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Finally, The Economist As Grownup

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Unlike many of his colleagues, Columbia University's Jagdish Bhagwati understands that the economic crisis is not an indictment of the free market.

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Obama Wins Yasser Arafat ‘Peace’ Prize: World Amazed

Friday, October 9th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

The appropriate response is a compound of contempt and irritation. (Also read Roger L. Simon: Nobel Committee Rescinds Peace Prize to Obama: Gives Award to Runner-Up.)

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Obama on Afghanistan: Naive, Indecisive, Immoral

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Obama's bogus budgetary concerns for Afghanistan reveal his moral failings.

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Nausea Relief: Mocking the Celebrity Health Care PSA

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Three brilliant, cathartic videos go viral. (See PJTV's version: Protect Yourself From Hollywood)

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Your Own Private Tort Reform

Monday, October 5th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

How to harness Google to punish greedy lawyers.

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Barbarians at the Gate: Cushing Academy Edition

Sunday, October 4th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Who needs a library, anyway? The Brave New World of educational trendiness.

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National Endowment of Propaganda

Monday, September 21st, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Breitbart's latest bombshell has the Obama administration treating the law as an obstacle, not a boundary.

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Irving Kristol, 1920-2009

Friday, September 18th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

He saw with a kindly but unflinching clarity what mischief the seductive lullabies of utopian fantasy had prepared for its acolytes. (Also read Ron Radosh's tribute.)

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Jimmy Carter — Read Sidney Hook

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

A false charge of racism is even more offensive than a real one. (Also read Stephen Green: The Content of His Character)

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Obama, Home of the Whopper

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Credibility is a rapidly disappearing commodity in the current White House.

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Obama as Tony Soprano, Or, Flipping America the Bird

Sunday, September 13th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

We're being given a health care offer that we can't refuse.

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If Aesop Were Alive Today

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

An amusing update to the "Ant and the Grasshopper" fable.

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Words and Deeds: The Awful Advent of Buyer’s Remorse

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Troubling regret for Obama voters who were swept up by his fantasy "kitsch" aesthetic.

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My Favorite Democrat: Labor Day Thoughts

Monday, September 7th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

One president truly understood what labor was all about.

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Another Ridiculous Decision from the Ninth Circuit

Saturday, September 5th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

The ruling against John Ashcroft is a splendid example of anti-American sentimentality undertaken by means of judicial intimidation.

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Another Stupid Idea from the AFL-CIO

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Dear Unions: Wealth produces wealth. Taxes reduce wealth. Got it?

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The Kennedy Eulogies: A Tsunami of Sentimental Pap

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Spare us the fairy tale about the “Lion of the Senate.” Lyin’ in the Senate is more like it. (Also read Ron Rosenbaum: A Moment in (Teddy Kennedy) History)

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Why Health Care Appears to Be Obama’s Waterloo

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

The reason is a four-letter word: fear.

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MSNBC Not On Board with the ‘Post-Racial’ Presidency

Thursday, August 20th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

MSNBC, quite intentionally, tries to stir up racial tensions with an appallingly misleading video.

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Obama’s Orwellian Hate Fest

Monday, August 17th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

The president's frequent use of scapegoats is a tactic straight from 1984.

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Yale and the Danish Cartoons: The Plot Thickens

Saturday, August 15th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

What was the real reason that Yale was anxious to bowdlerize Professor Klausen’s book?

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Yale University Press Gets Fitted for Its Burqa

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

A new book about the Danish Mohammed cartoons will not actually contain the Danish Mohammed cartoons.

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With Holder and Obama, Politics Becomes Justice

Saturday, August 1st, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

As uncovered by PJM's own Jennifer Rubin, Eric Holder's DOJ is an opaque, ideological menace to the law.

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Prof. Gates Arrested! Racialist Outrage and Embarrassment in Cambridge!

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

Do the police really owe the Harvard professor an apology?

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Unseemly Haste, Thy Name Is Obama

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 - by Roger Kimball

As with the stimulus, the White House message on health care is "Hurry up and give us the money now." (Watch PJTV's virtual health care forum here.)

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