- Obama’s Policies Are Gutting the Middle Class, by Tom Blumer. They don’t work. They’ve never worked. And Obama’s no friend of the middle class.
- RIP Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011, by Richard Fernandez. “All there is to say about his life, Hitchens has already said himself,” Richard Fernandez writes. Nonetheless, Richard, Michael Totten and Ed Driscoll all have posts marking the passage of the Mencken of our era.
- Showdown in Sioux City: Ron Paul’s Waterloo? By Bryan Preston. Scoring the debate as the candidates make their closing arguments in Iowa.
- Drunkblogging Tonight’s Debate in Iowa, by Stephen Green. Steve’s verdict: The big winner was President Obama, who hardly had a glove laid on him tonight. And at a Fox News debate.
- Are There Health Effects Due to the Financial Crisis? By Theodore Dalrymple. What ails the Greeks can’t be treated by doctors.
- How the Left Destroyed Philanthropy, by Alexis Garcia. Can the true grassroots overcome a progressive Goliath?
- Movies for Grown Ups: Seconds (1966) by Kathy Shaidle. John Frankenheimer’s challenging and brilliant follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate, the greatest film Rock Hudson ever made.
- A New Age of Low Cost Launch? By Rand Simberg. The biggest airplane in the world as a launch platform for rockets into space.
- Radical Celluloid Chic: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls now on the Kindle, by Ed Driscoll. How the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll generation saved Hollywood. At least for a time.
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