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The Real Contraception Question Editorial of The New York Sun The best piece we’ve read in respect of the showdown over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate is in the latest number of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. The sage who puts it out, James Grant, might catapult into his corn flakes upon… Editorial of The New York Sun America is in danger “of becoming something of a legal backwater,” a justice of the High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby, is quoted this week as telling the New York Times. His comment is in a scoop that runs under the headline “‘We the People’… Editorial of The New York Sun That’s an incredible video of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg circulating on the World Wide Web. There is a sitting associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, speaking on Al-Hayat TV in an Egypt that is about to begin writing the foundational law for its attempt at democracy, saying “I would not look to the U.S. constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” Instead she suggests she might look at the constitution of South Africa. Editorial of The New York Sun The feature that stands out for us in the controversy over Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the role of Mayor Bloomberg. When Komen, the largest breast cancer charity, disclosed that it intended to approve no new grants to Planned Parenthood, Mr… Editorial of The New York Sun History is filled with examples of law enforcement and intelligence officials overreaching during moments of perceived national security crisis. In the 1970s, the Church Committe investigated both the F.B.I. and C.I.A. for spying on the political… Editorial of The New York Sun That is some post Sarah Palin put up on her Facebook page in advance of the Republican primary Tuesday at Florida. She is accusing the GOP establishment of employing the “tactics of the Left.” She means that faction within the party that “fought… Editorial of The New York Sun Editorial of The New York Sun Governor Romney’s exchange with Lawrence Kudlow in which the governor resisted talk of a gold standard is an important moment in this campaign. It was aired on CNBC yeserday. It reminds us of an exchange we had some years ago with Milton Friedman. At… Editorial of The New York Sun An Elizabeth Warren fund-raising email has reached us outlining the pact she has struck with Scott Brown, her opponent in the senatorial race at Massachusetts. The deal is, she says, “aimed at keeping advertising by Wall Street, Karl Rove, and other… Editorial of The New York Sun The shrewdest question of at Tampa last night will, we predict, prove to be when Brian Williams turned to Congressman Ron Paul and asked him point blank: “Would you support a Newt Gingrich as nominee of the GOP?” The libertarian from Texas didn’t miss… Editorial of The New York Sun One of the best moments in the debate at Tampa came after a break, when Brian Williams of NBC turned to Senator Santorum and said he wanted to get him in on the question of Iran. “Specifically, as a last resort, as you said, taking out Iran's nuclear… Editorial of The New York Sun Newt Gingrich is on his game, to judge not only by his victory in South Carolina but the remarkable speech he delivered when the vote was in. It seemed as if he’d waited for months to get the whole country’s attention, and when he had it last night he… Editorial of The New York Sun The announcement by Newt Gingrich that he intends to appoint Lewis Lehrman and James Grant to co-chair a new Commission on Gold will serve as a signal that he has determined, if given the chance, to undertake monetary reform in a serious way. The… Editorial of The New York Sun “The U.S. government did two dramatic things after World War II. They created a GI Bill which enabled literally millions of returning veterans to go to college for the very first time. My father, when — who was in the Second World War, went to college… Editorial of The New York Sun The call by Newt Gingrich for the creation of a commission on gold to examine how America can return to a system of hard money is a step forward for him and the Republican Party as we go into the most formative months of the campaign. The former… Editorial of The New York Sun Today is Religious Freedom Day, proclaimed by President Obama as it was by many presidents before him. The date is chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the passage, on January 16, 1786, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, which was… Editorial of The New York Sun In respect of the latest publication of the transcripts of the Federal Reserve, let us just say that we’re against it. The transcripts were disclosed the other day, five years after they were made. This seems to be the tradition at the Fed. It’s a… Editorial of The New York Sun The latest figure to come out for a restoration of a role for gold in the international monetary system turns out to be none other than Mahathir Mohamad. He is the former prime minister of Malaysia who, after 22 years in office, bowed out with a… Editorial of The New York Sun The 10th anniversary of the Guantanamo detention center is being celebrated at the New York Times with an article suggesting that we could improve the human rights situation in respect of Guantanamo by giving it — wait for it — to the remnant… Editorial of The New York Sun For a measure of how the impact of Congressman Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty is starting to be felt even at Europe, feature the op ed page of today’s Financial Times. Its leading piece is by one of the London daily’s star columnists, Gideon Rachman… Editorial of The New York Sun One of the remarkable things about the Republican debate last night is that, in the year 2012 in a debate about the future of the country, the questions turned to Estelle Griswold. She was the executive director of Planned Parenthood at Connecticut… Editorial of The New York Sun It’s hard to say how far Senator Santorum will be able to take his campaign, but we hope it’s far enough that he’ll be able to make a stop here in New York and deliver a major speech in respect of abortion. New York City has emerged as the abortion… Editorial of The New York Sun Forgive us, but are we the only newspaper that finds it a bit — what’s the right word here? — circular for the Fed to make a megillah out of publishing its forecasts in respect of interest rates? The idea seems to be that the Fed is going to publish… Editorial of The New York Sun President Obama’s decision to use a recess appointment to put through the nominee he wanted for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sets up one of those constitutional moments we’ve been writing about in these columns for the past couple of years… Editorial of The New York Sun On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Congressman Ron Paul is being pressed about his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The question was put to him over the weekend by Candy Crowley of the Cable News Network. What Ms. Crowley asked the… Editorial of The New York Sun New Yorkers looking for a symbol of Michael Bloomberg’s failing mayoralty could choose as their hero (or martyr, as it were) the proprietor of an Italian eatery at Staten Island, Charles Hermansen. According to a dispatch in the New York Post, Mr… Editorial of The New York Sun We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. Editorial of The New York Sun One of the most moving moments we experienced in recent years was a visit to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum at Berlin. Its main exhibit is devoted to documenting the attempts to escape Soviet communism in East Germany, and all of it is affecting. But… Editorial of The New York Sun Congratulations are in order for Britain, which has vetoed the latest scheme to try to paper over Europe’s problems and declared its intention to stand apart. It seems that Prime Minister Cameron is steering for the course illuminated by Prime… Editorial of The New York Sun One of our favorite moments in a long newspaper life came in a conversation about the fall of the Soviet Union. We had put a question to the president of the AFL-CIO, Lane Kirkland, along the following lines. “Lane,” we said. “what about all the talk… Editorial of The New York Sun A bit of excitement is being caused by the promise of the former speaker, Newt Gingrich, that if he is elected president he will nominate Ambassador John Bolton to be state secretary. It is said to be giving reassurance to conservatives that Mr… Editorial of The New York Sun We understand the Republican nominee is being set down as ‘Crazy’ Carl by, among others, the same newspapers who, while saying they were for tax cuts and reform in Albany, endorsed Eliot Spitzer. It doesn’t take a double-blind study to see that Mr… Editorial of The New York Sun For a glimpse of the savvy that is propelling Newt Gingrich to the front of the Republican pack, feature the speed