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EDITORIAL: Obama caves on terror trials
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s 13-minute rant on abandoning plans for a civilian criminal trial for Sept. 11 attack mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) had the distinct tone of a sore loser. Mr. Holder's failure to sell his vision of giving international terrorists the full constitutional rights enjoyed by U.S. citizens is a big win for our country. Published April 5, 2011
EDITORIAL: GOP proposes real spending cut
For the first time in almost 50 years, a congressional budget is on the table that would make an actual spending cut. We're not talking about a Washington "cut" that happens when government spends more money but less than it would have liked to have spent. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, gives a nod to the common-sense understanding of the term with an outline for federal expenditures in 2012 that would come in at $89 billion less than outlays in 2011. That's a real 2.5 percent reduction. Published April 5, 2011
EDITORIAL: Obama’s energy plan: A starvation diet
Here's a fact President Obama doesn't want you to know: America's collective energy resources have no equal. Despite a half-hearted promise last week to do something about skyrocketing gas prices, the president has walled off the nation's conventional energy resources while promoting purported "sustainability" over affordability. That's something to keep in mind while watching the dollar digits flash by at the gas pump. It doesn't have to be that way. Published April 5, 2011
EDITORIAL: Israel vindicated
In February 2010, President Obama's genocide muse, National Security Council senior director of multilateral affairs Samantha Power, harshly criticized Israel's reaction to the controversial Goldstone report on the 2008-2009 Gaza War. "Is the correct strategy fighting Goldstone on all fronts?" she asked. Turns out it was; good thing the Israeli government ignored Mrs. Power. Published April 4, 2011
EDITORIAL: The latest birth certificate scandal
Individuals who claim they're "transgender" are suing the New York City Health Department over what they say is discrimination. These people are upset because the city won't change the sex listed on their birth certificates unless they've had elaborate surgery to refashion their private parts and received subsequent psychiatric evaluations attesting to the permanence of their supposed "transition" to the opposite gender. Published April 4, 2011
EDITORIAL: Free-market Ford laps Government Motors
Ford Motor Co. beat General Motors in March sales, another small but significant victory of private enterprise over government micromanagement. Since the 2009 government takeover of GM, competition between the two leading domestic auto manufacturers has taken on strong ideological overtones. It serves as an ideal test case, a microcosm of the competition between two worldviews, the automotive equivalent of North vs. South Korea. Right now, the good guys are winning. Published April 1, 2011
EDITORIAL: The administration’s honesty deficit
Barack Obama is a president who won a peace prize and took the nation into a new war. It ought not to be a surprise, then, that he would accept an award for his administration's transparency last week as his third-largest agency was raked over the coals by Congress for obstructionism. The House Oversight and Government Reform committee alleged in a report released Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has politicized the way it responds to requests for information from the public and the press. Published April 1, 2011
EDITORIAL: Light-bulb rights showdown
State lawmakers are fed up with the federal government micromanaging their lives. The South Carolina Senate is scheduled to strike back Tuesday with a bill that asserts the 10th Amendment right of the state to tell Washington to take a hike when it comes to the sale of incandescent light bulbs manufactured within state borders. Published April 1, 2011
EDITORIAL: Obama the Neocon
It's nice to have a neocon back in the White House. With reports of CIA covert action in Libya, emissaries being sent to talk to the rebel government and ongoing air support for the anti-Gadhafi forces, regime change is definitely in the air. All we need to make it official at this point is for the White House to come up with a clunky new euphemism, like "nonpermissive humanitarian governmental transformation," or some such thing. Published March 31, 2011
EDITORIAL: Lack of Black Panther transparency
The Justice Department continues to do its best to whitewash its involvement in the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. The department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) wrote Tuesday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar S. Smith to say it found no "misconduct" in Obama administration political appointees overruling career attorneys in dropping most charges and penalties against the individuals who stood menacingly outside a polling place in military-style uniforms, holding nightsticks. Published March 31, 2011
EDITORIAL: Schumer the extremist
If only there were an app for Sen. Charles E. Schumer's smartphone that would tell him when there's a reporter on the line waiting to trap him. The New York Democrat was caught unaware that others were listening during a conference call he held with colleagues. Mr. Schumer spoke a bit too liberally about his party's strategy to win the budget battle set to heat up next week. Published March 30, 2011
EDITORIAL: President pumps politics
President Obama's promise Wednesday to do something about rising gas prices was drowned out by the giant sucking sound of American dollars being funneled into OPEC pockets. Not that many expected his plan to make much difference anyway. A president who, as a candidate, said he didn't mind high fuel prices is not likely to be the one leading the nation toward energy policy sanity. Published March 30, 2011
EDITORIAL: Lead balloon
Rhode Island federal district court nominee John J. "Jack" McConnell Jr. is due for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee today. His nomination should be rejected due to ethical questions about his record. Published March 30, 2011
EDITORIAL: Al Qaeda to Obama: Thanks
President Obama's advisers give him credit for energizing the Arab revolts and saving the Libyan rebels. For al Qaeda's leadership, this is all a gift from Allah. Published March 30, 2011
EDITORIAL: Napolitano: Border better than ever
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano touted her supposed accomplishments in border security on Thursday. Her photo-op on the Mexican border was overshadowed by the one-year anniversary of the violent murder of an Arizona rancher. Published March 29, 2011
EDITORIAL: Team Obama, world police
President Obama's Monday night speech on the "kinetic military activity" in Libya revealed that he has fully accepted the faddish "responsibility to protect" (R2P) rationale for military intervention abroad. Unfortunately, this action is not just a direct attack on Libya's state sovereignty, but also on America's. Published March 29, 2011
New faces around MLB not all rookies
With four aces, the Philadelphia Phillies are all in. Because if this is the Year of the Pitcher yet again, then Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and their pals should breeze into the World Series bracket and wind up in a parade down Broad Street. Published March 29, 2011
EDITORIAL: It’s time to talk growth
Republicans may have the right message when it comes to the urgent need to slash federal outlays, but it's not enough. With so much of the treasury being swallowed by ever-expanding entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, there is no way slimming the discretionary budget alone can get us to the point of solvency. That's why the lack of attention to pro-growth policies in Washington's current budgetary scuffle has been disappointing. Published March 29, 2011
EDITORIAL: Feds vs. higher ed
The Obama administration's default position always happens to amass more power for big government. An example is the White House's proposed set of new regulations for higher education. Published March 28, 2011
EDITORIAL: The president’s speech
When King George VI gave his Sept. 3, 1939, war message to the people of the British Empire, it was a time of great moment. It was a "grave hour," he began, "perhaps the most fateful in our history." The king said that "for the second time in the lives of most of us, we are at war." That, however, was back when war was war. Now it is just kinetic military activity. Published March 28, 2011
