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8/18/2009 Editorials

Greedy Sawbones

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 8/17/2009 4:20 PM PT

Watching A Bad Idea Implode

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 8/17/2009 4:20 PM PT

Is Education Next?

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 8/17/2009 4:20 PM PT

Insurers In Black Hats

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 8/17/2009 4:20 PM PT

The Saudi Arabia Of Shale

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 8/17/2009 4:20 PM PT

President Gets Poor Grade On Health Care

By RAGHAVAN MAYUR
Posted 8/17/2009 4:20 PM PT

Health Plans Could Aid, Hinder Efforts To Fund Social Security

By JED GRAHAM
NewsAnalysis by IBD

Posted 8/17/2009

On The Left

Has 'Palinism' Morphed Into McCarthyism?

By RICHARD COHEN
Posted 8/17/2009 4:20 PM PT

On The Right

Young Voters Sought Change, Got Only Stasis

By MICHAEL BARONE
Posted 8/17/2009 4:20 PM PT

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August, 2009

8/17/2009 - The Will To Win

8/17/2009 - Will Electric Cars Crash The Grid?

8/17/2009 - A 'Crisis' Cools Off

8/17/2009 - Axelrod's Crazy 8s

8/17/2009 - Bipartisan Visa Program Could Fix Nation's Illegal Immigration Mess

8/17/2009 - When You're Worth More Dead Than Alive

8/17/2009 - Health Bill Hinges On Blue Dogs' Vote But Few Bite So Far

8/14/2009 - Capping Jobs

8/14/2009 - A Weakening Will To Crush Terror

8/14/2009 - Clown Hall Meetings

8/14/2009 - Media Overstimulation

8/14/2009 - Leaving The Planet And Poor Worse Off

8/13/2009 - Health Care Here And Over There

8/13/2009 - Lend $10 Billion To Drill... Brazil?

8/13/2009 - Our Aging Deterrent

8/13/2009 - How The President Can Rekindle Spirit Of Job-Producing Innovation

8/12/2009 - Town Bull

8/12/2009 - How End-Users Suffer Under Socialism

8/12/2009 - Third World Care?

8/12/2009 - Capital Drag

8/12/2009 - Confidence Rebounds, But Obama Gets Just 'C' From Bipolar America

8/12/2009 - The Case Against A Tobacco Tax Increase

8/12/2009 - President's Town Hall On Health Care Draws Cheers, But Not Opposing Views

8/11/2009 - The Real AstroTurf

8/11/2009 - Shovel-Ready Health Care

8/11/2009 - Act On Free Trade

8/11/2009 - Second Chance For Schwarzenegger

8/11/2009 - Americans More Bullish Than Brits When It Comes To Afghan Action

8/10/2009 - What's The Stimulus Have To Do With It?

8/10/2009 - Are We In America Or Amerika?

8/10/2009 - Honduras Has Won

8/10/2009 - Geezers With Pitchforks Vs. The AARP

8/10/2009 - This Minority Will Be Vindicated

8/10/2009 - As In The Case Of Supply-Side Economics, Real Health Reform Happens At Margins

8/7/2009 - Foreign Rule

8/7/2009 - Getting In Their Faces For A Change

8/7/2009 - Stalling On Trade

8/7/2009 - Can Cap-And-Trade Save Planet For Just 'Postage Stamp A Day'?

8/7/2009 - Gov't Care: A Victory For Special Interests

8/7/2009 - Proposed Health Insurance Fine Puts Small Businesses In A Fix

8/6/2009 - Sorry? For What?

8/6/2009 - Will Russia Drill Off Florida's Coast?

8/6/2009 - Flying Miss Nancy

8/6/2009 - Another Bull's-Eye For Missile Defense

8/6/2009 - Health Care Industry Shouldn't Be Taken Without Due Process And Compensation

8/5/2009 - Those 'Town Hells'

8/5/2009 - Revenue Plunge Is Nothing New

8/5/2009 - Rahm's Media Muscle

8/5/2009 - Peak Gov't, Not Oil

8/5/2009 - Tax The Wealth Of Joe Kennedy, Not Income Of Joe The Plumber

8/4/2009 - Unread Lips

8/4/2009 - Death Knell For Nuclear Power?

