Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stand With Iraq Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Baghdad last week on what was probably his last official trip to the country he helped save from devastating sectarian war. His visit was hardly a victory
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The 2012 Ticket William Kristol April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Remember Barack Obama? He’s the president of the United States. As a candidate he promised hope and change. Now he defends the status quo. The fact that the status quo is clearly unsustainable doesn’t deter him. His
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Obama administration to make government contracts political. Jeffrey H. Anderson April 21, 2011 2:46 PM Under a headline reading, “White House may add politics to contract bids,” Washington Technology Daily reports, “The Obama administration is determining how to require companies competing for government contracts to list their political contributions
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APRIL 16, 2011 John Watson, Chevron’s CEO, says Americans must stop taking affordable energy for granted. That means more ‘oil, gas and coal.’ By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL San Ramon, Calif. It’s the day after President Obama delivered his most recent vision of America’s energy future, and I’m sitting in the sunny corporate offices of Chevron,
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APRIL 15, 2011 The Obama Growth Discount Policy matters. If Barack Obama matched Ronald Reagan’s post-recession recovery rate, 15.7 million more Americans would have jobs. By PHIL GRAMM Had the U.S. economy recovered from the current recession the way it bounced back from the other 10 recessions since World War II, our per-capita gross domestic
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APRIL 15, 2011 From nukes to terrorist proxies, Tehran’s power grows—and Washington dithers. By JOHN BOLTON Since the “Arab Spring” began four months ago in Tunisia, U.S. media have focused constantly and generally optimistically on the turmoil in the Middle East. Unfortunately, the rising threat of an Iranian Winter—nuclear or otherwise—is likely to outlast and
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By Philip Stephens Financial Times April 14 2011 America’s GIs are waving goodbye. Good Europeans should cheer them on their way. More than two decades have passed since the end of the cold war. You do not have to be French (or Russian) to agree it’s time for the Yanks to
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Andrew C. McCarthy Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, is the author, most recently, of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America April 16, 2011 The Audience Is Listening Obama gives jihadists the olive branch and Ryan the hickory
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APRIL 14, 2011 The president demonstrated again yesterday that he’s not serious about cutting spending. By KARL ROVE President Obama’s wild rhetorical gyrations have become familiar. Earlier this year, for example, he called budget cuts proposed by House Republicans “extreme,” suggesting they hurt “our most vulnerable citizens.” Yet after agreeing to many of them last
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