Wall Street Opinion Journal July 12, 2006
Yesterday’s political flurry over the falling budget deficit shows that even Washington can’t avoid the obvious forever: to wit, the gusher of revenues flowing into the Treasury in the wake of the 2003 tax cuts. The trend has been obvious for more than a year (see our May 23, 2005, editorial, “Revenues Rising”), but now it’s so large that Republicans are trying to take credit while Democrats explain it away.
Frontpagemag.com Victor Davis Hanson July 5, 2006
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Marxism was discredited as an unworkable–and often murderous–alternative to consumer capitalism. Eastern Europe was freed and began to prosper in a manner unimaginable just a decade earlier. China and India jettisoned statism, and found prosperity by emulating Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. South America was democratizing and began to liberalize its economies (with mixed success).
Townhall.com Ben Shapiro June 21, 2006
Brittany McComb, valedictorian of Foothill High School in Clark County, Nevada, stood up at her graduation and began to speak. A few paragraphs into her speech, school administrators cut off McComb’s microphone. She didn’t tell a dirty joke. She didn’t curse. She didn’t insult her classmates or her teachers. Brittany McComb committed the egregious sin of attempting to thank God and Jesus. “I went through four years of school at Foothill and they taught me logic and they taught me freedom of speech,” McComb stated. “God’s the biggest part of my life. Just like other valedictorians thank their parents, I wanted to thank my lord and savior.”
DavidLimbaugh.com David Limbaugh June 15, 2006
With all the controversy surrounding Ann Coulter’s new book “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” some might overlook important substantive points she has made.
CNSNews.com Dawn Rizzoni June 26, 2006
(CNSNews.com) – Abortion rights supporters in the Colorado House of Representatives are crying foul after a pro-life legislator introduced an abortion survivor before a celebration honoring Planned Parenthood.
Miami Herald Alexandra Alter June 15, 2006
A Florida church launched a campaign this week to identify supporters of a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage by publishing the names and addresses of 400,000 Florida residents in 60 counties.
Townhall.com Jonah Goldberg Jun 16, 2006
A Princeton professor Robert George, one of America’s leading moral philosophers, recently visited the Vatican for an audience with the Pope. He faced an age-old dilemma: “What’s a good gift for the Pope?” This time the answer was obvious. He gave him Ramesh Ponnuru’s new book, “The Party of Death.”
Wall Street Opinion Journal Matthew Kaminksi June 10, 2006
Is Poland’s last communist leader an opportunist, cynic, or “evolutionary revolutionary”?
WARSAW–Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader, is still fighting hard to shape history. Press any hot button and the general holds forth in long, clear, numbing sentences, as if back at a Party Plenum. Martial law imposed by him in the early hours of Dec. 13, 1981, to break Solidarity and Lech Walesa? That, he claims–as he has always done–“saved Poland” from the Soviets. His unswerving loyalty to Moscow and a decade of strongman rule? That paved the way for democracy. Gen. Jaruzelski’s self-obsession has filled several memoirs, including his Polish best-seller, “Martial Law: Why?” A man so closely associated with the darkest episodes in his nation’s recent past wants the future not so much to forgive him as to understand him–and even give him a little credit for a free, undivided Europe.
Townhall.com Pat Buchanan June 2, 2006
Writing in that fateful year, 1939, T.S. Eliot, intellectual and Christian, admonished his contemporaries who had placed their faith in the triumph of democracy. Democracy is not enough, Eliot wrote.
Wall Street Opinion Journal Heather Wilhelm May 26, 2006
When Al Gore’s film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” arrived in theaters on Wednesday, it had the usual endorsements from Hollywood stars, left-leaning politicians and radical professors. But it also had a blurb from a more surprising figure: Richard Cizik, the vice president of government affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals.