Tag Archives: National Review

Return of the Real Obama

Posted on January 4th, 2013

The president is dedicated to the expansion of the welfare state. By Charles Krauthammer       NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE   The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. President Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives. After which, you might expect him to pivot to his [...]

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Avoiding the ‘Doom Loop’

Posted on May 18th, 2012

Romney plans to steer us away from the Greek example. By Jim Geraghty Mitt Romney on getting Americans to focus on the difficult, sometimes abstract issues of the deficit and accumulating national debt: “I think it helps to translate the federal-debt and unfunded-liability numbers into personal numbers. The total amount of accumulated debt and unfunded [...]

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Political Cartoons: National Review Online/Michael Ramirez

Posted on May 15th, 2012

[Editor's Commentary: Obama has now become the comedic foil for the politcal cartoonists of this decade, just as Clinton was their foil in the '90's.......So is this fun, or what?] Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

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Now Playing at a Theater Near You: BAMBO!

Posted on May 3rd, 2012

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Romney and the Youth Vote

Posted on April 29th, 2012

By: Katrina Trinko******National Review Online In March, on the eve of the Illinois primary, over a thousand Bradley University students gathered to hear Mitt Romney. Dressed casually, many in shorts and T-shirts, they stood outside on an unusually warm spring day in Peoria. They listened as 30-year-old Republican Representative Aaron Schock introduced Romney, and watched [...]

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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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The Trouble With Ron Paul’s Defense

Posted on December 31st, 2011

By Jonah Goldberg The New York Times has an interesting front page piece on Ron Paul’s relationship with the racists, anti-Semites and neo-Nazis in his coalition (sorry, but whatever you think of Lew Rockwell, Stormfront and David Duke certainly deserve such labels). His three defenses are: 1) He didn’t have direct knowledge of the really [...]

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Pence for President?

Posted on November 24th, 2010

By:  Katrina Trinko NRO No one has gone straight from the House to the White House since James Garfield. Mike Pence might be the one. He hasn’t held executive office. He isn’t a paid Fox News contributor. He hasn’t written a best-seller or starred in a reality show. So is there any reason Rep. Mike [...]

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Gun Prohibition, R.I.P.

Posted on June 28th, 2010

The Supreme Court’s rejection of Chicago’s handgun ban in McDonald v. City of Chicago is more than a recognition that the Second Amendment applies to the states as well as the federal government. The McDonald decision is a harbinger for the end of gun prohibition as an idea. The simple, undeniable truth is that gun [...]

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It’s Not Over

Posted on December 24th, 2009

Health-care legislation could still fail in the House. By Ramesh Ponnuru Democrats are doing a victory lap. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says that with Senate passage of the Reid bill, “Health-care reform is now a matter of when.” The press is doing its best to convey the impression that Republicans are throwing in the [...]

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