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The Heaven and Hell of Prohibition

The evening of Jan. 16, 1920, hours before Prohibition descended on America, while the young assistant secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt, drank champagne in Washington with other members of Harvard's class of 1904, in Norfolk, Va., evangelist Billy Sunday preached to 10,000 celebrants: "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory." Not exactly. Daniel… 0

July 9, 2010

Fourteen questions for Elena Kagan

Pursuant to Elena Kagan's expressed enthusiasm for confirmation hearings that feature intellectual snap, crackle and pop, here are some questions the Senate Judiciary Committee can elate her by asking: • Regarding campaign finance "reforms": If allowing the political class to write laws regulating the quantity, content and timing of speech about the political class is the… 2

June 28, 2010

From Obama, frugality theater

Barack Obama, an unbeliever genuflecting before the altar of frugality, is asking Congress, as presidents do, to give him something like a line- item veto. Coming in today's context of his unrelenting agenda of expanding government, his proposal constitutes a counterfeit promise to get serious about controlling spending and the deficit. His purpose is to distract the public while… 0

May 31, 2010
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In politics, as good as it gets

The candidate who won yesterday's special election in a Pennsylvania congressional district is right-to-life and pro-gun. He accused his opponent of wanting heavier taxes. He said he would have voted against Barack Obama's health care plan and promised to vote against cap-and-trade legislation, which is a tax increase supposedly somehow related to turning down the planet's… 0

May 19, 2010

Grievance? He had one - and still fought for us

Hearing about a shortage of farm laborers 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 the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where he and 119 former comrades in arms were honored, during the annual Days of Remembrance, as liberators of Nazi… 0

April 26, 2010

Shootout at the Arizona corral

In 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D. Hayworth, who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73, the Arizona Republican Party's Senate nomination, went jogging in Washington wearing a T-shirt given to him by some Arizona loggers. Federal solicitude for the supposedly endangered spotted owl was bedeviling the timber industry, and Hayworth's shirt read: "If two teenagers… 0

March 31, 2010

Trouble is, health overhaul will make things worse

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. Health care will not be seriously revisited for at least a generation, so the system's costliest defect - untaxed employer-provided insurance, which entangles a high-inflation commodity, health care, with the… 3

March 23, 2010

Sis boom bah humbug! Who needs 'State of the Union'?

The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union, and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union." But a reaction may be brewing against these embarrassing events. Speaking in Alabama, Chief Justice John… 0

March 12, 2010

Washington is toxic! Hey, let's give it more to control!

Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party's brain. The seam separates that brain's John Quincy Adams lobe from its Sigmund Freud lobe. The dominant liberal lobe favors Adams's dictum that politicians should not be "palsied by the will of our constituents." It exhorts Democrats to smack Americans with what is good for them - health care… 1

January 29, 2010

Fiscal crisis, terrible solution

You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving badly and you are thinking: Really, things cannot continue like this. Washington feels that way on the rare and fleeting occasions when it really thinks about the nation's looming crisis of public finance. The crisis,… 0

January 16, 2010
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