On his own terms, President Obama is a failure. During the presidential campaign, he fought hammer and tongs with Hillary Rodham Clinton on the best way to govern. Clinton, casting herself as a battle-scarred political veteran, argued that diligence, dedicated detail work and working the system were essential for success. Obama, donning the mantle of [...]
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Jacob Laksin | December 23, 2009 | Posted in
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In his “Special Comment” urging “progressive” lawmakers to vote against the Obama/Reid health care plan and “kill the bill” because it does not immediately “destroy” private insurance in America, Keith Olbermann went over the top—even by Meltdown standards.
He not only challenged Barack Obama’s manhood in school playground terms, he also threatened the President with a [...]
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David Forsmark | December 19, 2009 | Posted in
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In the years since their bitter battle, both former President Bill Clinton and independent counsel Ken Starr have predicted they’d be vindicated in the history books. Now the first definitive history of the Clinton scandal is about to arrive — and neither man can be completely happy about his portrayal in its pages. “The Death [...]
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Jacob Laksin | December 18, 2009 | Posted in
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A new scholarly study by two civil rights veterans has now been introduced into this debate. Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom’s America In Black and White reconstructs the history of racial progress and conflict in the postwar era, and examines the impact of affirmative action solutions. The authors cite a statement made in 1996 by Atlanta’s [...]
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The perspective that informs the nearly seven hundred pages of A People’s History is a plodding Marxism supplemented by the preposterous idea that nation-states are merely a fiction, and only economic classes are “real†social actors:
Class interest has always been obscured behind an all-encompassing veil called “the national interest.†My own war experience [in [...]
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Does Bill Clinton draw down the window shades, only to venture out under cover of night to go to the ATM?
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Jamie Glazov | December 11, 2009 | Posted in
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The GOP should call Obama’s greenhouse gas bluff.
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Rich Trzupek | December 10, 2009 | Posted in
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An eagerly anticipated ACORN report that whitewashes the group’s lawbreaking and corruption was unveiled yesterday. ACORN ordered the sham study as political cover in September after videos surfaced showing its employees abetting child prostitution.
I participated in listen-only mode in the teleconference call in which the allegedly independent “audit” was released. I regret it was difficult to make out what the [...]
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Matthew Vadum | December 8, 2009 | Posted in
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With pursed lips and closed eyes and ears, the White House is clinging to the old eco-mantra.
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Michelle Malkin | December 3, 2009 | Posted in
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I must admit that this entire controversy (conservative feeding frenzy?) surrounding Governor Mike Huckabee’s commutation of Maurice Clemmons’ sentence back in 2000 makes me a bit queasy. Am I the only one that thinks the vitriol and condemnation of Huckabee over this is way over-the-top? Let’s take a step back from the beat-down for just [...]
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Mark J. Koenig | December 2, 2009 | Posted in
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