The New Republic

Charles Krauthammer today waxes indignant at the prospect that Democrats might pass legislation in a post-election session: READ MORE >>

Charles Krauthammer argues that President Obama has permanently altered U.S. fiscal policy: Obama's most far-reaching accomplishment is his structural alteration of the U.S. budget. The stimulus, the vast expansion of domestic spending, the creation of ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see are not easily reversed. READ MORE >>

Since Sarah Palin coined this imaginative slogan, it has taken on the function of analysis, inspiration, program for the Republicans and for their outlier allies. But, of course, it is not any of these. READ MORE >>

I was completely stunned to learn that the Washington Post pushed out Dave Weigel, who has been reporting a blog on the conservative movement and doing a fantastic job of it. The cause of the firing is that Weigel was found to have emailed nasty things about certain right-wingers. Ben Smith has the best explanation, which is that the Post apparently hired Weigel thinking that he is a right-winger: READ MORE >>

Last week I credited Charles Krauthammer with a “genuine conceptual breakthrough” of blaming the BP oil spill on environmentalists and thus spare conservatives from cognitive dissonance. READ MORE >>

Charles Krauthammer has a genuine conceptual breakthrough. The BP oil spill is the fault, at least in part, of... environmentalists! READ MORE >>

Charles Krauthammer fulminates against President Obama's foreign policy speech: READ MORE >>

Charles Krauthammer repeats the familiar Republican complaint that Craig Becker, President Obama's new appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, is an unacceptable pick because he's an "advocate": But the one that really I think is offensive in the group is … this guy [Craig] Becker [who] is essentially an agent, an advocate of the unions in what is — the NLRB — a quasi-judicial body. READ MORE >>

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Charles Krauthammer says that Americans resist universal health care, in part, because we're refugees from big government Europe: This spirit of being independent and not wanting to be controlled by the government is something that is intrinsic in America. It’s the essence of America. And it’s what distinguishes Americans who are essentially refugees of the old society in Europe. That’s why it’s always been harder to make Americans break to the yoke of government, as happened in Europe. READ MORE >>