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Obama's 'Arrogant' Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook September 28, 2010 Comment (21)In a campaign season marked by an almost irrational anti-establishment mood, “arrogant,” it seems, is the new scarlet “A.”
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The Parallels Between the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War
Tweet Share on Facebook September 28, 2010 Comment (9)A few weeks back I watched We Were Soldiers, the Vietnam War movie starring Mel Gibson. It tells the story of the heroic men of the 7th Cavalry (General Custer's old unit) who defended LZ X-Ray in the battle of the Ia Drang valley, at the beginning of the U.S. escalation in November 1965.
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Election 2010 Redistricting Gains Will Give GOP Lasting Majority
Tweet Share on Facebook September 28, 2010 Comment (11)It’s beginning to look like the Democrats are going to have to deal with the consequences of the 2010 election for a very, very long time.
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Republican 'Pledge' on the Constitution Is Just Wacky
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2010 Comment (29)Of all the promises in the GOP’s “Pledge to America,” the most potentially troublesome is the demand that all legislation include a clause stating exactly how the proposed law is provided for in the U.S. Constitution.
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The Cuomo-Paladino N.Y. Gubernatorial Race Is 2010’s Nastiest
Tweet Share on Facebook September 25, 2010 Comment (19)It’s too soon to tell for sure but all indications are that the New York gubernatorial race will end up being the nation’s nastiest. That’s because, despite all expectations, the November election turned out to be between two heavyweights who are each committed to doing whatever it takes to win.
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Republicans’ ‘Pledge to America’ Covers the Right Issues in 2010
Tweet Share on Facebook September 25, 2010 Comment (38)The House Republicans’ “Pledge to America” has provoked disapproving reactions from both the left and the right: Friday’s editorial in the Washington Post called it a “profile in cowardice” for a lack of specifics, especially in paying for an extension of the Bush tax cuts. (At least the Post notes that Democrats haven’t said how they’re going to pay for them either.) At the other end of the political spectrum, Erick Erickson of RedState.com calls it “pablum” that is “best forgotten.”
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America Is Not a Center-Right Nation (Nor Center-Left)
Tweet Share on Facebook September 24, 2010 Comment (3)I hesitate to pick a fight with my friend Peter Roff. When the tumbrels come to cart me off to a re-education camp on the alkaline flats of Idaho, he has promised to put in a good word for me with Sarah, Christine, Sharron, and the other Madame Defarges he lauds in his most recent post. Boy, I'll wish I had exercised my Second Amendment remedies on that day, huh?
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Sarah Palin for President in 2012? No Thanks
Tweet Share on Facebook September 24, 2010 Comment (28)There was a story in a weekly newsmagazine a few years ago about Sarah Palin. This was not right after Sen. John McCain picked her from obscurity to be his running mate; the one I recall ran earlier. It was either shortly before or after her son, Trig, was born. My own son is a month younger than Trig, and I remember reading this article and thinking this woman is pretty impressive--she has a young family, she is conservative, and she doesn’t seem to take anything from anyone.
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Republicans’ ‘Pledge to America’ Is A Stack of Bumper Stickers
Tweet Share on Facebook September 24, 2010 Comment (21)The Republicans’ "Pledge to America" could have been a no-nonsense, make-the-tough-decisions, visionary plan to take the country out of a troubling era of high unemployment, cultural divides, and stalemate in Congress. Instead, it was a stack of bumper stickers.
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More Reasons Not to Build a Casino at Gettysburg
Tweet Share on Facebook September 24, 2010 Comment (6)I have written in this space about saving Gettysburg from becoming a third-rate Reno or Atlantic City. A developer wants the Pennsylvania gaming commission to give him a license to operate a casino on the fringes of the hallowed battlefield, and historians and local residents are marching to stop him.
