American Federalist Journal
Friday - July 3, 2009


Welcome to Obamacare Theater
Michelle Malkin  Google Blog Search

The White House sure likes to put on a show. Fresh off its joint stage production with ABC News, the Obama administration broadcast another health-care propaganda play this week under the guise of a citizen "town...



But for the grace of God ...
Suzanne Fields  Google Blog Search

What a fortnight this has been for observing the human animal in his natural habitat. We're reminded daily of the clay feet, the wounded psyches, the angst of the exploiters and the anger of the exploitees. Their...



Sotomayor and Quotas
Linda Chavez  Google Blog Search

The Supreme Court's decision this week in the New Haven firefighters case may cause problems for its newest prospective member, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The court found in favor of a group of white and Hispanic...



None Dare Call It Marxism
David Limbaugh  Google Blog Search

All right already. I won't call Obama a Marxist in this column. Instead, I'll point to some signs that indicate that Barack and Karl might well be soul mates. At least, they have similar attitudes about capital,...



The Empirical President
Mona Charen  Google Blog Search

One of President Obama's pretensions is the pose of objectivity. Reversing his predecessor's policy on stem cell research, he boasted of restoring "science to its rightful place." Lobbying for his health care...



Government Growth Challenging Liberty this July 4th
Carrie Lukas  Google Blog Search

Millions of American women are busy with July 4th preparations. They are dusting off picnic blankets, preparing potato salad, and making arrangements with friends and family for firework displays. Few have time to...



Obama's Lose/Lose Iran Policy
Victor Davis Hanson  Google Blog Search

Last month, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a rigged presidential election. Our president was extremely cautious in his initial criticism of the Iranian government's fierce crackdown against the protestors. At first,



The Meaning of Ricci
Charles Krauthammer  Google Blog Search

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's ruling on the Ricci case -- that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did well -- will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayo



Our Founders the Realists
Rich Lowry  Google Blog Search

The American Founders had a clear-eyed view of human nature.



A Letter to Sarah
Jonah Goldberg  Google Blog Search

If you cant surprise your detractors with your grasp of policy when you re-emerge on the national stage, you wont win the nomination. More important, you wont deserve to.



Duke Case Raises Questions
Maggie Gallagher  Google Blog Search

Frank Lombard is a Duke University health official, a licensed social worker, a white, college-educated, legal father of two African-American boys, and according to federal authorities, a pedophile. He allegedly abused his adopted son personally and



'45 Million Americans' -- Who Are Those Guys? Part 3
Larry Elder  Google Blog Search

"President Barack Obama says that he can pay for his goal to provide health care insurance for every American without it. Why isn't that good enough for you?" Elder: Yes, the President says that he can "pay for" his goal of provid



Firefighter Case Shows Seamy Side of Racial Politics
Michael Barone  Google Blog Search

The Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial discrimination and a repudiation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's decision



An Obama Doctrine?
Clifford May  Google Blog Search

The successful use of leveraged engagement, coupled with the administrations muscular policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, would constitute nothing less than an Obama Doctrine.



Missing Our Moment in Iran
Victor Davis Hanson  Google Blog Search

When thousands risked their lives for a better Iran, a better Middle East, and a better world, we, the land of the free, simply were not with them.



Iran in Limbo
Austin Bay  Google Blog Search

As Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, Iran enters limbo, an uncertain yet perilous period of time separating anger-driven demonstrations from either bloody tyrannical repression or sustained popular struggle producing a liberalizing revolution.



Equality on Trial
Thomas Sowell  Google Blog Search

For the fourth time in six cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has reversed a decision for which Judge Sonia Sotomayor voted on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. If this nominee were a white male, would this not raise questions about whethe



Who Railroaded the Amtrak Inspector General?
Michelle Malkin  Google Blog Search

Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly "retired" this month -- just as the government-



Pork -- Its for Everyone, Including Obama
Jonah Goldberg  Google Blog Search

Only by investing in policies formulated years before toxic asset became household words could America get out of the financial crisis?



The Censorious Left's Global Warming Denier Deniers
David Limbaugh  Google Blog Search

There is so much misinformation on the subject of global warming and so little consensus -- as to what environmental changes are occurring, whether human behavior is contributing to them, whether