8/4/2009 - Bust Iran's Bunkers

8/4/2009 - Chavez's Proxy War

8/4/2009 - The Great Irony Of Health Reform: Middle Class, Not Rich, Get Shaft

8/4/2009 - Obama Is Only Digging The Hole Deeper

8/3/2009 - Pelosi's Villainy

8/3/2009 - How House Bill Runs Over Grandma

8/3/2009 - The Audacity Of Hops

8/3/2009 - Dems Don't Care About 'Choices'; They Just Want Gov't In Control

8/3/2009 - Tax Surcharge For Health Care Faces Broad-Based Opposition

July, 2009

7/31/2009 - Blue Dogs Roll Over

7/31/2009 - Hands Off Microsoft-Yahoo, Please

7/31/2009 - Real Lesson Of Cambridge Moment Is Injustice Of Misapplied Empathy

7/31/2009 - Climate Bill's Still-Unanswered Questions

7/31/2009 - Progressives Rail Against Blue Dog Deal, But Is Their Bark Worse Than Their Bite?

7/30/2009 - Relentless Cuts Net 0.0025% In Savings

7/30/2009 - They're Coming For Your Tonsils

7/30/2009 - Visas For Hondurans

7/30/2009 - Dodd Man Out?

7/30/2009 - History Of Gov't-Run Health Care Is A Study In Skyrocketing Costs

7/30/2009 - House Dems Hide Cost Of Health Plan

7/30/2009 - House Health Deal Cuts Costs, Lifting Block On Key Bill

7/29/2009 - A Choice To Regret

7/29/2009 - CBO's Gift to Dems: A Closer Look

7/29/2009 - Pelosi The Mistrusted

7/28/2009 - Reform's Last Gasp

7/28/2009 - Lesson Learned At Last On Iran?

7/28/2009 - A Success In Mexico

7/28/2009 - Reparations By Way Of Health Care Reform

7/28/2009 - Unable To See Wind's Deficiencies For Forests Of Concrete And Steel

7/28/2009 - As Health Vows Don't Hold Up, Dems Scramble To Square Circle

7/27/2009 - Winning Is All

7/27/2009 - Politicians, Heal Thyselves!

7/27/2009 - Ignoring Science

7/27/2009 - From Petrostate To Narcostate

7/27/2009 - Don't Kill Business To Pay For Health Care

7/24/2009 - Specifics, Please

7/24/2009 - Something's Smelly At GM

7/24/2009 - This Is Post-Racial?

7/24/2009 - Billions To Stimulate Criminality

7/24/2009 - Health Reform Puts Innovation At Risk

7/23/2009 - Hillary's Cares

7/23/2009 - Behind The Polls: A Craving For Truth

7/23/2009 - Son Of Card Check

7/23/2009 - States, Look Out!

7/23/2009 - How To Stop This Rush To Failure And Fix What Really Needs Fixing

7/23/2009 - Pull Back Unspent Part Of The Stimulus To Avoid Stagnation Like That In Japan

7/23/2009 - Democrat Factions Block Quick Vote On Health Care Reform

7/23/2009 - Health Mandate Will Kill Jobs, Most Small Businesses Argue

7/22/2009 - Still Not An Option

7/22/2009 - Shooting Down The Raptor

7/22/2009 - Hold The Mayo

7/22/2009 - California's Dreamin'

7/22/2009 - In Health Reform, As Elsewhere, You Will Get What You Pay For

7/22/2009 - You Will Be Able To Purchase Coverage From Private Insurers

7/21/2009 - Deficit Deceit

7/21/2009 - Hillary Shortchanges U.S. On India

7/21/2009 - Tired Of Losers

7/21/2009 - Czar 54, Who Are You?

7/21/2009 - Walter Cronkite Without Tears

7/21/2009 - A Schizophrenic Message On Success

7/20/2009 - Reformers' Claims Just Don't Add Up

7/20/2009 - Terror In Obama's 'Old Hometown'

7/20/2009 - Public Is Confused About Health Care Debate

7/20/2009 - Runaway Train To Less Freedom, Higher Taxes And Rationed Care

7/20/2009 - Dems Push Public Health Plan, But Would They Let One Fail?

