The following is a summary of the February 2010 issue of the St. Croix Review:

In "Double-Dealing Healthcare Reform," Barry MacDonald outlines pay-offs, mandates, price controls, and accounting gimmicks.

Mark Hendrickson, in "Climategate, Copenhagen and Cap and Trade," reports on the Climategate scandal, the doings of the failed Copenhagen conference on climate change, and the radical, leftist agenda of the green movement; in "The Coming of Caesar," he sees the rise of a crude democracy and the consequent collapse of our system of government; in "Combating Recessions: The Search for the Right Macroeconomic Policy," he believes macroeconomic theories lead to disaster, and he calls for a return to the free market; in "Government Intervention and High Prices," he shows how President Obama's policies are harming the poor and middle class; in "Jefferson's Warnings about Money and Banks," he writes that Jefferson anticipated our present dilemma.

Allan Brownfeld, in "In the Post-Cold War World, U.S. Is Still Searching for the Proper Role," suggests that Conservatives should return to a foreign policy that avoids foreign entanglements; in "Nation-Building in Afghanistan: A War of 'Necessity' or a War of 'Choice?'" he concludes that the time, treasure, and blood required to bring a stable and non-corrupt government to Afghanistan may be too much; in "Examining the Real -- and Largely Ignored -- Causes of Gang Violence in Chicago and Other Major U.S. Cities," he points out the persistent failings of the American underclass: single-parent homes, parents on drugs, a lack of respect for education, and a failure to take responsibility.

Herbert London, in "Fighting Jihadism at Home," explains how we should react to the Fort Hood shooter's killings; in "Tightening the Noose on Foreign Policy," he notes how President Obama's spending spree on domestic policy is restricting foreign policy choices; in "The Triumph of Hope Over Reality," he looks at the results of the President's first years, and sees nothing but false hope; in "'Race to the Top' Merely Another Education Gimmick," he believes public education is failing because of democracy, teachers' unions, and a toxic culture; in "Egyptian Chutzpah," he exposes hypocrisy involved in the construction by the Egyptian government of a wall designed to keep the Palestinians in Gaza from crossing into Egypt.

In "Obama's Plan and the Key Battleground," George Friedman writes of the importance of placing intelligence operatives within the Taliban for the success of the Afghanistan war. Only the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has the capability of inserting such operatives. The trustworthiness of the ISI is problematic.

In "A Candle for Iran? A Reagan Lesson for Obama -- from Christmas 1981" Paul Kengor compares President Obama's lackluster response to the uprising against the tyrants in Iran with a similar situation during Reagan's presidency; in "Who Was Nels Konnerup?" he celebrates the life of an unrecognized American hero.

John Howard answers a columnist from the New York Times in "Emotional Stress on U.S. Troops."

Senator James Inhofe, in "Inhofe in Copenhagen: 'It Has Failed. . . . It's Deja Vu All Over Again,'" reports that the same intractable blocks to binding agreements on carbon emissions that existed at the time of the Kyoto and Milan climate change conferences still exist today. Nothing has been achieved at the climate-change conference in Copenhagen, and the cap-and-trade bill will die in the U.S. Senate.

Tim Ball, in "The Death Blow to Climate Science," shows how the leaking of documents and emails from an elite group of scientists who have been promoting theories of human-caused, catastrophic global warming have exposed manipulated data and dishonest practices.

In "The Future of Energy Policy," Murray Weidenbaum looks at the future of energy policy from the viewpoints of economic, political, environmental, military, and foreign policy concerns.

John D'Aloia Jr., in "Out of Sight Taxes," exposes the growing weight of taxes and regulations that most of us don't know.

In "Healthcare," Harry Neuwirth places most of the blame for rising costs on Congress.

In "1776: A Stirring Year," Jigs Gardner relates the pivotal events of the year following the Declaration of Independence through the work of two historians.

John Ingraham shows how political correctness allowed a fraud a long run of success at Williams College in "A Case of Academic Corruption."

Thomas Martin reviews "Wisdom and the Well-Rounded Life: What Is a University?" by Peter Milward, S. J.