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Cheney for President

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By James Taranto - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - As the Obama administration moves toward prosecuting intelligence agents for allegedly overzealous questioning of terrorism in the months following the 9/11 attacks, the Washington Post delivers a timely reminder of why those methods were thought necessary.

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The Truth About Health Insurance

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Aug. 12 (Opinion) - Only nine states have the costly rules that Obama wants to impose nationwide.

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Pakistan's Existential Challenge

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Bret Stephens - May. 12 (Opinion) - About Iran, Henry Kissinger once asked whether the Islamic Republic was a country or a cause. About Pakistan, the question is whether it's a country or merely a space.

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Obama's Gitmo

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By William McGurn - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - You know we live in interesting times when Helen Thomas is going after Barack Obama. Miss Thomas was asking the White House press secretary last week why detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan should not have the same right to challenge their detention in federal court that last year's Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush gave to Guantanamo's detainees. All Mr. Gibbs could do was interrupt and correct the doyenne of the White House press corps about Mr. Obama's class as a law professor.

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Want to Pay Less in Taxes Next Year? Secession Could Lower Your Tax Bill.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Brett Arends - Apr. 17 (Opinion) - Most people like a tax break. So three cheers for Texas governor Rick Perry, who on Tax Day highlighted a radical way to cut your federal tax bill. Secession.

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Wall Street Mocked American Values

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Thomas Frank - Feb. 11 (Opinion) - The announcement last week that Trader Monthly magazine was ceasing publication was one of those moments when a chance arrow of history scores a perfect bull's eye on a deserving target. The current recession, brought on at least in part by Wall Street's bonus lust, has claimed countless innocent victims. But in this case it has finally delivered a comeuppance to our era's loudest, gaudiest, cockiest champion of Wall Street excess. Those who still single out former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain as a symbol of extravagance should take note. Yes, the man once spent over a million dollars having his office remodeled and went on to arrange questionable bonuses for the year in which Merrill lost billions and sold itself to Bank of America. Just a few years ago, however, the bonus cognoscenti at Trader Monthly depicted Mr. Thain as something of a piker. In an article that began with the sentence, "What, did somebody forget a zero?" they sneered at Mr. Thain's "reported compensation," which they claimed was $6 million for 2006, back when he was CEO of the New York Stock Exchange.

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Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Thomas Frank - Jan. 28 (Opinion) - Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

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We Need a Global Carbon Tax

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Ralph Nader, Toby Heaps - Dec. 03 (Opinion) - If President Barack Obama wants to stop the descent toward dangerous global climate change, and avoid the trade anarchy that current approaches to this problem will invite, he should take Al Gore's proposal for a carbon tax and make it global.

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Russia Out of Rehab

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Nov. 18 (Editorial) - Russia needed only a few days this August to drive Georgia's army into retreat. In the aftermath, Europe has held out only a bit longer than Tbilisi's troops.

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Obama's Car Puzzle

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. - Nov. 12 (Opinion) - You have in GM's Volt a perfect car of the Age of Obama -- or at least the Honeymoon of Obama, before the reality principle kicks in. Even as GM teeters toward bankruptcy and wheedles for billions in public aid, its forthcoming plug-in hybrid continues to absorb a big chunk of the company's product development budget. This is a car that, by GM's own admission, won't make money. It's a car that can't possibly provide a buyer with value commensurate with the resources and labor needed to build it. It's a car that will be unsalable without multiple handouts from government.

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The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - Nov. 05 (Editorial) - The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

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We Could Be In for a Lurch to the Left

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Fred Barnes - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - A sharp lurch to the left and enactment of a liberal agenda, or major parts of it, are all but inevitable. The centrist limits in earlier eras of Democratic control are gone.

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Don't Let the Polls Affect Your Vote

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Karl Rove - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - Polls can reveal underlying or emerging trends and help campaigns decide where to focus. The danger is that commentators use them to declare a race over before the votes are in. This can demoralize the underdog's supporters, depressing turnout. I know that from experience.

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The Election Choice: Trade

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Mary Anastasia O'Grady - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - The U.S. hasn't elected a genuinely protectionist president since Herbert Hoover, and for most of the last 80 years a rough bipartisan consensus has held that free trade is in the American national interest. The erosion of that consensus is reflected in the gulf between John McCain and Barack Obama on trade, which is probably the widest division at the presidential level since the 1920s.

