No time to panic

Stocks are getting ripped by North Korea and Ireland, with all the fears that go along with those two stories. People should not panic. A lot of good news out there is suggesting a strong economy, regardless of what the Fed says.

by Larry Kudlow

This Thanksgiving, serve gratitude

Our culture offers so much, materially, that it's easy for our children-and for us, too—to take for granted how much we really have. The antidote? Gratitude.

by Rebecca Hagelin

Happy starvation day

Had today's political class been in power in 1623, tomorrow's holiday would have been called "Starvation Day" instead of Thanksgiving. Of course, most of us wouldn't be alive to celebrate it.

by John Stossel

The pope plays it right

The Church's position is that the truest notes are those that not only celebrate life and love but cut through the whitewater din of devouring time. As those notes become harder to hear, the answer isn't to stop playing them but to turn up the volume.

by Jonah Goldberg

Why conservatives are happier than liberals

Conservative Americans are happier than liberal Americans. Liberals respond this way: "If we're unhappier, it's because we are more upset than conservatives over the plight of those less fortunate than ourselves." But common sense and data suggest other explanations.

by Dennis Prager

Ireland's Paradise Lost

The island had spent decade after decade isolated, premodern and rural — and then in just a few short years, boom, modernity! There was a time, not so very long ago, when everyone wanted to take credit for this transformation. Nobody tells those kinds of stories anymore.

by Ross Douthat

The TS of A takes control

Fifty years ago, William F. Buckley wrote a memorable complaint about the fact that Americans do not complain enough. His point, like most of the points he made during his well-lived life, is, unfortunately, more pertinent than ever.

by George Will

Keeping Pelosi wrong signal after mid-terms

When the rules of the House of Representatives forced the Democrats to confront a painful choice among their leaders, they did what Democrats are often inclined to do. They changed the rules.

by David Broder

The trap of the Federal Reserve's dual mandate

In 1977, Congress gave the Federal Reserve a "dual mandate." Although the central bank is a creature of Congress, it is, in trying to fulfill this mandate, becoming a fourth branch of government. If Congress wants to make amends, it should pare the mandate to what it once was.

by George Will

Thoughts at the Alamo

The proximity of the shrine of Texas liberty and the cathedral church of the archdiocese of San Antonio prompts a reflection on the paradoxes of Catholic history in the New World and the contemporary challenges facing Catholicism on both sides of the Rio Grande, including the question as to whether an increasingly Hispanic Church in the United States, with Mexican-born bishops assuming the leadership of the Church in places like both Los Angeles and San Antonio, challenge its brethren south of the Rio Grande to stop blaming their problems on "El Norte" and to become the protagonists of their own history.

by George Weigel

Obama can't play center

Should Obama pull a Clinton and "triangulate?" This has been a burning question inside the Beltway ever since the polls showed the Great Shellacking bearing down on the White House.

by Jonah Goldberg

Deficit reduction

Another deficit reduction commission has now made its recommendations. My own recommendation for dealing with deficits would include stopping the appointment of deficit reduction commissions.

by Thomas Sowell

This raging fire

The crisis faced by black children cannot be solved without bringing neglectful parents back into the fold.

by Bob Herbert

The vast child-fattening conspiracy

When it comes to the increasing sex, violence and profanity in entertainment media, the social libertines are indifferent. They insist that children will hardly be warped or ruined by the media they consume. They chortle at the paranoia of Hollywood critics. Their mantra: If you don't like it, just turn the channel. But if the issue isn't indecency, but instead, say, obesity, so many of those titans of "tolerance" suddenly become the censors.

by Brent Bozell

Why we continue the fight

The challenge for this generation of veterans is to harness our shared lessons to ensure that America's best days remain ahead.

by Pete Hegseth

The politics of budget-cutting

by Victor Davis Hanson

I'm politically incorrect

by John Stossel

Robert Weissenstein's exhiliration

by George Will

The dude moment

by John Podhoretz

Democrats in denial

by George Will

Midwest at dusk

by David Brooks

Exporting our way to stability

by President Barack Obama

Voters reject Obama'a big-government ambitions

by Michael Barone

We're all bigots now

by Ann Coulter

Broder's brainstorm

by Pat Buchanan

Guess who?

by Thomas Sowell

Give Obama a break

by Nicholas Kristof