Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Queen of the Tea Party The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann Matthew Continetti July 4 – July 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40 If she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) With a party like his, why in the world did Anthony Weiner resign? Mark Hemingway June 27, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 39 Anthony Weiner undoubtedly felt pressured these last few weeks to resign his House seat over his dishonesty and online sexual indiscretions. The leaders of his party, everyone
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Burning down the house By George F. Will, Published: July 1 “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Emerson The louder they talked about the disadvantaged, the more money they made. And the more the financial system tottered. Who were they? Most explanations of the financial calamity have been
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June 30, 2011 A Dangerous Point of View…Indeed Russ Vaughn Congressman John Conyers, Democrat, from Michigan has just served up the money quote regarding his party’s true position on doing something about our nation’s budget woes: “This is the first time that I can remember being confronted by members of the Congress, my colleagues,
JUNE 30, 2011 Mitt Romney has adapted her ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ slogan, but would he emulate her steely leadership? By ANDREW ROBERTS In 1978, with the British economy in crisis and unemployment hovering at 1.5 million, or 5.1% of the working-age population, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party turned to its advertising gurus, Charles and Maurice Saatchi,
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JUNE 30, 2011 Thomas Dewey tried to run out the clock on Harry Truman. It didn’t work. By KARL ROVE High unemployment, anemic growth, defections in key groups such as independents and Hispanics, and unpopular policies are among the reasons President Obama is unlikely to win re-election. But likely to lose is far from certain
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June 30, 2011 Accusation that Voter ID Is Racist Demeans Blacks By Dennis Prager 6/7/2011 While dining out last week, I periodically looked up at one of the television monitors to see the score of the first game of the NBA finals. As there was no sound on to interrupt diners’ conversations, the monitor was
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Obama’s egghead economic saboteurs By Michelle Malkin • June 8, 2011 09:21 AM Academic Legion of Economic Doom: Chart adapted from e21 Obama’s Egghead Economic Saboteurs by Michelle Malkin Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can’t, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy
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REAL CLEAR POLITICS June 27, 2011 Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama Is Profoundly Aloof By Michael Barone EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:Sometimes it seems he’s president of the AFL-CIO, not the U.S.A. The man who said he wanted to double exports in five years has nothing to say about his National Labor Relations Board appointee’s attempt to
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