Preemption Is A Kind Of Pre-deterrence That

With Our Financial House On Fire, Obama Makes Clear Both In In His Speech And His Budget That The Essence Of His Presidency Will Be The Transformation Of Health Care, Education And Energy.

To His Credit, Obama Didn't Just Come To Washington To Be Someone. Like Reagan, He Came To Washington To Do Something -- To Introduce A Powerful Social Democratic Stream Into America's Deeply And Historically Individualist Polity.

Middleness Is The Very Enemy Of The Bold.

In An Essay 10 Years Ago, I Pointed Out That It Is Utterly Logical For Polygamy Rights To Follow Gay Rights. After All, If Traditional Marriage Is Defined As The Union Of (1) Two People Of (2) Opposite Gender, And If, As Advocates Of Gay Marriage Insist, The Gender Requirement Is Nothing But Prejudice, Exclusion And An Arbitrary Denial Of One's Autonomous Choices In Love, Then The First Requirement - The Number Restriction (two And Only Two) - Is A Similarly Arbitrary, Discriminatory And Indefensible Denial Of Individual Choice.

I Began My Journalistic Career On The Day Ronald Reagan Was Sworn In. That's The Day I Showed Up For Work At 'the New Republic' Magazine.