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Entries from September 2009
Obama: Hanging with the Wrong Crowd
Jonathan Schanzer wrote on September 30th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Words Won’t Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program
Peter Worthington wrote on September 30th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Total nuclear disarmament is unlikely in the lifetimes of most of us, yet President Obama has only managed to deliver platitudes about a world without nuclear weapons while doing little to realistically deal with the rogue regimes currently developing and expanding their nuclear arsenals. more
Cap-and-Trade: Will Dem Donors Get the Spoils?
David Frum wrote on September 30th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Yesterday, a draft copy of the Senate version of cap-and-trade leaked from the Boxer committee. The Boxer bill offers little information on the biggest issue in cap-and-trade: Who gets the allocations – permissions to emit – which will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars? more
Deal or No Deal?
David Frum wrote on September 30th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Until now, the threat of a government-run healthcare plan has deterred Republicans from negotiations with the administration. But now that the single most threatening element of such a deal has been voted down by Democrats, Republicans can begin to think: are there things we want? more
More Regulation Isn’t the Only Answer
David Frum wrote on September 30th, 2009 at 12:01 am
We are in danger of learning the wrong lessons from the banking crisis. more
Zelaya Standoff Costing Impoverished Hondurans $50 Million a Day
Tim Mak wrote on September 29th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Since ousted former president Manuel Zelaya snuck into the country last week, taking refuge at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran government has closed two pro-Zelaya radio stations, declared a state of emergency which costs Hondurans $50 million a day, and allowed security forces to get into frequent clashes with protesters. more
Some Truths More Inconvenient than Others?
David Frum wrote on September 29th, 2009 at 11:17 am
This past weekend in the New York Times, Paul Krugman argued that vested interests and ideology prevent us from responding appropriately to the threat of climate change. Yet, Krugman himself quickly dismisses the only near-term solution to reducing our dependence on coal. more
Sarah’s Story
David Frum wrote on September 29th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Reuters reports that the publication date of Palin’s memoir has been brought forward to November 17th, meaning that the book must already be substantially finished. The timing of her memoir lends more credence to the idea that Palin resigned as governor of Alaska to cash in on her sudden and enormous fame. more
The Jewboy Email: Let’s Go to the Tape!
Tim Mak wrote on September 28th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
NM Exclusive: Americans for Limited Government’s communications director charged today that NBC producer Jane Stone had originally denied sending any email to ALG. This claim, which diverges from statements by NBC News, reveals an apparent inconsistency that is sure to add more fuel to the growing controversy, in which Stone is alleged to have sent an anti-Semitic email to ALG media outreach director Alex Rosenwald. more
Lengthen the School Year?
David Frum wrote on September 28th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
My two older children were 9 and 6 respectively on voting day, 2000. Both were passionately George W. Bush supporters on the basis of a single issue: Al Gore’s expressed interest in lengthening the school year. more
Chris Alexander: The Best of the Best in Afghanistan
Peter Worthington wrote on September 28th, 2009 at 10:09 am
As Canada’s former ambassador to Afghanistan and now special envoy for the UN secretary-general, Chris Alexander is the most knowledgeable person in Canada (and possibly the U.S.) about Afghanistan and what it will take to leave that country with peace, security and prosperity. more
Audit the Fed? Fine – So Long as Audit is Secret
Douglas Holtz-Eakin wrote on September 28th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Congress is contemplating two bills which would allow the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the Federal Reserve. The idea should not be dismissed out of hand. A finely-tuned audit could make the Fed more accountable, while also protecting its independence. more
NBC News Emailgate: The Truth May Never Be Known
Tim Mak wrote on September 27th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Last week, a conservative group, Americans for Limited Government, alleged that NBC News producer Jane Stone sent ALG Director of Media Outreach Alex Rosenwald an anti-Semitic email. NBC denied the charge. Unfortunately, even if both parties release files documenting the email exchange, the truth may never be clear. more
The Custom of the Country
David Frum wrote on September 27th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
My most recent Bookshelf review discusses Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country. more
The Custom of the Country
David Frum wrote on September 27th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Edith Wharton seems at one point to have intended The Custom of the Country as a feminist novel, an expose of the harm done to women by their exclusion from public life. Published in 1913, the year of Wharton’s own divorce, the novel presents a world in which marriage is women’s only career – and personal display their only permissible field of competition. more
Holiday Schedule
David Frum wrote on September 27th, 2009 at 11:58 am
In observance of the Yom Kippur holiday, posting will be light at FrumForum.com over the next 36 hours. more
Obama’s Narcissism
David Frum wrote on September 26th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Michael Gerson’s reading of President Obama’s speech to the UN is both shrewd and damning. He writes: “I can recall no other major American speech in which the narcissism of a leader has been quite so pronounced.” more
Horowitz Replies to Frum
Frum Forum Editors wrote on September 26th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
David Frum and David Horowitz debate Glenn Beck’s effect on the conservative movement. Today, David Horowitz responds: “[The] remarkable conservative outburst against the broadcaster Glenn Beck… is wrongheaded, absurd, destructive to the conservative cause and a blatant contradiction of the “big tent” philosophy which you otherwise support.” more
A Luncheon Date to Remember
David Frum wrote on September 26th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Today’s National Post column may be a little baffling to non-Canadian readers – but Canadians of a certain age will find it rings a lot of childhood memories! Elwood Glover was a veteran CBC broadcaster, one of the most familiar voices in Canada through World War II and the years after. But in my house, he was known until this week as Exhibit A of the horrors of life in the dark ages before cable. more
Ralph Peters’ Very, Very Bad Advice
John Guardiano wrote on September 25th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
“New York Post” columnist Ralph Peters is one of the most admired military commentators of our time. But his analysis of Afghanistan is wrongheaded, and if heeded, will misdirect the Afghan war effort to defeat. more
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MAN KILLED BY A CASHCAB
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GERMAN TOURISTS COMPLAIN THE MOST
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