The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war.

Steve Sailer: Hidden Key To Last Decade’s Disasters: Dubya’s Commitment To “Diversity”
Steven Baskerville: Feminist Gulag: No Prosecution Necessary
Don Devine: New Year Right Agenda
Jennifer Morse: Is the Family Court System Totalitarian?
Don Devine: Does Christmas Matter?
Tom Piatak: War Against Christmas 2009: Christians Against Christmas?
Tom Piatak: War Against Christmas 2009: Reflections on Hanukkah, Christmas, and “Nitel Night”
Rebecca Terrell: Newt Gingrich: The Establishment’s Conservative

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The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Job losses are mounting, along with government spending and debt. The government has made the economy worse.

Phyllis Schlafly: The Causes of Unemployment
Ron Paul: Keynesianism Delivers a Decade of Zero
Bob Adelmann: Ponzi Schemes and Social Security
Bob Adelmann: The Economy: Cheerleaders vs. Reality
Phyllis Schlafly: Who Has the Solution for Unemployment?
Don Devine: Why Are Stocks Up?
Thomas Sowell: Solving Whose Problem?

See also:
Gary North series: What is Money?
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Global Warming

This update focuses on global warming. The Copenhagen conference ended with few results. The Climategate scandal continues to reverberate.

William Jasper: Copenhagen Report: Obama Fails to "Seal the Deal"
Alex Newman: Cheers and Jeers at Copenhagen’s Climate Conference
William Jasper: Climate 
“Teacup Tempest”?
William Jasper: What Consensus? Public, Scientists Doubt Climate Crisis
William Jasper: Lord Monckton, the Copenhagen Treaty, and the Constitution
William Hoar: What Will Greenhouse Gas Reductions Do?

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Best Articles of 2009

It is time for the best articles of 2009. These articles were selected from roughly 10,000 articles this year. More than 400 articles appeared in this year's 52 POLITICAL UPDATES.

The economy was the most frequent topic, inspiring eight updates. Second was health care with seven. Tied for third were the culture war, government, news from abroad, and liberalism with five each. What follows are my choices, in chronological order, for the twenty most important news or opinion pieces of 2009.

Gary North: Social Security Is Going, Going, Gone
James Dellingpole: The Great British Climate Fraud
Lew Rockwell: Economics and Moral Courage
Michael Cannon and Ramensh Ponnuru: You Mislead!
Gary North: Medicare Went Broke in 2008
William Jasper: Decades of Suicidal Policies Vis-à-vis Russia and China
James Perloff: Council On Foreign Relations
Steve Sailer: The Gods Of The Copybook Headings With Terror And Slaughter [a.k.a. The Minority Mortgage Meltdown] Return
James Perloff: Iran and the Shah: What Really Happened
Ann Coulter: 49 Million to Five
Steve Sailer: Playing With Fire: The Obama Administration Backs Anti-White Discrimination in Ricci
William Jasper: Homeland Security: Everyone's a Threat
Steve Sailer: The “Obama Bear Market” And Why He Triggered It
Steve Sailer: Demography Is Destiny. And Our Destiny (Courtesy Of Immigration Policy) Is Disastrous
Steve Sailer: Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.) Pay No Attention To That Diversity Mandate Behind The Curtain
John McManus: EU Déjà Vu in the Caribbean
Chuck Baldwin: A Very Real New World Order
Chuck Baldwin: More On The New World Order
Phyllis Schlafly: Community Organizing Explained
Steve Sailer: The Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.): How The Community Reinvestment Act Fits In

Previous:
Best Articles of 2008
Best Articles of 2007
Best Articles of 2006
Best Articles of 2005

Government

This update focuses on government. Government caused still more damage in 2009.

Gary North: Social Security Is Going, Going, Gone
Jack Kenny: American Czars
Edwin Viera: The Second Amendment, The States, and the People
Dave Workman: The Year in Review: Major steps to advance gun rights achieved in 2009
Tim Carney: The Washington Toy Story
Floy Lilley: The Economics of Recycling
Joe Wolverton: Oath Keepers: Patriotic Defenders of the Republic?
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Plan to Spread the Wealth
Patrick Krey: Can the County Sheriff Save the Constitution?
William Hoar: The Burden of Social Security

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Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism.