7/17/2009 - Tax Hike Comin'

7/17/2009 - Finally Admitting The Obvious

7/17/2009 - Bay State Rationing

7/17/2009 - Capt. Kirk's Enterprise

7/17/2009 - Following Calif. Off A Green Cliff

7/17/2009 - Embryonic Stem Cells 'Obsolete'

7/16/2009 - It's Not An Option

7/16/2009 - Palin Vs. Kerry (And MoveOn.org)

7/16/2009 - A Right That's Wrong

7/16/2009 - Behind Hugo's Harassment Of Honduras

7/16/2009 - Let Customers Control The Money And Market Will Cure Health Care

7/16/2009 - Level The Playing Field For All Americans

7/15/2009 - Unloved Stimulus

7/15/2009 - Sotomayor's Supreme Charade

7/15/2009 - Climate Of Control

7/15/2009 - Welcome Back, Carter

7/15/2009 - President Is Getting Poor Grades On Economy As Optimism Erodes

7/15/2009 - Is Cap-And-Trade Just Political Posturing? If Not, It Could Mean Economic Suicide

7/15/2009 - House Dems' Health Reform Taxes Rich, Creates Public Plan, Employer Penalties

7/14/2009 - Sonia's Senators

7/14/2009 - CBO Lowballs Waxman-Markey Cost

7/14/2009 - Attacking Success

7/14/2009 - Achilles' Heel For Administration? Fewer Feel Safer From Terrorism

7/14/2009 - L.A. Won't Save Jobs Without Fair Play

7/13/2009 - Truth In Lending

7/13/2009 - Congress Needs A Read-The-Bill Bill

7/13/2009 - Bye-Bye Burris

7/13/2009 - Bailing Out Illegals

7/13/2009 - Pre-Eminence Lost: Is Wall St. Still No. 1?

7/13/2009 - Obama's Tax Flip-Flop On Health Benefits

7/13/2009 - Physician-Owned Hospitals Face Strict Limits Under Health Plans

7/10/2009 - Fix Medicare First

7/10/2009 - A Double Agent At The CIA?

7/10/2009 - Blue-State Stimulus?

7/10/2009 - The G-8 Economic Suicide Pact

7/10/2009 - As The Chinese Laugh Nervously, Debt Solution Is Under Our Nose

7/9/2009 - Mixed-Up On Iran

7/9/2009 - U.S. Interests In Honduras Matter

7/9/2009 - The Undercovered

7/9/2009 - Not So Fast With Those Electric Cars

7/9/2009 - Friends Of Sonia, And Financiers Of Democrats, At Bar Association

7/9/2009 - Move Over, Sarah: Washington Quit Too

7/8/2009 - Putin's Patsy?

7/8/2009 - China Riots Signal Democratic Deficit

7/8/2009 - Valueless ABA Ratings

7/8/2009 - Green Jackets, Brown Shirts

7/8/2009 - Tax Fiction Sells In Hollywood

7/8/2009 - Mexican Standoff On Second Amendment

7/8/2009 - Time, Cost Weigh On Dems' Plan To Overhaul Health Care Now

7/7/2009 - Stuttering Stimulus

7/7/2009 - Hugo's Hands Are All Over Honduras

7/7/2009 - The Smart Loser

7/7/2009 - HELP For Whom?

7/7/2009 - Ration Trial Lawyers, Not Services, To Lower The Cost Of Health Care

7/7/2009 - Economy Needs Patent Reform — Now

7/7/2009 - Obama Health Plan: Reform Might Be Heavy On The Mayo

7/6/2009 - Stop The Madness That's Killing Jobs

7/6/2009 - Al Franken — Democrat From Acorn

7/6/2009 - Honduras And Drugs

7/6/2009 - Liberty And Liberation On July 4

7/6/2009 - Everyday Job Growth, Wal-Mart-Style

7/6/2009 - Plan To Slash U.S. Health Costs May Be Tough Pill To Swallow

7/2/2009 - Honduras Defiant

7/2/2009 - Czarred And Feathered

7/2/2009 - Hating Hate Crimes

7/2/2009 - California Digging

7/2/2009 - Demands Are Only Growing Bigger For A Shrinking Base Of Taxpayers

7/1/2009 - Taxes Or Growth?

7/1/2009 - Canada's Single-Prayer Health Care

7/1/2009 - First Class First Lady

7/1/2009 - On Free Trade, White House Must Lead

7/1/2009 - The Price Of Media Malpractice

7/1/2009 - Glut-The-Beast Strategy Lifts VAT Prospects

June, 2009

6/30/2009 - Banana Democrats

6/30/2009 - A Supreme Case Against Sotomayor

6/30/2009 - Madoff's Lessons

6/30/2009 - Only Warming Is On The Left

6/30/2009 - Waxman-Markey Is Our Smoot-Hawley

6/30/2009 - Even Paid-For Health Care Plan Would Entrench Budget Woes

6/29/2009 - Carbongate

6/29/2009 - Heeeere's Barack!

