MAY 20, 2011 As Socialists Risk Losing Key Areas, Economists Fear ‘Hidden’ Bills By JONATHAN HOUSE And SARA SCHAEFER MUñOZ ReutersDemonstrators fill up Madrid’s famous Puerta del Sol in a protest against authorities’ handling of the economic crisis on Thursday. MADRID—Weekend elections that threaten to drive Spain’s ruling Socialist party from power in several regions
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PAJAMASMEDIA.COM November 11, 2010 – 1:30 pm – by Zombie (In the first half of this essay, Gerrymandering 101, I explained how gerrymandering works and why it’s so ubiquitous. Here in the exciting conclusion I name and shame the ten most gerrymandered districts of the current 111th Congress — plus 20 bizarre bonus districts not
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Are they now the natural governing party of Canada? Fred Barnes May 16, 2011, Who’s the most powerful conservative leader in the Americas, north and south? That may sound like a trick question, but it’s not. The answer is Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister who triumphed last week
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Friday, May 20, 2011 By Gary L. Bauer BREAKING NEWS! After a White House meeting that ran nearly two hours longer than planned, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made joint statements just a few hours ago from the Oval Office. Obama went first, looking uncomfortable and sounding as if he was in “damage
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May 19, 2011 by Frank Roche OBAMA’S OFFERS THE MIDDLE EAST UTOPIA A Liberal Utopia: President Obama’s vision of North Africa and the Middle East. The President gave his highly anticipated “Middle East” speech today at the US State Department in Washington, DC. It described a world that can most easily be seen through rose
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ACORN’s back: Front-group games Thursday, May 19, 2011 Voters beware: Under new names’ guise, the extreme-left Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is gearing up to help re-elect President Barack Obama in 2012. Congress defunded national ACORN last year over its solicitous attitude toward purported prostitution operations, forcing it and state- and local-level affiliates
Romney: Obama ‘threw Israel under the bus’ By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press HANOVER, N.H. – Republicans looking to unseat President Barack Obama charged Thursday that he undermined the sensitive and delicate negotiations for Middle East peace with his outline for resumed talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said Obama, whom he
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The End of an Idea — Why Affirmative Action Should Stop May 16, 2011 – 1:01 pm – by Victor Davis Hanson 2011, not 1970? We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. If the original intent was to level
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June 2011 THE ATLANTIC Who better to lead an educational revolution than Joel Klein, the prosecutor who took on the software giant Microsoft? But in his eight years as chancellor of New York City’s school system, the nation’s largest, Klein learned a few painful lessons of his own—about feckless politicians, recalcitrant unions, mediocre teachers, and
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