UN Climate Cronies
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    12:53 am
With UN climate guru Rajendra Pachauri under fire for alleged conflicts of interest and the purveying of flawed “science,” another United Nations eco-official is stepping forward to defend UN climate findings…

How to get the country to solvency on entitlements
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    2/7 12:00 am
In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Paul Ryan…

North Korean Trespass and The Tale of Robert Park
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    2/5 1:22 am
Here comes the sickening North Korean twist to the tale of Robert Park, the young Christian missionary who walked into North Korea on Christmas Day…

The great peasant revolt of 2010
Charles Krauthammer: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    2/5 12:00 am
"Iam not an ideologue," protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week…

Op-Ed Columnist: The Sporting Mind
David Brooks: NYT > Opinion    2/4 10:28 pm
An argument that American moral thinking is a fusion of athletic traditions champions sport culture, but may miss the virtue of big-time college games…

A growth lesson from China
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    2/4 12:00 am
On Day One of his vow to take "meaningful steps to rein in our debt," Barack Obama asked Congress to freeze portions of discretionary domestic spending…

Op-Ed Columnist: The Geezers' Crusade
David Brooks: NYT > Opinion    2/1 11:07 pm
It now seems clear that the only way the U.S. is going to avoid an economic crisis is if the older generation takes it upon themselves to arise and force change…

Op-Ed Columnist: The Perot Option
David Brooks: NYT > Opinion    1/29 12:36 am
Advisers to the president should remind him that though he may not be a billionaire with a huge ego, he has self-esteem '” and should use it…

State of Confusion
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    1/29 12:30 am
President Barack Obama, in his first State of the Union address, told us a lot about the state of Obama…

The handling of the Christmas Day bombing suspect: the scandal grows
Charles Krauthammer: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/29 12:00 am
The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane -- that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration -- but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came under the full control of the U.S. government…

The State of the Union address reveals a president of two minds
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/29 12:00 am
Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party's brain…

Campaign finance: a 'reform' wisely struck down
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/28 12:00 am
Last week's Supreme Court decision that substantially deregulates political speech has provoked an edifying torrent of hyperbole…

Rap-onomics: Keynes vs. Hayek
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    1/27 12:22 am
Worried about “stimulus” spending? Wondering how to explain the hangovers brewing in the Fed’s punch bowl? Policy-wonked out over economic debates that make no common sense? Film director John Papola and George Mason University economist Russell Roberts have put together a rap video, in which John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek go head to head over [...]…

Op-Ed Columnist: The Populist Addiction
David Brooks: NYT > Opinion    1/26 12:31 am
Populists of both parties can' t seem to grasp that a politics based on punishing the elites won' t produce any of the things required for progress and growth…

For Obama, a mandate to be moderate
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/24 12:00 am
Churchill's wife said that his being turned out of office by British voters in July 1945 -- the war in the Pacific still raged, and he was participating in the Potsdam conference -- might be a blessing in disguise…

Goofy at the UN?
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    1/23 11:29 pm
“Indispensable, if imperfect,” is how President Obama’s envoy to the United Nations, Susan Rice, has described the UN…

Op-Ed Columnist: Politics in the Age of Distrust
David Brooks: NYT > Opinion    1/22 1:29 am
The Democrats now have four bad options to try to restore the nation' s faith in Washington…

What Scott Brown's win means for the Democrats
Charles Krauthammer: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/22 12:00 am
On Jan. 14, five days before the Massachusetts special election, President Obama was in full bring-it-on mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his health-care reform…

Democrats on the precipice of failure
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/21 12:00 am
"We are on the precipice of an achievement that's eluded Congresses and presidents for generations."…

Op-Ed Columnist: The Pragmatic Leviathan
David Brooks: NYT > Opinion    1/19 12:35 am
President Obama, in trying to overhaul most sectors of national life, has erred in not sensing that even a pragmatic government could seem imperious and alarming…

