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Glass Half Empty

Charter schools do work–notwithstanding the denials of teachers’ unions.

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Stonewalling Charters

The agency’s privacy-compliance measures cripple intelligence-gathering.

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DHS, Stuck in Red Tape

The governor’s proposed reforms won’t end corruption–but they will threaten political speech.

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Paterson’s Political Fix

2010 is shaping up to be a rare year in American politics.

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An Upheaval to Remember

Kurt Westergaard and other brave critics of Islamic fanaticism continue to fend for themselves.

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While Europe Sneered

Will the Abdulmuttalab incident be a wake-up call?

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Obama’s Near Miss

The U.S. economy survived the traumas of 2009, thanks…

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The ‘Californiazation’ of America

Take President Obama’s poor timing in response to a failed terrorist attack on a U.S. jetliner, add the politicization of that event by his surrogates and a ridiculous message by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, …

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Failure to Lead

Most news outlets end the year with extensive reviews of their top headlines and scoops. But the stories they didn’t cover deserve much greater attention. Journalistic sins of omission are often far more damning and more telling than sins of commission. Let’s …

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Underreported stories of 2009

The Academy Awards have expanded the number of best picture nominations to 10, and the buzz on Planet Earth is all about “Avatar.” Conservatives are enraged at the movie’s anti-American, anti-military, pro-primitive themes, but they should understand that most spectators won’t care what the movie has to say. They’ll just enjoy the 3-D spectacle, fun in spite of politics. Adults …

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Beauty in the Beast

Had he not proven incompetent to detonate his lap bomb, Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab would have carried off an air massacre to rival Lockerbie. We would all have ended Christmas day watching TV footage of 300 mangled bodies being picked up around Detroit. The system breakdown was total. His father had reported to the…

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The Real War

WASHINGTON — Listen up, Israel: Not now. Obama, don’t let the winds of public opinion twist you around your own axle. Putin, stop shielding the murderers, including those who rid you of meddlesome lawyers. Sarkozy, your energy and irreverence are dazzling, but what about a little more stick-to-itness, cher ami? Lord, this has been fun. If disorienting at …

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Living in the Now

President Obama adopts the Bush detention policy in a different locale.

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A New Guantanamo

Fantastic Mr. Fox revives the imaginative genius of the early twentieth-century masters.

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A Modern Children’s Classic

Conservative ideas get scant attention on the American stage.

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Free David Mamet!

The world is vanishing from Americans’ awareness.

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Less-than-Splendid Isolation

Why the hard Left can’t accept the Islamic roots of Nidal Hasan’s shooting spree

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Fort Hood Denial

The world is vanishing from Americans’ awareness.

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Less-than-Splendid Isolation

Terry Teachout’s luminous biography captures the “sunlit

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All That Jazz