William Andersen: The Progressive Era
Phyllis Schlafly: Feminist Vendetta Against Men's Sports
David Goodman: The 60th Anniversary of Orwell’s 1984
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Radical Rogues Gallery?
Rich Noyes: Better Off Red?
Bruce Walker: Nazis and Communists: Ideological Bedfellows
Phyllis Schlafly: Feminists Psychoanalyze Themselves Again
Cort Kirkwood: ACORN’s Nutty Antics
Steve Sailer: Norman Podhoretz’s Why Are Jews Liberal? Not Good Enough

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

Education

This update focuses on education. Government and liberalism continue to corrupt education. Obama's "Safe Schools Czar" Kevin Jennings is pursuing a radical agenda.

Carrie Lukas: Keep Uncle Sam Away from Toddlers!
Selwyn Duke: Boys’ Educational Failure Is No Mystery
Phyllis Schlafly: Where Are the Men?
William Jasper: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings
Samuel Blumenfeld: Why the Federal Government Should Get Out of Education
Samuel Blumenfeld: Is Public Education Necessary?
William Jasper: Jennings Coverup Exposes More Media Malfeasance
William Jasper: Are Schools Teaching Children to Serve Obama?
David d'Escoto: The Insanity of the Right

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

Global Warming

This update focuses on global warming. Many of the primary scientific advocates of global warming hysteria have been exposed committing fraud, destroying data, illegally hiding data from FOIA requests, manipulating data to support their conclusions, and scheming to silence scientific critics. Meanwhile, the Copenhagen conference is about to get underway, where a treaty to put in place world government and massive redistribution of American wealth will be considered.

Christopher Booker: Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
William Jasper: Climategate: E-mail Scandal Could Melt Copenhagen Plans
Ann Coulter: Do Smoking Guns Cause Global Warming, Too?
James Dellingpole: The Great British Climate Fraud
William Jasper: Carbon Scam? Al Gore, Profits, and Copenhagen

Chuck Baldwin: Climate Change Treaty A Precursor To Global Government?
Larry Greenley: Lord Monckton Says UN Copenhagen Treaty Will Create Communist World Government
William Jasper: From Rio to Copenhagen

Ed Hiserodt: Having Never Heard of Global Warming
George Giles: The Global-Warming Crusaders
Ed Hiserodt: "Not Evil Just Wrong": Dissecting Environmental Extremism

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The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war.

Don Devine: Hasan Correctness Psychology
Steve Sailer: The Next Liberal Fad: A “Stolen Generation” Of Black Children?
Steve Sailer: John Derbyshire Says We Are Doomed!—Good News For The Alternative Right
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Makes Polygamy a 21st Century Issue
Lew Rockwell: Economics and Moral Courage
Don Devine: Racist America
Jad Babbin: Latimer the Liberator?
Don Devine: Conservatism's Regeneration

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The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Unemployment remains over 10% nationally and over 15% in Michigan. Government debt continues to expand, imperiling the dollar. The economy is not recovering, despite government claims to the contrary.

Gary North: Decide How (Not If) the Government Will Default
Charles Scaliger: The Diminishing Dollar
William Campenni: Financial Bust Connected to Illegal Alien Mortgages
Don Devine: Phony Economic Recovery
Charles Scaliger: A Review of "End the Fed" by Ron Paul
Lila Ravija: Green Shoots and White Lies

See also:
Gary North series: What is Money?
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Health Care

This update focuses on health care. The House of Representatives passed a 2000-page bill to take over health care.

Thomas Sowell:
The "Costs" of Medical Care Part II Part III Part IV

Ron Paul: Healthcare Reform is Economic Malpractice
Joe Wolverton: Healthcare Bill: Pay for a Plan or Go to Jail
Joe Wolverton: Obamacare and the Demise of Federalism
Jack Kenny: Constitutional Healthcare
Becky Akers: The Healthcare Bill's Sops to the Mental-health Industry
Washington Watcher: He Lies! Obamacare Does Cover Illegal Aliens. (And Legal Immigrants Too, Needless To Say)

See also: Sick in America with John Stossel

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. Russia remains dominated by the KGB, which is still involved in terrorism and crime. The European Union continues to expand its power.

William Jasper: Dangerous Connections: NBA and the KGB
William Jasper: KGB/FSB: The “Game” Remains the Same
Patrick Krey: Lords of Chaos: The Kremlin’s Arms Merchants
Thomas Eddlem: The Soviet Roots of Terrorism
William Jasper: No State Sponsors, No Terror

Alex Newman: Holdout Signs Lisbon Treaty Creating EU Super-State
Kevin Grace: What Canada’s Free Speech Victory Says About America’s Matthew Shepard “Hate Crimes” Bill

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Health Care

This update focuses on health care. The Obama administration continues to attempt to foist a takeover of health care on America.