Haiti Needs Doctors, Not the UN Celebrity-General
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    1/17 3:20 pm
In the post on Haiti below, I mentioned that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was planning to visit the stricken country on Sunday — but it seemed tat instead of going there himself, Ban could do more for Haiti by using his special UN plane to send sacks of rice in his place…

An entitlement commission means even bigger government
George F. Will: washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns    1/17 12:00 am
You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving badly and you are thinking: Really, things cannot continue like this…

Haiti: U.S. Sends Help, UN Wants Money
Claudia Rosett: The Rosett Report    1/15 10:52 pm
First, in making a comment on the United Nations and Haiti, let’s note that among the scores of thousands, or possibly hundreds of thousands of people killed in Haiti by the earthquake on Tuesday were dozens of UN staff, with some 150 still unaccounted for as of Thursday…

George Will: Unemployment and Underemployment High
George F. Will: Newsweek Columnists - George F. Will    1/15 10:13 pm
The underemployment rate is 17.3 percent…

Op-Ed Columnist: The Underlying Tragedy
David Brooks: NYT > Opinion    1/15 12:28 am
The devastation from the earthquake in Haiti should be used to rethink our approach to global poverty…

Michael Medved: THE TROUBLE WITH GOVERNMENT JOBS
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    3:31 pm
President Obama backs government programs to create new jobs, but how will he pay those new salaries? Ultimately, the only source for this money will be more tax burdens imposed on those who work in the private..…

Special Delivery
Michael Yon: Michael Yon - Online Magazine    10:08 pm
Kandahar, Afghanistan08 February 2010 American troops are spread widely across Afghanistan…

Michael Medved: THE CULTURE OF DEATH COMES TO THE SUPER BOWL
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    2/5 3:37 pm
Super Bowl broadcasts almost always feature many tasteless, tacky TV ads without public protest, but the word of an upcoming 30-second pro-life commercial planned to air during the Colts-Saints contest in Miami has prov…

Michael Medved: Obama's Dilemma: Is Government the Problem or the Solution?
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    2/4 4:52 pm
FDR and Lyndon Johnson told the nation that government could solve the people's problems…

Michael Medved: In Denial of our 25th Anniversary (Guest Blog by Diane Medved)
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    2/3 2:14 pm
There are plenty of articles out there about Boomers in denial…

Michael Medved: Commentary: Can 'Avatar' save Oscar?
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    2/2 3:48 pm
While dramatizing the against-the-odds rescue of a noble, harmonious alien society called the Na'vi, James Cameron's "Avatar" may also effectuate the rescue of a nasty, contentious alien society known as Hollywood -- or..…

State of the Insurgency 2010 Jan 1
Michael Yon: Michael Yon - Online Magazine    2/1 1:00 pm
Published: 01 Feburary 2010 Please click here to view entire document…

Joint COMCAM Weekly - Feb 1, 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Michael Yon: Michael Yon - Online Magazine    2/1 12:45 pm
Published: 01 Feburary 2010 Classification: UNCLASSIFIEDCaveats: NONE Ladies and Gentlemen, Attached is the 5/2 ID (SBCT) Combat Camera COMCAM Weekly…

Vietnam AAR January 2010 Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.)
Michael Yon: Michael Yon - Online Magazine    1/31 3:27 pm
Published: 31 January 2010 General McCaffrey was honored to chair a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) 30 person delegation to Vietnam with co-chairs Jan Scruggs, Founder and President, VVMF -- and Peter Holt, CEO Holt Companies and San Antonio Spurs (and chairman fundraising for the Education Center at The Wall) on 9-17 January 2010…

Michael Medved: FOLLY IN PURSUIT OF PEACE
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/28 6:07 pm
President Obama and his Middle East Negotiator George Mitchell continue to press the Israelis for a total construction freeze on disputed territory claimed by Palestinians…

Michael Medved: Denouncing Terror But Not bin Laden
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/26 6:04 pm
The leading Islamic scholar in Yemen drew international praise for his purportedly "moderate" tone in a recent press conference…

