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• Santorum: The Predictable Rebellion
  Policy professionals should have seen the Iranian revolt approaching.
• McCarthy: Negotiating with Terrorists
  Even as the mullahs are terrorizing the Iranian people, the Obama administration is negotiating with an Iranian-backed terrorist organization and abandoning the American proscription against exchanging terrorist prisoners for hostages kidnapped by terrori
• Spruiell: Contra Berlau
  A narrowly defined receivership authority wouldnt eliminate the moral hazard that the bailouts have created, but it might be the only Plan B convincing enough to signal an end to the era of too big to fail.
• Sokolski: How Not to Restrain Iran
  The realist case for allowing Tehran to make nuclear fuel is anything but realistic.
• Yerushalmi: Sovereign Immunity or Cover-Up?
  The Obama administration wants to protect our Saudi friends -- even the ones who fund our jihadi enemies.
• Choksy: Why Do Iranians Need a Supreme Leader?
  Neither the American people nor the Obama administration can afford to hesitate in supporting the democratic aspirations of Iranians.
• Kling: The Non-Debate over Non-Reform
  The public ought to be under no illusion that what the politicians are calling health-care reform offers any hope for a real solution to the compounding cost of American health care.
• Nordlinger: One Iranians plea, c.
  Jay Nordlinger on a message from Tehran, John McCain, funky city employees, and more.
• Goldberg: Obamas Iran Policy Is a Bomb
  If the forces of reform and democracy win, Obamas plan to negotiate with the regime is moot, for the regime will be gone. And if the forces of reform are crushed into submission by the regime, Obamas plan is moot, because the regime will still be there.
• Sowell: Another Good Thing
  An open-ended call for more education seems like too many other open-ended commitments that have run up record national debts without any corresponding benefits.
• Rubin: Silence Is Not Neutrality
  The president should speak up for the principles of freedom, liberty, and free elections.
• Kudlow: We Dont Need Big-Bang Health-Care Reform
  If Obamas goal is to cover the uninsured, a much cheaper, targeted, small-ball approach would do the trick. But perhaps he has a much different agenda.
• Cannon: Cameo in Cairo
  Whatever Irans people think about President Obamas desire for mutual respect, the Iranian government is determined to obstruct exactly that goal.
• Lowry: Great Diversions
  The fallout from the stimulus and auto bailouts are stoking a distaste for deficit spending and government activism that is remarkable in what is touted as a statist golden age.
• Sowell: Why Republican Infighting Matters
  Unfortunately, the only political party that can stop Obama is the GOP.
• Thernstrom: Racial Progress Stymied
  Maximizing the number of majority-minority districts impedes black progress in significant ways.
• Charen: The Obama Effect?
  Obamas ardent supporters stand ready to interpret any world event as evidence of Obamas messianic effect.
• Shaheen: Too Big to Succeed
  Twenty years after the Tiananmen spring, the regime could soon find itself tested at least as stringently.
• Warren: Eminent Domain in Reverse
  As citizens realize that modernist architecture may not suit the needs of people in the 21st century, they will increasingly clash with preservationists.
• Editors: Left at the Altar
  President Obama has our gratitude for doing his insincere part to defend marriage.