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Democrats Can Blame Themselves for Judicial Nominees Mess
Tweet Share on Facebook May 23, 2011 Comment (3)Democrats should consider going into comedy since their efforts at legislating are so poor, and their comments last week during the Goodwin Liu confirmation were nothing short of hilarious.
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Obama Sells Out Israel
Tweet Share on Facebook May 21, 2011 Comment (78)President Barack Obama just delivered a slap in the face to America’s one indisputably reliable ally in the Middle East. By suggesting, perhaps even insisting that any final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem be based on the 1967 borders Obama--and there is really no other way to put it--has sold Israel down the river without even so much as a basket made of reeds.
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Democrats’ Medicare Attacks Show They Think Voters Are Stupid
Tweet Share on Facebook May 21, 2011 Comment (44)Clearly the Ryan plan to save Medicare is a huge threat to the Democratic Party. Here’s a clue that it’s hitting a nerve, a new ad by the far-left Agenda Project just out yesterday. In it, “Grandma” is wheeled up to the edge of a cliff by a Paul Ryan look alike, and then tossed over the edge in an effort to show what his Medicare proposals would do to current seniors. If you want to teach your kids what demagoguery looks like, show them this video.
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Republicans’ Debt Ceiling Strategy Is Divorced From the Truth
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2011 Comment (26)One spring morning you’re sitting at an outdoor café eating brunch. A man runs up to you, points at your pancakes and says “I want that!” You decline. Then he walks into the middle of the street, stepping into the path of an onrushing truck. “Hey!” you say, “get out of the street!” “No sir,” he replies. “I will not. Not until you give me your pancakes.”
That, you think to yourself, is a novel strategy, courting personal disaster to try and get someone else to do what you want. It’s the kind of thing you might expect to see on “Celebrity Rehab” or maybe a classic episode of Jerry Springer. As it turns out, there’s another place you can find it too: the Republican caucus on Capitol Hill.
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Democrats Distort Newt Gingrich's Medicare Comments--Again
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2011 Comment (13)Democrats are taking advantage of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s comments about proposed changes to Medicare to exploit America’s seniors and scare them.
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Paul Ryan Deserves More Credit for Taking on Medicare
Tweet Share on Facebook May 19, 2011 Comment (25)Credit House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan with one of the more selfless political acts in recent memory. For some time Social Security, and increasingly Medicare, have been assigned an untouchable status by both parties that would make Eliot Ness jealous. It's not hard to determine why given the political thunderstorm Ryan is navigating.
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Reagan Explains Why Raising the Debt Ceiling Is Necessary
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LA Times Was Right Not to Publish Woman's Name in Schwarzenegger Scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook May 19, 2011 Comment (10)It was perhaps inevitable that someone, somewhere, would track down the name--or a name, anyway--in the episode involving former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the child he fathered outside his marriage a decade ago. And that’s all the more reason to commend the Los Angeles Times for doing the right thing, and sticking to its initial decision.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates's Missed Opportunity
Tweet Share on Facebook May 19, 2011 Comment (2)Back in the 1940s, columnist Joe Alsop described then-Secretary of War Henry Stimson as a “granitic statue to the old virtues.” The same could be said of Stimson’s current successor, Robert Gates. When Gates steps down as Secretary of Defense later this year, as he is scheduled to do, he’ll be taking his signature integrity, candor, and sense of noblesse oblige along with him. In a town clamoring with partisan orotundity, Gates distinguished himself with straight talk to leaders of both parties.
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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.)