with which he called for the resignation of President Obama’s ambassador to Belgium. The envoy, one Howard Gutman, told a conference… Editorial of The New York Sun As the markets settle down after the big move by the central banks to stabilize the situation in respect of Europe, we find ourselves thinking of the speech the Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke gave at the National Press Club on November 21, 2002,* when… Editorial of The New York Sun The vote in the Senate yesterday to defy President Obama’s threat to veto legislation that would give the military the first chance to interrogate operatives of al Qaeda, even those who are American citizens captured here at home, sets up a situation… Value of Holiday Retail Sales Plunges Editorial of The New York Sun Amid all the reports of record-breaking retail sales over Thanksgiving, the fact is that the value of what consumers laid out has plunged, yet again. This extends a trend that has been broken but once since the National Retail Federation began issuing… Editorial of The New York Sun What does the future hold for New York’s police commissioner, Raymond Kelly? On the one hand, the local papers suggest that he’s been in a rough patch, with the arrest of some officers for gun running and some others for fixing parking tickets. Some… Editorial of The New York Sun “As we stand at the close of one year and look to the promise of the next, we lift up our hearts in gratitude to God for our many blessings, for one another, and for our Nation,” is how President Obama spoke of Thanksgiving this year. It is a reminder… Editorial of The New York Sun One of our favorite stories is told about an adulterous woman who stayed too long with her paramour across the river and missed the last ferry home. She beseeches the ferryman to row her across. He refuses because it is getting dark. She returns to… Editorial of The New York Sun One declaration during the Republican debate on foreign policy that caught our ear was Governor Perry’s call for a 21st Century version of the Monroe Doctrine. He’d been asked about the Mexican border. “I think it’s time for a 21st century Monroe… Editorial of The New York Sun It would be a shame were this election season to go by without at least one newspaper commenting on Congressman Ron Paul’s vow that were he elected president the person he’d nominate to be chairman of the Federal Reserve is James Grant. This happened… Editorial of The New York Sun A controversy has erupted over the fact that in the CBS debate on foreign policy Congressman Ron Paul got only 90 seconds. The congressman’s campaign chairman, Jesse Benton, was quoted by the Hill newspaper in Washington as accusing CBS News of… Editorial of The New York Sun Please stay on this. I am — I am willing — our — our cases say repeatedly that the President is the sole instrument of the United States for the conduct of foreign policy, but to be the sole instrument and to determine the foreign policy are two quite different things. To say . . . Editorial of The New York Sun If Herman Cain is holding his ground in the polls despite the sexual harassment charges against him — as some soundings suggest — our guess is that it has to do with the spirit of the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This is the… Editorial of The New York Sun Our story of the week concerns neither the Group of 20 meeting at Cannes, nor the Greek drama unfolding at Athens, nor the anonymous charges of sexual harassment against Herman Cain, nor even the prospect of a return to prison by Miss Lohan. Rather it… Editorial of The New York Sun Many of us will be watching the Supreme Court of the United States Monday, when the justices are scheduled to hear one of those only-in-America cases, where a child is challenging one of the most powerful of the government’s secretaries. Rick Richman… Editorial of The New York Sun The decision of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization to approve full membership for Palestine provides America an opportunity not only to halt its funding of the organization but to withdraw entirely — and permanently… Editorial of The New York Sun It’s fun to imagine how History, with his or her penchant for tricks, must be relishing the announcement at Perth, Australia, where the Commonwealth nations have agreed to cast aside primogeniture and put women on equal status with men in respect of… Editorial of The New York Sun One of our favorite moments in the political debate in the past two generations came between the election day on which Ronald Reagan emerged as the the 40th American president-elect and the time he was sworn in. It was in that interregnum that his… Editorial of The New York Sun Even for hard-bitten newspapermen in New York the slaying over the weekend of Zurana Horton is one to remember. The mother of 12 children was killed while trying to shield her 11-year old daughter, Alexis, from gunfire in the gang-ridden Brownsville… Editorial of The New York Sun In the wake of the death of Colonel Gadhafi, the United Nations is being asked to apologize for “legitimizing” the Libyan tyrant with key posts. United Nations Watch, a particularly vigilant observer of the world body, is calling on the Secretary… Editorial of The New York Sun “Those who are leaning on America to end Libya’s pariah status seem to have forgotten one of the most important ideas that came out of Mr. Bush’s speech before the National Endowment for Democracy last month. ‘As long as the Middle East remains a… Editorial of The New York Sun The thought occurred to us after watching the GOP debate at Nevada that it would be fun at least to imagine a Perry-Ros-Lehtinen ticket. It turns out that Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen isn’t eligible to accede to the vice presidency, as she was… Editorial of The New York Sun One of the features of the Republican debate at Nevada is that it crystallized the most disappointing feature of the GOP campaign so far — an almost total default on the subject of immigration. It is hard to think of a more dispiriting performance… Editorial of The New York Sun ‘The agreement the United States made with Iran for return of the hostages has the same moral standing as an agreement made with a kidnapper, that is to say none at all. This is not said in criticism of the Carter administration, which made the deal… Editorial of The New York Sun It looks like the efforts to reform U.S. funding of the United Nations are turning into a significant showdown between two of the most powerful women in Washington — President Obama's state secretary, Hillary Clinton, and the chairwoman of the House… Editorial of The New York Sun It’s encouraging to see the Republicans put forth a jobs bill, but — confound it — the measure as outlined by Senators Portman, DeMint, Paul, Jordan, and McCain is missing an essential element. This is sound money, the lack of which is emerging as a… How Ron Paul Won the Debate — Again He Warned Against Simply ‘Tinkering’ Editorial of The New York Sun Congressman Ron Paul won the Republican debate last night, and not for the first time, by holding his fire and saying almost nothing until, almost in unison, the whole group of candidates and questioners turned to him, and cheerfully so, for wisdom… Editorial of The New York Sun The next event to watch in respect of the Palestinian Arabs will come on Thursday at Washington, where what the Financial Times calls “lawmakers from across the political spectrum” will make what the London daily deems “a new push to cut off American… Amanda Knox Is Acquitted of a Murder in Italy Editorial of The New York Sun The acquittal of Amanda Knox of the murder she was convicted of two years ago brings to an astonishing and moving end a case that has gripped the public the world over and offers much on which Americans can reflect. Miss Knox was acquitted on appeal… Editorial of The New York Sun Herman Cain and Speaker Gingrich did the right thing by demurring during the weekend television interviews to questions in respect of whether Governor Romney is a Christian. But it is maddening to see how they parried the queries. Their comments came… Editorial of The New York Sun ‘ . . .given our economy’s desperate need for more jobs, a weaker dollar is very much in our national interest — and we can and should take action against countries that are keeping their currencies undervalued, and thereby standing in the way of a… Editorial of The New York Sun In respect of the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, this newspaper is with our friends at the Wall Street Journal, who issued over the weekend a particularly well-put editorial saying that the administration deserves our congratulations and our thanks. Our… Editorial of The New York Sun The next drama at the United Nations is going to involve a clash between two women. One is the American permanent representative at the world body, Ambassador Susan Rice, who is known around Turtle Bay as the ambassador of the United Nations to the… Editorial of The New York Sun If Americans had to