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Monday, June 21, 2010

More on the Flotilla Attack

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This is video produced by the Israeli government giving some important details about the Gaza blockade and the assault on the Mavi Marmara :...

A Parody of Himself

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Lori Ziganto of Hot Air watched the Chris Matthews special on the rise of "The New Right" the other night and found it, well, typ...

Hey, Let's Build More Nuclear Plants

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Yet another Green icon has wandered onto the Damascus Road, and the scales that had blinded him to the importance of nuclear power have fall...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

The Strange Case of Alvin Greene

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By now you're probably familiar with the controversy swirling around the South Carolina Democratic primary election for U.S. Senate in w...

Blaming the Victim

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the most courageous women on the planet. An outspoken critic of Islamic treatment of women she lives everyday unde...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Who's in Charge?

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Earlier today we remarked on the unbelievable bureaucratic dunderheadedness on display in the Gulf oil cleanup project. Now Jason calls our ...

You-Have-To-Be-Kidding

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Forgive me, but this is just nuts: Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his st...

Suppressing Freedom

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Freedom of speech is one of our most valuable rights, but it's under increasing assault today by politicians who, according to this arti...

Sexual Obesity

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Mary Eberstadt weighs in at First Things with an outstanding essay on what she calls, following psychiatrist Mary Ann Laydon, an epidemic ...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Raising the Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea

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Over the years in which Viewpoint has been around we have from time to time argued that raising the minimum wage is a bad idea. In fact, it...

The Very Angry Tea Party

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J.M. Bernstein at The Stone/Opinionator frets about Tea Party anger, meditates on its causes, and comes to a number of what I think to be e...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Presidential Paralysis

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Bill writes to inform us of a development in Arizona that's truly dispiriting. An 80 mile swath of parkland along the border has been c...

Nature's Beauties

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These ten Black-bellied whistling ducks were photographed recently by Kevin Ripka at Riverlands park in Luzerne Co. Pennsylvania. The birds ...

Miracles Natural and Divine

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One of the biggest problems with any naturalistic explanation of life is trying to account for how it got started. The problem of the origi...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

When the World No Longer Believes

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Jewish columnist Dennis Prager takes us on a quick tour of the post-Christian world and shows that as the influence of Christianity wanes h...

Strange Bedfellows

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The United States has evidently failed to dissuade Iran from building nuclear weapons, a failure that was predictable once Iran perceived th...

Frauds and Fakers

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Yesterday I wrote about the pending deportation of Mosab Yousef, author of Son of Hamas , and suggested that unless the Department of Homela...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Testy, Testy

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Well, another Democrat congressman has made it big on YouTube. Robert Ethridge from North Carolina's 2nd District is greeted on a Washin...

Maher on the Media

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This is twice in the last couple of months that I think Bill Maher has it right. In the video below, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC expresses skepti...

Shame

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Timothy Morgan at Christianity Today informs us of what appears on the surface, at least, to be a shameful decision by Janet Napolitano...