6/29/2009 - Americans Want Health Reform But Not Government-Run Care

6/29/2009 - A Debt The Founders Wouldn't Believe

6/29/2009 - Uninsured Figures Overhype The Lack Of Health Coverage

6/26/2009 - Waxman-Markey: Man-Made Disaster

6/26/2009 - Lower-Cost Health Reform? Yeah, Right

6/26/2009 - Frank's Follies (Cont'd)

6/26/2009 - Biting America's Extended Hand

6/26/2009 - How Unions Define Environmentalism

6/26/2009 - Pelosi And Obama May Lack Support For Cap And Trade

6/25/2009 - Public Menace

6/25/2009 - North Korea Ratchets Up Its Threats

6/25/2009 - Science Fiction

6/25/2009 - America The Shameful?

6/25/2009 - White House War On Science

6/25/2009 - Health Reform Divide Deepens As Price Climbs

6/24/2009 - Union Favors

6/24/2009 - McCain's Right: Board The Kang Nam

6/24/2009 - Hot Dog Diplomacy

6/24/2009 - The Jihad Cash Spigot

6/24/2009 - Not Too Late To Kill 'Cap-And-Tax' Bill

6/24/2009 - Overlooked Health Exchanges Key To Democrat Reform Plans

6/23/2009 - Nuclear Nightmare

6/23/2009 - Regime Change We Can Believe In

6/23/2009 - A Real Jobs Solution

6/23/2009 - Apologizing For Slavery — Again?

6/23/2009 - Saving The Raptor

6/23/2009 - Public Option Is A 'Trojan Horse' For Slow-Motion Socialized Care

6/22/2009 - Why The Rush?

6/22/2009 - ABC Self-Nationalizes For Obama

6/22/2009 - Hawaii Uh-Oh

6/22/2009 - Dead Wait

6/22/2009 - Public Option To Cut Health Costs? Medicare's Record Says Dream On

6/22/2009 - Strike Now At Mullahs' Economic Pillars

6/19/2009 - Wall St. Pushes Back

6/19/2009 - The Smearing Of Gerald Walpin

6/19/2009 - Bush-Whacked

6/19/2009 - Dems May Fall Into VAT To Pay For Health Plan

6/18/2009 - Regulation Nation

6/18/2009 - Global Warming Bill Is A Job-Killer

6/18/2009 - From Bad To Worse

6/18/2009 - Why He Was Booed

6/18/2009 - Congress' Unhealthy Care Plan

6/18/2009 - Dollar BRICbats

6/17/2009 - Truth-Mongering

6/17/2009 - The Phantom Uninsured

6/17/2009 - Waste, Fraud, Abuse

6/17/2009 - Rail: A CO2 Bigfoot

6/17/2009 - The Immorality Of Waxman-Markey: Intense Pain, No Environmental Gain

6/16/2009 - Helping Mahmoud

6/16/2009 - In Defense Of Israel's Right To Exist

6/16/2009 - VP's Guess Services

6/16/2009 - A Fast One On An Ally

6/16/2009 - Shooting The Watchdog

6/16/2009 - The Democrats' Troubled Assets

6/15/2009 - Dead To Rights

6/15/2009 - Pipeline, Not Pipe Dream: Credit Palin

6/15/2009 - No Change In Iran

6/15/2009 - Thumbs-Down On Obama's 'Empathy' Standard

6/12/2009 - Doctors Fight Back

6/12/2009 - Washington Sleeps As Oil Prices Stir

6/12/2009 - Our New Paymasters

6/12/2009 - Palin Vs. Biden

6/12/2009 - Neither Taxing Nor Rationing CO2 Survives Cost Vs. Benefit Analysis

6/12/2009 - Judge Sotomayor's Latina Hiring Wisdom

6/11/2009 - Judicial Error

6/11/2009 - The President's Paygo Schtick

6/11/2009 - Hurried Justice

6/11/2009 - Terrorist On Trial

6/11/2009 - U.S. Bailout Of Tinhorn Dictators Sacrifices Taxpayers On IMF Altar

6/10/2009 - Lies, Damned Lies And 'Saved' Jobs

6/10/2009 - Chavez's War On Free Trade In Peru

6/10/2009 - A Dead Watchdog

6/10/2009 - Veterinary Care

6/10/2009 - A Red (Ink) Letter Day For Gov't: $1,000,000,000,000 In 8 Months

6/10/2009 - Unions As Safe In Colombia As In D.C.

