 12:46 pm
Eugene Volokh takes the same view I do: that legal precedent is on Burris' side…

Op-Ed Columnist: The Sidney Awards
David Brooks: NYT > Opinion    1/2 12:52 am
As essays become op-eds and op-eds become blog posts, the Sidney Awards, which recognize long-form journalism and thought, stand athwart technology, yelling stop…

Moral Clarity in Gaza
Charles Krauthammer: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/2 12:00 am
Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons…

Same Street, Different Year
Rob Long: Rob Long    1/2 12:00 am
I'm in Baltimore for a week or so, visiting with family.  I was born here, and we moved away when I was 8 -- first to Europe, then to Northern California -- but Baltimore is the kind of place you're always connected to.  You're either from here -- no matter where you live or how long it's been -- or you're not. I'm from here.  Baltimore people feel strongly about their city.  T…

Shades of the Late 1930s
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    1/1 1:30 pm
In Gaza, Israel attacks one tentacle of a totalitarian enemy nested in Iran that seeks the end of democratic life as we know it…

Goldberg: The Squeegee Men of the New World Order
Jonah Goldberg: National Review Online    1/1 12:00 am
We toppled the Taliban as a warm-up act…

A Health Reformer's Scary Diagnosis
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/1 12:00 am
Health care, says the man most concerned with that 17 percent of America's economy, can be "a nation-ruining issue." As Michael Leavitt ends four years as secretary of health and human services, he offers this attention-arresting arithmetic: Absent fundamental reforms, over the next two decades, the average American household's health-care spending, including the portion of its taxes that pays for…

Bail Out the Newspapers? They' ve Got To Be Kidding
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    12/31 10:36 pm
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce,” wrote Karl Marx — who’s making a big comeback these days, with his nutcase notions rebranded as the Value Theory of Bailouts…

Blagojevich's Selection of Roland Burris May Be Hard to Undo
Michael Barone: Michael Barone    12/31 2:11 pm
There are no allegations of wrongdoing on behalf of Burris, so would Democrats want to expel him?…

Goldberg: Samuel Huntingtons True Vision
Jonah Goldberg: National Review Online    12/31 12:00 am
Sam Huntington recognized that tolerance and pluralism are not modern inventions intended to replace Americas traditional culture, but that evolving notions of tolerance and pluralism are a central part of the American tradition…

Malkin: The UAWs Money-Squandering Corruptocracy
Michelle Malkin: National Review Online    12/31 12:00 am
Who knew hitting the links was so central to the business of making cars?…

Sowell: Art of the Impossible
Thomas Sowell: National Review Online    12/30 12:00 pm
People can get the possible on their own…

Sowell: No Lying
Thomas Sowell: National Review Online    12/30 8:00 am
Malcolm Gladwell knows what works…

Iran' s 'œDisproportionate' Use of Farce
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    12/30 5:40 am
If there’s anything “disproportionate” about violence in the Middle East these days, it’s the extent to which Iran’s regime stirs up big trouble and not only gets away with it, but casts itself as an aggrieved party…

Hugh Hewitt: An Interview With Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald
Hugh Hewitt: TownHall.com    8:02 pm
Today's program featured interviews on the Israel-Hamas war with the Shalem Center's Michael Oren and Martin Kramer from Israel (Oren is on active duty with the IDF), ThreatsWatch's Stephen Schippert and the Center for..…

Amanda Carpenter: Sweet Caroline Tanks
Amanda Carpenter: TownHall.com    7:52 pm
It's safe to say Caroline Kennedy's senatorial roll-out was a disaster now.Data from Public Policy Polling found that 44 percent of New York voters have a "lesser opinion" of her than they did before she announced her..…

Matt Lewis: Blackwell Compares Bush's "Big Government Activism" to Hoover
Matt Lewis: TownHall.com    6:51 pm
During the RNC debate today, Ken Blackwell (whom I am supporting) scored a big applause line when he compared Bush's "big government activist" policies to Hoover…

Amanda Carpenter: NBC: Coulter Nay, Lewd Blogger OK
Amanda Carpenter: TownHall.com    6:21 pm
Matt Drudge is running an exclusive story saying Ann Coulter has been "banned for life" from NBC.According to his sources, the network spiked a "Today Show" book interview with Coulter in favor of the lewd, gossip..…

