In 2006, long before there was an Obama administra tion determined to impose a command-and-control federal health-care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The...
November 19, 2209 12:00 AM
JERUSALEM Immersion in this region's politics can convince those immersed that history is cycli cal rather than linear -- that it is not one thing after another but the same thing over and over. This passes for good...
August 28, 2010 12:00 AMJERUSALEM 'Twas a famous victory for diplo macy when, in 1991 in Madrid, Is raelis and Palestinians, orchestrated by America, at last engaged in direct talks. Almost a generation later, US policy seems to have...
August 23, 2010 12:00 AMJERUSALEM IN the intifada that began in 2000, Pales tinian terrorism killed more than 1,000 Israelis. As a portion of US population, that would be 42,000, approaching the toll of America's eight years in Vietnam....
August 19, 2010 12:00 AMJERUSALEM — When Israel declared independence in 1948, it had to use mostly small arms to repel attacks by six Arab armies. Today, however, Israel feels, and is, more menaced than it was then, or has been since. Hence...
August 15, 2010 1:21 AM
Two photographs adorn the office of Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike -- in life experiences, temperaments and political...
August 12, 2010 12:00 AMTwo splendid recent developments have highlighted how campaign-fi nance "reforms" have become the disease they pretend to cure. In Arizona and in Congress, measures ostensibly aimed at eliminating corruption or the...
July 12, 2010 12:00 AM
Sometimes provocative people become that way because they were provoked. Sharron Angle, 60, could be enjoying the 10 grandchildren she loves even more than her .44 magnum. Instead, she is the Republican nominee against...
July 06, 2010 12:00 AM
Given Elena Kagan's aversion to "vapid and hollow" con firmation hearings devoid of "legal analysis," beginning Monday she might relish answering these questions: * It would be naughty to ask you about litigation...
June 24, 2010 12:00 AM
Torrents of uninteresting mail inundate members of Congress, but occasionally there are riveting communications, such as a recent e-mail from a noncommissioned officer serving in Afghanistan. He explains why the rules...
June 21, 2010 12:00 AM
Evidently Hamid Karzai did not get the memo on termi nology. US military com manders have stopped using the word "operation" to describe the drive, now delayed, against the Taliban in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second...
June 17, 2010 12:00 AMUnder the current imperfect adminis tration of the universe, most new ideas are false, so most ideas for im provements make matters worse. Given California's parlous condition, making matters worse there requires...
June 14, 2010 12:00 AMConcerning the job numbers from May, one can almost echo Henry James' exclamation after examining letters pertaining to Lord Byron's incest: "Nauseating, perhaps, but how quite inexpressibly significant." Except that...
June 10, 2010 12:00 AMMILWAUKEE Before what he calls "the jaw- dropping" events of the last 19 months -- TARP, the stimulus, Government Motors, the mistreatment of Chrysler's creditors, ObamaCare, etc. -- the idea of running for office...
May 29, 2010 12:00 AM
When Chancellor Angela Merkel decided that Germany would pay part of Greece’s bills, voters punished her party in elections in Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. How appropriate. The 1648 Peace of...
May 16, 2010 1:01 AM
To understand the perti nence to America of events in Greece, no tice General Motors' most recent misbehavior. A TV commercial featuring CEO Ed Whitacre demonstrates the institutional murkiness and intellectual...
May 13, 2010 12:00 AMHearing about a shortage of farm la borers in California, the couple who would become Susumu Ito's parents moved from Hiroshima to become sharecroppers near Stockton. Thus began a saga that recently brought Ito, 91, to...
April 26, 2010 12:00 AM
MORRISVILLE, PA. The bridge spanning the Delaware River connects New Jersey's capital with this town where the nation's most interesting governor occasionally eats lunch at Cafe Antonio. It also connects New Jersey's...
April 22, 2010 12:00 AM
The 25 people killed this month in the West Virginia coal-mine explosion will soon be as forgotten by the nation as are the 362 miners who were killed in a 1907 explosion in that state, the worst mining disaster in...
April 19, 2010 12:00 AM
PHOENIX IN 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D. Hayworth -- who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73, the Arizona GOP's Senate nomination -- went jogging in Washington wearing a T-shirt given...
April 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil-rights era. Speaking in Alabama at Selma’s Edmund Pettus...
March 22, 2010 1:13 AM
Doubling down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for that, until 1965. In...
March 18, 2010 12:00 AM
There are legislative miles to go before the govern ment will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has...
March 13, 2010 12:00 AMIt is said, more frequently than precisely, that the rea sons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does. Actually, the court's reasons are what it does. Hence, the interest in...
March 08, 2010 12:00 AM
Memo to that Massachu setts school where children in physical- education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you -- you are about 85 percent of all parents -- who are constantly telling your...
March 06, 2010 12:00 AMPeter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago, but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America's therapeutic culture to...
March 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Today's health-policy "summit" comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being "broken." Such talk occurs only when the left's...
February 25, 2010 12:00 AM
The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona sena tor, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his problem. Voters thought his entertaining dimensions might be...
February 18, 2010 12:00 AM
Only two things are infinite -- the expanding universe and Democrats' hostility to the District of Columbia's school-choice program. Killing this small program, which benefits 1,300 mostly poor and minority children...
February 15, 2010 12:00 AM
On day one of his vow to take "meaningful steps to rein in our debt," Barack Obama asked Congress to freeze portions of discretionary domestic spending. This would follow an astonishing permanent expansion:...
February 06, 2010 12:00 AM
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