NOVEMBER 2, 2010 Why Obama Is No Roosevelt Roosevelt: ‘Your government has unmistakable confidence in your ability to hear the worst without flinching and losing heart.’ Obama: We don’t ‘always think clearly when we’re scared.’ By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Whatever the outcome of today’s election, this much is clear: It will be a long time before […]
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“Republican Leaders Hail Historic Election Results” Raleigh – An unusually large turnout at the polls Tuesday gave the Republicans a majority of 68-70 seats in the 120 seat NC House of Representatives. This historic election assured Republican control of the House for the first time since 1998. Republicans also wrested control of the NC Senate,
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NEW YORK TIMES October 31, 2010 How We Got Here By ROSS DOUTHAT From the early 1990s through the 2008 election, Americans grew steadily more liberal. Voters became more supportive of government spending and more sympathetic toward the poor. They were increasingly secular and increasingly likely to favor gay marriage. They were more worried about
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Slaughterhouse The Smallness of Saul By Matthew Vadum from the October 2010 issue Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky By Nicholas von Hoffman (Nation Books, 214 pages, $26.95) “Although Alinsky is described as some kind of liberal left-winger in actuality big government worried him,” writes Saul Alinsky protégé Nicholas von Hoffman
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Obama Watch Closing Time at the Club of Disaffection By Andrew B. Wilson on 10.29.10 Last call for drinks. Last chance to find someone new before the night is done. It’s closing time at the Club of Disaffection. I spent a good deal of time at this club during the turbulent
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) It’s the Money, Stupid Papering over our economic problems. Jeffrey Bell and Sean Fieler October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, is the only significant public official on record in opposition to the easy-money, zero-interest-rate monetary policy being
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Not the best-remembered President, but he stated a significant truth we need to remember as we go to the polls on Tuesday…. “Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) ——————————————————————————– America at War, 2010 The USS Cole ten years later. Thomas Donnelly October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Before there was 9/11, there was 10/12. A decade ago this week, al Qaeda operatives staged a spectacular suicide attack on the USS Cole while it was refueling in
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KAHLILI: Ahmadinejad’s Lebanon victory lap As West sues for peace, Islamic regime boldly advances By Reza Kahlili – The Washington Times October 12, 2010 A giant poster of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on display in the southern village of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, in preparation for Mr. Ahmadinejad’s visit there.
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