Category Archives: NRO

Mitt’s Attack on Crony Capitalism

Posted on January 23rd, 2012

Tough stuff. The right stuff. By Larry Kudlow Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was involved in nothing [...]

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Stay On Vacation

Posted on August 24th, 2011

NRO By: Michael Tanner As the economy continues to teeter on the precipice of a double-dip recession, there is a growing demand for the president and Congress to rush back from their vacations and do something. But why? What is it that we really think the president can do? While the president’s latest economic plan [...]

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Harry S. Obama?

Posted on August 18th, 2011

EXCERPT ONLY: Pundits lately have been comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter, suggesting he is a likely loser in 2012. But my American Enterprise Institute colleague Norman Ornstein, writing in The New Republic, compares Obama to Harry S. Truman, suggesting he may outperform the polls and win. It’s always helpful to be reminded that early polls [...]

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The GOP Has Momentum

Posted on August 16th, 2011

EXCERPT ONLY: Ames, Iowa — This has been quite a week or ten days for Republicans. Pundits will parse the Iowa results and the Perry polling to determine which candidate is up and which down or out. The Iowa straw poll may prove to be the last stop for some Republican candidates, as it was [...]

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More Obama Spending Won’t Do It. And stocks know it

Posted on August 6th, 2011

  Larry Kudlow, NRO’s economics editor, is host of CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and author of the daily web log, Kudlow’s Money Politic$. EXTRACT ONLY:  ”What the economy needs, Mr. President, is a strong dose of new incentives, with pro-growth tax reform that flattens marginal rates and broadens the base for individuals and businesses. This [...]

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How Catholic is Notre Dame?

Posted on June 10th, 2011

More Cracks in the Golden Dome by GEORGE WEIGEL Late in the spring term, Notre Dame announced that one of its alumnae, Roxanne Martino, a prominent Chicago investment manager, had been elected a member of the university’s board of trustees. Such a seemingly routine appointment — wealthy alum joins university board — would have drawn little [...]

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Obama Kills the War Powers Act

Posted on June 8th, 2011

By Rich Lowry Somewhere, Richard Nixon is smiling. In 1973, he vetoed the War Powers Act, insisting that it was unconstitutional. Congress overrode him, but almost every one of Nixon’s successors has agreed with his assessment of the resolution. It took Pres. Barack Obama, though, to rip the War Powers Act into little pieces and [...]

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The Die Is Cast

Posted on May 29th, 2011

Republicans need to fight to stay alive. By: Jonah Goldberg Alea iacta est. That’s what Julius Caesar proclaimed as he crossed the Rubicon River in 49 B.C. It means, “The die is cast.” By crossing the Rubicon with his army — against Roman law — Caesar guaranteed a head-on conflict with the overconfident Roman ruler [...]

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The Obama Doctrine: Leading from Behind

Posted on May 1st, 2011

A foreign policy of hesitation, delay, and indecision.  Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president’s actions in Libya as “leading from behind.”  — Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, May 2 issue To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a doctrine. Doctrines involve ideas, [...]

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Obama & Co., Growing Up Fast

Posted on December 3rd, 2010

By:  Victor Davis Hanson National Review Obama and his EU counterparts are learning that high-minded adolescence makes for bad governance. But it’s an expensive lesson. Old laws predicated on human nature cannot so easily be discarded — even by utopians who think they have the power to cool the planet and stop the rising seas. [...]

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