APRIL 15, 2010 By WARREN KOZAK In 1964, Hollywood mirrored the world’s fears with two major motion pictures focused on nuclear nightmare scenarios—”Fail-Safe” and “Dr. Strangelove.” That same year saw the famous Daisy TV commercial linking the Republican presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater, to reckless nuclear behavior. This was during the Cold War, when the United […]
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APRIL 9, 2010 Medical Privacy and ObamaCare By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Eighteen states are challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health law. Their challenge focuses on whether the federal government can require everyone to buy coverage. They gloss over an issue more consequential to our health and longevity: Can the federal government dictate how doctors treat
April 9, 2010 By FOUAD AJAMI President Obama’s “war of necessity” in Afghanistan increasingly has to it the mark of a military campaign disconnected from a bigger political strategy. Yes, it is true, he “inherited” this war. But in his fashion he embraced it and held it up as a rebuke to the Iraq war.
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APRIL 10, 2010 By ANN MARLOWE Kabul ‘Americans should know that in the people of Afghanistan, you have a partner. Not all of our people will be as disgraceful as some of your beneficiaries.” Abdullah Abdullah is referring to an April 2 speech by President Hamid Karzai that shook up even the normally complacent Obama
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APRIL 17, 2010 Berkeley’s Judge A liberal nominee of illiberal temperament. For a preview of the pitfalls facing President Obama if he nominates a liberal to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, yesterday’s hearing for Goodwin Liu is instructive. As a nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the 39-year-old Berkeley law
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Washington Times Tuesday, March 30, 2010 GAFFNEY: Ridding the world of U.S. arms Frank J. Gaffney Jr. President Obama announced Friday that he had concluded a follow-on to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. He characterized the cuts that it would make in the two nations’ nuclear arsenals as a major step
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APRIL 14, 2010 Andy’s Labors ‘A little more unemployment but a lot more equality.’ Andy Stern has picked a good time to head for the exits. The president of the Service Employees International Union—otherwise known as the most powerful labor chief in America—is expected to step down later this week, two years before the end
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APRIL 14, 2010 Crony Contracts Want federal business? Better be a union shop. There’s almost a direct correlation these days between the Obama Administration’s complaints about “special interests” and its own fealty to such interests. Consider its latest decree that federal contractors must be union shops. The federal rule, which went live yesterday, implements an
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APRIL 13, 2010 Editor’s Note: Last week, the Obama administration began to unveil its new nuclear strategy. We asked six former U.S. foreign policy officials to reflect on the administration’s Nuclear Posture Review, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia, and whether Mr. Obama’s emerging nuclear doctrine is a move in the right direction.
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APRIL 13, 2010 Incentives Not to Work Larry Summers v. Senate Democrats on jobless benefits. ‘The second way government assistance programs contribute to long-term unemployment is by providing an incentive, and the means, not to work. Each unemployed person has a ‘reservation wage’—the minimum wage he or she insists on getting before accepting a job.
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