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9:57 AM, May 18, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARRENMost Americans say that the issues being raised by congressional hearings into the Benghazi terrorist attacks and the revelations that the IRS unfairly targeted conservative groups "involve serious matters that need to be investigated." According to a new poll from Gallup, 69 percent of those polled agreed that questions over the Obama administration's public response to the September 11, 2012, attack on the Ame
Read more... May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By THE SCRAPBOOK
'Still, even though New Yorkers subsidized the states closest to the political values of Ted Cruz, you never heard much complaining about how it’s unfair to support the gun-toting culture of the South, or underwrite its chronic disregard for the poor, the environment and those without health insurance. For that matter . . . ” (Timothy Egan, New York Times, May 13).
Read more... May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By THE SCRAPBOOK
As if we needed it, last week provided a fresh reminder about how the government behaves in the wild. And it has nothing to do with the IRS, Benghazi, or Eric Holder.
Read more... May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By THE SCRAPBOOK
The Scrapbook was drawn like a moth to the flame by this eye-grabbing teaser last week on the front page of the Washington Post’s Health & Science section: “A metallic-green beetle has arrived . . . If you live near an ash tree, beware.” The headline was equally unnerving: “Exotic beetle has killed 100 million ash trees—and maybe some humans, too.” It gets worse. The Post cites a study linking the emerald ash borer (EAB), an invasive species, to 21,000 deaths.
Read more... May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By THE SCRAPBOOK
It may be hard to believe, or maybe it’s all too believable; but here in Washington the chattering classes are beginning to ask a question that, elsewhere in America, might seem premature: After Obama, what?
Read more... What people do with their wealth is whose business? May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By MARTIN MORSE WOOSTEROne almost feels like shedding a tear for rich people these days. They are regularly pilloried by President Obama and his acolytes on editorial pages and talk shows as selfish greedheads who need to be taxed, and taxed again, as punishment for their wealth. Malcolm Forbes loved to show how his money let him pursue his endless enthusiasms, such as flying a balloon or buying artifacts for his collections. But if Forbes were alive today, the grim, prim Gradgrinds of the left would relentlessly attack him for daring to spend his wealth on activities he enjoyed.
Read more... But more of it should be.May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By JAY COSTThe state of the union today is uneasy, at best. Washington is crippled by gridlock while Americans across the country feel alienated from their government, so much so that the president feels compelled to remind them that the government is “us.” But is it really so, in a meaningful sense? Sure, the people choose their lawmakers through elections, but does the government actually represent their interests? If it does, why does it fail to solve their problems?
Read more... Gabriel Gomez, Massachusetts Republican.May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By MICHAEL WARRENGabriel Gomez is an ambitious guy. In January, with Massachusetts senator John Kerry all but certain to be confirmed as secretary of state, the 47-year-old Gomez wrote a letter to Governor Deval Patrick. Between Kerry’s resignation and the special election to fill his seat in the Senate, Patrick, a Democrat, would need to nominate a temporary replacement. Though a lifelong Republican, Gomez tried to appeal to Patrick’s sense of bipartisanship and asked the governor to choose him.
Read more... It’s here. Don’t get used to it. May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By WESLEY J. SMITH
Human cloning is finally here, and it is going to spark a political conflagration. First, some background.
Read more... Economic growth is the imperative, not budget cuts. May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By IRWIN M. STELZERThe burgeoning deficit has stopped burgeoning, at least for now. So Republican plans to attack the profligate president and to use the debt ceiling as a weapon to get more spending cuts can be shelved. Conservative deficit hawks should turn to a more immediate and important task—devising policies that will help the economy to grow at a rate that ends middle-class malaise and gets the millions who are out of work back into the workforce.
Read more... Is Putin running out of gas? May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By ALEX ALEXIEV and STEVEN F. HAYWARDThe Cold War is now so over that it might as well be grouped with the ancient ice ages, but there is one echo rolling across Europe from East to West: the Russian attempt to dominate the natural gas market on the European continent. As the energy sector accounts for 25 percent of Russia’s economy, any large changes in energy markets present major challenges for Vladimir Putin.
Read more... The abortionist the media wanted to ignore is convicted of murder. May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By NOEMIE EMERYBy most accounts, Kermit Gosnell seemed stunned last week when a jury found him guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in what seemed to have been his routine killings of newborn babies at his abortion clinic in Philadelphia; he thought he was doing his job. Abortion is legal and is a much-touted right. The president recently lavished praise on Planned Parenthood, a lobbyist for which had testified to Florida legislators in March that an infant born alive in the course of an abortion might be left to die anyhow.
Read more... May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
Everyone in Washington, except those in the crosshairs, likes a good scandal, and THE WEEKLY STANDARD is no exception. What’s more, in the case of the Obama administration, comeuppance is well deserved and overdue. So while it may be a dubious pleasure to enjoy watching the high brought low and the proud en route to their fall, we’re willing to indulge in it.
Read more... May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 • By MARK HEMINGWAY
With three different scandals threatening to consume the White House last week—the Benghazi cover-up, the Justice Department’s seizure of the phone records of dozens of Associated Press reporters, and the revelation of an anti-Tea Party inquisition by the Internal Revenue Service—CNBC’s John Harwood offered his journalistic peers some advice on Twitter: “Those of us in political-media world should just shut up about ‘narratives’ and focus on what’s true.” CBS anchor Scott Pelley joined in: “We are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.”
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