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For the past 20 years, I’ve been in contact with Clifford Olson, Canada’s most notorious serial killer.  more

Latest data point: Bart Stupak’s complaint’s in today’s Politico. In many times and places, men have braved death to stand up and fight for their beliefs. In the United States in 2010, nobody suffers such a fate – but your office may have to take a lot of phone calls at odd hours of the day.  more

Republicans still have time to unite opponents of the Senate health bill by providing a smaller, more targeted reform measure which could attract the support of moderate Democrats and disaffected progressives.  more

Sen. Dodd’s new financial regulation plan includes a proposal for a federal super-agency which could help close troubled banks. But giving the federal government these vast new powers will only create more problems.  more

My latest column for The Week argues that just as in 2000, when Yasser Arafat abandoned peace talks and went to war, today the inflated expectations of the Palestinian people will again prevent their leaders from making the realistic compromises necessary to achieve a peace deal.  more

Barack Obama filled out his NCAA Tournament brackets live Wednesday on ESPN. Obama probably didn’t let domestic political considerations affect his picks for the tournament. but considering how many of his fellow Democrats are staring electoral defeat in the face this November, maybe he should have.  more

Alas, there is sanity in the world. A federal judge has denied a request from Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers to push back his trial date until after the election.  more

Recently, Virginia’s legislature passed a law that (they hope) will “exempt” their citizens from Obamacare’s individual mandate. But the law seems unlikely to survive a close examination by the Supreme Court.  more

The Democrats have announced plans to use a procedural step called “the self-executing rule” or the “deem and pass” to shepherd the healthcare bill through the House before the end of the week. But what does deem and pass” actually involve?  more

Matt Yglesias makes an (apt) point today in comparing the social and cultural differences between the U.S. and Canada.  more

While the media focused their attention on the small colorful gathering of anti-health bill protesters Tuesday, at another location on the Hill, a small group of activists had set up a war room to better organize and mobilize the tea partiers.  more

Last Friday, Illinois GOP Senate candidate Rep. Mark Kirk attempted to rally the crowd during a speech and said of President Obama: “we are on the way to making this guy a one-termer.” Going after the president is a mistake Kirk should not repeat.  more

This St. Patrick’s Day is a good time to remember that Irishmen have served honorably in every army on the face of the Earth, distinguishing themselves in battle in every war since the Romans first tried to land on their shores.  more

There is an immutable reason why centralized socialist policies don’t work over time: government, unlike the private sector, has no incentive to maintain the fiscal discipline needed to stay on budget.  more

A new FrumForum survey conducted at a Tea Party protest Tuesday found Tea Partiers to be much more pessimistic than average Americans with vastly different perceptions of the problems facing the country.  more

Two days ago, I asked Alternative Right’s Richard Spencer if he’d be willing, in whatever format he preferred, to publicly debate me, but he refused, saying that he wanted nothing more to do with me. As his latest article demonstrates, that’s objectively false.  more

Today, FrumForum attended the Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill organized to pressure members of the House to vote down the health care bill. Here is a selection of images from the rally.  more

President Obama’s new blueprint for education reform recommends using more than just standardized test scores to broadly measure school performance and student academic growth. These proposals are especially important in allowing low-income schools to address the special challenges they face.  more

This year marks the 30th year that Robert Mugabe has held power in Zimbabwe, and the 20th year since Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa. While Mandela used his power to advance harmony, Mugabe has abused his power for ideological reasons.  more

As President Obama uses the current rift over settlements to apply more pressure to the Israeli government, Prime Minister Netanyahu may find less support in the U.S. than expected. Today, American Jews appear to have less in common with Israel than in the past.  more