February 9, 2013, The Coming Battle Over the Ballot Box A voting-rights veteran talks about the liberal campaign to expand the electoral rolls—and why Obama is on board. By JAMES TARANTO When President Obama declared victory last November, you might have missed the way he spun his voter-turnout triumph into a grievance: “I want
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Pat McCrory Meets a Democratic Mess | February 6, 2013 | By Rick Martinez, News Director for WPTF Radio and columnist for The News and Observer Pat McCrory didn’t run for governor intent on cutting unemployment benefits and limiting Medicaid access. But that’s what he might have to do to fix the
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Please scroll down to the bottom of the article to read Ronald Reagan’s impromptu remarks at the close of the 1976 Republican convention. Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Republican Party in Opposition William Kristol January 28, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 19 In March 1975, with the United States in post-Watergate disarray at
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January 31, 2013 Henninger: Obama’s Thunderdome Strategy The president’s goal is to make Republican ideas intolerable. By DANIEL HENNINGER EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: After the inaugural speech, Obama communications director Dan Pfeiffer said that Democrats don’t have “an opposition party worthy of the opportunity.” Even among the president’s supporters, one is hard put now
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January 28, 2013 Treasury Gets a Citibanker From Wall Street failure to the pinnacle of finance in four short years. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: There probably weren’t many laughs at Citi during the market panic in 2008. But if someone had said that a CAI executive, Jack Lew, would be the secretary of the
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The Health of America Is Not About Government By Gov. Bobby Jindal – January 25, 2013 By Gov. Bobby Jindal Remarks by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to the Republican National Committee in Charlotte, N.C., January 24, 2013. Thank you all for having me here tonight. And thank you Reince for the outstanding
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January 25, 2013 It’s the Message, Morons By William L. Gensert On November 6, 2012, almost 66 million Americans traded the nation’s future for a chance to worship a false god. In a country of over 315 million people, a minority of eligible voters traded prosperity for the illusion of forced fairness. In reelecting
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Small Ball Why our fiscal debates amount to nothing Yuval Levin January 14, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 17 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: It is crucial to see that both of these approaches are basically defensive in nature: The left is trying to avoid a fundamental transformation of
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NATIONAL REVIEW January 1, 2013 Republicans Deserved to Lose A predictable end to an unhappy year. By Thomas Sowell Mitt Romney concedes, November 7, 2012. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: To me, the Republican establishment is the eighth wonder of the world. How they can keep repeating the same mistakes for decades on end is beyond
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