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Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor at the conservative National Review, is the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life and the monograph The Mystery of Japanese Growth (American Enterprise Institute/Centre for Policy Studies). Ponnuru "has been a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution."

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Confounding Matt Bai -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Earlier this month, almost a year from the day when Barack Obama rode the wave of history into Grant Park, he had one of those weeks that makes his presidency seem, at times, so confounding. First Obama endured an electoral embarrassment, watching his ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. House of Representatives,  White House

Mandates -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

In the primaries, Obama distinguished himself from Clinton on health care by opposing an individual mandate. In the general election, he distinguished himself from McCain by opposing taxes on health benefits. So now he is trying to pass bills with both ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton,  John McCain

I'm Not Sure I Believe -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

this poll saying that a majority of Republicans believe that ACORN stole the election from McCain last year; I'd like to see some other pollsters ask the same question. But if it is true, it suggests a widespread disconnection from reality that's ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party,  ACORN,  Barry Goldwater, Jr.,  Barack Obama

He's Back -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

P.S. I think Matt Yglesias is right to doubt that the unemployment rate will have as much effect on the midterm elections as Douthat thinks it will. As bad as the high-unemployment 1982 elections were for Republicans, for example, we shouldn't forget ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Matt Yglesias,  U.S. Democratic Party

Charles Murray vs. Glenn Beck -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

I don’t really want to shut him up. I want him to change. Take those enormous talents and make all the arguments that he can legitimately make. Keep the cutesy gimmicks (I understand that we’re talking entertainment here), but have an iceberg of ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  Charles Murray,  Keith Olbermann

Past the Bitter End -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Conservatives and Republicans should commit themselves not only to defeating Democratic health-care legislation, but to repealing it if it is enacted. They ought to announce that they will work for repeal for two reasons. The first is straightforward: ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Jeffrey Toobin Doesn't Know History -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Jeffrey Toobin starts his New Yorker brief against the Stupak amendment with a quick sketch of the history of abortion. "Abortion," he begins, "is almost as old as childbirth. There has always been a need for some women to end their pregnancies." This ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jeffrey Toobin,  Ronald Dworkin

Politico vs. the Catholic Bishops -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

David Rogers, a reporter for Politico, slams the Catholic bishops repeatedly in this story. He opens: "Thirty-three years ago this fall, a bitter, race-tinged fight over abortion matched Roman Catholic bishops and the House against the nation’s first ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Nancy Pelosi

DeGette vs. the Catholic Bishops. . . and the Public -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

She also said that religiously-affiliated groups like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which had pushed for the Stupak provision, should be shut out of the process. "Last I heard, we had separation of church and state in this country," she said. ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company

Stupak: A Familiar Trade-off for Liberals -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

The horror of choice is a common theme of the commentary of the Stupak amendment from pro-choicers. Nancy Pelosi "shouldn't have had to face" the choice between accepting the amendment and seeing health-care legislation fail, writes Judith Warner at ...

From RAMESH PONNURU, The Corner,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nancy Pelosi,  New York Times Company,  Jeffrey Rosen,  The New Republic,  Henry Waxman

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