November 20, 2009

2010 General Assembly: Parties Must Work Together

Kudos to Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell for appearing before a somewhat “slimmed down” House of Delegates Democratic Caucus at its annual retreat...


November 19, 2009

Constitution: Fighting a Coercion Clause

PHOENIX In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic...

U.S. and China: Countries Enriched by Relationship

Nowadays, when shopping in Wal-Mart, Toys “R” Us, or any other discount stores, one cannot avoid seeing the “Made in China” marks....


November 18, 2009

Energy: Make the Smart Grid Work for Virginians

ARLINGTON When President Obama announced $3.4 billion in new federal grants to upgrade the nation’s power grid last month, he did so amid many references...


November 17, 2009

Education Legacy: Schools Must Improve Under McDonnell . . .

Bob McDonnell faces a daunting workload as Virginia’s 71st governor. The budget crisis and transportation are headliners, but Virginia faces other...

Education Legacy: . . . And Charter Schools Are the Way to Start

It’s now official. After more than a year of hard-fought campaigning, Bob McDonnell is Virginia’s governor-elect. As a candidate, McDonnell...


November 16, 2009

On Reform: Obama’s Malpractice

WASHINGTON There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called “health care reform.“ Everyone knows that the United States faces massive...


November 15, 2009

Fort Hood: Medicalizing Mass Murder

What a surprise—that someone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” (the “God is great” jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room...

Briefs: Music as Torture, Federal Incompetence, Obamacare, Etc.

The other day the White House boasted it has created 650,000 jobs by spending $150 billion in “stimulus” money. That comes out to $230,000...

VITA: Partnership Based on False Assumptions

The 2003 Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) initiative and 2005 partnership contract with Northrop Grumman were primarily based on two assumptions:...


November 14, 2009

Win for Virginia: The $5 Transportation Solution

Most Virginians would agree that efficiently moving goods and people is paramount to establishing and maintaining a vibrant economy. The wheels of commerce...


November 13, 2009

EMINENT DOMAIN: VDOT Sues Day Care—and Taxpayers Get Hosed

The Leave It to Beaver Child Care center occupies a modest building on German School Road in working-class Richmond. It’s a short walk south of a...

Ellen Goodman column: A False Choice On Health Care

BOSTON It was one of those small shocks that come unexpectedly in the wake of a death. Just days after the country had buried Ted Kennedy, Cardinal Sean...


November 12, 2009

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WASHINGTON One of the many television commercials exhorting viewers to buy gold says solemnly that it is an asset whose value “has never dropped...

REPUBLICAN VICTORY: Return to Moderate Middle . . .

Virginia Republicans recaptured the political middle last week, assisted by Bob McDonnell’s strong centrist campaign and adherence to a positive...

REPUBLICAN VICTORY: . . . Brings About Opportunity for Trust

WOODBRIDGE Imagine you’re an assistant football coach who finds himself taking leadership of a team in the middle of an uninspiring season. If your...


November 11, 2009

Opinion Roundup How Others Saw the Election

E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post: Here’s a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates...


November 09, 2009

Predicting the Next Big Bubble?

WASHINGTON When Nouriel Roubini talks, the world listens. Roubini is, of course, the once-obscure New York University economist whose dire warnings about...

The Passion Of Henry Allen

WASHINGTON The so-called newsroom brawl between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a fine distraction for the health-care-weary....


November 08, 2009

What Option for Afghan Women?

BOSTON It’s been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. “This is a doctor,“...

Quotables: ‘Get Tough and Then Get Out’

Quotations on Afghanistan and nationalizing the practice of medicine . . . Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan:...

Economy: Some Help for Small Businesses

WASHINGTON In recent weeks, we’ve seen broad stock market gains push the Dow to near 10,000 for the first time in more than a year. And while there...


November 07, 2009

The Myth of the 2008 Election Demolished

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans...


November 06, 2009

Our Stranger in Kabul

WASHINGTON Actress Cate Blanchett, who has played Queen Elizabeth I, is performing here, portraying someone less than regal—flurried, anxious Blanche...

So Much for Being Cautious

Six years ago San Franciso, a black hole of liberalism—infinitely dense—became the first major U.S. city to adopt the precautionary principle....


November 05, 2009

Ellen Goodman: Who Says Women Were Happier Before Feminism?

SOCIAL TRENDS BOSTON Not long ago a group of writers decided to publish a book of essays we called: Feminism Made Me Happy. It was an in-your-face title,...


November 04, 2009

‘Take No Prisoners’: This Time, Post’s Strategy Failed

WASHINGTON Bob McDonnell’s decisive victory is even more impressive if one stops to acknowledge that it came in the face of incredibly daunting opposition,...


November 03, 2009

What Others Are Saying About Health Care

Amy Sullivan, Time Magazine: Does Focus on the Family fund abortions? It does if you hold the organization to the same standard it uses to insist that...

Charles Krauthammer col. Afghanistan

WASHINGTON Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. “Niki, I’m dying. Don’t have much to leave you. Just three envelopes....


November 02, 2009

Younger Generation: It’s Time to Invest in Millennials

WASHINGTON Regardless of age, the economic crisis has had an impact on all of our lives. It has touched every family in some way, and its effects continue...

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