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Benjamin Netanyahu for President in 2012?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2011 Comment (11)This week, Republicans took some time out from bellyaching about the deficiencies of their 2012 presidential contenders and the demagogic Democratic campaign to undermine Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposals to hear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a joint session of Congress. One wonders how many of them went away wishing there was a way to put the man so many know as “Bibi” at the head of their ticket next year, instead of the actual possibilities.
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Maria Shriver Has Bright Future After Schwarzenegger Scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook May 19, 2011 Comment (6)Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to the front pages, five months after stepping down as California’s governor, prompts several thoughts. First among them is the genius of the nation’s framers in requiring that the president of the United States be native born. It was not all that long ago that pundits were predicting passage of a constitutional amendment repealing the requirement so that Arnold could become the nation’s first immigrant president and the Republican Party’s latest hope. This was the second time in my lifetime that the nation dodged such a bullet. A generation earlier, New York Democratic Rep. Jonathan Bingham urged such a change to clear the path for Henry Kissinger. (Anyone following the GOP pre-nomination contest to date can sympathize with the party’s feeling that it need import new talent.)
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Newt Gingrich at His Best Is Formidable
Tweet Share on Facebook May 12, 2011 Comment (11)“Don’t be afraid to think big,” the speaker said. “Success in this undertaking will require nothing less than a commitment on a scale we have not seen since invasion of Normandy.”
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Obama Team Bungles Osama Death Story and Photo
Tweet Share on Facebook May 5, 2011 Comment (15)Three days after military personnel, armed with actionable intelligence, removed Osama bin Laden from planet Earth, the Obama administration made one thing, as the president might say, “clear.” In competence, professionalism, and training, its communication team is no match for this nation’s military and intelligence gathering agencies.
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Bin Laden's Death Highlights Obama's Character
Tweet Share on Facebook May 2, 2011 Comment (4)Last night’s news that U.S. forces had brought Osama bin Laden to justice is a tribute to the bravery, training, and professionalism of the armed forces of the United States and to its intelligence gatherers. The stunning success they pulled off, after months of preparation, and the precision with which they carried out their mission resulted, in part, from wise, strategic, and, in some cases, costly investments in a strong military. Their ability to carry out this most difficult of tasks should give pause to those who look to the Pentagon as a “cash cow” through which deficits might be reduced in a “painless” way. Cuts can and should be made, but with great care.
