AUGUST 6, 2011 Liberal contempt for the workings of democracy and for diversity of opinion reflects not just hypocrisy but panic. By PETER BERKOWITZ The debt-limit crisis of 2011 brought the federal government harrowingly close to defaulting on its financial obligations. As the dust settles, it is more harrowing still to contemplate the implications of […]
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AUGUST 5, 2011 Notable & Quotable Jon Decker on how the GOP could throw the 2012 election. Jon Decker, the White House correspondent for Reuters Television, in the August issue of Policy Review: If the 2012 election becomes a referendum on the president’s job performance—particularly in improving the nation’s economy—Republicans will be in a very
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AUGUST 4, 2011 In the new climate of spending cuts, Democrats appear disoriented and distraught. By FRED BARNES The agony of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, is palpable these days. When she speaks on the House floor, she waves her arms and talks with great passion. She has the look
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JULY 15, 2011 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking heat from some in his caucus for “caving” on debt-limit talks. They might instead be thanking him for finally laying out the real choice Republicans face in this debate: 2012 or 2010. Put another way: With President Obama
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Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Queen of the Tea Party The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann Matthew Continetti July 4 – July 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40 If she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to
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June 30, 2011 A Dangerous Point of View…Indeed Russ Vaughn Congressman John Conyers, Democrat, from Michigan has just served up the money quote regarding his party’s true position on doing something about our nation’s budget woes: “This is the first time that I can remember being confronted by members of the Congress, my colleagues,
