The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war.

Gary North: Never Say Retire
Pat Buchanan: Gay Marriage And The Death of Moral Community
Thomas Sowell: Is Democracy Viable?
Steve Sailer: Immigration/Invasion/Demographic News Funnier If You Get The Joke—Which Is ALWAYS On America
Steve Sailer: The New York Times's Jonathan Mahler On Arizona: Immigration Policy As Fantasy Baseball For Liberals
Phyllis Schlafly: The Cost to Taxpayers of Missing Fathers
Steve Sailer: Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki And U.S. Basketball’s De Facto Discrimination Against Whites
Steve Sailer: Republican Sports Fans And The Affirmative Action They Cheer For
Gary North: Time To Get Rich

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Government

This update focuses on government.

Gary North: Confessions of a Washington Reject
Thomas Sowell: Different Decisions
Steve Sailer: Morgenson And Rosner's Reckless Endangerment: On Trail Of Minority Mortgage Meltdown—But Where’s Dubya?
Steve Sailer: AEI’s Wallison Wimps Out On Minority Mortgage Meltdown
James Edwards: Pending Patent Bill Puts 'Global Harmonization' Above American Innovation
Phyllis Schlafly: The Patent Bill is Unconstitutional
Michelle Malkin: Project Gunrunner: Obama's Stimulus-Funded Border Nightmare

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Immigration

This update focuses on immigration.

Peter Brimelow: That GOP Debate In New Hampshire: A Pleasant Surprise On Immigration

Phyllis Schlafly: States Deal With Illegal Alien Problems
Washington Watcher: Supreme Court’s Whiting Ruling Gives Patriots A Memorial Day Present
James Edwards: President's El Paso Immigration Pander
Michelle Malkin: The Amnesty Bandwagon Rides Again

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy.

Gary North: Trigger Points
Gary North: Adam Smith, Meet Oprah Winfrey
Gary North: Building Your Financial Storm Shelter
Gary North: The New York Times Is Dying
Phyllis Schlafly: Trade Agreements Cost Jobs
Phyllis Schlafly: Who Will Answer the Jobs Question?

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Energy

This update focuses on energy.

Ann Coulter: A Glowing Report on Radiation
Dan Flynn: The Winter of Al Gore's Discontent
Phyllis Schlafly: Let There Be Light
Phyllis Schlafly: Time to Freeze Global Warming
James Dellingpole: Why Being Green Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

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Money

This update focuses on money.

Gary North: Central Banking: Success Through Failure
Gary North: Ron Paul: 'Sell the Gold in Ft. Knox'
Gary North: Lying Mouthpiece for the Fed
Thomas Sowell: Fed Up With the Fed?
Gary North: Questions for Bernanke
Gary North: Con Games and Currency Destruction
Lew Rockwell: Use the Dollar or Else
Gary North: Those Lying Textbooks
Gary North: Milton Friedman's Contraption

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Education

This update focuses on education.

Gary North: College: Why It Is Not a Bubble
Thomas Sowell: Bull About Bullying
Phyllis Schlafly: What Students Learn and Don't Learn
Phyllis Schlafly: Education Spending Won't Create Jobs
Phyllis Schlafly: Education Spending Has a Simple Solution
Steve Sailer: The NCLB Fiasco After Ten Years: What Were Bush And Kennedy Thinking?
Terry Jeffrey: Do Wisconsin's Public Schools Deserve to Survive?
Bill Walker: The Education Scam

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad.

Steve Sailer: Obama and Osama: Can We Go Home Now?
Jeffrey Tucker: An Algorean Utopia in Haiti
Kevin Grace: Canada’s Stephen Harper: My Part In His 2011 Election Triumph
Pat Buchanan: When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?
Lew Rockwell: The EU Crack-Up
Pat Buchanan: Are We Allied to a Corpse?
Pat Buchanan: Is Tribalism the Future?
Pat Buchanan: Koran Burning And Muslim Persecution Of Christians—Who Are These People We Are Fighting For?
Pat Buchanan: A Community Organizer Goes to War
Dan Flynn: Muammar Gaddafi, Socialist

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Spending

This update focuses on spending.