Ann Coulter: Liberal Lies About Health Care: Part 6 Part 7 I'll Pass on 'Opting Out'
Robert Blumen: 'Health Insurance'
Phyllis Schlafly: What's In and What's Out of Health Care Legislation
Thomas Eddlem: Obama Attacks Health care Studies
Alex Newman: Swine Flu: The Risks and Efficacy of Vaccines
Alex Newman: Swine Flu Seizures
James Edwards: Health Reform Loopholes for Illegals
Phyllis Schlafly: Good Health Depends on Defeating Government Health
Michael Cannon and Ramensh Ponnuru: You Mislead!

See also: Sick in America with John Stossel

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism. More continues to be revealed about Barack Obama.

Becky Akers: The New Face of Psychiatry
Phyllis Schlafly: If Obama Had Told Us Before His Election
Phyllis Schlafly: Singing Heil Obama in New Jersey
Selwyn Duke: Obama: Beyond the Idea of an Icon
Phyllis Schlafly: The Radical Policies of the NEA
Thomas Eddlem: In the Shadows of Promise

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

Environmentalism

This update focuses on environmentalism. The myth of global warming continues to collapse. A cap and trade bill to wreck America's economy continues to be considered in Congress.

Pat Buchanan: Global Warming And The Second Battle of Copenhagen
William Hoar: Global Warming: Scaring Up More Controls
Floy Lilley: Global Warming Scandals
Ed Hiserodt: Cap and Trade
James Perloff: Exposing the Green World Order
Vin Supynowicz: Drive a Big SUV for Mother Earth
William Hoar: Taxing Energy in the Name of Climate Change

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Sovereignty

This update focuses on national sovereignty. America's sovereignty continues to be threatened by the United Nations and potential plans for a North American Union.

Phyllis Schlafly: UNESCO Gets off the Track Again
Alex Newman: G-20 Advances New World Order, Media Admit
Kurt Williamsen: Law of the Sea Treaty: Through Rose-colored Goggles?
Beverly Eakman: Beware UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child
Phyllis Schlafly: What Happened in Guadalajara
Thomas Eddlem: North American Leaders Summit This Weekend
Warren Mass: Clinton Stumps for International Criminal Court

United Nations: Eagle Forum: United Nations
North American Union: Eagle Forum Stop SPP
Trans-Texas Corridor: Corridor Watch

Immigration

This update focuses on immigration.

Michelle Malkin: ACORN's Illegal Alien Home Loan Racket
Steve Sailer: The First Thing We Do, Let’s Abolish The Hispanics!
Robert Engstrom: ProEnglish Makes Case for Official Language
James Edwards: The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal
Peter Brimelow: Building the New Majority—Peter Brimelow's Speech To The American Cause
Alex Newman: Immigration News Update
Terry Jeffrey: Harry Reid's Assault on American Workers

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

Health Care

This update focuses on health care.

Ann Coulter: Liberal Lies About Health Care
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Joe Wilson Edition Part 5

Thomas Sowell: Listening to a Liar Part II Fables for Adults

Jack Kenny: Healthcare Hirelings
Phyllis Schlafly: Who Lied?
Alex Newman: A Brief History of Government Immunizations
Ron Paul: Healthcare Reform is More Corporate Welfare
Thomas Eddlem: Obama's Healthcare Pitch to Congress
James Heiser: Gov't Guidelines Deny Care to Premature Baby
Vin Suprynowicz: Greeks Falling Out of Their Trojan Horse
James Edwards: Health 'Reform' Covers Illegal Aliens
Phyllis Schlafly: The Opportunity of a Century

See also: Sick in America with John Stossel

Education

This update focuses on education. Government and liberalism continue to damage education.

William Jasper: "Safe Schools" Czar Jennings Should be Expelled
Claire Wolfe: Living the outlaw life
Samuel Blumenfeld: Government Education: Enemy of a Free Society
Gary North: Parents, Don't Send Your Kids to College
Phyllis Schlafly: NEA Goes All-Out for Same-Sex Marriage
Education Reporter: Through Grade Inflation, B+ is the New Average
Neal McCluskey: Genuine Change Won't Come this Way
Brenda Walker: Revaluing Work: Class Division Exacerbated By Immigration Hits A Wall (Finally)
Steve Sailer: How UC Bureaucrats Use Advanced Placement Tests To Help Asians, Hurt Whites

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war. A 'hate crimes' bill attacking free speech continues to be considered in Congress. Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate to the Supreme Court.