6/9/2009 - Europe's Lesson

6/9/2009 - Spy Case Keeps Cuba In Perspective

6/9/2009 - A Win For Democracy

6/9/2009 - Sotomayor Vs. The Death Penalty

6/8/2009 - Total Tolerance

6/8/2009 - As Stimulus Fails, It's Time For Plan B

6/8/2009 - Hiring Freeze

6/8/2009 - Built To Waste

6/8/2009 - Guantanamo's Repeat Offenders

6/8/2009 - Obama's Plan For A Debt-Ridden Future

6/5/2009 - Cairo Candy

6/5/2009 - Card-Check Threat Alive And Well

6/5/2009 - Tangled Web

6/5/2009 - Sotomayor Guns For The 2nd Amendment

6/5/2009 - Google Deserves To Be Celebrated, Not Persecuted By Trustbusters

6/5/2009 - Identity Politics Are Not 'Progressive'

6/4/2009 - The Fed's Punch

6/4/2009 - Nukes Are OK For Iran, But Not For Us?

6/4/2009 - A System Eroding

6/4/2009 - Obama's Red Chorus

6/4/2009 - Beware Taxes Vs. Spending Compromise

6/4/2009 - 'Friedman' Leaving 'Freedom' Day In Dust

6/3/2009 - War? What War?

6/3/2009 - Geithner Takes His Act On The Road

6/3/2009 - Values And Dangers

6/3/2009 - Health Care Lottery

6/3/2009 - Apocalypse Sun?

6/3/2009 - Remittance Curse

6/2/2009 - A Matter Of Law

6/2/2009 - Target Alaska: Gov. Palin Pushes SDI

6/2/2009 - Thugs Vs. Voters

6/2/2009 - El Insulza Conspiracy

6/1/2009 - Seeing Chukchi

6/1/2009 - Truce Or Consequences For N. Korea

6/1/2009 - Closing Debate

6/1/2009 - What We Owe: $64 Trillion, And Counting

May, 2009

5/29/2009 - Fixing The Fiasco

5/29/2009 - The Vetting We Are Owed

5/29/2009 - A New Enemies List?

5/29/2009 - Big Oil Bites Back

5/29/2009 - Sotomayor: Of Fish And Men

5/28/2009 - VAT Is No Answer

5/28/2009 - Stiffing GM's Creditors Will Backfire

5/28/2009 - Chu's Whitewash

5/28/2009 - Is China As Suicidal As We Are?

5/28/2009 - Talked To Death

5/28/2009 - America's Hidden Trillion-Dollar Tax

5/27/2009 - Iran Grows Bold

5/27/2009 - Oppose 'Empathy,' Defend The Law

5/27/2009 - Where's The Crisis?

5/27/2009 - The Six-Party's Over

5/26/2009 - The Next Oil Shock

5/26/2009 - Live Better, Don't Work Union

5/26/2009 - Crazy Against Trade

5/26/2009 - The Republic Of Hezbollah

5/26/2009 - From Teflon To Tarzan, The '30s Proved Capitalism Never Sleeps

5/22/2009 - A War Defended

5/22/2009 - Terrorists Among Us

5/22/2009 - 'Cleaning Up... A Mess'

5/22/2009 - VP Cheney Fires From Other Side Of 'Divide'

5/22/2009 - A Time For Choosing Again?

5/21/2009 - California Clarity

5/21/2009 - Whistling Past Armageddon

5/21/2009 - Paper Tyrants

5/21/2009 - Gitmo NIMBY

5/21/2009 - An Agenda For California's Fiscal Reform

5/20/2009 - Emission Control

5/20/2009 - The Limits Of Mideast Diplomacy

5/20/2009 - What Cuba Embargo?

5/20/2009 - Stifling Health Choice

5/20/2009 - Massive Expansion Of U.S. Gov't Gives Socialism A Shot In The Arm

5/20/2009 - GOP's Steele Tells Party To Look Forward, Not Backward


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