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Entries from March 2010

DNC Donors Paid For Pole Dancers PLUS WH Helicopters!

Tim Mak wrote on March 31st, 2010 at 8:15 pm

FF Exclusive: With RNC chairman Michael Steele facing criticism for questionable expenditures, it turns out the DNC has been spending thousands of its own donor money on luxury hotels, limos and yes, scantily clad go-go dancers. more

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Restoring Canada’s Place on the World Stage

Peter Worthington wrote on March 31st, 2010 at 2:00 pm

At a Liberal party conference, former diplomat Bob Fowler belittled Canada’s foreign policy and diminished international stature. Under PM Harper, however, the truth is that Canada’s influence in the world has grown. more

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Conservatives Rally For Free Speech

Peter Worthington wrote on March 31st, 2010 at 1:47 pm

An oddity in the American Enterprise Institute’s firing of David Frum, is that it seems to have boomeranged on AEI. more

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Kirk Regretting Health Bill Repeal Pledge

Jeb Golinkin wrote on March 31st, 2010 at 12:00 pm

Illinois GOP Senate candidate Mark Kirk’s pledge to repeal the health bill was a mistake in a race where Kirk needs to position himself as a moderate. Now, however, the Club for Growth is making it harder for him to walk away from his pledge. more

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Meet the Red Tories

Shawn F Summers wrote on March 31st, 2010 at 10:47 am

At Georgetown University last week, one of the contenders for conservatism’s future made a splash in a way that it never has before. more

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Erick Erickson: Baby Blowhard

David Frum wrote on March 31st, 2010 at 10:34 am

If Erick Erickson wants to be taken seriously in his new vocation as TV journalist, he’s going to have to do more than eschew obscenity. He’s going to have to cease inventing falsehoods for polemical purposes. more

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Rove’s Unfinished Memoir

David Frum wrote on March 31st, 2010 at 7:23 am

Karl Rove should have produced one of the outstanding White House memoirs of all time. His work though has many scores to settle and these understandable feelings have led the book into a series of strange omissions and memory lapses. more

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Code Pink Crashes Rove’s Tour

Elise Cooper wrote on March 30th, 2010 at 11:52 pm

Monday, I went to a speaking engagement for Karl Rove’s latest book, Courage and Consequence. After seeing what he had to go through it is no wonder he named his book so appropriately. more

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GOP Gaining Ground in Hawaii Special Election

Tim Mak wrote on March 30th, 2010 at 7:03 pm

Will Hawaiians send a Republican to represent Obama’s hometown district? In the special election for Hawaii’s 1st congressional district, GOP candidate Charles Djou has been closing the gap on his Democratic opponents. more

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Kirk: For a Less Embarrassing Illinois

Jeb Golinkin wrote on March 30th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

The latest email from Mark Kirk’s Senate campaign team puts the focus for the race where it should be: on the poor governance and corruption of the Illinois Democratic party. more

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Fiorina: Passover is Time to “Break Bread”

David Frum wrote on March 30th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

And it’s supposed to be Tom Campbell who has a Jewish problem? more

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High Noon at Fox News

Tim Mak wrote on March 30th, 2010 at 10:26 am

Sean Hannity releases his first book in six years today. If it proves less than a huge success it may ignite open war between Hannity and his Fox News rival, Glenn Beck. more

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Frum: “We Have To Use Our Heads”

David Frum wrote on March 29th, 2010 at 7:21 pm

UPDATED: I was on CNN’s Larry King Live last night to discuss the future of the GOP. more

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Unlocking Gitmo and Throwing Away the Key

Elise Cooper wrote on March 29th, 2010 at 3:05 pm

A federal judge may soon release a core 9/11 plotter currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. FrumForum spoke with legal experts and members of the intelligence community who strongly criticized the dangerous precedent being established. more

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Obama’s Higher Education Bailout

Jonas Stankovich wrote on March 29th, 2010 at 2:45 pm

This weekend, President Obama signed a new bill increasing government aid for college students. But instead of using taxpayer money to subsidize skyrocketing tuition, Obama should have pushed colleges to rein in costs. more

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Republicans’ Big Hope for 2010

David Frum wrote on March 29th, 2010 at 1:09 pm

California Republicans are feeling an emotion they have not felt for years: hope. Might the state of Ronald Reagan be returning to its old party loyalty? Even a little? If so, that return will have powerful consequences not just for California, but the country. more

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Will California Ride to the GOP’s Rescue?

David Frum wrote on March 29th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

My latest column for CNN.com looks at the GOP resurgence in President Reagan’s old state and the implications for the national Republican Party. more

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Rewarding Palestinian Violence

Arsen Ostrovsky wrote on March 29th, 2010 at 8:16 am

The UN Human Rights Council’s decision to call for reparations for Palestinian victims of the Gaza War — while ignoring Israeli victims — sets a dangerous precedent for future wars. more

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Riding Obamacare to Victory in November

Arthur Greene wrote on March 29th, 2010 at 12:46 am

Republicans counting on Obamacare’s unpopularity to deliver them a win in the midterm elections will likely face disappointment. more

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Using the Courts to Kill Obamacare

Jeb Golinkin wrote on March 28th, 2010 at 2:38 pm

In the wake of the Democrats’ victory over health care reform, Republicans seem to be willing to abandon their long-standing opposition to judicial activism for the purpose of killing Obamacare. more