Presumably Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts attorney general aiming to be that state’s next U.S. senator, has more political skill than she’s demonstrated in recent days. She must be on a spectacularly ill-timed run of bad luck and rookie mistakes. As Republican Scott Brown has roared from unknown to potential upset winner, Coakley came under fire [...]
Jim Geraghty: The Travails of Martha Coakley – National Review Online
January 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
Ramesh Ponnuru: Why the GOP Shouldn’t Get Too Confident – Time.com
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Republicans can hardly believe their good fortune. First, Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota announced that he would not run for re-election, giving Republicans a good shot at taking his seat. Then the Democratic governor of Colorado, Bill Ritter, said he was bowing out. Ditto the Democrats’ top candidate for governor in Michigan. And [...]
Daniel Henninger: An Obama-GOP Entente on Terror – WSJ.com
January 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
After Barack Obama won the election, several Bush appointees running the war on terror came by our offices to sum up. On each visit, one point recurred: Coming into this world from the outside, they soon realized the scale of responsibility was larger than anything they had imagined. If the Hasan massacre at Fort Hood [...]
Failed attempt to kill Israeli envoy in Jordan – Jerusalem Post
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A bomb exploded near a two-car convoy belonging to Israel’s embassy in Jordan on Thursday afternoon. The cars were making their way to Amman. No one was hurt in the incident and the vehicles continued to their destination shortly thereafter. The Foreign Ministry received a briefing on the incident. According to several reports, the ambassador [...]
Massachusetts election has Democrats on edge – Chris Frates – POLITICO.com
January 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
It’s hard for some Democrats to believe that the candidate running to replace Ted Kennedy is being attacked over health care reform — in one of the bluest states in the union, no less.But Republican Scott Brown has got Democrats nervous — not just for his opponent Martha Coakley but about the fact that a [...]
Reporter roughed up outside Coakley fund-raiser – BostonHerald.com
January 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
A Weekly Standard reporter says he was roughed up last night outside a Washington, D.C. fund-raiser for Attorney General Martha Coakley by someone he believes is associated with her U.S. Senate campaign.John McCormack, the magazine’s deputy online editor, writes about the incident outside the Sonoma restaurant in an online dispatch entitled: “We Report, We Get [...]
John Bolton: Where is Barack Obama’s foreign policy headed? – Commentary
January 13, 2010 By 6 Comments
Where is Barack Obama’s foreign policy headed? In answering, one must accept a measure of humility. Predicting American policy makes more fools than sages. That goes double for foreign policy, as analysts must anticipate not only the actions of the United States but of foreign provocateurs as well. In the case of Barack Obama, there [...]
Bret Stephens: Can Intelligence Be Intelligent? – WSJ.com
January 13, 2010 By 4 Comments
“Intelligence,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed, “is not to be confused with intelligence.” To read two recent analyses of U.S. intelligence failures is to be reminded of the truth of that statement, albeit in very different ways.Exhibit A is last week’s unclassified White House memo on the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over the skies [...]
Tucker Carlson: A moral arbiter for our age, Rev. Al Sharpton – The Daily Caller
January 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
You can bet that one of the first calls Harry Reid made after his “Negro dialect” comments surfaced was to Al Sharpton. Who knows what sort of deal the two worked out, but Sharpton quickly came to Reid’s aid, dismissing the majority leader’s gaffe as a minor blemish on an otherwise pristine record of support [...]
