THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Current Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 4.28.11 @ 6:09AM WASHINGTON — While inspecting the body politic, one encounters one clear sign that Liberalism is dead. It is the condition of our political discourse. Polite commentators note that the dialogue is “rancorous.” Some say toxic. Actually it is worse than […]
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On April 25–27, President Bush will host the Warrior 100—a 100-kilometer mountain bike ride in West Texas—with 14 U.S. servicemen and women who were seriously wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. “I’ll be riding across the deserts of Texas with wounded warriors to show the unbelievable character of our men and women in uniform,” said President
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Daniel Halper April 13, 2011 4:16 PM House Budget chairman Paul Ryan just released the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on deficit reduction: “When the President reached out to ask us to attend his speech, we were expecting an olive branch. Instead, his speech was excessively
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) No hope, no change. Fred Barnes April 13, 2011 4:02 PM President Obama always lets you down. Just when you think he’s ready to deliver a lofty speech chocked with specifics on handling the spending and debt emergency, he offers up a hyper-partisan attack on the leading Republican proposal,
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March 17, 2011 By F. Owen Smith America has become dependent on social steroids, the kind pushed under the street-name HGH, standing for Huge Government Handouts. The steroid metaphor is so aptly drawn as to make it irresistible, so with your permission I’ll develop it. Hold a photograph of the Twenties strongman Charles Atlas next
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March 10, 2011 Three Cheers for Jack Cashill By Herbert E. Meyer Would you believe me if I told you that while in Milan last weekend, I’d been to La Scala for the world premiere of a new opera by George W. Bush? And would you ever again take me seriously if I published a
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BRIAN T. KENNEDY is president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books. He has written on national security affairs and California public policy issues in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and other national newspapers. He sits on the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense and is
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FEBRUARY 28, 2011 Kim Jong II’s Nuclear Resolve A North Korean defector explains why Kim will never give up his atomic bombs. By JACK DAVID AND MELANIE KIRKPATRICK Seoul “North Korea will never give up nuclear weapons.” So says Kim Duk-hong, who should know. Mr. Kim is one of the highest-ranking North Korean officials to
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Supporting the nation’s restive people is the key By Thomas Joscelyn and Michael Ledeen – The Washington Times January 28, 2011 “How do you deal with al Qaeda?” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair asked rhetorically during a public hearing in London earlier this month. Mr. Blair quickly answered his own question: “You can’t deal
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PAJAMASMEDIA.COM By Victor Davis Hanson February 13, 2011 In times to come, the period between the failed campaign of John Kerry and the Democratic control of the Congress, coupled with the beginning of the successful surge, should be known as “The Insane Years.” This was the era in which Guantanamo was a gulag, renditions were
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