FEBRUARY 8, 2011 In an interview, the former secretary of defense explains how Washington feuds harmed Iraq policy, and why the surge was less vital than you think. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL ‘I’d read other folks’ books about things I’d been involved in . . . and I’d think, ‘My goodness, that’s not my perspective,’”
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner Multiculturalism vs. American Exceptionalism By Peter Kirsanow Posted on February 09, 2011 1:01 PM In today’s editorial concerning David Cameron’s important speech on multiculturalism, the editors quote the lament of journalist Mihir Bose that “the tragedy with modern Britain is that it seems not to care any longer for the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) In the Dock Get ready for two years of Obama administration oversight by the House GOP. Fred Barnes January 31, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 19 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Upton’s committee is taking up the White House review of past regulations, which the president announced in the Wall Street
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011 A Modest $500 Billion Proposal My spending cuts would keep 85% of government funding and not touch Social Security or Medicare. By RAND PAUL After Republicans swept into office in 1994, Bill Clinton famously said in his State of the Union address that the era of big government was over. Nearly $10
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Nile Gardiner Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. The greatest president of the 20th Century: the free world owes Ronald Reagan a huge debt of gratitude By Nile Gardiner World
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CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Two approaches to state budget shortfall You Democrats spent us to death; now we must make tough decisions. By N.C. Sen. Bob Rucho Tuesday, Feb. 08, 2011 Excerpts from a speech Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, delivered on the N.C. Senate floor last week: “Here we are in a situation where we’ve got double-digit unemployment. And
FEBRUARY 4, 2011 On his 100th birthday, it’s worth recalling the character and leadership essential to presidential success. By ROBERT MCFARLANEMr. McFarlane served as President Reagan’s national security adviser (1983-85), as President Ford’s special assistant for national security affairs (1976-77), and as military assistant to Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft in the Nixon administration. He
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FEBRUARY 4, 2011 The subpoena king’s hilarious advice. In the glass-houses department, Henry Waxman is accusing Republicans of “an abuse of the oversight process” and “going on fishing expeditions” as they investigate the White House. This is like Ben Roethlisberger volunteering to chaperone spring break. The 19-term Beverly Hills Democrat made his name as a
FEBRUARY 4, 2011 Their budgets will be crushed by the Medicaid expansions that the feds are forcing on them. By GEORGE MELLOAN Behind this week’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson overturning ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, there is a deeper economic reality. The states can’t afford it. That’s a primary reason why 26
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