Michael Medved: TOO LATE TO SAVE PRIVATE HEALTH CARE?
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/25 6:59 pm
Conservatives want to stop the government takeover of the health care system, but they may already be too late…

Joint COMCAM Weekly - Jan 24, 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Michael Yon: Michael Yon - Online Magazine    1/24 5:36 pm
Classification: UNCLASSIFIEDCaveats: NONE Ladies and Gentlemen, Attached is the 5/2 ID (SBCT) Combat Camera COMCAM Weekly…

Michael Medved: Bye-Bye Air America (Guest Blog by Diane Medved)
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/22 2:45 pm
RIP, Air America."The company, which was founded in 2004, never found a substantial audience or sound financial footing," explained an article in the New York Times…

Michael Medved: THE APOSTLE OF HOPE NOW A SELF-RIGHTEOUS SUFFERER?
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/21 1:25 pm
Reporters recently asked Michelle Obama to give herself a grade on her first year's performance…

Michael Medved: A NEW NATIONAL CANDIDATE FROM MASSACHUSETTS?
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/20 1:12 pm
Desperate Democrats try to belittle the victory of Senator-elect Scott Brown by saying the charismatic candidate merely won a popularity contest, but that shouldn't matter in Massachusetts, where all ten House members..…

Michael Medved: PERSPECTIVE ON UNIMAGINABLE POVERTY
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/19 2:59 pm
Even before the earthquake, Haitians struggled with abject poverty that Americans can scarcely imagine…

Michael Medved: Proposition 8 Trial: Loving the Sparkliest Person Vs. The Needs of Society (Guest Bl
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/15 3:48 pm
The US District Court trial in San Francisco on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 is rife with emotion…

Spitting Cobra
Michael Yon: Michael Yon - Online Magazine    1/15 9:04 am
15 January 2010 Cobra Battery at FOB FrontenacArghandab, Afghanistan Artillery is called 'œThe King of Battle.' When it comes to the delivery of force, probably nothing outside of nuclear weapons can outmatch the sustained delivery of extreme brutality. Cannons also can deliver small atomic weapons. Aircraft and missles have range and other profound advantages, yet on a tactical battlefiel…

Michael Medved: JESUS AND THE SUICIDE BOMBER
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/14 5:04 pm
Humam al-Balwai, the suicide bomber who murdered seven CIA employees in Afghanistan was a brilliant Jordanian physician who recorded a "martyrdom video" before his death expressing hatred of America and his own nation…

Michael Medved: ARE TAX HIKES A "MORAL NECESSITY"?
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/12 1:30 pm
In Washington State, a leading Democrat insists that a sharp tax hike is a "moral necessity." With the state facing a devastating budget gap of $2.6 billion, Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown claims that the Democrats c…

Michael Medved: "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/12 12:58 pm
Why Senator Reid Should Stay Right Where He Is, and There's No Real Comparison with Trent LottIs it hypocritical for those who demanded Trent Lott's resignation as Senate Majority Leader in 2002 to wish for Harry Reid's..…

Michael Medved: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HYPOCRISY ON JERUSALEM
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/11 6:53 pm
The Obama administration exposes its hypocrisy with condemnation of Israel's recently-announced plans to build 900 new housing units in Jerusalem…

Michael Medved: WHERE OBAMA GETS AN "F"
Michael Medved: TownHall.com    1/7 7:23 pm
Though Barack Obama evaluated his own first year in office with a generous grade of "B ," in at least one arena the president definitely earns an "F." His efforts to "reach out" to various hostile powers and forces have…

Wahid and the Voice of Moderate Islam
Michael Yon: Michael Yon - Online Magazine    1/7 11:42 am
Published: 7 January 2010 The Wall Street JournalOPINIONJANUARY 6, 2010, 9:45 P.M. ET Wahid and the Voice of Moderate IslamIndonesia's first democratic president espoused a philosophy of religious and ethnic tolerance.By PAUL WOLFOWITZ Abdurrahman Wahid, who died last week at the age of 69, was the first democratically elected president of Indonesia, the world's fourth largest country and thi…