Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend.
More Washington
“As my colleague Rich Lowry put it after the Massachusetts vote, the public thinks Obama doesn’t get it, and Obama thinks the public doesn’t get it. And as he’s got the microphone, he’s gonna keep talking at you until you do get it. The ever tinnier, more perfunctory sophomoric uplift at the start and finish can’t conceal the hope-killing, jobs-slaying, soul-sapping message in between, which is perfectly consistent, and has been for two years. As President Obama sees it, whatever the problem — from health care to education, banking to the environment — the solution is more Washington."
Let’s be Clear: It Was a Boring Speech
“Obama could have announced a plan to rein in these entitlements. That would have been a mission worthy of his boilerplate. Instead, he meandered for more than 70 minutes, ending up with a speech that seemed to be mostly about himself.”
Democrats’ Political Suicide Pact
“I'll leave the in-depth analysis to others, but here's the recap: Obama was Charlie Gibson and America was Sarah Palin. He looked down his nose, through the teleprompter, at the American people and in the most ‘me-centric’ way imaginable, said: ‘Electric trains are wicked-cool. America sucks. Capitlaism sucks. The Supreme Court sucks. It's Bush's fault. Oh, yea – the jobs thing. I'll start my spending-freeze diet tomorrow. Give Perez Hilton a machine gun. Bama knows best. I'll never quit. It's Bush's fault. Hopey-changey. Peace-out’."
The Second American Tax Revolt
“As my father, Ronald Reagan, once said, 'Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive, it reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American... it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled' I agree and that’s why I am enthusiastically now helping FairTax.org with pending legislation to replace the income tax entirely with a fair, progressive and honest national consumption tax aptly called the FairTax.”
Scott Brown: “People aren’t Stupid”
"People out there are disgusted," he says, shaking his head. "Especially with any one party dominating government and talking down to them. They want straight talk, no BS. A focus on jobs and what really creates them. They want problem solvers in office, and it helped me that I was able to show I could work with Democrats in the legislature."
The handling of the Christmas Day bombing suspect: the scandal grows
"The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane -- that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration -- but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came under the full control of the U.S. government."
This Nobel Nominee Actually Saves Babies
"When President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, that meant there were 205 nominees for the award who didn't. One of them was Jim Garrow of the Bethune Institute.
Let history decide who was most deserving. Obama was elected president on a platform of hope and change. Jim Garrow has spent $23 million over the past 10 years rescuing an estimated 31,000 Chinese baby girls from near-certain death under China's one-child-per-couple policy."
Tim Tebow Takes a Stand
"Isn’t it a little strange to see people who present themselves as 'pro-choice' get so upset when someone suggests their choice was to keep the baby? They can’t seem to make any mental allowance for people to promote making a pro-life choice in a permissive society."

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