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Michele Bachmann's Misplaced China Envy
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2011 Comment (11)I know this is the silly season of presidential politics, but Rep. Michele Bachmann may have just ascended to a new height of inanity.
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Redefining the Modern Conservative with a 19th-Century Lens
Tweet Share on Facebook November 11, 2011 Comment (3)Before all you political theory-heads take off for the weekend, be sure to check out this email debate between Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin author Corey Robin and American Conservative blogger Daniel Larison.
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Romney's EPA Hint a Subtle Poke, Not a Lifeline to Perry
Tweet Share on Facebook November 10, 2011 Comment (10)I'm afraid the Washington Post's Kathleen Parker got things exactly wrong when she praised former Gov. Mitt Romney for supposedly throwing Gov. Rick Perry a lifeline during last night's debate:
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Not A Slam Dunk for 2012 GOP Veep
Tweet Share on Facebook November 9, 2011 Comment (1)Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is often touted as a possible vice-presidential candidate next year. On the surface, it's not hard to see why: He's a popular governor of a swing state with lower-than-national-average unemployment, has solid social conservative credentials, and has publicly expressed interest in the job.
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How Mitt Romney Can Be Both a Flip-Flopper and an Extremist
Tweet Share on Facebook November 8, 2011 Comment (5)My friend Ramesh Ponnuru makes the case that former Gov. Mitt Romney's history of flip-flops might not be the general-election liability that many conservatives think it will be.
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The Economy Will Never Be What It Was Before the Recession
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2011 Comment (13)Picture a smoky room somewhere on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, like where the shadow government known as "The Syndicate" met on the old X-Files TV show.
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Romney, GOP Make Obama Lucky in His Enemies
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2011 Comment (7)Rock, meet Hard Place.
Rock is the succession of farce candidacies that has marked the Republican presidential primary so far. Trump. Bachmann. Perry. Cain. It is no wonder that the likes of Gov. Mitch Daniels, Gov. Chris Christie, and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty have either declined to run or quit early. They can't give the party what it needs right now.
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What Will a President Romney Call His Stimulus Plan?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2011 Comment (7)The Federal Reserve has good news and bad news. The economy has "strengthened somewhat."
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Don't Blame the GOP for Mitt Romney's Flip-Flops
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2011 Comment (6)As former Gov. Mitt Romney gets battered by the likes of George Will, expect to hear a lot more arguments along the following lines.
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Ronald Reagan Practiced Keynesian Economics Successfully
Tweet Share on Facebook November 1, 2011 Comment (7)In the early 1970s, Richard Nixon—scratch that; Milton Friedman—said, "We are all Keynesians now." It was more or less an accurate statement.













