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Keep in mind this is the same campaign that as more
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Entries from March 2009
Voting Day In Ny-20
Tom Qualtere wrote on March 31st, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Canadians Face A New War In Afghanistan
Peter Worthington wrote on March 31st, 2009 at 11:08 am
While it’s been mentioned repeatedly, it really hasn’t sunk in with the Canadian public that our military role in Afghanistan is about the change.
In some ways for the better, in other ways more complicated.
When (if) we withdraw our fighting troops by 2011, we won’t be around to witness and/or participate in the outcome of the more
Who Killed Gm?
Gusher wrote on March 31st, 2009 at 10:56 am
Mickey Kaus beat me into print with it, but the exact same thought crossed my mind when I heard that President Obama had demanded the head of GM CEO Rick Wagoner in return for further government aid: Is Rick Wagoner the Ngo Dinh Diem of the Obama administration? Of course, it took JFK nearly three years more
Bye-bye Reagan Democrats
Henry Clay wrote on March 31st, 2009 at 6:36 am
The General Motors and Chrysler meltdown are only the latest, and it appears final, chapter in a long and sad book. The government first bailed out Chrysler in 1979. And in the 1980s, GM was already proceeding with massive plant closures.
Given the past and future impact of GM’s and Chrysler’s unwinding on Great Lakes communities, conservatives should more
Mccain’s Farewell
David Frum wrote on March 30th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Public financing of presidential campaigns is “dead” John McCain told the Washington Times on Sunday.
The rest of McCain’s campaign finance reform agenda is not looking too healthy either. Any funeral oration however needs to note something. John McCain and the campaign finance reformers reached the wrong answer. But they had the right question.
Congress has always more
Pork ‘n Fly
Tim Mak wrote on March 30th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
O’Hare International Airport has long been a source of politicking, patronage and lucrative contracts for the City of Chicago and its dynastic mayor, Richard M. Daley. For the mayor, the airport represents appointments he can distribute, contracts he can hustle, and votes to win.
It should come as no surprise, then, that Mayor Daley is more
Europes Canned Outrage
John Rosenthal wrote on March 30th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
There is outrage in Europe. Jean-Marie Le Pen has done it again. In a debate in the European Parliament on Wednesday, Le Pen repeated his well-known remark about the Nazi gas chambers being “a detail of the Second World War.” Indeed, he could hardly have avoided repeating it, since Le Pen was in fact quoting more
No Nukes? No Climate Progress
David Jenkins wrote on March 30th, 2009 at 10:50 am
The Obama Administration talks a good game about shaping bipartisan energy and climate change policies. The talk is good. History shows that the best way to ensure that these policies work and survive shifts in the political winds is to pass it with strong support from both sides of the aisle.
But talk alone will not more
The Afghan Dead End
Benjamin Collins wrote on March 29th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
The media have paid a lot of attention to the factors that play a role in retarding progress in Afghanistan…Pakistan, corruption, lack of a rule of law, disenfranchisement, decentralized societies, etc. Those factors, while all true, are outside our immediate span of control.
The main issue is the lack of a simple command and control more
The Crisis In Texas Universities
Marshall Bowen wrote on March 29th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
With the national economy increasingly depressed and the cost of higher education continuing to rise, higher education reform has become a critical issue — if not the critical issue — for the current session of the Texas legislature. Given the economic meltdown, any bill proposing to increase state spending, even for higher education, usually earns more
Barack Obama Is Wrong On Lobbying
Les Francis wrote on March 29th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
“We haven’t immediately eliminated the influence of lobbyists in Washington.”
President Barack Obama, March 24 White House press conference
What was expressed as a Presidential regret should, in fact, be cause for celebration by Americans of all political persuasions. And I say that as an unabashed Obama enthusiast—I backed his candidacy, was honored to be at more
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
David Frum wrote on March 29th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Richard Hofstadter is a writer so famous that even people who have never read his books somehow feel they know what he had to say about “the paranoid style” and “anti-intellectualism in American life.”
At the same time, Hofstadter is so influential that those readers who do open his pages feel a vague sense of more
Five Best Books
David Frum wrote on March 28th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Here are five works of history which memorably record great political upheavals. more
Frum On Frum
David Frum wrote on March 28th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
These days, the question I hear most from political comrades is: “What the hell happened to you?” more
Story Of My Life
David Frum wrote on March 28th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
My column in this morning’s National Post is a little more personal than usual…
These days, the question I hear most from political comrades is: “What the hell happened to you?”
Okay, okay, my old friend Andrew Coyne put it a little more politely than that in a recent magazine column. Here’s what he actually wrote: “Things more
The Reading List
David Frum wrote on March 28th, 2009 at 6:31 am
The Wall Street Journal does a weekend feature in which they invite outside contributors to list the “five best” books on a particular subject. I chose “the five best books on political change” – the rise & fall of American political parties. The article was instead titled as the 5 best books on the rise more
Down To The Wire In Ny-20
Tom Qualtere wrote on March 27th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate for Congress in upstate New York’s Republican-dominated 20th district, is currently losing his bid to win Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s vacated House seat in this Tuesday’s special election. Even if the Siena poll released today didn’t showing him trailing Democratic businessman Scott Murphy by 4 points, he’d still be more
An Act Of Civic Decency
FF Street Scene wrote on March 27th, 2009 at 10:22 am
The Jake DeSantis piece in the New York Times was remarkable and an act of civic decency. NY AG Cuomo and CT AG Blumenthal whisper to AIG workers: give back your bonus or we will publicize your names. Hmmmm, an offer you can’t refuse. The threat is implicit: keep what you’ve earned and we will more
Say It Out Loud: The Taliban Are Terrorists
Jonathan Schanzer wrote on March 26th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
A U.S. drone attack on Wednesday on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border killed at least seven Taliban members, including a number of foreign fighters, Reuters reported. U.S. drones have carried out more than 30 strikes over the last year, including 7 under the watch of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Obama, meanwhile, has ordered the deployment of 17,000 more more
Geithner’s Power Grab: Not All Bad
Eli Lehrer wrote on March 26th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Testifying before the House of Representatives today, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner asked for vast new powers to oversee banks, investment houses, hedge funds, and insurance companies. Although most media attention will focus on proposals to create clearer lines of regulatory authority for derivatives and hedge funds — both currently undergo regulation but have no single more
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