By DEROY MURDOCK, Scripps Howard News Service
Ditch this farm bill
If America's farmers faced economic ruin, one might argue seriously for the $286 billion in agricultural subsidies currently before Congress. But as today's farmers enjoy sky-high incomes, this bill's advocates soon may explode into laughter while pleading for the perennially doomed "family farm."
New study justifies ousting Saddam Hussein's terror state
NEW YORK -- With Operation Iraqi Freedom now 5 years old, a new study confirms that ousting Saddam Hussein was justified and vital to U.S. national security. Though war critics hate to admit it, the Baathist dictator was up to his mustache in aid for Islamofascist terrorism.
Clinton bends the rules -- when she can't break them
NEW YORK -- America's chief domestic priority this year is to prevent Hillary Rodham Clinton's election as president of the United States. Beyond her dreadful ideas, she shares her husband's allergy to the rule of law and the basic standards of fairness and honesty that most people expect of themselves.
Three solid choices for McCain's running mate
STANFORD, Calif. -- Now that he has embarrassed the "experts" and naysayers by clinching the Republican nomination and securing President Bush's endorsement, Sen. John McCain can focus on picking his running mate. Three potential vice presidents merit the Arizonan's immediate consideration.
Clinton melts down as hope evaporates
NEW YORK -- Like a little girl whose Chief Executive Barbie is falling from her fingertips into the sea, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential ambitions are slipping tragically from her gasp. This may explain her increasingly unhinged behavior, which would be bad enough were she winning. To lose the Democratic nomination this way, however, is particularly pathetic.
How the UK's single-payer system killed 17,000 Britons
Before American voters embrace either Hillary Rodham Clinton's universal-health scheme or Barack Obama's single-payer proposal, they should consider the avoidable deaths that plague the mother of all state-run medical programs: Great Britain's big-government National Health Service.
Iraqis reconcile as al Qaeda retreats
NEW YORK -- Though largely dismissed by the Democratic left, America's "surge" policy is paying attractive dividends. Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is in retreat, violence is down and political reconciliation is up.In a 16-page letter that U.S. soldiers found last October near Baghdad, AQI leader Abu Tariq complained that his 600-man force had dwindled to 20 terrorists.
McCain could become Reagan of fiscal discipline
NEW YORK -- Before my more conservative friends start leaping from buildings over Sen. John McCain's presidential primary victories, let me try to coax them back in from the ledge. Despite his myriad apostasies (e.g.
Romney's free ride on abortion
NEW YORK -- One of campaign 2008's mysteries is Mitt Romney's free ride from anti-abortion advocates. His anti-abortion declarations are eloquent, as is everything else the silver-tongued former Massachusetts governor utters. But, once again, his rhetoric is at war with his record.
Romney, McCain, Giuliani are flashing lights on fiscal highway
NEW YORK -- With Mike Huckabee down and Fred Thompson out in Florida, Tuesday's Sunshine State primary promises a three-way brawl among Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Voters there, and beyond, should regard these three candidates like lamps in a traffic signal.