Ann Coulter: Obama's Budget: More Waste, Fraud, and Self-Abuse
Gary North: You Are Getting Stiffed
Ron Paul: Spending Cuts Are Meaningless
Pat Buchanan: Barack Hussein Hoover
Pat Buchanan: Obama Blows up the Bridge
Michelle Malkin: America, the Dependent
Thomas Sowell: Another Spending Cut Plan
Dan Flynn: Shutdown Letdown

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Immigration

This update focuses on immigration.

Washington Watcher: “Worse than A Crime—A Blunder”: Ron Paul’s Tragic Turnaround On Immigration
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama and Mexican Trucks
Washington Watcher: Good News—Legal Immigration Down in 2010. Bad News—It’s Still More Than A Million
Washington Watcher: Paez Without Honor— Hispanic Activist Judge Leads Attack On Arizona Law
Steve Sailer: Birthright Citizenship, Anarcho-Tyranny, And Beverly Hills Nativism
Allan Wall: Memo From Middle America (Formerly Known As Memo From Mexico): Birthright Citizenship—How Some Other Countries Handle It

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war.

Steve Sailer: Census 2010: Hispanic Hype, Black Backwash, White Flight
Thomas Sowell: Voting With Their Feet
Gary North: The Most Important Unanswered Historical Question in the World: 'What Changed in 1800?'
Gary North: What Made America Great
Steve Sailer: Population Paradoxes—A Post-Anglo America Might Vote For Big Government, But Couldn't Afford It. What then?
Steve Sailer: National Journal’s Ronald Brownstein Confirms Sailer Strategy
Phyllis Schlafly: VAWA Is an Excellent Target for Spending Cuts
Gary North: Still Out of Step After All These Years

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The Economy

This update focuses on the economy.

Gary North: Wealth Through Decentralization
Gary North: Insider Trading: A Bum Rap
Gary North: Bernanke Is Riding the Tiger
Gary North: Interest Rates on the Rise
James Ryan: The Strange Tale of Obama, The Teamsters, The Sierra Club—And Those Cheap, Dirty, Dangerous Mexican Trucks
Gary North: Gold or Uniformed Goons With Badges and Guns
Phyllis Schlafly: Death for Innovation
Gary North: Enemies of the Middle Class
Gary North: Gold Has No Intrinsic Value
Gary North: Booms, Busts, and Food Prices

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

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism.

Ann Coulter: Thanks For Raising My Taxes--What Else Can I Do For You?
Ann Coulter: Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science
Thomas Sowell: Union Myths
Ann Coulter: Six-Figure Bus Drivers & Other Working-Class Heroes
Dan Flynn: Spies Like Us
Andrew McCarthy: Jean-Jacques Jihad
Phyllis Schlafly: Feminism Has Become a Hot Topic
Michelle Malkin: De-Fund The Predators Of Planned Parenthood
James Fulford: They’ll Think You’re Signaling! Dog-Whistles From Goldwater To Reagan To Palin

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

Libya

This update focuses on Libya.

Ann Coulter: Obama Cried, Kids Died
Pat Buchanan: Obama's War
Dan Flynn: The Right Must Admit It Was Wrong About Democracy in the Middle East
Mark Steyn: The Art of Inconclusive War
Pat Buchanan: Obama's Foolish and Unconstitutional War
Pat Buchanan: Obama’s Confused Foreign Policy—And America’s
Pat Buchanan: After The Arab “Revolution”, The Bell Tolls For America
Pat Buchanan: It's Their War, Not Ours

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News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad.

Sean Gabb: Persecuting Christians
Pat Buchanan: Robert Gates, Neo-Isolationist?
Pat Buchanan: Manufacturing's Dismal Decade
Phyllis Schlafly: Free Trade with Protectionist China Cheats America
Pat Buchanan: Will Multiculturalism End Europe?
Alex Kurtagic: UK’s Cameron Says Multiculturalism Has Failed—But His Solution Is Muscular Liberalism
Thomas Sowell: Undermining Allies
Eugene Girin: To Russia With Hate—Mass Immigration is Destroying Russia, Too

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Government

This update focuses on government.