choose from the current Republican field, the lastest Harris polling shows that Mr. Obama would beat them all save for two — Governor Romney and Congressman Paul. The polling news was brought in Tuesday by Harris, whose most recent… Editorial of The New York Sun Jews of a certain age grew up with stories of how their parents crowded around a radio waiting for word from Lake Success. That is the village on Long Island where, on November 29, 1947, the 2nd General Assembly of the United Nations was meeting to… Mrs. Bachmann and the Baptists Editorial of The New York Sun Moments after the Wall Street Journal issued earlier this week an op-ed piece by the editor of the Sun calling for a debate on the Constitution, one of our favorite readers sent an email asking whether we felt any of the candidates had read the… Editorial of The New York Sun It’s easy enough to look at Governors Perry and Romney, on the one hand, and President Obama, on the other hand, and reckon which one is better on Israel. We say that even though these columns have stood apart from those who are prepared to assert… Editorial of The New York Sun After watching Congressman Ron Paul get booed at Tampa, we were struck with the thought that it could be, in effect, his last address. The congressman from Texas had been winning his share of the Republican debates by focusing on limited government… Editorial of The New York Sun Senator McCain’s assertion on Fox News over the weekend that Americans won’t go to war again in the Middle East couldn’t be more short-sighted or poorly timed. The senator was trying to defend the American expeditions in Iraq and Afghanistan in… Editorial of The New York Sun The question after the latest Republican presidential debate is why Ron Paul keeps winning them. MSNBC has been widening the margin by which its own survey is showing that the congressman from Texas did the best job; it’s now up to 57%. One can… Editorial of The New York Sun We do not believe God is punishing Mayor Bloomberg for the hubris of twisting the law to seek a third term, but if the cataract of bad news that has befallen Hizzoner were the work of God, it would be just like Her. Certainly there is some sort of… Editorial of The New York Sun No sooner had we issued our editorial “Jimmy Hoffa’s War” than a wire came in from one of Sarah Palin’s most assiduous supporters, Benyamin Korn, with a copy of her Labor Day posting on Facebook. Our editorial had wondered where the original Jimmy… Editorial of The New York Sun One of the questions that tugged at us on Labor Day is what would have been made of America’s current crisis by Jimmy Hoffa. We’re not speaking of the incumbent president of the Teamsters, James P. Hoffa, who, over the weekend at a labor rally at… Editorial of The New York Sun As President Obama gets set to deliver his big speech in respect of jobs, we found ourselves wondering what kind of answer might be given from the Republican side in respect of money. Could it be that someone will turn to 44 Federalist? This is the… Editorial of The New York Sun Now that we are at Labor Day — meaning the start of the year of presidential campaigning — let us review the five big errors that made the Great Depression. These were spelled out three years ago in a column by our Amity Shlaes. It was issued in the… Editorial of The New York Sun As President Obama was getting set to address the Congress in respect of jobs, our attention was on James Grant. We’re adding the editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer to our list of sages who can articulate the case for monetary reform in the… Editorial of The New York Sun All eyes will, come Labor Day, be on New Hampshire, where Sarah Palin is reportedly going to be making an appearance at which many are hoping she will declare for president. We don’t mind saying that we share those hopes. We’ve heard all the arguments… Editorial of The New York Sun The betting at the United Nations, our Benny Avni tells us, is that the revolution in respect of the world body the being plotted by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will never come to pass. Her scheme is, according to a dispatch at Politico, is to… Editorial of The New York Sun It used to be thought that under our constitutional order it was the Congress that was supposed to be supplying the oversight of the Federal Reserve. Congress, after all, created the Fed. But Chairman Bernanke used his remarks at the annual retreat at… Editorial of The New York Sun A lot of New Yorkers did a terrific job during the inclement weather that hit the city over the weekend, but the ones we particularly admire are those who braved the winds of the nanny state. We’re thinking of people like Daniel O’Sullivan, 53, a… Editorial of The New York Sun On the eve of the 10th anniversary of September 11, the Associated Press is issuing an expose suggesting that the New York Police Department has been overly aggressive in pursuing our enemies in the current war. The gist of the story seems to be that… Editorial of The New York Sun “. . . as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China. You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family. The result being that you’re… Turner, Niehaus Endorsed by the Sun Editorial of The New York Sun The special elections on September 13 include two in which there is a possibility of bringing in Republicans to fill seats taken for granted by Democrats. One of them, to fill the seat vacated by Congressman Anthony Weiner, features a Republican, in… Editorial of The New York Sun Our editorial yesterday in respect of Charles De Gaulle raised the question of whether someone could be found today who could talk about the monetary crisis with the sense and gravitas the leader of Free France brought to the monetary crisis that came… Editorial of The New York Sun Governor Perry’s remarks on Chairman Bernanke’s debasement of the dollar were greeted with widespread complaints owing to the governor’s raucous tone. So how could he have better made his case? For an example, we commend none other than Charles De… Editorial of The New York Sun A “dog whistle” to the supporters of Congressman Ron Paul is how Governor Perry’s remark about Ben Bernanke was characterized by the political sage John Fund. The Texas governor on Tuesday had suggested that the chairman of the Federal Reserve would… Editorial of The New York Sun It is going to be illuminating to see how the candidates for president pick up, if any do, on the fact that this week is the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s closing of the gold window. That default, announced on August 15, 1971, signaled the end… Editorial of The New York Sun It’s hard to escape the feeling that the vast global sell-off in the markets is related to a sense that something is wrong with the Budget Control Act of 2011. Certainly the more one gets into the act the more glaring is the fact that it has less to… Editorial of The New York Sun Just when one wonders what sort of teaching moment is available for Israel and, for that matter, for those betting on the so-called Arab awakening comes news that Israel plans to raise the Altalena. That is the hulk of a World War II-era transport… Editorial of The New York Sun With all the warnings that America is now at the start of a second dip in the great recession, one might have missed the decision of the Obama administration in respect of birth control. The Associated press is reporting that the administration not… Editorial of The New York Sun With all the talk about how the American democracy is cynical and broken, what is the world going to make of the events on the floor of the House of Representatives this evening, when, in the midst of the passage of the breakthrough on the debt… Editorial of The New York Sun Rupert Murdoch was no doubt telling the truth when he testified before Parliament that the hearing into the so-called hacking scandal was the humblest day of his life. He certainly towered over the room, even when — after a protester the… Editorial of The New York Sun The latest person to make light of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s beliefs is one of our favorite columnists, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Bloomberg View. He focuses, on the one hand, on her opposition to same-gender marriage and, on the other hand, on… Editorial of The New York Sun The first — and, the New York Times reports, “probably only” — public hearing on the pay of the judges of New York State will be held Wednesday at Albany. The hearing will be held by a new commission that the legislature set up to decide on whether… Editorial of The New York Sun The thing to think about amid the escalating legal attacks on the Murdoch empire is what precedents are being set in respect of infractions of the law that may have been committed by other newspaper companies. We do not suggest that the precedents are… Editorial of The New York Sun Four years ago it was conservatives who were up in arms over the views of the clergyman who led the congregation where a rising