WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008

MAKE THE RIGHT INVESTMENT.  Victor Davis Hanson thinks NRO has earned, and re-earned, your support.

SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE.  Stephen Spruiell warns that the Big Three won’t survive if their labor force gets paid to drink coffee. Greg Pollowitz concludes that the UAW reads NRO.

EXTRA! EXTRA! LOCAL NEWS BAILOUT!  Michelle Malkin asks: How “free” can a “free press” be if it is leveraged with government funding?

THE ALTERNATIVE TO BAILOUTS.  Larry Kudlow tells us to read his lips: supply-side tax cuts.

BIGOTRY IN CALIFORNIA.  Jonah Goldberg explains why Mormons are the easiest targets for an organized campaign against religious freedom of conscience.
At a pro-gay-marriage rally in Los Angeles after the [Proposition 8] vote, chants of “Mormon scum!” were reported. Envelopes containing white powder have been sent to Mormon temples in California and Utah; vandals hit other temples. Lists of businesses to boycott — essentially Mormon blacklists — have sprung up on the Internet. The artistic director of the California Musical Theatre resigned because of pressure after it was revealed he gave $1,000 to a pro-Proposition 8 group.

It’s amazing. Hollywood liberals, who usually shout “McCarthyism!” as a first resort, see nothing wrong with this. If Jews were attacked in this way for giving too much money to a political cause, Barbra Streisand would already have a French passport.
BARACK OBAMA, PEOTUS.  David “Dickens” Kahane takes us inside the transition.

NO TEAM OF RIVALS.  Allen C. Guelzo examines Obama’s cabinet and suspects he may end up more like Buchanan than Lincoln.

THE RIGHT’S OOGA-BOOGEYMEN.  Ramesh Ponnuru observes that the impulse to blame social conservatives arises nearly every time Republicans fail.

BEYOND VOUCHERS.  Dan Lips notes that if they weren’t busy battling vouchers, the teachers’ unions would be beating back charter schools.

REACHING “THE COOL KIDS.”  Jason Lee Steorts wonders: Is it something we are saying?

SELECTIVE OMISSION.  Tom Gross can’t believe the New York Times thinks that Muslim terrorists sought out and killed the only New York rabbi in Mumbai and his wife by accident.

RAISING THE STAKES.  The Editors think the Mumbai attack takes this war to a more defined level, and will give shape and significance to it for a long time to come.

NADER IS RIGHT.  Yes, you heard that right. Find out what Chris Horner agrees with in Ralph Nader’s advice to Obama.

IRAN NEWS ROUNDUP.  Michael Rubin gathers the latest headlines from Iran.

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE.  Peter Robinson talks with Peter Thiel about what’s wrong with the real U.S. economy.

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