Becky Akers: Discrimination, Racism, and the Human Race
Don Devine: Papal Freedom Regression?
Selwyn Duke: Hate-crime Laws Expand, Freedom Contracts
Gary Bauer: When Gays Attack
Robert Knight: Proposed Federal Law Would Be a Hate Crime Against America

Steve Sailer: My Questions For Sotomayor—Will Republicans Dare Ask Them?
Steve Sailer: That Sotomayor Decision: One Law For Frank Ricci—Another For Emily Bazelon?
Jack Kenny: Sonia Sotomayor's Selection
Jed Babbin: Questions for Sotomayor
Thomas Sowell: Equality on Trial

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The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Unemployment continues to rise as government spending, bailouts, and inflation only make things worse.

Gary North: Deficits Will Matter
William Hoar: Cash for Clunkers
Steve Sailer: Alyssa Katz’ Our Lot: A Liberal Perspective On How Political Pressure To Boost Minority Homeownership Helped Blow Up The Economy
William Hoar: Stimulus Scam Redux?
Gary North: Bernanke Is Stuttering, Stammering, Panicking
Gary North: We Are in the Midst of a Disaster
Thomas Eddlem: Media Raising Concerns Over Goldman Sachs’ Gov’t Influence
Pat Buchanan: Socialist America Sinking
William Hoar: Driving Us to Destruction
Chris Clancy: The Greatest Scam in the History of the World
Gary North: Shredding Your Safety Nets

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Government

This update focuses on government. Government spending and regulation continues to damage America.

Don Devine: Obama Public Service
Becky Akers: “Your Papers, Please!”
Ron Paul: Cash for Clunkers
Gary North: Medicare Went Broke in 2008
Ben O'Neill: "It's Discrimination!"
Art Carden: The Freedom To Discriminate
Charles Scaliger: Freedom and Progress
Larry Greenley: Dangers of a Constitutional Convention
Thomas Woods: The Non-Orwellian View of American History
Thomas DiLorenzo: Who Will Regulate the Regulators?
Ann Shibler: From Farming to Serfdom
Steve DuBord: "Ten Thousand Commandments" of Federal Regulation

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Health Care

This update focuses on health care. While the health care debate roils America, more facts about the proposals in Congress continue to emerge.

Gregory Hession:
ObamaCare Shocker: Taxes to Go Up; Way Up
ObamaCare Shocker: Rationing - The Doctor Will NOT See You Now
ObamaCare Shocker: Send in the Social Workers
ObamaCare Shocker: They Really Do Want to Croak Granny
ObamaCare Shocker: Gov't Sees You Naked Too
ObamaCare Shocker: Gov't Healthcare System Already Broken

Thomas Sowell: Whose Medical Decisions? Part II Part III Part IV

Ann Coulter: Liberal Lies About National Health Care: First In a Series
Edwin Rubenstein: Legal Immigration—The Bigger Obamacare Problem
William Hoar: Washington Gives Us the Treatment

Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Brings Chicago-Style Intimidation
Lew Rockwell: Post Office, MD
Thomas DiLorenzo: Single-Payer Groceries, Anyone?
Steven Dubord: Obama’s Healthcare Prescription
Cort Kirkwook: All Doped Up
Ron Paul: Healthcare Plan Based on Economic Fantasy

See also: Sick in America with John Stossel

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. Trouble continues in Russia, Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.

Cort Kirkwood: Crescent Over Europe
Steve Sailer: Christopher Caldwell's Reflection On The Revolution In Europe: Now He Tells Us?
Charles Scaliger: Book Review: Triple Cross
William Jasper: Communism Still Stands in the “Stans”
William Jasper: Terrorist Targeting of Police
James Perloff: China Betrayed Into Communism
William Jasper: "Islamists" Denounce Capitalism, Call for Global Caliphate
William Jasper: Hizb ut-Tahrir: KGB-FSB Connection?
William Jasper: Decades of Suicidal Policies Vis-à-vis Russia and China
Cort Kirkwood: Muslim Face of the EU
Don Devine: Real Iranian Revolt
Gustavo Coronel: The World Upside Down: Honduras
Kathryn Gaines: America is Vulnerable to An Electromagnetic Pulse Attack

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Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism. Liberals continue to sympathize with and excuse communists. Feminism continues to harm both men and women. The Obama administration has promoted radicals such as John Holdren, Harold Koh, and ACORN.