Gary North: How the Fed Can Be Abolished
Phyllis Schlafly: So Refreshing; Congress Doing Its Job
Phyllis Schlafly: A Warning About Things to Come
Walter Williams: Democracy Versus Liberty
Gary North: Setting the Government's Agenda
Gary North: Sacrosanct No More
Gary North: The Constitution Is on Life-Support
Gary North: When the Insiders Lose Control
Gary North: Facebook, Twitter, and the Arab Revolutions
Ann Coulter: What Liberals Don't Know About Guns, Chapter 217

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Unions

This update focuses on unions.

Michelle Malkin: Teachers’ Unions 101: "A" Is For "Agitation"
Pat Buchanan: Why Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Must Win
Ann Coulter: Uncivil Unions
Ann Coulter: Look For the Union Fable
Michelle Malkin: Fleebaggers: The New Cut-and-Run Democrats
Pat Buchanan: Barack Hussein Alinsky
Gary North: Is the Teacher's Union as Dead as a Doornail?
Michelle Malkin: Apocalypse Now: Wisconsin vs. Big Labor

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The Middle East

This update focuses on the Middle East.

Steve Sailer: Electing A New People: The Case of Libya’s Muammar Kaddafi
Steve Sailer: Bahrain—Electing A New People…And Shooting The Old One
Thomas Sowell: Is Democracy Viable?
Pat Buchanan: What’s Wrong With A Middle East Without America?
Ann Coulter: Democrats: Emboldening America's Enemies & Terrifying Her Allies Since 1976
Dan Flynn: Whither Egypt?
Pat Buchanan: Ideology vs. the National Interest

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy.

Gary North: I'm So Glad I Was Fired – Twice
Gary North: The Fed vs. Widows
Gary North: The End of the Nation State
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Plan to Admit Mexican Trucks
Gary North: The Nation State Is Doomed
Gary North: I'm Thankful for Shopping Malls

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

Immigration

This update focuses on immigration.

Washington Watcher: CPAC: Conservatives Pandering—Aliens (Still) Coming
Steve Sailer: Byron Roth’s The Perils Of Diversity: Apologies To The Grandchildren
Phyllis Schlafly: Detaching the Anchor from Anchor Babies
Victor Davis Hanson: Two Californias
James Fulford: The Fulford File: Dubya Memoir Shows He Never Understood Immigration (Although His Nanny May Have)
Roger Hedgecock: DREAM Act: An Amnesty Nightmare

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad.

Pat Buchanan: Mubarak: Latest Victim Of The American Way of Abandonment?
Ilana Mercer: Why Do White Protestant Societies Wither? South Africa As A Case Study
Sean Gabb: John Stuart Mill, The BNP, And The U.K.’s Dying Democracy
Will Grigg: How Did This Guy Become a Homeland Security Overlord?
Phyllis Schlafly: Reevaluating Free Trade with China
Rachel Marsden: Could France Go Even Further Right?

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Government

This update focuses on government.

Phyllis Schlafly: Cheers for Repeal of ObamaCare
Gary North: When It's Time To Get Out of Dodge
Gary North: The Barbarians Were Civilized
Gary North: Dallas Fed Prez Attacks Ron Paul
Gary North: The Symbolic Debt Ceiling
Pat Buchanan: And the Debt Bomb Ticks On
Pat Buchanan: How the Chinese Must See Us
Gary North: Your Role: To Be a Rube

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Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism.

Ann Coulter: Mud Libel
Ann Coulter: Scrooge Was A Liberal
Dan Flynn: Want To Understand The Left?
Dan Flynn: Socialism Didn't Work at Plymouth Plantation, Either
Michelle Malkin: Ray LaHood: Obama's Power-Mad Cell Phone Czar
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Pleads for Women's Vote

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

Leftist Violence

This update focuses on leftist violence in the wake of the Arizona shooting. The left is trying to suppress conservative speech in the name of civility. Most political violence comes from the left, not the right.

Michelle Malkin: The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
Michelle Malkin: Blame Righty: A Condensed History
Dan Flynn: The Left's History Of Violence
Pat Buchanan: Poisonous Politics
Ann Coulter: Liberal Seek Ban on Metaphors In Wake of Arizona Shooting

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Education

This update focuses on education.

