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Donald Lambro: Is Obama Losing Party Support?
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Is Obama Losing Party Support?
By Donald Lambro
President Obama was back on his bus this week, promoting yet another job bill in the diminishing hope that it might help him hang on to his own.
Just days after the Democratic-controlled Senate failed to muster enough support just to make his bill the pending business, he [...]
John Ransom: President What’s-His-Name
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President What’s-His-Name
by John Ransom
There’s a millstone hanging around the neck of the US economy.
And his name is Barack Obama.
Blame Bush if you want, but post-9/11, Bush’s policies got the country moving in the right direction after a hard right hook.
Blame Bush if you must, but the “blame Bush” mantra isn’t going down well [...]
Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America
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Dismantling America
by Thomas Sowell
“We the people” are the familiar opening words of the Constitution of the United States– the framework for a self-governing people, free from the arbitrary edicts of rulers. It was the blueprint for America, and the success of America made that blueprint something that other nations sought to follow.
At [...]
Joseph C. Phillips: Tolerance and the Ground Zero Mosque
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Tolerance and the Ground Zero Mosque
by Joseph C. Phillips
I am fascinated that the same people who have been able to find a Constitutional right to government control of education, healthcare, and the energy industry are unable to divine from that same document any rational basis for the government to prevent a mosque from [...]
Kevin McCollough: 911 words about Obama’s Mosque
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911 words about Obama’s Mosque
by Kevin McCollough
It was something he certainly didn’t have to do. But he did it anyway. President Obama stepped into the fray of the single most divisive issue pertaining to terrorism, healing of hurt, religious disagreement, civil liberties, political fracturing, racism, and national security all in one step.
How’s that [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: (Even a Few) Words Matter
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(Even a Few) Words Matter
by Victor Davis Hanson
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was ecstatic after the Munich Conference of 1938. He bragged that he had coaxed Adolf Hitler into stopping further aggression after the Nazis gobbled up much of Czechoslovakia.
Arriving home, Chamberlain proudly displayed Hitler’s signature on the Munich Agreement, exclaiming to [...]
‘Bush Did It’ Is Not a Foreign Policy by Victor Davis Hanson
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‘Bush Did It’ Is Not a Foreign Policy
What exactly does Barack Obama wish to accomplish abroad?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America’s purported sins is not a foreign policy.
Ronald Reagan came into office with the idea of rolling back the Soviet Union. Reagan hoped that such [...]
George Will: No (Political) Experience Required
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No (Political) Experience Required
by George Will
Stiffening their sinews and summoning up their blood, pugnacious liberals and conservatives who relish contemporary Washington’s recurring Armageddons are eager for a summer-long struggle over Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. They should pause and ponder how recently and radically the confirmation process [...]
Jack Cashil: The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah
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The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah
By Jack Cashil
In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grumman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister.
At that same time, in America’s other new [...]
Michael Barone: Expectations of Hope and Change
Michael Barone looks at the coming Obama presidency. Read the whole column at that link
Expectations of Hope and Change
by Michael Barone
A new generation is coming to the White House. Barack Obama, born in 1961, is technically a baby boomer. But his early years were straight out of Generation X — abandoned by his father and, [...]