No Straw Men

Kim Strassel documents the growing success of the transparency movement.

It’s critical that we retain the right to record, videotape or photograph the police while they’re on duty. Not only for symbolic reasons, but also as an important check on police excesses.

If we’ve learned anything from the dreary wars over politically correct language in America, it’s that purging ugly words from the lexicon hardly makes the ugly ideas they represent go away.

The death and life of the American newspaper.

Under the Essential Air Service program, created in 1978, the federal government provides subsidies of about $100 million a year to the airlines, to ensure that communities in rural and remove areas would be linked to the nation’s air system.

PhRMA and its think tank allies coordinate their response to Michael Moore’s propaganda.

Blackstone Group CEO, Steve Schwarzman, has received some bad press lately, much of which was preventable.

One experienced publishing veteran suggests that Mr. Hitchens will likely earn more than $1 million on this book.

Why do they hate Him?

While aggressive evictions are reducing the number of rent-stabilized apartments in New York, Rep. Charlie Rangel is enjoying four of them, including three adjacent units on the 16th floor overlooking Upper Manhattan.

There’s a battle raging behind the scenes in Washington these days about our most fundamental right: The freedom of speech.

And so the innocent languish, as did Betancourt, until some local power, inexplicably under the sway of the Bush notion of hard power, gets it done—often with the support of the American military.

All the genocides of the last 100 years have cost only 10 million to 12 million lives. In contrast, every year we lose almost 10 million children under the age of 5 from diseases and malnutrition attributable to poverty. Make that the priority, not Darfur

For Jon Henke, Patrick Ruffini and Soren Dayton, the 2008 GOP presidential primaries settled little. Believing that their party needs to rebuild whether or not Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wins the White House, they have started a blog, the Next Right.