William Jasper: Communist Ties Become Issue in NYC Politics
Phyllis Schlafly: Family Court Injustices to Men
Phyllis Schlafly: The Feminists Demand and Receive
Will Grigg: Too Many (Other) People
Phyllis Schlafly: Why Women Are Unhappy
Thomas Eddlem: How the New York Times Helped Tyrants
William Jasper: Leftists in Tizzy Over Exposure of KGB Ties
Phyllis Schlafly: Harold Koh Is Too Dangerous for America
Phyllis Schlafly: ACORN Should Not Receive Taxpayers' Money
Ion Pacepa: Believers in Hate

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

Health Care

This update focuses on health care. The disastrous plans for a government takeover of health care have stalled in Congress, but the threat remains real.

Phyllis Schlafly: Reading the Fine Print in the Health Care Bill
Thomas DiLorenzo: Socialized Healthcare vs. the Laws of Economics
Ron Paul: The Immorality of Taxpayer Funded Abortion
William Andersen: The Cause of Teddy Kennedy's Life
Ann Coulter: Take Two Asprin and Call Me When Your Cancer is Stage 4
Thomas Sowell: Magician Politics
Thomas Sowell: Medical Care Confusion
Don Devine: Infecting the Republicans
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Health Care Plan Can Be Defeated
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare for Illegal Aliens
Michelle Malkin: Inside the Monstrous Obamacare Bureaucracy
Chelsea Schilling: House health care bill 'outlaws private insurance'

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Sovereignty

This update focuses on sovereignty. Internationalist elites promote world government. Institutions including the United Nations and European Union threaten sovereignty.

James Perloff: Council On Foreign Relations
John McManus: Hillary Clinton Lets CFR Cat Out of the Bag
Jerome Corsi: White House mum on North America summit
Jerome Corsi: Texas trying to save 'NAFTA Superhighway'?
Warren Mass: EU to create Regional Financial Regulatory Body
William Jasper: The New Jacobin Elite
Ron Paul: International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse
William McIlhany: A Primer on the Illuminati
William Jasper: UN's Marxist Plan for Global Government

United Nations: Eagle Forum: United Nations
North American Union: Eagle Forum Stop SPP
Trans-Texas Corridor: Corridor Watch

Education

This update focuses on education. Government and liberalism continue to corrupt education.

Steve Sailer: Thoughts On Advanced Placement Testing…And Sotomayor
Steve Sailer: Selling Out And How To Do It—The Case Of Richard E. Nisbett
Steve Sailer: Obama’s Nixon-Goes-to-China Opportunity
Beverly Eakman: Tracking Your Digital Trail
Thomas Eddlem: Education, Policies & Promises
Phyllis Schlafly: College Student Alert: Beware of One-Party Classrooms
Robert Holland and Don Soifer: Multiculturalism and 'Social Justice' in American Public Education

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

Energy

This update focuses on energy. The House of Representatives recently passed a cap-and-trade bill to massively increase energy prices. The goal is to impose more government control on the economy.

Ron Paul: Cap and Trade Will Lead to Capital Flight
Butler Shaffer: Human Life Is Destroying the Planet!
Ed Hiserodt: Obama's Energy Plan
Arthur Robinson: Power Plants Are Batteries
Arthur Robinson: Yes to Energy Freedom - No to Cap-and-Trade
Vin Suprynowicz: I Wish the Earth Were Warming
Phyllis Schlafly: Don't Fall for Cap and Tax
Floy Lilley: Windmill Farms Are Noisy, Ugly, and Ineffective

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Health Care

This update focuses on health care. President Obama is threatening to impose more government control on America's health care system. Socialism will lead to worse care and more death.

John Stossel: "Better" Health Care?
Thomas Sowell: Alice in Medical Care
Deroy Murdock: Reading Obama Care Bills Endangers Human Health
Phyllis Schlafly: Massachusetts: A Model Not to Copy
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Health Care Reform in Trouble
Phyllis Schlafly: High Costs of Obama's Health Care Plan
William Hoar: Overdosing on Obama Healthcare
Ron Paul: Fight Government Encroachment into Healthcare!
Ron Paul: When Government Plays Doctor

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