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Decline and Fall
img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-100984" title="Mark Steyn" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/mark-steyn-1024x681.jpg" alt="" width="459" height="306" />Can Bachmann Count?
img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-68832" title="bachmann-cpac" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/bachmann-cpac.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="331" />Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Warren?
img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-100966" title="elizabeth warren" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/elizabeth-warren1.jpg" alt="" width="484" height="262" />The Law Answers in Britain
img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-100962" title="london" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/london.jpg" alt="" width="448" height="252" />Romney Replies
img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-99987" title="Mitt Romney" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/mitt-romney1.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="300" />The Jewish Vote Can be Decisive in Close Races
img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-100838" title="Obama Jews" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/obama-jews.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="300" />Priebus' Big Wisconsin Win
Chalk up another win for Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus. The four Republican victories in the Wisconsin recall elections means that the GOP maintains control over the state senate. But for Priebus, this was something more personal – he has strong ties in Wisconsin, as …
British Police Crack Down, But Not on Rioters
img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-100892" title="London riot" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/london-riot.jpg" alt="" width="535" height="340" />Weak Police Mean London is Burning
img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-100881" title="London burning" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/london-burning.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="300" />Limbaugh Loses a Listener
img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-100855" title="tucker" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/apicture.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="300" />Obama's Ugly Campaign Plan
In my column for The Week , I discuss a possible reason why Obama's campaign staffers leaked their strategy against Mitt Romney to Politico : Pessimism about the economy is rife, and Obama's job approval is sagging. He could well lose the next presidential election to a candidate who can …
No Super Democrats On This Committee
How can we explain the Democrats who have been appointed to serve on the Joint Select Committee? (Commonly known as the 'Super Committee.') Let's play political "Jeopardy." Under Senate Democratic appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, for $200, "Her job is to elect …
Mark Hatfield: A True Green Republican
Back in the 1980s, the biggest fighting words around environmental policy were not "climate change." They were "wilderness preservation." Environmentalists wanted more, much more wilderness set aside. Extractive industries wanted little or, preferably, zero new wilderness. The bitterest …
The Downgrade's Real Casualties
Suzy Khimm at the Washington Post astutely identifies them: city governments. Which in turn means, still more local austerity to come: S&P’s is poised to downgrade thousands of municipal bonds that are directly tied to the federal government, with an announcement expected later …
Baltimore's New Buses Won't Save the City
One suggestion that has been floated to help cities in the current economic climate is for them to improve their infrastructure. Baltimore's own public transportation system is not efficient or innovative at all. While efforts are being made to improve it, the challenges facing the city remain …
Bright Spots in Perry's Road Building Record
For all of his Tea Party bombast, Rick Perry has actually been a pretty good Texas governor. While Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) plan flopped (as Tim Mak reports) the Texas governor can still point to his road building record with some pride. A drive in just about any big Texas city …
The S&P Bond Rally
In a column for the National Post , I explain why the current price of government bonds repudiates the S&P downgrade of American debt: If I were Standard & Poor's, I'd be damn embarrassed. On Friday, the famous bond-rating services took the momentous step of downgrading the sovereign …
Perry's Highway to Nowhere
On Saturday, Texas Governor Rick Perry will announce that he intends to run for president. Perry will bring a lot of conservative rhetoric to the GOP field, but what about his actual record? The truth is, not all of Perry's policies have been successful and some of them may not fit the Tea …
S&P Was Right to Downgrade
The dispute between the Treasury Department and Standard and Poor’s over America’s sovereign bond rating is a tempest in a teapot. Worse, it overshadows the reality about America's debt: Congress cannot handle it politically and Americans will have difficultly handling it personally. The …