Coleman's Counsel
David Freddoso: The Corner    5:09 pm
Tony Trimble offers up a statement on the State Canvassing Board's declaration of a Franken victory, which had been widely expected…

Highlights and Lowlights from the RNC Chair Debate
Jim Geraghty: The Campaign Spot    4:35 pm
The six men who would be RNC Chair were asked who their favorite Republican president was, and to no oneamp;rsquo;s surprise, they all named Ronald Re... . . …

A Strange Race, Where Winning the Room May Not Rea...
Jim Geraghty: The Campaign Spot    3:37 pm
Before today, the GOP had never held a debate among candidates to be chairman of the party…

"The Name's Panetta. Leon Panetta."
Jim Geraghty: The Campaign Spot    3:30 pm
RNC Chair stuff coming momentarily but for now... Leon Panetta, smart guy that he is, seems like a strange, strange choice to head CIA on the part of ... . . …

Coleman's Chances
David Freddoso: The Corner    3:26 pm
As has been discussed here, Sen…

Semi-Beloved Dinkytown Dome back in news
James Lileks: www.buzz.mn -    3:24 pm
The Dinkytown Dome project is moving forward…

More on Hoyer & Card Check
Jonah Goldberg: The Corner    2:57 pm
From Patrick Semmens at National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: Jonah- Just to add to what others have written regarding Hoyer's comments on FNS…

Speaker Rules
David Freddoso: The Corner    2:43 pm
House Republican Leader John Boehner, anticipating changes to the House rules in the new Congress, has sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi…

Re: The Contract With America, RIP
Jonah Goldberg: The Corner    2:31 pm
Iain -- I agree that deserves a lot more attention…

Amanda Carpenter: Thoughts from the RNC Debate
Amanda Carpenter: TownHall.com    2:11 pm
I just filed my story about the debate, but wanted to share some thoughts with those of you who might be watching it online right now.I'm surprised about the seeming unwillingness on behalf of the candidates to directly..…

A cul-de-sac transplant?
James Lileks: www.buzz.mn -    1:36 pm
This morning Bob Davis on KSTP was talking about a recent Strib guest editorial that said we must get more people into the city, which leads to a larger, wider tax base, which leads to better services…

Michael Medved: PURPOSE OF GAZA OPERATIONS: PROTECTION, NOT PUNISHMENT
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1:28 pm
At the beginning of Israeli operations against Hamas, the New York Times ran a deeply dishonest headline…

Coleman Denied
Jonah Goldberg: The Corner    1:00 pm
The Minnesota supreme court denied Coleman's suit…

Policing the Police
Victor Davis Hanson: The Corner    12:54 pm
If it was true that when the Republicans enjoyed majorities in the House and Senate and ran the White House, there was no one to object when they overspent, grew the government, and ran up the debt, who now will police the Democratic police in matters of corruption? Rep…

Amanda Carpenter: Spotted
Amanda Carpenter: TownHall.com    12:42 pm
Long, long lines at in Washington's "Metro Center" metro stop of people waiting to purchase an commemorative Barack Obama Inaugural metro card for $10 each…

Palestinian Plagiarism?
Jonah Goldberg: The Corner    12:18 pm
I'm working on a column about Israel and Gaza…

Parking Lot Glaciers
James Lileks: www.buzz.mn -    12:03 pm
Mountain range in a Target parking lot…

Hoyer on Card Check Cont'd
Jonah Goldberg: The Corner    11:24 am
From a lawyer-reader: Mr…

Amanda Carpenter: Where to Watch the RNC Debate Online
Amanda Carpenter: TownHall.com    11:17 am
FYI: CSPAN will be live-streaming the RNC Chairman debate HERE.If you don't like the quality of that stream, Americans for Tax Reform is hosting their own stream, too. You can get that HERE.You can probably get in on..…

Let He Who Has Never Voted for Carter Cast The Fir...
Jim Geraghty: The Campaign Spot    11:00 am
Last month, I wrote a piece about six myths in the race for Republican National Committee chair, including the myth that amp;ldquo;ideology is paramou... . . …

Amanda Carpenter: Stalling Sen. Franken
Amanda Carpenter: TownHall.com    10:18 am
A top GOP senator is making the case that Al Franken cannot be immediately seated by Senate if the Minnesota Canvassing board declares Franken the winner over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman later today.It appears..…