senator named Barack Obama had worshipped for years. At the time, these columns declined to join the fray over the Reverend… Editorial of The New York Sun Just before we get into the burgeoning scandal of the presidential coins, let us review the facts in respect Bernard von NotHaus. He is the man who is facing the possibility of years in prison after being convicted in Federal Court in March of the… Editorial of The New York Sun When we last looked in on the Roger Clemens case, the ex-hurler of the Yankees was being railroaded by Congressman Henry Waxman. The year was 2008. The great pitcher was before a hearing that was so pointed against one individual that we suggested… Why Warnings About Default Fail To Frighten Editorial of The New York Sun To those of us of a certain age and experience, there is a famous retort to threats. It is: “What’re they going to do, send me to Vietnam?” It was generally uttered by GIs, who, while humping the boondocks in Southeast Asia, were threatened by some… The Fed Chairman, Ron Paul Clash Over the Dollar Editorial of The New York Sun If one wanted to edit our summer of quarrels down to one exchange that encapsulates our national misunderstanding, we would commend that which took place today between the chairman of the Federal Reserve governors, Ben Bernanke, and the chairman of… Editorial of The New York Sun Shortly after President Obama acceded to office the editor of the Sun began arguing that America was entering a “constitutional moment.” It would arise, as he put it in an interview in the Wall Street Journal, because “we’re at a moment where we’re… Editorial of The New York Sun The suicide of the News of the World — it announced it will deal with the phone hacking scandal by shutting itself down — strikes us as a tragedy. Far be it from us to lecture Rupert Murdoch on how to run his empire; he is a much greater newspaperman… Editorial of The New York Sun If the rape charges are dropped against Dominique Strauss-Kahn and he returns to France and gets himself elected president of the Fifth Republic, here’s a job for him — repairing the extradition treaty that obtains between America and France. The… How the Rising Republican Could Could Confront Her Detractors on the Founders and Slavery Editorial of The New York Sun Michele Bachmann is being ridiculed for her suggestion earlier this year that the founding fathers of America had worked tirelessly to end slavery. “Now with respect, congressman,” George Stephanopoulos, one of the journalists who pressed her on this… Editorial of The New York Sun The first we’d read of Mara Hvistendahl’s book “Unnatural Selection” — about the consequences, in an age of ultra sound and abortion, of choosing boys over girls — was in a powerful review the other day in the Wall Street Journal. It was written by… Editorial of The New York Sun Here’s a hypothetical situation. Suppose you had $1.5 million. At today’s gold price that would buy approximately 1,000 ounces of gold. Suppose now that President Obama, the Congress, and the Federal Reserve began managing the American economy in such… Editorial of The New York Sun The link on the Drudge Report to the Financial Times’ headline on the dollar losing global reserve status is as good a time as any to remark on what may be the most important development of the past several weeks in respect of money — namely the… Editorial of The New York Sun The liberals are in a lather over the latest ruling of the Supreme Court in respect of campaign financing. It came in a case called Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, in which the court struck down a law that required Arizona to as much as triple the… Editorial of The New York Sun The decision of the Dodgers to file for bankruptcy protection marks as good a moment as any to surface what is known around The New York Sun as the Marchman Plan — namely for Major League Baseball to take over the team and bring it home to Brooklyn… ‘Might and Muscle’ and Marriage Editorial of The New York Sun This morning as Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, and their allies celebrate their victory in winning the legalization of same-gender marriage in New York, our own thoughts are with the losers — that is, with the religious communities in the city and… ‘A Cowardly Way To Conduct the Public’s Business’ Editorial of The New York Sun The battle over same-gender marriage has brought to light at least one area of agreement between two unlikely parties — namely the New York Times and The New York Sun. The hang-up in Albany concerns how much protection, if any, the law would give to… Editorial of The New York Sun The warning by the Speaker, John Boehner, that the Congress might move under the War Powers Act to cut off funding for military operations at Libya strikes us as a mistake, no matter which way one looks at it. If President Obama is correct, and… Editorial of The New York Sun If there’s one point your editor has pressed to reporters over the years it is that the gold coin of news gathering is the document. Try to get — never steal, but seek the legal provision of or legal access to — the document. It could be a first… Editorial of The New York Sun The best part of Governor Pawlenty’s speech framing his economic platform this week will, we predict, prove to be his call for a strong dollar. There has been a good deal of admiration, all of it apt, expressed for the speech generally, particularly… Editorial of The New York Sun It had been our hope to get through the scandal of Anthony Weiner without a comment. This stems from a general view about the private nature of sexual relations. We don’t want to belittle the errors of judgment Mr. Weiner has confessed to — and the… Editorial of The New York Sun President Obama is being advised to adopt as a model in his dealings with Congress during the budget crisis the tactics of Lyndon Baines Johnson. A former aide to LBJ, Joseph Califano Jr., has a dispatch in the New York Times this week suggesting that… Editorial of The New York Sun Not since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, via which the Congress voted 98 to 2 in the Senate and unanimously in the House to authorize the Vietnam War, have we seen such a spectacle over war powers as we saw this afternoon, when the House rebuked… Editorial of The New York Sun James Taranto has a hilarious column on the harrowing situation in which the press finds itself as it scrambles to keep up with Sarah Palin. It seems the governor — who somehow lacks a sense of gratitude to the mainstream press — won’t tell the… Editorial of The New York Sun When Israel was planning its attack on Iraq’s nuclear reactor 30 years ago next week, the general staff wanted to carry out the raid after sunset to give its pilots the cover of darkness on the way back. But the lead pilot, Colonel Ze’ev Raz, was… Editorial of The New York Sun Of all the constitutional questions working their way up through the federal courts — and there are some big ones — the case that has our attention at the moment is the motion by Bernard Von NotHaus to have set aside his conviction of counterfeiting… Editorial of The New York Sun Mayor Bloomberg tried, in his speech yesterday at Cooper Union, to distance himself from the bigotry against religion that has infected the struggle for same gender marriage. “I have enormous respect for religious leaders on both sides of the issue,”… Editorial of The New York Sun The growing signs that Sarah Palin may enter the race for president are igniting warnings that she takes inspiration from Esther. The signs that she might run include reports that she has purchased a house that could serve as a base for a national… Editorial of The New York Sun The one constant in respect of the practice of receiving foreign leaders to address a joint meeting of Congress is that the tradition rarely fails to inspire. Your editor has seen a lot of them. The most moving was the speech in which Corazon Aquino… Editorial of The New York Sun President Obama and Elizabeth II were barely done with their banquet when the Financial Times was out with an editorial about Britain’s place in the world. It said that the Obama administration has “distanced itself from the hubristic, go-it-alone… Editorial of The New York Sun When Prime Minister Netanyahu goes before the joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, he will be stepping onto some of the most treacherous territory in the whole Middle East debate. We speak not of the contested acres between Israel and the Arabs but… Editorial of The New York Sun Already the maneuvering is underway in respect of who will be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s resignation was a big blow to the French. So some are hoping for a French comeback with the President… Editorial of The New York Sun The next step in the rebuilding of the Republican Party in New York will come on Tuesday, May 24, in the 26th congressional district, where in the special election to fill the seat from which Christopher Lee resigned the Sun urges a vote for… As Israel’s Borders Come Under Attack, a 1923 Essay Offers Some Hope Editorial of The New York Sun “As long as the Arabs feel that there is the least hope of getting rid of us, they will refuse to give up this hope in return for either kind words or for bread and butter, because they are not a rabble, but a living people. 