ROBBINS: The coming American counterrevolution A divided nation is facing down fundamental change By James S. Robbins– James S. Robbins is senior editorial writer for foreign affairs at The Washington Times and author of the forthcoming, “Native Americans: Patriotism, Exceptionalism, and the New American Identity” (Encounter, August 2012 The Washington Times Tuesday, June 5, 2012 […]
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Political Woman’ By Gary L. Larson – Special to The Washington Times Wednesday, May 30, 2012 POLITICAL WOMAN: THE BIG LITTLE LIFE OF JEANE KIRKPATRICK By Peter Collier Encounter, $25.99, 368 pages Quintessential American and true intellectual, she brought common sense to the crazy-quilt world of international politics. She gave no quarter to
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June 11, 2012 The Clintons’ Covert War on Obama By Thomas Lifson Panic is setting in among the people who ran the Democratic Party prior to the miraculous arrival on the scene of Barack Hussein Obama and the perfect storm of events that propelled him into the White House. These people, starting with Bill Clinton, the
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June 7, 2012 What’s Changed After Wisconsin The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards. By PEGGY NOONAN What happened in Wisconsin signals a shift in political mood and assumption. Public employee unions were beaten back and defeated in a state with a long progressive tradition. The unions and their allies put everything
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Politics of Polarization Why you won’t see a centrist Third Way this year. Jeffrey Bell May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35 The organization “Americans Elect” spent $35 million on a new “centrist” party and nobody came. In announcing that no presidential candidate had received the 10,000 online votes
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June 2, 2012 Notable & Quotable Former Alabama Congressman Artur Davis on why he has left the Democratic Party. Former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis writing on his website about becoming a Republican, May 29: Cutting ties with an Alabama Democratic Party that has weakened and lost faith with more and more Alabamians every year is
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May 26, 2012 The Reagan Memo Some sage economic advice from 1980 for the next President. Nearby today readers will notice excerpts from a memo written to Ronald Reagan by his economic advisers between his November 1980 election and inauguration. We share the memo because it shines a historical perspective on our own economic dilemmas
May 26, 2012 Advice for a New President The counsel that Reagan received in November 1980 is still relevant today. Editor’s note: The following are excerpts from a Nov. 16, 1980 memo to President-elect Ronald Reagan from his Coordinating Committee on Economic Policy. Its title: “Economic Strategy for the Reagan Administration.” The memo describes an
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,
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