AUGUST 11, 2010 The Obsolescence of Barack Obama The magic of 2008 can’t be recreated, and good riddance to it. By FOUAD AJAMI Not long ago Barack Obama, for those who were spellbound by him, had the stylishness of JFK and the historic mission of FDR riding to the nation’s rescue. Now it is to […]
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HEUBUSCH: Remembering ‘Morning in America’ Tax cuts unleashed America’s renewal at home and abroad By John Heubusch – Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library The Washington Times July 28, 2010 Illustration: Reagan’s morning by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Over the eight years of the Reagan
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Unpresidential President Barack Obama has managed a rare feat: The longer he holds office, the more he diminishes in stature. BY James W. Ceaser August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 From charisma to populism—this is the slippery slope down which Barack Obama has been sliding over the
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AUGUST 6, 2010 A Hiroshima Apology? Japan’s continued focus on remembering the bomb has been an understandable sore point for its Asian neighbors, who suffered greatly at its hands. By WARREN KOZAK For the first time since the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan 65 years ago, today the U.S. ambassador to Japan
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AUGUST 3, 2010 Rewriting Fannie Mae History The effort is underway to resurrect the biggest housing losers. If you want proof that the Washington establishment has learned nothing from the 2008 financial panic, look no further than the nearby letter from former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines. Our old antagonist is signaling where the debate
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Republicans want review of birthright citizenship APNews August 3, 2010 Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Tuesday he supports holding hearings on the 14th Amendment right, although he emphasized that Washington’s
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JULY 30, 2010 U.S. Immigration Fight Widens to Native-Born By MIRIAM JORDAN and JEAN GUERRERO in Phoenix and LAURA MECKLER in Washington The immigration debate is reviving the explosive idea of denying citizenship to children born on U.S. soil if their parents are in the country illegally. A U.S. senator and a state lawmaker in
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JULY 15, 2010 My Biggest Mistake in the White House Failing to refute charges that Bush lied us into war has hurt our country. By KARL ROVE Seven years ago today, in a speech on the Iraq war, Sen. Ted Kennedy fired the first shot in an all-out assault on President George W. Bush’s integrity.
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JULY 13, 2010 The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth Runaway government spending, not declining tax revenues, is the reason the U.S. faces dramatic budget shortfalls for years to come. By BRIAN RIEDL President Obama and congressional Democrats are blaming their trillion-dollar budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Letting
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JULY 13, 2010 FDR, Obama and ‘Confidence’ Demonizing business deepened the Great Depression. The White House can learn from Roosevelt’s mistakes. By AMITY SHLAES What is confidence and why is it missing? The concept seems to be driving Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner crazy this summer. You can hear that when you listen to him talk
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