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Gore's Rebellion

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration." He added, "clean coal does not exist."

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McCain's Scapegoat

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Sep. 19 (Editorial) - John McCain has made it clear this week he doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does. But on Thursday, he took his populist riffing up a notch and found his scapegoat for financial panic -- Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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The GOP Loves the Heartland To Death

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Thomas Frank - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - Leave the fantasy land of convention rhetoric, and you will find that small-town America, this legendary place of honesty and sincerity and dignity, is not doing very well. If you drive west from Kansas City, Mo., you will find towns where Main Street is largely boarded up. You will see closed schools and hospitals. You will hear about depleted groundwater and massive depopulation.

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How to Save Detroit And $50 Billion

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - CAFE has to be the most perverse exercise in product regulation in industrial history. It confronted the Big Three with the choice only of whether to lose a lot of money, by matching Toyota and Honda on quality and features; or somewhat less money, by scrimping on quality and features and discounting, discounting, discounting. Rationally, they scrimped -- and still live under a reputational cloud in the eyes of sedan buyers. Yet notice that their profitable product lines, in which they invest to be truly competitive -- such as SUVs, pickups and minivans -- hold their own against the Japanese and command real loyalty among U.S. consumers.

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We'll Protect Taxpayers From More Bailouts

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By John Mccain, Sarah Palin - Sep. 09 (Opinion) - We promise the American people that our administration will be different. We have long records of standing up to special interests and providing the leadership to change government and make it more accountable to the American taxpayer. In our administration, every agency and department will undergo rigorous oversight and review. We will require the highest standards of accounting, reporting and transparency ever demanded in government.

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Latin America Wants Free Trade

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Mary Anastasia O'grady - Sep. 08 (Opinion) - For Latin America, this is the single most important policy issue in the campaign. If Republican candidate John McCain wins, he says he will lead the Western Hemisphere toward freer trade. Conversely, Democratic candidate Barack Obama has promised that he will craft a U.S. trade policy of greater protectionism against our Latin neighbors. The former agenda will advance regional economic integration, the latter will further Latin American isolation.

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Reporting in Beijing

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Aug. 22 (Editorial) - Most at risk, though, are the Chinese who cooperate with reporters. As in Ms. Hook's article, these are often ordinary people like the Wang sisters who dare to come forward with charges of official corruption. The sisters have been under 24-hour surveillance since July 20, and as Ms. Hook interviewed them in a public space, several men who appeared to be plainclothes police walked by.

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For Obama, Taxes Are About Fairness

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By William Mcgurn - Aug. 19 (Opinion) - it doesn't really matter whether a tax increase actually brings in more revenue. It's not about robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Robbing from the rich will do, especially if it's done in the name of fairness.

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Olympics, Inc.

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Joseph Sternberg - Aug. 04 (Opinion) - Fortunately, there's a better solution than merely bemoaning the IOC's lack of willpower: Treat the committee as the business it is, tax it, and let it get on with the very big business of running a major global sporting event. Like the IOC, many Western companies play ball to varying degrees with the Chinese government as the cost of doing business there. Cisco found itself in the spotlight for selling Beijing hardware that can be used to filter the Internet. Yahoo has come under fire for handing over identifying information on account holders Beijing was investigating for political crimes.

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Israel, Iran and the Bomb

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By John R. Bolton - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - Iran's test salvo of ballistic missiles last week together with recent threatening rhetoric by commanders of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards emphasizes how close the Middle East is to a fundamental, in fact an irreversible, turning point.

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Let McCain Be McCain

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Peggy Noonan - Jun. 27 (Opinion) - The most interesting thing about Mr. McCain has always been the delight he takes in a certain unblinkered candor. There is also the antic part of his nature, his natural wit, his tropism toward comedy. All this was captured wonderfully by Mark Leibovich last February in the New York Times. Mr. McCain had taken the lead in the primaries and had gone from being "one of the most disruptive forces in his party" to someone playing it safe. In an airplane interview he said things like, "There is a process in place that will formalize the methodology." Then he couldn't help it, he became McCain:

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