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The editor, Seth Lipsky, was speaking in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on the occasion of the… Opportunity Knocks for President Obama Editorial of The New York Sun Opportunity rarely knocks as unambiguously as it has knocked on President Obama’s door in respect of Jonathan Pollard. It follows from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s letter to the president, reiterating Israel’s remorse for the spying operation that, more… Editorial of The New York Sun News of the death earlier today of Judge David Trager of the United States District Court at Brooklyn reached us while the House of Representatives was still in the midst of reading aloud the full text of the Constitution. 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What Dr. Paul is in… Guess Where Obama, Boehner, Ryan, Palin et al Could Find Wisdom for the Current Crisis Editorial of The New York Sun One place President Obama, Speaker-To-Be John Boehner, Congressman Paul Ryan, or Sarah Palin could turn to for wisdom on the current dollar crisis is the editorials of the New York Times. Not the editorials of today, but those that were issued during… Editorial of The New York Sun President Obama will be returning from Seoul with his tail between his legs. “Obama’s Economic View Is Rejected on the World Stage,” is the way it is being bruited at the top of page one in today’s New York Times. “European and Asian powers have had… The FT Abandons Its Op-Ed Writer Editorial of The New York Sun The only thing we can think of to explain the behavior of the Financial Times this week is that news travels slowly across the Atlantic. It’s almost like the days when the English news wires sent out from the Irish coast people in rowboats to pick up… That's Some Simile for the Battle Ahead in Washington Editorial of The New York Sun The next two years in the Congress look awfully bleak to one of our favorite wordsmiths, Hendrik Hertzberg, the editorial writer of the New Yorker. “Capitol Hill,” he writes, “will be like Hamburger Hill, a noisy wasteland of sanguinary stalemate.” Mr… Her Warning To the Fed Chairman Puts Her Out in Front on the Debate on the Dollar Editorial of The New York Sun One of the questions in respect of 2012 is how it has happened that the only major Republican figure, aside from Congressman Ron Paul, to stand up and be counted on the dollar is Sarah Palin. She is supposed to be an ex-beauty queen without a lot of… At Last the World Bank Joins the Call for Reform Editorial of The New York Sun A long career watching the World Bank only increases the delight with which your editor notes the dispatch in the Financial Times by the institution’s current president, Robert Zoellick, in respect of the restoration of some kind of gold standard. The… The Alaskan Acted Shrewdly in Branding Constitutional Conservatism Editorial of The New York Sun It is a measure of the impact that Sarah Palin has achieved on the political scene that one of the first questions that seized the newspapers after the votes had been counted was how the results would affect her prospects in respect of 2012. Some were… Editorial of The New York Sun One of the satisfying features of the election just ended is its vindication of the Supreme Court’s decision, in Buckley v. Valeo,* striking down limits to what rich people can spend on their own political campaigns. The limits were passed with the… The New Congress Offers a Chance To Save the Dollar Editorial of The New York Sun ‘In the months ahead, after all, people are going to be charting the dollar and watching where it stands, not only against other currencies but also against gold. Between now and 2008, we will be in a period in which, if the dollar begins to fall, the… What Would Lincoln Have Done About Julian Assange? Editorial of The New York Sun At some point people are going to start wondering, if they haven’t already, what leaders like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Grant, and Dwight Eisenhower would have done in respect of Wikileaks. We mention those… He Is More Credible on the Catastrophe in Albany Editorial of The New York Sun Carl Paladino will be launching this week the final push of his campaign for governor, and The New York Sun is happy to extend its endorsement. We understand the Republican nominee is being set down as “Crazy” Carl by, among others, the same… Eliot Cutler's Surge Is a Race To Watch Editorial of The New York Sun One of the races we’ll be watching November 2 is the gubernatorial election in Maine, where a three-way contest is underway between a left-wing Democrat, a tax-cutting Republican who is a conservative on social issues, and an independent, Eliot… A Constitutional Quagmire Lies Ahead Editorial of The New York Sun Here’s a prediction in respect of the contretemps that has erupted up in the wake of National Public Radio’s firing of Juan Williams. The effort in congress to defund the network will gain ground in Congress. But if the reason Congress wants to end… The Press Magnate Warns of a War Against the Jews Editorial of The New York Sun It will be some time before a major public figure confronts the question of anti-Semitism in a speech as to the point as that delivered last night by Rupert Murdoch to the annual banquet of the Anti-Defamation League in New York. The honoree of the… A Nobel Prize for G.I. Joe — and G.I. Jane Editorial of The New York Sun As the Norwegians get ready to bestow the Nobel prize for peace, the excitement surrounds the question of whether the prize will finally go to one of the great critics of the Chinese communist regime. An imprisoned Chinese dissident named Liu Xiaobo… What Linda McMahon Understands That Richard Blumenthal Doesn't Editorial of The New York Sun That’s some advertisement Linda McMahon has put up against Attorney General Blumenthal in the closing weeks of the race to succeed Senator Dodd. It resurrects the controversy that erupted over the attorney general’s penchant for suggesting he had… “Nothing can disguise the naked sword that has been drawn” is the way in which the Brooklyn Eagle reacted to President Roosevelt’s plan to pack the Supreme Court. We had gone back to the files on Roosevelt’s court-packing plan after reading of Senator… “If U.S. leaders were to pause and reflect as Fidel Castro has, they, too, would recognize that times have changed. Cuba is no longer the security threat that it was during the Cold War; it’s just another failed communist state. The biggest threat now… R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. for Mayor The reason Rahm Emanuel is leaving the White House, it is said, is that he’s getting set to run for mayor of Chicago. There’s actually a lot we admire about Mr. Emanuel, and we wish him luck. But our sentiments are with the editor-in-chief of the… A Billionaire's Remarks at a Private Club Rivet New York Editorial of The New York Sun The story that sticks in our mind this week is the prediction by John Paulson that gold could hit $4,000. We first read of his comments on a Web site called Goldalert.com, which reported that the hedge fund multibillionaire had recently told a… Kennedy and Nixon on the Brink of Inflation Editorial of The New York Sun This week marks the jubilee of the Kennedy-Nixon debates. It was on September 26, 1960, that the two future presidents took the stage in the first of their four rounds. It struck us, as we watched them over the weekend, as it struck us when we watched… Slow Motion Run Against U.S. Government Emerges as Nightmare of Congress Weiner Seeks Disclosure Requirements Against Dealers in Coins Made of Gold Editorial of The New York Sun Fear that we are in the midst of a slow motion run against the government of the United States is what emerged yesterday as the nightmare animating the Congressional hearings into private purchases of gold coins. Ostensibly the hearings, held by a… Greenspan’s Warning About Gold Echoes After Fed Speaks Value of the Greenback Plunges Below a 1,290th of an Ounce Editorial of The New York Sun Only days after the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned that “fiat money has no place to go but gold,” the dollar has collapsed to a new low. The remarks of the former Fed Chairman were made a week ago at the Council on Foreign… Could the U.N. Be Put Up for Sale? Talk Starts About How Clinton's Global Initiative Does a Better Job — Without the Taxes Editorial of The New York Sun The talk that caught our ear as the foreign dignitaries flooded into the Manhattan this week for the U.N. General Assembly is the question of whether the United Nations should be put up for sale. The talk wasn’t about the United Nations campus at… Editorial of The New York Sun O Christian Martyr Who for Truth