October 23, 2009
VITA: Remember Why There’s an IT Infrastructure Partnership
FAIRFAX The ground was soft and muddy, but the atmosphere was jovial. Gov. Tim Kaine and then-Attorney General Bob McDonnell were in attendance. Fried...
October 22, 2009
Another Entitlement For Seniors . . .
WASHINGTON Three years before Rep. Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who then chaired the Ways and Means Committee, had his fling with a stripper named...
EDUCATION: Let Virginia Give Every Child Every Chance, Every Day
Most educators are committed to the idea of giving every child every chance to succeed every day in our public schools. Yet Virginia’s 2009 on-time...
October 21, 2009
Where’s Compassion for Virginians Without Credit?
The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy is at it again (“Don’t Make Virginia Do Tenn. Two-Step,“ Sept. 28) when it claims the...
October 20, 2009
Expanded Federal Law Is Improper
CHARLOTTESVILLE For more than a decade, liberal lawmakers have argued that federal “hate crimes” laws should be expanded to include sexual...
Stimulating Incumbency
WASHINGTON As Harvard’s president, Larry Summers, economist and former Treasury secretary, was a lion in a den of Daniels. The faculty Daniels, their...
October 19, 2009
Restarting the Job Machine
WASHINGTON What can government do to crank up America’s creaky job machine? We’ll be arguing ferociously about that in coming months, and the...
Republican Women: Hear Them Roar
WASHINGTON As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears. The answer...
October 18, 2009
In Afghanistan: Where Are We After Nobel?
Another in a series of imaginary conversations with Barack Obama. Actual quotations appear in quotation marks . . . Yo Mr. President. Hey. I see you’re...
Regarding VITA
Editor’s note: The following letters were sent to Philip A. Leone, director of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, by the parties...
October 16, 2009
To Save the Big Cats, Let People Kill Them
The repeal of Prohibition did not utterly eradicate the production of moonshine, in part because repeal was only partial itself. But Prohibition’s...
October 15, 2009
Republicans in Congress: Could a Wave Be Building?
WASHINGTON Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political...
OIL SUPPLY: OCS Drilling: Virginia Has Lost a Year
STAUNTON As debates about climate change and health care engulf America, we cannot overlook a recent anniversary marking one lost year and counting. When...
OIL SUPPLY: LCFS: A Great Blow to American Security
ARLINGTON Earlier this month, it was announced in Washington that the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would be named the lead sponsor...
October 14, 2009
Communist China Celebrates 60
On Oct. 1, Beijing marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (more precisely, the consolidation of power by the...
October 12, 2009
Are Our Children Condemned to Downward Mobility?
WASHINGTON Every generation of Americans should live better than its predecessor. That’s Americans’ core definition of economic “progress.“...
When Progressives Go Retro
WASHINGTON Virginia women have plenty of reason to feel offended by their state’s gubernatorial race, though not because the Republican candidate...
October 11, 2009
Random Walk: On Stimulus Money, CEO Pay, Theses, Coffee Snobs, Etc.
Wandering among issues currently in the news . . . The unemployment rate hit 9.8 percent in September—the 21st consecutive month of job losses....
Energy: Offshore Drilling Is No ‘Silver Bullet’
Virginians are being fed a hefty dose of PR lately by those who would open our coast for the first time ever to offshore oil and gas drilling. They claim...
Our Young Hamlet’s Agony
The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious—particularly about things like war, about which until...
October 10, 2009
Life on Twitter: A Miscarriage of Propriety
For those whose lives revolve primarily around real people in real time and real space, hurry, go hide. Here’s what you missed in the social networking...
October 09, 2009
Same-Sex Marriage: Texas Does the Gay Divorce Fandango
I suppose there is something charming about watching conservative politicians in Texas trying so ardently to preserve a same-sex marriage. How else can...
October 07, 2009
Olympic Bid: Is There a Gold Medal for Narcissism?
WASHINGTON In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas’ trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there....
October 06, 2009
Opinion Roundup: What Can We Do About Iran
Los Angeles Times: Preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is a bit like achieving peace between the Israelis and Palestinians—the steps we...
Hinkle: Individual Mandate on Health Care Resembles a Peacetime Draft
Critics of the various health care reform proposals currently before Congress have focused on a variety of flaws, from the extraordinarily high costs to...
October 05, 2009
Enter the White Queen
WASHINGTON Last Thursday, the president’s “engagement” with Iran began. This Wednesday, the U.S. war in Afghanistan will enter its ninth...
Good News Is That Bad News Isn’t Worse
WASHINGTON How close did we come to the Great Depression 2.0? That question will spawn a cottage industry of books, studies, and conferences. But Christina...
October 04, 2009
Let’s Close Virginia’s Gun Show Loophole
During October, Virginia will host two of the largest gun shows in North America: the Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly (yesterday and today) and the...
Krauthammer: Obama Gets a French Lesson
President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.—French...
Dust Off the Monroe Doctrine: Pas d’Ennemis à Gauche
‘Sfunny in this hour of Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, and Iraq that perhaps nothing tells us quite so much about the incumbent D.C. administration...
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