OCTOBER 11, 2011 Egypt’s Silhouette of Fire Sectarian violence flares on the streets of Cairo. By BRET STEPHENS In the wake of Sunday’s clashes in Cairo that left 24 dead and some 200 wounded, Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf wasted no time hinting at the culprit. “What’s happening is not sectarian tension,” he said. “There […]
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Overrated Rumors of Barack Obama’s political skill have been greatly exaggerated. Noemie Emery October 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: What went wrong in the first place was that too much went right. He never was able to learn from adversity, as he never saw
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Romney Defends Defense Daniel Halper October 10, 2011 12:04 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made clear, in a foreign policy speech on Friday, that he believes “American strength rises from a strong economy, a strong defense, and the enduring strength of our values.” Romney then pledged to “reverse
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Book on Obama By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 10.6.11 @ 6:08AM No reporter has better captured the smallness of this man’s modest gifts than Ron Suskind. WASHINGTON — Supposedly this White House has just made a furious attempt to sink a book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson October 4, 2011 Ten Lessons from Obama In less than three years Barack Obama has reversed all expectations. The election of Barack Obama brought all sorts of contradictions. A man with about the least prior executive experience in presidential history was suddenly acclaimed a “god” and the smartest
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The genius of Vladimir Putin By Ralph Peters, Published: September 26 Washington Post There is one incontestably great actor on the world stage today, and he has no interest in following our script. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — soon to be Russia’s president again — has proven remarkably effective at playing the weak strategic hand
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011, 7:45 A.M. ET What American ‘Political Prisoners’? An American hiker channels Noam Chomsky after two years in Iranian jail. By JAMES KIRCHICK Imagine you are Shane Bauer, one of two American hikers released from Iranian captivity last week. On July 31, 2009, you’re traversing a mountain trail in Iraqi Kurdistan, near the
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