Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A World in Crisis What the thirties tell us about today. Matthew Continetti January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 On December 13, 1931, there was a traffic accident in New York City. A man exited a cab on the Upper East Side and was crossing […]
JANUARY 13, 2011 The departure of press secretary Robert Gibbs is another sign that big White House changes are afoot. By KARL ROVE Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, was treated like a rock star by journalists. He made good copy with vivid quotes and manic energy. He also oversaw a clearly dysfunctional
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Leading likely to violence. Lee Smith January 12, 2011 6:08 PM As Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri was in Washington to meet with President Obama this morning, Hezbollah and its allies withdrew from the Lebanese cabinet, setting the table for what many fear is an inevitable escalation of violence
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WASHINGTON POST By George F. Will Sunday, January 9, 2011; Consensus is scarce but almost everyone agrees with this: The government is dysfunctional and the Internet is splendid. But last month, the Democratic-controlled Federal Communications Commission, on a partisan 3-2 vote, did what a federal court says it has no power to do: It decided
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chief of staff pick just another cog in the Daley machine By John Kass January 7, 2011 As President Barack Obama knighted Chicago’s William Daley as his new chief of staff — and kept the Daley machine in control of the executive branch of our federal government — I couldn’t help thinking of
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JANUARY 7, 2011 The New Party of No Majority Leader Harry Reid will soon be blocking, obstructing or deterring nearly all the reforms the Republican House sends to the Senate. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may yet rue the day he helped popularize the phrase “The Party of No.” It never
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AMERICAN THINKER January 06, 2011 What Obama Thinks of America By Wendy Wright Sometimes the best way to find out what a person thinks about you is to find out what he tells others. That’s why the report on America’s human rights record filed by the Obama administration with the U.N. is particularly interesting. It’s
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 5, 2011 Covert Action Makes a Comeback Once in disrepute, secret warfare is now embraced even by the Obama administration to fight terrorism and weapons proliferation. By MAX BOOT We’re in an era of “covert action.” That phrase went into disrepute in the 1970s, when Congress’s Church Committee exposed hare-brained CIA
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Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped
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JANUARY 3, 2011 The Liberal Reckoning of 2010 The year voters saw the left’s unvarnished agenda and said no. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a press release last week headlined “111th Congress Accomplishments.” It quoted a couple of Democratic Party cheerleaders calling this the greatest Congress since 1965-66 (Norm Ornstein) or even the
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