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OBAMA’S AIR GUITAR

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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NEW START TREATY WITH RUSSIANS HAS MAJOR FLAWS

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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EMBARRASSMENT IN SEOUL

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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DANGEROUS NUCLEAR ILLUSIONS

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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JOHN THUNE’S EARMARK CONUNDRUM

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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OBAMA – A STAGGERINGLY EMPTY SUIT

Limbaugh: A Staggeringly Empty Suit By David Limbaugh November 9, 2010 6:51 AM Many commentators are speculating whether President Obama will move to the center or “triangulate” in order to salvage part of his agenda and increase his chances for re-election. I don’t believe he has either the inclination to move or the political skills

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AN INTERVIEW WITH AN UNKNOWN WHITE HOUSE INSIDER

White House Insider: “They were in shock at the president’s behavior.” published by Ulsterman on October 25, 2010 in World Politics Our latest interview with the White House Insider reveals a Democratic Party civil war, with growing opposition to the Obama White House. Author’s Note: This interview took place for nearly two hours over the weekend at

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OBAMA AND ROOSEVELT – A WORLD APART

NOVEMBER 2, 2010 Why Obama Is No Roosevelt Roosevelt: ‘Your government has unmistakable confidence in your ability to hear the worst without flinching and losing heart.’ Obama: We don’t ‘always think clearly when we’re scared.’ By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Whatever the outcome of today’s election, this much is clear: It will be a long time before

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A WAR OF IDEAS – OBAMA DOESN’T SEEK COMPROMISE; NEITHER SHOULD WE

David Limbaugh Obama Doesn’t Seek Compromise; Neither Should We I take no great pleasure in having been correct in predicting Barack Obama’s reaction to his Tuesday “shellacking.” To borrow his terminology, he is wired not to hear the American people’s opposition to his radical agenda, as painfully demonstrated in his postelection news conference. Unhappily, Obama’s

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