Weak and radical, the president looks more like Jimmy Carter all the time. By KARL ROVE When Barack Obama announced he was running for president in February 2007, Nathan Gonzales of the Rothenberg Political Report wrote “Obama’s history of voting ‘present’” in Springfield, Ill.—even on some of the most controversial and politically explosive issues . […]
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JUNE 5, 2010 Storming the School Barricades A new documentary by a 27-year-old filmmaker could change the national debate about public education. By BARI WEISS New York ‘What’s funny,” says Madeleine Sackler, “is that I’m not really a political person.” Yet the petite 27-year-old is the force behind “The Lottery”—an explosive new documentary about the
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JUNE 5, 2010 Slouching Towards Athens The Obama agenda and the Europeanization of America. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS Our friends across the Atlantic are fond of saying that Europeans work to live while Americans live to work. According to the data, they are basically right. Statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show
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JUNE 4, 2010 Hoosiers vs. Crony Capitalism By MITCH DANIELS June 10 will be a silent anniversary, but one worth noting by those alarmed at the past year’s assault on free institutions. It was last June 10 when the federal government tossed aside the option of proven, workable bankruptcy procedures in order to nationalize Chrysler
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JUNE 3, 2010 ObamaCare’s Ever-Rising Price Tag By KARL ROVE White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod argued earlier this year that health-care reform would become more popular after it passed, boosting Democrats in the midterm elections. “We have to go out and sell it,” he told the National Journal, adding in an interview in Newsweek
JUNE 2, 2010 Strategy vs. Tactics in Afghanistan By ANN MARLOWE Gen. Stanley McChrystal has embraced Hamid Karzai as part of the Obama administration’s startling about-face on the Afghan president. Until recently, the Obama team seemed to understand that Mr. Karzai was “not an adequate strategic partner,” in the well-chosen words of our ambassador (and
MAY 28, 2010 Confidential Conundrum By JOHN O. MCGINNIS There is an obvious tension between a democratic public’s need for information—its right to know—and the government’s need, at times, for operational secrecy. A broad sense of what officials are doing is at the heart of any democracy, and not only in principle: Collective wisdom in
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JUNE 1, 2010 Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Fiasco By MAX BOOT Israel’s actions in boarding the flotilla of ships bound for the Gaza Strip were entirely justified and perhaps even unavoidable. Unfortunately they turned into a tactical and strategic fiasco that does further damage to the Jewish State’s tattered international reputation. The so-called Gaza flotilla, comprising
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JUNE 1, 2010 The West’s Wrong Turn on Natural Resources By JOSEPH STERNBERG For all that talk about a new knowledge economy, things still matter a great deal in this world. And whether it’s the steel beam holding up the floor of your office, the gasoline you put in your car or the circuitry in
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MAY 29, 2010, 6:53 P.M. ET ‘Top Kill’ Fails to Stop Flow of Oil From Gulf Leak By MARK LONG BP PLC has abandoned its effort to plug a mile-deep oil and gas gusher in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by injecting drilling fluids after failing to stem the flow of hydrocarbons. View Full Image
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