L.A. Times - Jonah Goldberg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a question of eugenics

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

After the Supreme Court justice's comments in a recent interview, I would like to know if she believes some populations are in need of shrinking through abortion.

Here's what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Sunday's New York Times Magazine: "Frankly I had thought that at the time [Roe vs. Wade] was decided," Ginsburg told her interviewer, Emily Bazelon, "there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."

The Washington Post's 'salon' mess may be brazen, but it isn't shocking.

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The pitch to lobbyists to hobnob with government officials and reporters was crass, but selling access is a Washington tradition.

Before Sarah Palin stepped on the story, the talk of the Beltway was Salongate at the Washington Post. The venerable newspaper hatched a scheme whereby it would hold a series of "salons" at the home of the publisher, Katharine Weymouth, in order to sell lobbyists and corporations access to Obama administration officials and the Post reporters and editors who cover them.

Pork -- it's for everyone, including Obama

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The president's 'solutions' to the economic crisis amount to spending as much as possible for as long as possible.

There's an old joke about a fantastic three-legged pig and a farmer. It comes in many versions. In some tellings, the pig saves the farmer's life. In another, it can talk. And the punch line always comes after a visitor asks the farmer, "So how come he only has three legs?"

Obama's Iran policy is a bomb

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

No matter which side comes out on top, the president's policy will blow up in his face.

Here is the one immutable fact of Barack Obama's foreign policy agenda as it relates to Iran: It's over. The rule book he came in with is as irrelevant as a tourist guide to the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Obama's choice is not to choose on Iran

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The president has an opportunity to stand up for democracy.

Do it, President Obama, please. Take the side of democracy.

Plan to combat global warming? Pie in the sky

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

A cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon is too expensive, won't work and potentially rife with corruption.

Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet.

The Sonia Sotomayor debate is a chance to talk it out on race

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Liberals say they want a frank conversation, but when anyone disagrees with them, they shout 'racist.' Can we get beyond that?

For decades, America's liberal establishment has been saying that what we need more than anything is a frank conversation about race. Well, here's another chance.

Pelosi the political logjam

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forget about where you come down on "torture" or "enhanced interrogations." The simple fact is that, as a political matter, the drive for a "truth commission" -- never mind a war crimes tribunal -- is dead as long as Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the House.

The EPA is choking democracy

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The agency's sweeping new power to battle global warming is another example of the weakening of democratic controls.

One of the most important events of our lifetimes may have just transpired. A federal agency has decided that it has the power to regulate everything, including the air you breathe.

How to solve the pirate problem

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Shooting three Somali pirates was a good start. Now let's shoot some more.

Well, that was simple. Shoot the pirates, problem solved.