Category Archives: NYT

April 15, 2010: America Rising

God’s new day dawned bright and sunny in Washington DC upon which Tea Party patriots will converge to bring an unflagging message to their government that they will—without fail—“Take Back America”. And the Tea Party descent on the White House is only one of more than 700 rallies in U.S. cities in the ongoing Battle [...]

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This Just In…Obama’s Favorite Authors: Mitt Romney & Karl Rove

Obama Stops to Browse at a Bookstore By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG IOWA CITY — President Obama spent plenty of time in Iowa as a candidate. On Thursday, he had a little homecoming of sorts, making a surprise visit to the Prairie Lights bookstore, a business he had referred to during a campaign-style rally just an [...]

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

The press finally falls out of love with Obama. By Howard Fineman | NEWSWEEK Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, was 50 minutes late for his briefing, apparently a record for tardiness, but few reporters in the White House Press Room bothered to feign outrage; they didn’t seem all that eager to ask him [...]

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Extremism in the Defense of Liberty

You students of political history may recognize the title of this post as part of a famous Barry Goldwater campaign slogan from the ’64 presidential contest. It is now being used as a title for a YouTube video that discusses the Tea Party movement, the Old Guard Republican Party, Frank Rich of the NYT and [...]

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Obama’s fellow Dems are cannon fodder in his plan

By: Chris Stirewalt No one believes that the president’s health care summit with Republicans is about bipartisanship. Republicans fear that it is a trap intended to hold them and their ideas up to ridicule. And though the president and his party certainly want to shift the blame to Republicans after months of unilateral failure by [...]

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U.S. Suspends Guantanamo Prisoner Transfer to Yemen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday suspended the transfer of detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to Yemen as a result of the deteriorating security situation there. President Barack Obama bowed to political pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers not to send any more prisoners to Yemen as a result [...]

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Handling Problems the Obama Way

By: Carol Lee HONOLULU — There is a sense of déjà vu in the Obama administration’s response to the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day. A by-now familiar pattern has been established for dealing with unexpected problems. First, White House aides downplay the notion that something may have gone wrong on their part. While staying [...]

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Elite U.S. Force Expanding Hunt in Afghanistan

The New York Times By: Eric Schmitt BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — Secretive branches of the military’s Special Operations forces have increased counterterrorism missions against some of the most lethal groups in Afghanistan and, because of their success, plan an even bigger expansion next year, according to American commanders. The commandos, from the Army’s Delta [...]

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A failed presidency is now unavoidable

By: Monty Pelerin For the past couple of months I have worried about the risks of a failed presidency. No one should want this, regardless of party affiliation. It is harmful and dangerous to our economy and country. However, it appears obvious to me that the royal regime known as Obama has ended. Seth Leibsohn [...]

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