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Housing Bubble Babble

In economics, bad metaphors often lead to bad policies. As I explained years ago in The American Spec...

All Geared Up to Fight and Nothing to Argue Over

Before Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement, both sides were gearing up...

Global Warming: Religion or Science?

The “theory” of global warming posits that human activities such as deforestation-but primarily the b...

CAFTA: Ideology vs. National Interests

Using the Clinton playbook for enacting NAFTA in ’93, the White House is twisting arms and buying vot...

Leading GOPers Hide ‘Guest Worker’ Sleeper in Tough-Sounding Immigration Messages

I was sitting at my computer starting to write this week’s column when I received a phone call asking...

China-Mart Takes Over

My poor beloved country, trapped in a Middle Eastern quagmire and tricked by Osama bin Laden into sub...

How Important Are Judge’s ‘Views’?

Preliminary indications are that both we and Judge John G. Roberts may be spared the ugly food fights...

Let Judge Roberts Answer the Questions

I may be going against the conservative grain here, but I am not as bothered by the prospect of quest...

‘Starve the Beast’ Theory Not the Answer

Last week, columnist Robert Novak reported that Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., chairman of the powerful ...

Dangerous Human Egg Harvesting Targeted at Poor Women Is Costing Lives

Sometimes conservatives too quickly resign women’s issues to the liberals without realizing that ther...

The Island: Hollywood’s Recovery of Moral Sanity?

What if Hollywood made a profoundly conservative movie – one that was also a rip-roaring entertainmen...

Dick Durbin??¢â???¬â???¢s Evolving Standard of Decency

He once opposed Roe--now he opposes anyone who does the same...

Presence of Malice: The Left’s Contemptible Attacks on Judge Roberts and Family

Who didn’t know that the extreme left’s all-out war against whomever President Bush picked for the Su...

Defeat of Social Security Accounts Will Speed Up the Decline of Organized Labor

Unions are sliding further into irrelevancy...