Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The stimulus pleas of the Obama administration fell on deaf ears in Berlin. Guess whose economy is growing faster. Christopher Caldwell November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 “You won’t find a lot of Keynesians here,” explained one German economic policymaker in Berlin in September. That will not be
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HERITAGE FOUNDATION Twelve Flaws of New START That Will Be Difficult to Fix Baker Spring September 16, 2010 Abstract: President Barack Obama has transmitted a deeply flawed arms control treaty to the Senate for its consent to ratification. While withholding consent is the simplest and most likely approach, the Senate may try to fix the
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) ——————————————————————————– Impermanent Majority The lesson of all the recent ‘wave’ elections. Noemie Emery November 15, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 09 Remember 2008, the liberal era, the “we are all socialists now” frenzy, the realignment brought about by the magic of Barack Obama, that transcendent persuader, that peerless orator, that
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WASHINGTON POST Foreign-policy setbacks deepen Obama’s election wounds By Scott Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 19, 2010; 6:51 AM Presidents have often turned to foreign policy after domestic setbacks – from Ronald Reagan’s Latin American tour and speech calling the Soviet Union the “focus of evil in the modern world” in the months
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Jeffrey T. Kuhner http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/k1075_10_29.asp Friday, October 29, 2010 Time to declare war on the sugar daddy from hell and force behind Obama regime George Soros is back. The leftist billionaire wrote a column this week calling for the legalization of marijuana. In the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed pages, Mr. Soros supports California’s Proposition 19, the
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NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Obama’s Air Guitar The danger of America’s will to weakness. By BRET STEPHENS Lately in the news: Beijing provokes clashes with the navies of both Indonesia and Japan as part of a bid to claim the South China Sea. Tokyo is in a serious diplomatic row with Russia over the South Kuril
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Old Problems With New Start The Senate shouldn’t ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty without guarantees that the administration will modernize weapons and improve missile defense. By R. JAMES WOOLSEY A number of years negotiating arms-control agreements with the Soviets taught me that, when dealing with Russian counterparts, don’t appear eager—friendly
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NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals
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November 11, 2010 By ROGER COHEN LONDON — A world without nuclear weapons sounds nice, but of course that was the world that brought us World War I and World War II. If you like the sound of that, the touchy-feely “Global Zero” bandwagon is probably for you. I’m an optimist in general but a
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stephen F. Hayes November 11, 2010 4:45 PM Ben Smith has a good piece on John Thune’s vulnerabilities as a 2012 presidential candidate. Smith’s post raises the central question: Is Thune too “establishment” for the current political environment? That question is surfacing well before the start of real 2012
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