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Columbus Day a Celebration of Immigrants
Tweet Share on Facebook October 6, 2011 Comment (5)Originally from Genoa, a port city in what is now Italy, Christopher Columbus persuaded Spain's Queen Isabella many years ago to underwrite an expedition to search for a westerly route to India.
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Sympathy for Sarah Palin After Joe McGinniss's Sexist New Bio
Tweet Share on Facebook October 6, 2011 Comment (42)Many Republicans wrongly assumed that Sarah Palin would, simply by virtue of being female, attract votes from normally Democratic-leaning women in the 2008 election. That turned out to be untrue. But some of the disclosures in Joe McGinniss's new biography, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, might just galvanize women behind the former Alaska governor.
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Why Doesn't David Frum Support Obama?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2011 Comment (5)When I was a teenager, I remember being riveted by an intelligent design-vs.-evolution debate in which National Review legend William F. Buckley participated on the creationists' side. (You can view it at YouTube, in eight parts, here.)
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Chris Christie Was Wise to Shun the Presidency
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2011 Comment (4)We all want our presidents to possess a basic common sense. And it is that quality that led New Jersey Governor Chris Christie not to seek the Oval Office next year.
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With Chris Christie Out, GOP Should Embrace Mitt Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2011 Comment (6)And the answer is….the same it has been all along folks!
I have a confession to make: I am not running for president. It doesn't feel right. OK, I jest; but Chris Christie wasn't. Tuesday he made the announcement again, and again, and again--you get my point--that he is not running for president, much to many Republicans' disappointment.
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What's the Anti-Romney Right To Do?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2011 Comment (6)Maybe Mitt Romney is like MP3-quality audio.
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Blame Obama and Durbin for New Bank Fees
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2011 Comment (12)The White House and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin have come out swinging—hard—against Bank of America over the new $5 per month fee it is charging its customers who use a BofA debit card.
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Amanda Knox Verdict: Justice Finally Done in Italy
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2011 Comment (2)There are times when faith in the American criminal justice system is severely tested. There are the cases of death row inmates who served many years in prison before being exonerated by DNA evidence. Their lives were still ruined, but at least they are still alive, unlike those who were wrongly executed before the technology existed to certify their guilt. And then there are celebrated cases like the murder trials of O.J. Simpson and Casey Anthony, where trial observers felt sure the accused was guilty, but the juries did not feel they had been presented with the legal evidence to prove it.
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GOP Should Worry Less about 'Electability,' More About Issues
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2011 Comment (2)Rather than focus on which candidate for president has the best ideas or which one will present the most dynamic contrast to the current occupant of the White House, the Republican chatter class is far too focused on the idea of "electability."
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Don't Believe Pundits who Praise China as a 'Capitalist Paradise'
Tweet Share on Facebook October 3, 2011 Comment (3)Welcome to the punchline-deep mind of the Pajamas Media right:
Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds offers this advice on "how to take down an economic rival": "Export socialists to China. The Chinese don't want 'em there. They want 'em here."
