OPINION: POTOMAC WATCH OCTOBER 29, 2009, 7:18 P.M. ET
Regarding Harry
The public option diverts attention from the legislation’s real faults.
By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
You couldn’t swing a cat this week without hitting a discussion of the public option. Somewhere, in some Capitol office, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is grinning.
Two weeks ago, the subject of a government-run [...]
October 29, 2009
Will Fox News Drop Newt Gingrich?
AIM COLUMN | BY CLIFF KINCAID |
Since many people tune into Fox News to ascertain the conservative point of view, the regular use of Gingrich will become disconcerting and problematic to many members of its viewing audience.
On the occasion of its 13th anniversary and dramatic success in the [...]
At key moment, Obama leaves health post unfilled
By: BYRON YORK
Chief Political Correspondent
October 30, 2009
President Barack Obama speaks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Phoenix, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. (Alex Brandon/AP)
Medicare and Medicaid, the federal government’s health insurance programs for the elderly and poor, play a big role in the health care reform [...]
October 29, 2009
California Rep. Waters is under investigation
By LARRY MARGASAK (AP) – 58 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — The House ethics committee said Thursday it’s investigating whether California Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock — and whether the couple benefited as a result.
Waters is the No. 3 [...]
Thursday October 29, 2009
HORSERACE
Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee-Ballot Requests
This year, New Jersey’s registered voters can request a mail-in ballot for any reason. (Before 2005, voters needed to provide a reason for why they needed an absentee ballot.) The state received about 150,000 absentee-ballot applications this year.
On about [...]
OPINIONO CTOBER 28, 2009, 7:14 P.M. ET
Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy
Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path.
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Upon entering office, Barack Obama knew little about foreign policy. But then neither did Vice President Harry S. Truman when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died suddenly [...]
October 29, 2009
The Battlefield Paradox: Scozzafava or Hoffman?
By Eric Richter
A soldier trapped in a foxhole during a fierce battle faces a profound paradox.
His survival instinct screams at him to hide in the bottom of his hole, not to rise up and shoot or attack. Yet if he obeys this survival instinct instead of his orders [...]
So as sexy as a third-party win would be in NY 23, the candidate and his chief supporters refuse to call NY 23 a third-party movement. To them, this is what Reagan called a “revitalized second party” and an invitation for liberal Republicans to “go their own way.” The use of Reagan’s name by both [...]
Oct 29, 12:05 AM EDT
AP IMPACT: Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000.
A child care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the [...]
October 28, 2009
Blood for nothing
GIs die while Taliban thrives
Ralph Peters
AFGHANISTAN isn’t com pletely hopeless, just use less. It’s a strategic joke with a bloody punch line.
Even if everything went perfectly in Afghanistan — which it won’t — the results would be virtually meaningless: Our mortal enemies (above all, al Qaeda) have dug in elsewhere, from [...]