could die When all about thee Owned the hideous lie! The world, redeemed from superstition ’s sway, Is breathing freer for thy sake today. Those are the words of John Greenleaf Whittier on the monument of one of the women of Salem, Rebecca Nurse, who went to the gallows in the summer of 1692 for being a witch. Now, more than 300 years later, our greatest pundits Are Unemployment Benefits Ripe For Attack? It Was a Close-Run Thing When the Supreme Court Okayed Unemployment Payments Editorial of The New York Sun The GOP candidate for senator from Alaska, Joe Miller, is being roasted on the Internet for declaring that it is unconstitutional for the federal government to be taxing Americans to pay for unemployment benefits. This came up when he was interviewed… Let the Obama Camp Watch Its Flank Editorial of The New York Sun Mayor Bloomberg’s plunge into the election season as a booster of independents and moderates is stirring what the New York Times, in its leading story this morning, calls “a new round of speculation about his presidential ambitions.” It caught our eye… Who's Got the Better Advice for the GOP — The New York Times or Sarah Palin? Editorial of The New York Sun “Republicans: Enlist, but Avoid Speeches on the Constitution.” That’s the way the headline writer for the New York Times encapsulated the advice of one of its reporters, Kate Zernike, in a dispatch over the weekend. “The trick,” she writes, “is to… Congress Has Met the Enemy — and It is Itself What an astonishing set of issues has been opened up with the announcement yesterday by Congressman Anthony Weiner that he will hold a hearing on what he calls “TV Gold Dealers.” The congressman put out on his Web site yesterday a statement that makes… Let us reflect this morning on where the anti-incumbent tide stopped. It may be sweeping the land, from Alaska to the East Coast. But there is one landfall where it stopped, the 15th Congressional District in New York, where Congressman Charles Rangel… Editorial of The New York Sun Alan Greenspan spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations earlier today, and what was his advice? That central bankers should be doing what these columns, among others, have been rattling on about, namely that they should be paying attention to gold… Editorial of The New York Sun How will we know whether all the news coming out of Cuba is really historic? The question started to present itself, at least this season, with the Atlantic’s interviews with the island’s communist dictator, Fidel Castro, who told the magazine’s… Editorial of The New York Sun “If discussion of Chinese currency policy seems confusing, it’s only because many people don’t want to face up to the stark, simple reality — namely, that China is deliberately keeping its currency artificially weak.” Let us just pause for a moment to reflect on those words by the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. He offers that sentence today in the course of an astounding column calling for the Obama administration to put up tariffs against the Communist Chinese. Editorial of The New York Sun New York’s Republican primary is set for Tuesday, and, in the most important race, it looks like the last-minute momentum is with David Malpass for Senate. The New York Sun was the first newspaper to endorse Mr. Malpass. We did so in an editorial back… Editorial of The New York Sun There’s a wonderful riddle about the stranger traveling in the land of the two tribes — liars and truth tellers. Members of the two tribes look identical. The difference is that one tribe always lies, and one tribe always tells the truth. The stranger… Editorial of The New York Sun Now that President Obama has announced a new plan to spend $50 billion in public works projects — including, it seems, bridges — we offer as a reminder of how this works our editorial called “The Joseph Biden Bridge.” It’s about how the government… Editorial of The New York Sun Editorial of The New York Sun “What about inflation?” is the question that Paul Krugman puts in the middle of a column this week run out under the headline “The Real Story.” The column is an attempt to debunk those who have been warning that President Obama’s massive stimulus… Editorial of The New York Sun What Was Hillary Clinton Thinking? Editorial of The New York Sun This newspaper has been, and is, as pro-immigration as any newspaper we’ve ever encountered. We’re for the free movement of capital, the free movement of trade in goods and services, and the free movement of labor. We see efforts to curb immigration… Beck, Palin, and Martin Luther King Editorial of The New York Sun The speeches were not incendiary, for the movement is not basically political. The deep feeling present came of itself from the crowd. The spontaneity of the marching, the emotional reaction to the singing, the quiet fellowship of the audience… Editorial of The New York Sun It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms. Well, feature the fight that has erupted between the president of… California and the Constitution Editorial of The New York Sun One of the points these columns have been pressing is that our country’s politics are in such extremes right now that we are getting down to the bedrock of the Constitution. For an example of what we mean by that, feature the email that came in, out… Editorial of The New York Sun For an example of how the White House is losing the aura of leadership feature the news from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. While President Obama is vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, the Associated Press is reporting that the White House wants the man… Editorial of The New York Sun Editorial of The New York Sun President Obama declares America's combat mission has ended in Iraq, and now it is up to Congress, where, 35 years ago, Vietnam was lost long after our combat troops came home. Editorial of The New York Sun Everyone seems to be taking as a given that America has the right to put Governor Blagojevich on trial a second time for the charges on which the jury failed to convict him the first time. “This is not double jeopardy, by the way, because the jury was… Editorial of The New York Sun President Obama, with his back-to-back statements on the proposed mosque at Ground Zero, has managed to get himself in a position where Sarah Palin has both the high ground and the practical route to progress. At the Iftar dinner at the White House… Editorial of The New York Sun The Web is heating up over the way the Federal Reserve’s volcanic expansion is illustrated in what is being called “The Magma Chart.” Ira Stoll, who has been noting the story at Futureofcapitalism.com has coverage and a piece up at Pajamas Media. Mr… How Obama Could Turn It Around Editorial of The New York Sun President Obama is sinking in the polls. Twenty months into his presidency unemployment is close to double-digits. A federal court is insisting on hearing a challenge to his most important legislative victory, health care. His bowing to foreign… Editorial of The New York Sun No sooner had President Obama concluded his dirge before the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations than Sarah Palin was out with a posting on her Facebook page, commiserating with her husband’s fellow union members on… Editorial of The New York Sun A wise labor lawyer, Judith Vladeck, once offered us her explanation of why honest labor leaders rarely step down from their jobs voluntarily. In contradistinction to the captains of industry and finance, she said, they rarely have vast estates to which to retire. They depend on their offices to carry them into old age. Editorial of The New York Sun The battle over a proposed $100 million mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero could well be at a turning point, the New York Times reported over the weekend. Its assessment was made after the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, came out in opposition to situating the site adjacent to the epicenter of the attacks on September 11, 2001. Editorial of The New York Sun David Twersky, who died Friday evening of cancer, was one of the most remarkable journalists of his generation — a reminder of the impact that can be made by one person with a pen and a passion for the issues. He took up newspaper work relatively late… Editorial of The New York Sun One of the things that’s starting to emerge on the Republican side of the political struggle is a world view that can be called the Palin Doctrine. It’s remarkable that none of the other leading figures in the party has come to be associated with a… Editorial of The New York Sun One of the most illuminating questions in respect of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the right to keep and bear arms is whether it should be applauded by the liberals or by conservatives — or both. The court, in a case called McDonald v. Chicago… Editorial of The New York Sun Conrad Black’s victory at the Supreme Court today rewards an inspiring example by the press baron of the virtues of courage and fortitude