Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Two Miserable Decades Don’t worry, it was even worse in the 1970s. Or was it? Jonathan V. Last September 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 04 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Everyday life wasn’t much better than economic life. Terrorism first came into vogue in the 1970s. Sometimes it […]
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GEORGE W outclasses Barack and Bill, without even trying ◀ ▶ Former president George H.W. Bush, left, applauds with Laura Bush after former president George W. Bush‘s speech during the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center Thursday, April 25, 2013, in Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) President Barack Obama listens as former
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Please scroll down to the bottom of the article to read Ronald Reagan’s impromptu remarks at the close of the 1976 Republican convention. Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Republican Party in Opposition William Kristol January 28, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 19 In March 1975, with the United States in post-Watergate disarray at
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.theweeklystandard.com) Escape from Tehran A good movie might have been great without the polemics. John Podhoretz October 29, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 07 The new Ben Affleck film—an efficiently told piece about a crazily brilliant CIA operation to get six Americans out of Iran during the hostage crisis more
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.theweeklystandard.com) Letting the Rabble Off Easy The Iranian Revolution, according to Ben Affleck. Kelly Jane Torrance October 29, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 07 Hollywood loves to think of itself as socially significant. But given how long it can take to finance a film—let alone make one—it’s exceedingly rare for
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Reuel Marc Gerecht May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold Macmillan, shot to pieces in World War I,
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WASHINGTON POST By Mitt Romney, Published: March 5 Beginning Nov. 4, 1979 , dozens of U.S. diplomats were held hostage by Iranian Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days while America’s feckless president, Jimmy Carter, fretted in the White House. Running for the presidency against Carter the next year, Ronald Reagan made it crystal clear that the Iranians
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Updated March 5, 2012, Reagan Was A Sure Loser Too Conventional wisdom about Republican presidential prospects sounds mighty familiar. By WILLIAM MCGURN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Nor was candidate Reagan without baggage. As governor, Reagan had pushed through the largest tax hike in California’s history, had signed one of the nation’s most liberal abortion laws,
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Spencer: Obama: Jimmy Carter’s second term Jihad Watch Spencer: Obama: Jimmy Carter’s second term By Robert Spencer February 14, 2012 In Human Events this morning I discuss the latest disastrous turn of Obama’s disastrous presidency: Last week the Egyptian Government announced that it intends to put 19 Americans on trial for fomenting anti-government protests –
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) …But It Won’t Be Easy William Kristol February 6, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 20 On January 23, 1980, Jimmy Carter gave what turned out to be his final State of the Union address. Ronald Reagan’s victory over Carter that November spared us any more of them. Will Barack Obama’s
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