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The 'flexibility' doctrine

Obama's problem is not that missile defense is too complicated but that if people knew Obama's intentions of "flexibly" caving on missile defenses, they might think twice about giving him a second term.

Whose movie is propaganda?

It's more than a little shocking when someone makes a movie that deals harshly with abortion. This is Hollywood after all.

Cruising for a showdown

Since the New Deal, courts, with no textual or any other constitutional basis, have distinguished between economic and non-economic liberty.

The death of Mrs. G

Although we all know that death is inevitable, we are still seldom fully prepared for the death of someone who has been important in our lives. So it was with the recent death of Dr. Marie D. Gadsden, at the age of 92.

It is time for Republicans to step up to the plate

It is time for Newt Gingrich to lend his mind to the next likely Republican nominee for president -- Mitt Romney.

Toward the conquest of world poverty

Economic growth, not redistribution, has been the surest cure for poverty.

The war on Wisconsin

Fiscally conservative leaders in the Badger State are under coordinated siege from Big Labor, the White House, the liberal media and the judiciary.

Is Obama killing his senators?

Outside the beltway, polling indicates a massacre of Senate Democrats is in the offing in the 2012 elections.

The ObamaCare penalty that isn't

In 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall observed that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy." As currently interpreted, it also involves the power to manipulate us into submission.

Obama's gaffe hints at hidden agenda in second term

What's really damaging here is the implication that Obama has a hidden second-term agenda.

'Post-Racial' Lynch Mob

Like Captain Ahab searching for the Great White Whale, the NFM is constantly on the hunt for proof of America as "Mississippi Burning."

Eve of the budget debate

I believe this to be one of our last opportunities to avert a financial crisis unprecedented in our nation’s experience and on a magnitude far greater than that now destroying Greece.

Cheaper American alternatives are already here

American truckers are offering a lesson in transitioning to new sources of fuel in the real world.

Profiling

Few people have the courage to acknowledge that black and young has become synonymous with crime and, hence, suspicion. To make that connection does not make one a racist.

What will Obama give Russia if he's re-elected?

In his domestic politics, Obama is often profoundly disingenuous. But in his meeting with Medvedev, we may have caught a rare glimpse of our president expressing unfeigned empathy.

Atheists darken D.C.

What if the atheists declared they were about to throw "the largest atheist event in world history" on a Saturday in Washington and few people showed up?

Big government makes us small

Politicians say they "create jobs." In fact, only the private sector generates the information needed to create real, productive jobs.

Spike Lee: Hollywood hatemonger

Spike Lee's history of racially incendiary remarks should instantaneously discredit him from feigning outrage over any type of racial bias.

Water socialists are all wet

Turning a private water system over to the government in a perverse reverse-privatization situation will only lead to more ways for cash-starved governments to impose dubious taxes, debts and fees.

A media show trial

George Zimmerman has much in common with his detractors.
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