and the belief in personal honor. On the appeal of Jeffrey Skilling of Enron, the court found fault with the law… Editorial of The New York Sun An “act of war” is how one Indian chief in New York State characterizes the passage in Albany of the latest cigarette tax increase. The New York Times doesn’t name the Indian chief, but those are the words with which the Times paraphrases his views in… Editorial of The New York Sun So what are New Yorkers to make of the fact that the New York State Senate has just passed a measure that, had it been in effect in 2004, would have required the state’s delegates to the electoral college to cast their votes for George W. Bush — even though New Yorkers voted overwhelmingly for Senator Kerry? Editorial of The New York Sun The first thing we thought of when we read of America’s victory in its Supreme Court case against the Humanitarian Law Project is the crisis in respect of Gaza. The case, brought by Attorney General Holder, didn’t involve Israel or the Gaza crisis per… What Is Wrong With the Economist? Editorial of The New York Sun The Economist is out with an editorial this week called “What’s Wrong With America’s Right.” It starts out rowing back from its endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008, explaining that he has done “little to fix the deficit,” shown “a zeal for big… Editorial of The New York Sun Politicizing the Federal Reserve has emerged as one of the goals of the Democrats. The financial reform bill now in House, it turns out, would require the Fed’s board of governors and also its 12 regional banks to establish offices to oversee the… Editorial of The New York Sun Robert Dean Stethem is the first person we thought of when news came over the wires of the arrest in Poland of a man the Associated Press characterizes as an alleged Mossad spy, who is sought by Germany in the case of the terrorist who allegedly was… Editorial of The New York Sun Chairman Bernanke’s testimony before the House Budget Committe this week has set the Web buzzing over the fact that he is, as the Wall Street Journal’s Jon Hilsenrath put it, “puzzled” by the surging gold price. When one gets a Fed chairman averring that he doesn't “fulling understand the movements in the gold price,” it’s certainly news. But the story from the hearing that caught our ear was the emergence of the congressman who asked the headline question, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, as a point man on what we see as the issue of the hour — fiat money. Editorial of The New York Sun That was some dispatch in respect of Turkey that was issued by Conrad Black. “If Ankara goes cock-a-hoop for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood,” he writes in a piece that first appeared in the National Post, “we should close up support for… Editorial of The New York Sun If a policy reform is going to come out of British Petroleum’s catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we predict it will emerge in the outlines of Sarah Palin’s post Wednesday on her Facebook page. That is where she sends what she calls a “message to… Editorial of The New York Sun “An emblem of what this country represents” is how Vice President Biden described the Brooklyn Bridge when he spoke at the announcement of a plan to paint the rusting span. But given the astonishing $500 million price tag for the paint job and a few… Editorial of The New York Sun The good news out of the New York State Republican Party convention is that there is going to be a primary to make the final choice for a nominee to oppose Senator Gillibrand in November — and our endorsement is David Malpass. He came within a whisker… Editorial of The New York Sun It’s going to be illuminating to see what the New York Times comes up with for an editorial in respect of the so-called “aid flotilla” that sought to run the blockade of Gaza. This afternoon, on a Times’ blog called The Lede, Robert Mackey put up a… Editorial of The New York Sun The B-minus in torts that was recorded by Elena Kagan during her first semester at Harvard Law School — it was covered in the New York Times today in a nifty dispatch by Charlie Savage and Lisa Faye Petak — reminds us of what we consider one of the… Editorial of The New York Sun What a remarkable vote of confidence for New York City’s police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, has just been brought in by the Quinnipiac University poll released today. The headline, in the Quinipiac’s own press release, is that, in the wake of the… Rand Paul and the Constitution Editorial of The New York Sun The New York Sun wasn’t publishing in 1964, but we have no doubt that it would have supported the Civil Rights Act, as the editor who now conducts these columns did then and as the Sun does now. We revere the great figures of the civil rights movement… Walk V-e-e-e-e-r-y Softly . . . Editorial of The New York Sun A military confrontation with Iran over its atomic bomb program is “far more likely,” the Wall Street Journal is predicting this morning after what the Journal characterizes as the “fiasco” of the deal between Iran, Brazil and Turkey. The pact will… Editorial of The New York Sun Dear Son, Quite a hubbub is erupting over the story at the top of page one of the New York Times in respect of the attorney general of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, who is running for U.S. senator. It seems that Mr. Blumenthal has been exaggerating… Books no, she says, pamphlets yes ... Editorial of The New York Sun One of the big questions about Elena Kagan is whether, were she to mount the high bench, she would countenance the banning of books. The question of whether this would be possible arose in a hearing in a case involving campaign speech regulations, and… Editorial of The New York Sun Editorial of The New York Sun The nomination of Solicitor General Kagan to the Supreme Court offers lots of grounds for criticism, but her praise for Justice Thurgood Marshall isn’t one of them. At least not in this newspaper’s view. Yet General Kagan was attacked for her remarks… Editorial of The New York Sun One of the things to watch as David Cameron maneuvers to form a government in England is the prospect that the Liberal Democratic leader, Nicolas Clegg, might end up in control of the foreign office. A correspondent of National Public Radio and CBS… Editorial of The New York Sun The decision of the Britons to hang their parliament will, among other things, make us Yanks savor a little more lovingly our presidential system. The British voters unambiguously revoked Labor’s mandate, though the hapless Gordon Brown is trying to… Editorial of The New York Sun The collapse of the dollar to less than a 1,200th of an ounce of gold is emerging as one of the astonishing stories of our time. Yet even more astonishing is the lack of focus on that story by the intelligentsia in our press and politics. It is a… Editorial of The New York Sun One day years ago, your editor covered the meeting at which the officials of Calhoun County, Alabama, decided to stop fighting federal efforts to integrate the races and instead build a unified, modern school that both blacks and whites would attend… Editorial of The New York Sun How sad to read this morning of the reversal of course by the American Civil Liberties Union in respect of limits on campaign speech. It happened earlier this month, according to an article today in the Wall Street Journal. These columns were the… Editorial of The New York Sun The Vatican is being more than gracious in acknowledging the apology from Britain’s foreign office for the insults in respect of Benedict XVI that were contained in a memorandum being circulated in advance of the Pope’s visit to London later this year… Editorial of The New York Sun Let’s leave aside, for the moment, the question of whether Arizona’s new immigration law is, as President Obama asserts, “misguided.” This newspaper happens to agree with the president on the need for a more capacious immigration reform that includes… Editorial of The New York Sun Senator Schumer has picked a bit of a fight with President Obama over of the administration’s increasingly bizarre policies in respect of Israel. New York’s senior senator laced into Secretary Clinton in an on-air talk with Nachum Segal, scoring his… Editorial of The New York Sun No sooner did Congressman Ron Paul emerge in one of latest opinion polls as neck-and-neck with President Obama in 2012 than he came in for a new round of critical postings on the internet. One of them is quoted by Powerline’s John Hinderaker, who… Editorial of The New York Sun It is hard to think of a blow to a modern nation quite like that which fate delivered Saturday to Poland. The death of President Kaczynski and the First Lady, Maria, as well as the top military commanders, the head of the central bank, and many of the… Editorial of The New York Sun The call by British parliamentarians for an end to the use of the phrase “special relationship” to describe the long affair of Britain and America will, we predict, come to be seen by