Tag Archives: Washington Post

The Bennett lesson: All incumbents beware

Posted on May 9th, 2010

SALT LAKE CITY — It’s on. The first incumbent of the 2010 election year crashed and burned Saturday, and there’s ample cause for alarm for officeholders everywhere. There was no personal scandal, no whiff of corruption, no silver bullet here. Republican Sen. Robert Bennett was one of the most powerful and likable members of the [...]

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Southern Republican Leadership Conference kicks off 2012 race

Posted on April 9th, 2010

The eyes of the Republican political world will turn to New Orleans today as a cavalcade of GOP leaders, wanna-be leaders and national reporters will be in the Big Easy for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. The event is widely being cast as the first “cattle call” of the 2012 Republican presidential primary fight although [...]

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Obama, the Chicago Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund

Posted on February 26th, 2010

By: Ed Lasky The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program. Obama’s rhetoric about transparency during the campaign was as phony as his vow to end the era of lobbying (last year was that industry’s best year ever in Washington). David Cho writes in the [...]

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White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving

Posted on November 19th, 2009

Since Obama used his brief stint as a U.S. Senator from Illinois basically to run for President, you might be excused for the brashness of thinking that maybe, just maybe he would have spent some time prior to his election giving some thought to his policy in the Afghan war. That would be presumptious. This [...]

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A failed presidency is now unavoidable

Posted on November 19th, 2009

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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Cutting Through the Rhetorical Fog

Posted on October 1st, 2009

Excellent article by Kathleen Parker at the Washigton Post. Even the precincts of liberal opinion are cutting through the rhetorical fog of the Obama administration and coming to the conclusion that his foreign policy is dangerously naive. ~~John Cronin~~ The World Is a Fire Hydrant By Kathleen Parker In keeping with his campaign promise to [...]

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