Gary North: Public Education Is Going Down
Nicholas Stix: 2011 Campus “Hate Crime” Hoax Season About To Begin
Walter Williams: Black Education Disaster
Pat Buchanan: PISA And Bad Students—American Schools Add Value, But Demography is Still Destiny
Steve Sailer: PISA Scores Show Demography Is Destiny In Education Too—But Washington Doesn’t Want You To Know
Phyllis Schlafly: What's Happened to Public School Curriculum?
Anonymous: The Shadow Scholar
Phyllis Schlafly: The High Price of College
Mary Hickox: Unschooling
Phyllis Schlafly: Common Core Standards For Public Schools: A Bad Idea

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

Government

This update focuses on government.

Gary North: Down Will Come the Welfare State, Cradle and All
Pat Buchanan: Is a Bond Crisis Inevitable?
Erick Erickson: Senator Jim DeMint: Conservative Of The Year
Thomas Sowell: "Saving" The Housing Market
Phyllis Schlafy: Government by Regulations Instead of Laws and Treaties
Steve Sailer: Another Helpful Sailer Suggestion Obama Won’t Take—End Voting Rights Act Gerrymanders!
Phyllis Schlafly: The Paycheck Unfairness Act
Gary North: Klaatu Obama Nikto

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Best Articles of 2010

It is time for the best articles of 2010. These articles were selected from roughly 10,000 articles this year. More than 400 articles appeared in this year's 52 POLITICAL UPDATES.

The culture war was the most frequent topic, inspiring eight updates. Immigration and government were tied with seven. Fourth was the economy with six.

This year there was a clear choice for the best article of the year.

Angelo Codevilla: America's Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution

Following this, in chronological order, are twelve more selections for the most important news or opinion pieces of 2010.

Gary North: A Red-Alert Threat to the Regime
Steve Sailer: “Bad Students”—Unmentionable Cause Of The Great Achievement Gap
Gary North: Bring Down the Ruling Elite
Ann Coulter: Justice Brennan's Footnote Gave Us Anchor Babies
National Review: Ten Reasons to Oppose Dodd-Frank
Gary North: Abolish the Public Schools
John Taylor Gatto: Against Schools
Steve Sailer: MSM Buries Lead—American Majority Supports Arizona Law. But Our Elites Don’t Like The American Majority
Gary North: Read All About It! The NY Times and Other Establishments Sheets Are Dead
Allen Wall: Yes, La Raza Really Does Mean "The Race"—And The Idea Was Invented By a Nazi Sympathizer
Gary North: The City of Detroit is Dead: It Was Killed by Government
Steve Sailer: Hidden Key To Last Decade’s Disasters: Dubya’s Commitment To “Diversity”

Previous:
Best Articles of 2009
Best Articles of 2008
Best Articles of 2007
Best Articles of 2006
Best Articles of 2005

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. All of the articles are by prolific writer Gary North.

The Emperor Keynes
Theft By Mercantilists
How to Defend the Free Market Gold Coin Standard: Stop Defending the Government Counterfeits
Bernanke Is Untouchable
The Zombie Banks Feast
The Ron Paul Hot Seat
Rats Desert the Sinking Bernanke
No More Treasury Debt Purchases?
Dr. Bernanke Gets a Phone Call
Judgment Days

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The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war.

Peter Brimelow: Announcing VDARE.com’s War Against Christmas 2010 Competition!
Pat Buchanan: Christian Rout in the Culture War
Phyllis Schlafly: Lame Duck Judges Should Not Be Confirmed
Steve Sailer: Electing A New People: Arizona Chooses Conservatives
Mathew Richer: Newt Gingrich: The Aspiring Americano President
Ann Coulter: Bradley Manning: Poster Boy For 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Ann Coutler: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Call Our Troops Homophobes
Gary North: Sitting Ducks: Why the Tea Party Movement Is Vulnerable to Economic Charlatans, Ignoramuses, and Statists
Nancy Pearcey: Give Thanks! Time’s View of Marriage Is Obsolete

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Money and Spending

This update focuses on money and spending.

Gary North: The Digit Juggler
Gary North: Bernanke Lied His Way Through a '60 Minutes' Infomercial
Gary North: The Establishment Is in Despair
Gary North: Who Should Be Burned?
Gary North: Ellen Brown Betrays Her Followers
Gary North: Warren Buffett Lives Off You
Lew Rockwell: The Gold Standard Never Dies
Dan Flynn: Watch the Amazing Fed Turn a Dollar into a Dime!
Gary North: There Is a Revolution Coming

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