AUGUST 23, 2010 The Guns of August, 1990 The last 20 years would have been very different had American forces taken that open road to Baghdad the first time around. By FOUAD AJAMI He struck in early August, 20 years ago, at a time when the Cold War had just ended, and the world was […]
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EDITORIAL: Democratic decline Bush-league blame game can’t hide the truth By THE WASHINGTON TIMES– August 10, 2010 ASSOCIATED PRESS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, outside the White House on Thursday, calls for BP to stop making dividend payments to shareholders until it addresses economic assistance claims from businesses that have been affected by the oil spill.
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JULY 19, 2010 Avoiding Another Intelligence Failure on Iran The disastrous 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Tehran’s weapons program cost us dearly. Only an independent inquiry can assure the country that the new estimate underway will be better. By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD U.S. intelligence has already had two horrendously costly lapses this decade: the failure to
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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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Published on The New Republic (http://www.tnr.com) Islam: Unmentionable in D.C. Reuel Marc Gerecht July 14, 2010 | 12:00 am The recent suicide bombing against Pashtun tribal elders in Mohmand, a region not far from Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, made my mind return to conversations I’d had in Peshawar in 2000.
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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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Wall Street Journal Video – Daniel Henninger http://online.wsj.com/video/perils-of-the-media-presidency/7E810B38-0CB7-4592-8CDA-FB814E71D8E0.html
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JUNE 22, 2010 A Tale of Two Disasters Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill. By PAUL H. RUBIN In many respects, the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Katrina are mirror images of each other. The harm from Katrina was
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Losing Asia? If we stint on our military investment in the Pacific, we’ll pay a high price. BY Dan Blumenthal June 7, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 36 After three decades of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific, it is tempting to dismiss the possibility of tension and conflict in
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MAY 28, 2010 Obama’s Blowout Preventer In case you hadn’t heard, Ken Salazar had a reform plan . . . BP and the Coast Guard yesterday were cautiously optimistic that the “top kill” maneuver could stanch the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, and let us hope this is the beginning of the end of the
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