ISRAEL'S (WISELY) MODEST AIM IN GAZA

By BENNY AVNI

ISRAEL'S critics have a point about the Gaza campaign: It won't do anything to end the "endless cycle of violence." But it's not supposed to. The point is simply to manage...more >

By GEORGE F. WILL

IN America's ever-more-demo cratic society, egalitarianism seeps into everything, even the supposedly severe meritocracy of sport. So almost every college football team that is not dreadful is...more >

O'S DANGEROUS ANTI-TERROR PICKS

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama's appointments to Homeland Security, the Justice Department and now the CIA indicate a virtual abandonment of the War on Terror. As Homeland Security chief...more >

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

IF it was true that when the Republicans enjoyed House and Senate majorities and ran the White House there was no one to object when they overspent, grew the government and ran up the debt, who now...more >

By MICHELLE MALKIN

January 7, 2009 - BARACK Obama has dubbed his behemoth fiscal stimulus proposal the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." But if truth in advertising were required of White House plans, only one title...more >

O OPTS TO POLITICIZE INTELLIGENCE

By RALPH PETERS

January 7, 2009 - WOULD you ask your accountant to perform brain surgery on your child? That's the closest analogy I can find to the choice of Democratic Party hack Leon Panetta to head the CIA. Earth to...more >

By JONAH GOLDBERG

January 7, 2009 - 'GO back to the oven! You need a big oven, that's what you need!" This is what one young woman thought passed for acceptable discourse during an anti-Israel rally last week in (of...more >

HISTORY'S LESSONS ARE CLEAR STEPHEN KAGANN

By STEPHEN KAGANN

January 7, 2009 - THE working people of New York are sliding toward an economic abyss. The bountiful days on Wall Street have ended. Other major industries - media, tourism, retailing, real estate - are in trouble...more >

By SCOTT W. JOHNSON

January 6, 2009 - YESTERDAY, the Canvassing Board presiding over the recount in Minnesota's Senate election declared Democrat Al Franken the winner over incumbent Norm Coleman - by 225 votes out of nearly 3...more >

O'S 'CHANGE' DEFICIT

By KIRSTEN POWERS

January 6, 2009 - WHAT kind of "change" will Barack Obama offer on the Palestinian-Israeli mess? Since the conflict erupted back onto the front pages, his response has been disheartening to anti-war...more >

A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE . . .

By RICH LOWRY

January 6, 2009 - AT least the word "trillion" still has cachet as denoting a lot of money. "Billion" has been surpassed during the past few months, and "million" has long been...more >

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

January 6, 2009 - IT now looks like half of President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus package will take the form of "tax cuts" for 95 percent of all Americans. Yet this wouldn't so much boost the...more >

By RALPH PETERS

January 5, 2009 - ISRAELI ground troops have gone into Gaza. But can they rip out Hamas before international Israel-haters save the terror machine? To provide its citizens even with temporary safety, Israel had...more >

By GEORGE F. WILL

January 5, 2009 - LIKE pebbles tossed into ponds, important Supreme Court rulings radiate ripples of consequences. Consider a 1971 Supreme Court decision that supposedly applied but actually altered the 1964 Civil...more >