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Charles Krauthammer on The Meaning of the Ricci Case. The major conundrum of the civil rights age remains. The 14th Amendment bans discrimination on the basis of race. But the Civil Rights Act, which bans “disparate impact” discrimination — procedures (such as exams) that yield racially unbalanced results — ...
Krauthammer, Ricci, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Affirmative Action
Another excellent column from Charles Krauthammer: The Use of Torture and What Nancy Pelosi Knew. Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent’s life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this ...
Charles Krauthammer has been in favor of relaxing Bush administration limits on funding embryonic stem cell research, but he’s disturbed at the way Obama did it: President Obama and Stem Cells — Science Fiction. President Bush had restricted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from ...
The Senate has passed the largest spending bill in history. And the Dow index slipped below 8,000 this morning. UPDATE at 2/10/09 10:05:45 am: The vote was 61-37. UPDATE at 2/10/09 10:48:02 am: Here’s the roll call: U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home - Votes - Roll Call Vote.
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Krauthammer
Yes, the Republicans and Democrats have magically reached a deal right at the end of the day, on a Friday, right before the weekend. Exactly as I predicted last night. Call me Little Green Nostradamus.
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer cuts through the smokescreen to the real issue: The Fierce Urgency of Pork. It’s not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It’s not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million ...
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer gets it exactly right in today’s column, on Barack Obama’s embarrassing interview with Al Arabiya: Obama Distorts America’s Stance on Muslims. Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to ...
Barack Obama, Israel, Hamas, Militant Islam, Al Arabiya, JihadTV, Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer advises us not to be fooled by Barack Obama’s apparently centrist appointments, or by Robert Gates staying on as Defense Secretary; his socialist “progressive” agenda is still intact and moving forward: Obama’s Plan for a Domestic Transformation. Obama was quite serious when he said he was going ...
I was browsing through Charles Krauthammer’s columns today, and discovered this excellent piece on the Kitzmiller case, and the pseudo-scientific claptrap promoted by the Discovery Institute: Phony Theory, False Conflict. Let’s be clear. Intelligent design may be interesting as theology, but as science it is a fraud. It is ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, kitzmiller, Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer on Barack Obama’s clumsy lurch away from the radical left: A Man of Seasonal Principles. You’ll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he’d worn one after Sept. 11 but then stopped because it “became ...
Charles Krauthammer has a really good column in yesterday’s WaPo: Obama’s ‘Distractions’? Then came the three amigos: Tony Rezko, the indicted fixer; Jeremiah Wright, the racist reverend; William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. And then Obama’s own anthropological observation that “bitter” working-class whites cling to guns and religion because they ...
LGF, Krauthammer, Election 2008, Barack Obama, rezko, Wright, Rev. Wright, Ayers, bill ayers, william ayers
Charles Krauthammer is right on the money as usual; after all of President Bush’s tough words and promises, Iran is closer than ever to the ultimate weapon: The Advancing Iranian Nuclear Program. WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges — they produce enriched uranium, ...
LGF, Krauthammer, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, enrichment
Here are two worthy columns on Barack Obama’s self-serving, cynical (posing as “hopeful”) speech about “race;” from Charles Krauthammer: The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud. And from Mona Charen: Grandma Got Run Over By a Campaign Speech.
Charles Krauthammer on the Cult of BHO: The Next Great Awakening. There’s no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: Bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than ...
In his column on The New Republic Scott Beauchamp scandal, Charles Krauthammer zeroes in on the important aspect, the little detail that The New Republic tried to pass off as a simple mistake: The Baghdad Fabulist. Except that it is now revealed that the mess-hall incident happened before he even ...
LGF, Krauthammer, Iraq, New Republic, Scott Thomas, Scott Beauchamp
Here’s a great column by Charles Krauthammer on America’s now-endless presidential campaigns: Two Years of Humble Pie. The final function of the endless campaign, and perhaps the most psychologically important, is to satisfy the American instinct for egalitarianism. We have turned the presidential campaign into a pleasingly degrading ordeal — ...
Charles Krauthammer has a great column today on the upcoming anniversary of the Six Day War: Prelude to the Six Days. There has hardly been a Middle East peace plan in the past 40 years — including the current Saudi version — that does not demand a return to the ...
It’s no secret that I think George Tenet was one of the most incompetent blithering idiots ever to run the CIA. In 2004, when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, I wrote this: Undeserved Medal for Tenet. Now Tenet, with his absolutely terrible record of failure and weakness, has ...
Charles Krauthammer is responsible for the identification of a mental illness that afflicts the left almost without exception, and his column for today describes a related condition, witnessed recently in full bloom when Dick Cheney’s heart condition was in the news: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Cheney Variant. WASHINGTON — “What is ...
Charles Krauthammer says Ehud Olmert is looking for “victory on the cheap:” Israel’s Lost Moment. The defeat of Hezbollah would be a huge loss for Iran, both psychologically and strategically. Iran would lose its foothold in Lebanon. It would lose its major means to destabilize and inject itself into the ...
Here’s another excellent analysis of the world’s inverted morality, from Charles Krauthammer: ‘Disproportionate’ in What Moral Universe? What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight ...
Charles Krauthammer has a good piece on the light at the end of the Lebanon tunnel: The Only Exit Strategy. WASHINGTON — There is crisis and there is opportunity. Amid the general wringing of hands over the seemingly endless and escalating Israel-Hezbollah fighting, everyone asks: Where will it end? The ...
Charles Krauthammer has a great column on America’s staunchest ally: Why I Love Australia. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON — In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: “I move that that sniveling grub over there be ...
Charles Krauthammer dispenses some hard truths about the Gaza beach bombing: Who Is to Blame for Grief on a Beach? An expert at a local chapter of a human rights group disputes the Israeli claims. Okay. Let’s concede for the sake of argument that the question of whether it was ...
Here’s Charles Krauthammer’s proposal to deal with the enormous problem of illegal immigration: First a Wall — Then Amnesty. My proposition is the following: a vast number of Americans who oppose legalization and fear new waves of immigration would change their minds if we could radically reduce new — i.e., ...