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Updated: July/04/2009
Green nonsense
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AN UNUSUALLY cold winter (it snowed in Saudi Arabia and Iraq; temperatures fell to minus 80 degrees in Siberia) has been followed by an unusually cool spring (it snowed in North Dakota in June for the first time in 60 years).
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Updated: June/27/2009
Our timid President
IT ISN'T exactly like dancing on Neda's grave, but it's close enough to make decent people uncomfortable.
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Updated: June/20/2009
Foreign folly
WHEN it comes to foreign policy, President Obama is a one-trick pony, and the trick isn't working.
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Updated: June/13/2009
Palin power
PRESIDENT Obama is, by far, the most popular politician in America. And there is little doubt who is No. 2.
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Updated: June/06/2009
Undercover turf war
PRESIDEN• •Obama made a surprise lunchtime visit May 29 to a Five Guys hamburger joint in Washington, where he bought cheeseburgers for himself and for NBC anchor Brian Williams, who was filming a "day in the life" program at the White House.
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Updated: May/30/2009
Playing the U.S. for a patsy
ON MEMORIAL Day, North Korea tested a nuclear weapon for the second time. President Obama issued a statement describing this as "a matter of grave concern to all nations" and then went off to play a round of golf.
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Updated: May/23/2009
Fuel policy is foolish
"IT'S TERRIBLE. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It's the first car I've ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I wouldn't have to drive it any more. "
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Updated: May/16/2009
Obama's toadies
"Does he even know who … I am?" the petulant young woman asked her companions, throwing in an expletive, when a security guard briefly denied her entrance to the event because she had just two tickets for three people.
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Updated: May/09/2009
The strong arm of no law
PRESIDENT Obama’s “car czar” has no experience in the automobile industry and is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly paying kickbacks to obtain New York state pension business.
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Updated: May/02/2009
Rigid Republicans
ARLEN Specter, who was elected to the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania five times as a Republican, will seek a sixth term next year as a Democrat.
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Updated: April/25/2009
Tortured logic
AS ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury, William Laud (1573-1645) was a staunch political supporter of King Charles I and an ecclesiastical supporter of "high church" practices. Neither of these set well with Parliament, which was controlled by Puritans such as Oliver Cromwell. So Parliament passed a law declaring Archbishop Laud guilty of treason, and had him beheaded.
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Updated: April/18/2009
Obama let them shoot
"PRESIDENT Pantywaist" was how Gerald Warner, a columnist for the London Telegraph, described Barack Obama at the conclusion of his European tour, which he compared to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
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Updated: April/11/2009
Obama must get tough on pirates
THE opening stanza of the Marine Corps hymn is: "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea."
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Updated: April/04/2009
The limits of 'dialog'
ALL of us are brothers under the skin. All of us humans (except, of course, for conservatives and AIG executives) have good hearts and want basically the same things.
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Updated: March/21/2009
O-bailout and AIG
DID Team Obama drop the ball or throw the game?
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Updated: March/14/2009
Democrats loose the dogs
SAMUEL Joseph Wurzelbacher, Rick Santelli, and Jim Cramer owe much of their 15 minutes of fame to Saul Alinsky, a Chicago Marxist who died in 1972. Mr. Alinsky is considered to be the father of "community organizing" as the path to social revolution.
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Updated: March/07/2009
With friends like this …
FEW did more to reassure Jews it was “safe” to vote for Barack Obama than Martin Peretz, financier and editor-in-chief of The New Republic since 1974.
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Updated: February/28/2009
It's put-up time
POLITICAL attitudes can change rapidly. In 1972, Richard Nixon was re-elected by the largest popular vote margin in American history. Two years later, he'd been driven from office and Democrats made massive gains in Congress, adding 49 seats in the House, and five in the Senate.
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Updated: February/21/2009
It's the content, not the size
IT'S interesting to speculate how very different history might have been if King George II, who died in 1760, had lived another five years or so.
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Updated: February/14/2009
A package of pork
THERE was an awkward moment Tuesday for Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania's sort-of Republican, when Megyn Kelly of Fox News asked him about a provision of which he evidently was unaware in the stimulus package for which he'd just voted.
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Updated: February/07/2009
Culture of Corruption II
WHEN in the last election Democrats spoke of a "culture of corruption" in Washington, few realized they were making a promise.
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Updated: January/24/2009
Obama's opportunities
MUCH has been made of the challenges confronting President Barack Obama, who assumes office in what appears to be the early stage of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. More should be made of the opportunities he faces.
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Updated: January/17/2009
Guess who's coming to dinner?
"HE IS so well informed, and he loves to deal with both sides of an issue," said Larry Kudlow, conservative economist and CNBC talk show host. "I was honored to meet him. He is a very impressive man."
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Updated: January/10/2009
Leon Panetta is no spy
THERE are, I suspect, quite a few jobs in government for which having no experience is not a liability. But few would list director of central intelligence among them. Which is why Barack Obama's pick of Leon Panetta is causing so much consternation.
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