historians as one of the tragedies of the Obama years. Opportunity Knocks in New York David Malpass's Bid for Senate Is Good Sign for GOP Editorial of The New York Sun The entry of David Malpass into the lists for the Republican nomination for United States Senator from New York is one of those opportunities for which the state has been have been waiting. Editorial of The New York Sun Congress erupted in applause when Prime Minister Netanyahu made his famous declaration on Jerusalem 14 years ago this summer, and as the Obama administration ratchets up the pressure over housing in the eastern part of the capital, the clipping is a reminder of the broad recognition within the American polity of the justness of Israel's claims. Editorial of The New York Sun Why are the Democrats so upset about the decision of the Texas Board of Education to require textbooks to cover the biggest stories in history and our own time? Editorial of The New York Sun All eyes will be on Secretary of State Clinton next week, when she addresses the annual conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, but which Hillary Clinton will we see? Editorial of The New York Sun The significance of Governor Palin’s speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville lies in the new facets it discloses of the emerging doctrine we call Palinism. Editorial of The New York Sun It’s hard to remember a moment in a State of the Union speech quite like the one that heard President Obama last night denounce the Supreme Court of the United States for its decision in that allowed the broadcast close to election day of a film attacking Hillary Clinton. It was a relatively short moment in a long speech, coming about two thirds of the way into it, but there was the president of America, standing just a few feet in front and somewhat above, the seated justices of the Supreme Court, and launching into a direct attack on their honors. Editorial of The New York Sun One of the next court dates in the litigation over the war on terror is February 1. That’s the deadline a United States district judge, Gladys Kessler, has given the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority to post a $1 million bond in a case that has been brought by the family of a 25-year-old American, Esh Kodesh Gilmore, who was slain in a terrorist attack in East Jerusalem, where he’d been working as a security guard in an Israeli building. If the Palestinians Arabs fail to post the bond, the Judge said in an opinion last month, she would leave in place an order of default against them. Editorial of The New York Sun A surprising thing is taking place as Sarah Palin starts speaking out on the issues in recent speeches, internet postings, and in the book tour she is now undertaking for her memoir “Going Rogue.” An outline is starting to appear in respect of the substance of her world view — call it “Palinism” — and it is far more substantive than her detractors suggest or than we gained a glimpse of during the campaign. 'A tonic for political depression' November 15, 2009 That’s how Seth Lipsky’s passion for the United States Constitution is described by The Wall Street Journal in a weekend interview with the founding editor of the Sun. The occasion is the publication of Mr. Lipsky's new book, “The Citizen’s Constitution, An Annotated Guide,” which has just been brought out by Basic Books. October 21, 2009 The founding chairman of Human Rights Watch has shown real courage in speaking out against the organization he brought into being — and has elicited a stunning response from its current leadership that proves the founder's point. October 21, 2009 The editor of The Drudge Report reports he is being blamed for the collapse of the dollar because he's given it so much coverage. By our lights his constant coverage is proof that he has better news judgment than those who are ignoring one of the great stories of our generation. October 18, 2009 Apart from the question of whether President Obama deserves the Nobel Prize — a matter that we’ve suggested is the purview of the Norwegians — the newspapers are starting to crackle with the question of whether the Constitution permits Mr. Obama to accept it. October 15, 2009 An email has just come in from one of our favorite newspapers, Il Foglio, seeking support for the candidacy of Tony Blair to be president of the European Council. It seems that under the Treaty of Lisbon, the presidency of the Council will changing from being a rotating musical chairs kind of thing to a position with a two-year term and slightly more power. Its power would not amount to a hill of beans in an era when there was a strong and assertive American president pressing our interests. But in a season of American retreat, and with only the Czech president now holding out against Lisbon, the issue Il Foglio is pressing is something to think about. October 11, 2009 Thomas Friedman has a marvelous column in the October 11th number of the New York Times, urging President Obama to go to Oslo and accept the Nobel Prize “on behalf of all the most important peacekeepers in the world in the last century — the men and women of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.” We were particularly pleased with Mr. Friedman’s column, because it followed by only two days the New York Sun’s latest editorial urging that the peace prize really should go to G.I. Joe. October 10, 2009 Those of us who have been waiting for a politician to pick up on the monetary issue are perking up at Governor Palin’s demarche on the dollar. This came last week in a posting on her Facebook page, where she reacted to a report that Gulf oil producers were negotiating with Russia, China, Japan, and France to abandon the use of the dollar in pricing petroleum. October 9, 2009 The decision of the Norwegians to award the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Obama is not going to be met with sneering in these quarters. For all that we disagree with the president in respect of policy, Mr. Obama has clearly inspired not only a huge number of Americans but also a huge number of Europeans. September 21, 2009 The decision by America to drop criminal charges against General Vang Pao, whom it had accused of plotting to overthrow the communist regime in Laos, is being greeted with joy among the freedom-loving Hmong the world over — and these columns are with them. It is hard to recall a prosecution as misguided as that which was brought against the general whose army, in league with the Central Intelligence Agency, played a heroic role in the fight against the communists during the long war in Indochina. September 10, 2009 As President Obama was getting ready to address the joint meeting of Congress, we were alerted by the Drudge Report to Richard Pindar’s dispatch in the London Daily Telegraph on a new report that argues that the “cheapest way to combat climate change” is — wait for it — contraception. The report turns out to have been done for a British environmental organization called Optimum Population Trust. September 9, 2009 That was quite a warning the district attorney of New York County, Robert Morgenthau, delivered earlier this week at the Brookings Institution in Washington. A version of it appears this week on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal. It is not often that the district attorney, who normally does his talking in a court room or in a press conference related to a specific case, goes public in a matter of international politics and strategy. May 19, 2009 God Bless the Supreme Court of the United States, which has just decided to hear the appeal of the press baron Conrad Black, who has for more than a year been imprisoned at a federal correctional facility at Coleman, Florida. It would be far premature to suggest that the court’s decision to hear Black’s appeal means that he will win the argument at the high court. But it certainly puts paid the idea that the courts should have, as they did, dismissed out of hand Black’s insistence that he was wrongly convicted and that serious errors were made in the trial that cast him into the penitentiary for what could be as much as 6 and ½ years. May 12, 2009 The big question following Secretary Geithner’s admission that monetary policy was in error during much of the Bush administration is whether the Congress is going to step up to its responsibilities in respect of the national currency. Mr. Geithner’s comments were made last week in response to a question from Charlie Rose about what mistakes he would see looking back. One the secretary cited was that, as he put it, “monetary policy around the world was too loose too long.” That, he said, “created this just huge boom in asset prices, money chasing risk. People trying to get a higher return.” April 28, 2009 “Cheney for President” is the headline today over the first column by the New York Times’s newest op-ed regular, Ross Douthat — a delightful debut suggesting that, as Mr. Douthat puts it, “both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.”
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